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Greetings Fellow Travelers ...

I'm with you. I know how you feel. That big let down that pops up after an event takes over your life for a week or two. With me it's the NBA playoffs, (Go Spurs!), but I'm sure it's the same phenomenon associated with the Olympic games.

You need Reality Man, and he needs you.

I can say that since the following is true. As Peter Parker is to Spider Man, I am to Reality Man, a secret insider solely responsible for bringing the message to the public, a mouthpiece, if you will. A liaison between the super-powered hero and the writhing masses.

The first offering from Reality Man's triumphant return is a few myth-busting "Real-isms" for you to chew on. First, some advice.

Don't feel bad if at first you don't quite understand the meanings. Simply make a few mental notes, then watch some TV, focusing on cable news shows. It will come to you, believe me. It might be with the force of a runaway truck, but it will come.

Elections are around the corner and the airwaves and lawns are flooded with ads for candidates seeking to better the human condition through legislation. Which brings me to Myth #1

The candidate with the most money is the best candidate.

No, he's the one with the richest supporters. Or, as with Barack Obama, the one best able to pry cash out of the most people. Kind of ironic to think he's spending the money of the folks who not only gave him some cash for his campaign, but those too poor to do so.

I see a few staunch Obama supporters have left. Sorry, folks, he may be an eloquent speaker and a smooth operator but in reality he is just another politico spooning for dollars.

" I will fight for jobs!"

I have two words for you, Ba Loney. No government official, acting as such, has ever "created" a job for anyone other than himself or a crony. The only thing government can do to create jobs is back off and let the people do it. Tax-and-Spend will only bring employment and wealth to nations like China who lend us money. That last statement alone should be enough to bring you to a minimum rage.

" I never inhaled."

Ah, who can forget Bill Clinton? Certainly not the dozens or hundreds of ladies who got a special tour of the White House. That should anger all Americans, I don't care what the French president does.

One should never expect our leaders to be perfect. They are human beings just like the rest of us, subject to gravity, temperature and the occasional friend-turned-adversary. I, for one, don't expect them to provide a lily white record of human achievement nor should they be given a pass for indiscretions because of their position.

" Is your life better now than it was four years ago?"

So sorry, Mr Reagan. I was a supporter and I enjoyed seeing you on your re-election tour but neither you or any other government official can make my life better, not one iota. What you can do is stop making it nearly impossible for me to better my own life.

There are those folks that with even the best upbringing and resources cannot make anything of themselves. Why? They don't want to. Then there are those, Harriet Tubman leaps to mind, who have little or nothing but use what they have to change the world.

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There are so many more Real-isms, too many for one article. Not all of them deal with politics, but, since the level of intrusion and oppression grows daily Reality Man wanted to start on the Beltway.

" It's time for another revolution," Reality Man says, "this time at the voting booth. The American People are so busy tap dancing for money that was taken from them they cannot see that they hold the power to make things right. Government 'of, by, and for the people' is not an impossible dream. It is your birthright."

Do not settle for less.

Stay tuned for the next Reality Man message on CSN, the Common Sense Network.