One of my favorite movies with Steve Martin was “The Jerk” in which Martin played an adopted white boy raised by a black family. As he is leaving home to make his way in the world, his daddy takes him to the barn, and picks up a big horse turd. He then reaches in his pocket and pulls out a can of “Shinola” shoe polish. He looks at Martin and says “now son this is shit, and this is Shinola, and I am showing you this cause you don’t know shit from Shinola.”
So I am here to tell you that when it comes to politics I do not know shit from shinola. But like so many of us who supported that old bald headed comb over white headed guy will do,I will not spend this day having “the day after blues”, a new song title (after giving it some thought) that I must write. What I AM going to do, is what I know best and that is music and writing. Continuing to learn my craft as a musician, as I study each week at the Halehulumamu with Auntie Jo on her Uke and Hawaiian Music. I am learning to sing in Hawaiian, and play my uke, continuing to write songs and record. I am Continuing to play the gigs the Good Lord sends my way, as I forge ahead with yet another new style and the only music I know,
“BoogieWoogieCountryWesternGospelBlues’n'Rock’n'Roll, and now Hawaiian.”
In closing this chapter of my blog, I shall crawl into my politics hole, (until I re-emerge in 2010) I do so wish to apologize to anyone I may have offended and thank you all for putting up with my verbal cajoling and antics. I never ever mean to hurt feelings or offend anyone in any way, but rather to bring provocitive thought and banter to the table. I know that no matter who is in the White House the country will become stronger and survive. Perhaps this has been a wake up call to us all, to not crawl back in our shells and to become pro active in the rebirth of America. After all we are all Americans in this boat together.
I wish you all the best over the next four years, but before I am a Republocrat or a Demopublican, or the independant Maverick I truly am, I am first and foremost a patriotic American. As my daddy before me was and I am an old soldier, as such, it is my and our duty to follow and support our new President for the good and betterment of the country. I will always put my country first and work to change her for the better. God Bless you all, God Bless our troups, and God Bless America.