I was thoroughly embarrassed, as an American, for the past eight years. I just didn't want to think about what our allies were thinking when they compared the former America to what this two-time enemy of the Constitution was bloviating about all over the world. Talk about an empty suit. Then throw in the rainbow lighting of the White House, and open homosexuality in the military, and same sex marriage . . . it was more than I could bear.

And, he was lazy . . . in the true sense of the step and fetch it cartoon. Constant free-loading and vacations . . . all on the tax payer dime.

"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee