Word count and detox update

The word count for the novel in a month stands at 16,800 which is about a day behind but I had to take time to think. (and sleep) The political detox is not really working as the stock market continues its decline and Obama continues to make news as the not president yet. He has declined to attend the economic summit being held this weekend in Washington, D.C. becuase the country "only has one president at a time." That is very smart of him since he has already offended the sitting president by allowing leaks and misrepresentations of their private meeting. I have found a blog by a Chicago native who has much to say about Obama's Chicago ties and none of it is encouraging. This is all information that could have been in the media during the campaign, but was ignore. Several articles are from Chicago newspapers making me wonder at a city and a state that KNOWS what it means to be connected to the Chicago machine and still voted for him in overwhelming numbers. The more I read the more amazed I am. I does not seem to faze these people that they have a congresswoman whose husband is a convicted felon and yet both of them are active in state and national politics, that Obama bought his house with the help of a man who was being investigated by the FBI and everyone knew it, that his records from the Illinois house are "missing", and the list goes on. It has to. No one in Chicago seems to have clean hands and we have governors, representatives, and all manner of politicians with criminal records to prove it.