The headline on the front page of today's Daily Independent, one of Great Britain's major daily newspapers, tells it all...

The day America took leave of its senses

The headline refers to the argument raging in the U.S. over where Barack Obama was born, notwithstanding not one shred of evidence supporting allegations that he is not a U.S. citizen. More importantly, this "debate' rages while the country sinks deeper and deeper into debt, the resulting threat to our very way of life increasing by the week, and most of our elected representatives now saying that they see no way that they can reach a political agreement to reverse that course.

Here's the entire article...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-2275816.html

Oh my, as Winston Churchill so sagely observed more than a half century ago...

"The Americans will always do the right thing...but only after they've tried everything else."