Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles


0.0 miles run this week.
Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day.
Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles.
Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.

Day96 Friday 12/03/10

ran 0.0 miles
  • Hawaii was the final state to join the union on August 21, 1959, seven months after Alaska.
  • Population, as of 2009, is 1,295,178.
  • Senators are Daniel K. Akaka (D) and Daniel K. Inouye (D).
  • Representatives are Charles Djou (R) and Mazie Hirono (D).
  • Hawaii has four electoral votes. Historically, the state has been blue since 1960 excluding the 1972 and 1984 elections (Nixon and Reagan). Hawaii is also the state Barack Obama was born in, which was a great source of speculation and controversy in his first year as president regarding the proper documentation to prove his birthplace.
It’s been two years since Obama has been in office and numbers that should be high are low and statistics that should be low are high. Unemployment is up to 9.8%. Debt is festering like an infected wound. Everything this man, our president, campaigned on was unrealistic.

The tide is rising and drowning Barack Obama’s credibility. I follow just enough news to keep my brain from taking on the form of peanut butter, and my mind is still tacit enough to point out that what is happening with his presidency is very interesting and equally predictable. The majority of people in this country are against the big decisions he’s made. What American people do want is what he does not want. Barack Obama is now faced with the difficult decision of swallowing his pride and letting conservative direction make a success of his presidency or to further push his agenda, which is inundated with statistics in all the wrong places.

Amidst all the crises roiling the United States, Obama made a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan today. Bravo on the gesture, but in what reality does it make any sense for our president to be jumping all over the globe in the span of one single month, after a midterm election that rejected his policies, when he is needed so urgently here? His actions over the past month suggest that foreign affairs are more important than the problems weighing on American soil.

1,832.3 miles to go. Today is the fourth day I haven’t run. It is disappointing, but I am going to see a doctor on Tuesday to figure out what is wrong with my leg.

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