I was a professional musician. I loved my life. I left that trade to conform with what was expected of me so I could buy a home and please those around me.

I am fifty-five now. I am very unhappy with who I am and as Cary says, I am haunted by what I did not do, and crushed by what I have become. I can't go to a concert without weeping as I often watch others no more capable than myself on the stage.

You need to decide whether you need to play or not, or whether your complaint is just an excuse for what you are not becoming. If it is that you should be a musician, you'd better do it.

It doesn't take long to get to fifty-five, and looking back is not easy.

Good luck

How many times have so many said that any connection to this jerk was bad judgement? Now that the rev went out of his way to prove that point Obama is "outraged."

Give me a break...you show your true colors, those of a chameleon, changing when necessary for self preservation. We don't need this kind of person in the White House again.

Please...."not the person he has known for 20 years." Just how stupid does Obama believe the public to be? He's exactly the person he always was, and his record of speaking against America in pretty bizarre ways is well documents and long-lived.

Obama simply got trapped in his own lie. We don't need anymore of this.

Illegal entry into this or any country has been deemed "alien" and all the other pejorative terms one might think to attach. I find the rhetoric that tries to blur that simple fact of legal vs. illegal to be completely anti-intellectual and bound to the notion that Mexicans are not worthy of regular pay and benefits any CITIZEN would get.

What we have at the hands of the panders of terms like "undocumented" citizen etc., is the tacit agreement to help promote the slavery of a people so the new slave owners may prosper.

Dobbs isn't wrong. He just isn't afraid to call it what it is. And the most liberal minded can't deny that the illegals are really getting treated sub-standard in this country. Slaves! Slaves running toward slavery instead of running from it as Africans did so many years ago in this country.

We've lost our moral compass when we allow the exploitation of a people, and we've lost our minds when we can be convinced that being against all illegal forms of entry to this country is not a bad thing.

Grow up. You want to help the poor? Make sure thy get here like all of our other immigrant cultures have, legally.

Hand tough Dobbs...most of us know you don't hate Mexicans!

I am not sure whether it is good or bad. That Obama and Clinton are two candidates that simply baffles me.

I will say this, it is a matter of judgement concerning the reverend and Obama's former position concerning Wright's status in his spiritual and intellectual life. Clearly 20 years of bad judgement and anti-Americanism of Wright convinces me that Obama has to go.

He'd never have distanced himself except Wright smelled the blood of notoriety and made the decision to be the new name in the news. Obama is not god for us.

My feeling is that anyone, super delegate or not, who supports Obama is afraid not to, fearing the cry of racism. I hope he goes away. We are ready for a Black President, but this isn't the man or woman for the job.

Just how fucking stupid are we? we deserve to have the country in the shape it is in. This is REAL entertainment.

We suck

How sad that an election at such a critical time in our history, is reduced to these candidates. Obama will likely win. Just what we need a man whose credentials for the job are, and in no particular order: He's Black; He can give a populist speech.

He's an empty suit and America's political reparation, our cleansing of "hey see, we aren't racist," will surely bite us hard. His cries for more access to so many services and cutting taxes face off as irreconcilable mates.

It's sad we have done this to ourselves. America is ready for a Black or a woman in the white house, but these choices are best understood in the book Dark Ages America. We're a sound byte, entertainment driven country that has lost our ability to think. How sad we've become.

You prove yourself, time and time again, to be nothing more than a political hardliner hauling the wagon for the party. It isn't that I am afraid not afraid of Palin as president. I am, but I am willing to hear her speak and examine the issue without party bias.

Jesus Christ could run for office on a Republican ticket and you'd find a way to support the democratic candidate. Look, I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying that as Americans we deserve the right to think again, not just knee-jerk take one for the team at every turn.

This is why we've become so dumb as a country. We look only as deep as the sensational and entertainment value of every matter in this country.

Tonight, I shall hear her out completely, without partisan bias. I'll decide from my brain, not yours. Dear God, if she is bad what is Obama? Equal in negative force?

Please go back to writing homespun essays, good books and Prairie Home Companion. As a political voice you are more of what makes America weak.