Have you been wondering since last week why you wake up everyday with a headache and a queasy stomach? I think that you can't argue that your maladies are a result of the post election blues. Let's face it, we got used to MSNBC's Brian Williams pontificating, coaching us through our day, Chris Mattews hollaring at us, to play hardball and to acknowledge the ridiculousness of the whole situation with his question, "Is this anyway to pick a president?", Lester Holt, who talked his guts out for over twelve hours per day trying to temper the madness of what was to become a history making event.

And who could ever forget Tim Russert? The mavin, the predictor of the debacle that was our presidential election, who waved his now famous cue card, which was emblazoned with the words that simulated a battle- cry of the republic, "Florida, Florida, Florida". With his wide-eyed stare into the camera, he intelectualized what he and we soon found out was a phenomena and soon to become an aberration in our countries history.

Like the confused guy checking out the grocery store, from one meal to another, not knowing what to buy, to eat, and then finally settling on Carls Jr's restaurants to keep him alive. And like that hungry man searching for his daily meal, we voters faced a post election ordeal; we became intrigued when the stakes suddenly escalated and dumped us square in the middle of a life-and-death struggle. And so we surfed out the television channels looking for Gore and Bush, or anyone who looked like them, or anyone and anything remotely connected to them and their campaign for the White House. So far, MSNBC has been bringing us slowly out of our bends reacton to the abrupt end of the post campaign shennanigan's by its continuing coverage of milking out what everyone of their correspondents and guests doubted or thought about our "American Political Soap Opera". With such a huge staff and an equally huge guest list, that ought to supply them with more than enough programming and revenues to cover the year 2001. It should be a news banner year for MSNBC.

And so what were the issues? Both candidates expoused the same issues in one form or another. It is my guess that as we voters didn't know, neither did either one of the candidates. We currently live our lives in a country of peace, prosperity, declining welfare rolls, declining crime rates, if you don't factor in our drug war, which neither candidate addressed. (38.6% of the prison population in California's Penal System alone are imprisoned for drug offenses.)

But was the presidental election a life and death struggle, as we were led to believe? Certainly this whole thing could turn it self around. The loser, Al Gore, by default, becomes the winner; he could conceivably make a million dollars this coming year on the lecture circuit, "What I Could've, Should've Done to become President of the United States". On the other hand, G. Dubya Bush could likely be the loser ending up by becoming the proverbial rat who treads the wheel trying to get results from an evenly divided congress; all for the lordly sum of $200,000 dollars per year. All in all, it seems to me that G. Dubya's tenure may prove to be a fruitless endeavor.

I have a very strong feeling that no matter what Bill Clinton was or is, come Januarry 20, 2001, we will all be sad as the ex-president marches down the red carpet to board Helicopter I, which will fly him into oblivion.

Or will it?