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Campaign 2016
The clock keeps ticking
with about 16 months left before the general election in November 2016 and
already the political silly season has started.
The Republican candidates
for president see nothing but Red and the Democratic candidates see nothing but
Blue and I do not mean in terms of states on the election board.
Why is it the GOP gang of
16, 17, 18, or whatever cannot just leave Obama out of the election? No one can change history and Obama did break
a huge barrier when elected as our first African American president. If he did nothing else, it was a significant
historic achievement.
Many Americans did not
approve of his agenda, his foreign policy, his intellectual indifference and
other things but Obama is not going to be president any more. American decency suggests the herd of
candidates should focus on explaining what they would do as president, instead
of threatening to tear down everything President Obama accomplished.
If I remember correctly,
Obama got elected twice to serve as Commander and Chief of all the people and
we owe our president respect if nothing else.
The GOP candidates seem incapable of giving us their agenda for the
future choosing instead to mount goofy and demeaning attacks on every last
thing the president says or does.
Of course, the National
Republican Party just magnified the political partisanship when they limited
the GOP debates to the top ten candidates leaving at least half a dozen out in
the cold. They could have had two
debates of nine each to showcase all the candidates but no, that makes too much
sense.
The only result was all
the candidates turning up the volume and competing for who can make the most
outrageous and incendiary sound bytes to the media in an effort to boost them
into the top ten for the debate.
The GOP has no
stranglehold on stupidity, however, as Hillary has flip flopped so many times
already her Democratic base has no idea what she advocates. She pleads she is a pauper with $200 million
in the bank as she raises $2 billion for the campaign. Duh...
Her wobbly and
Pollyanna-like explanations for violating federal law by keeping top-secret
files on her home computer, then erasing all the records before anyone could
check her drive, may be one of the biggest blunders in presidential campaign
history. This was her election to lose
and she is doing a very good job at it.
Running our Government
Now that the Republicans
have control of both Houses of Congress, nothing has changed, much like Obama's
first two years when the Democrats controlled both Houses. It is a miracle when any little thing good
happens in our nation's capitol and that is a very sorry state of affairs.
Campaign Finance Reform
The failure by Obama, the
Democrats, the Republicans, and the presidential candidates to address campaign
finance reform is tantamount to criminal neglect and insures the one to three
percent of the people with all the wealth in America will continue to control our
politicians like puppets on a string.
Foreign Policy Follies
The Obama administration
foreign policy of negotiation with our enemies has resulted in a policy of
appeasement and undermined whatever international credibility we might have had
in the world. Instead of a Super power,
we are a Super wimp, and it may take generations to get past the morass.
Dark Economic Skies
After seven years of empty
promises from Obama and both parties, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
will still bankrupt our nation in time.
Our health care is the most expensive in the world and we still rank
around nineteenth in terms of quality of service.
All the stock markets are
the playground of the rich and pushed Joe six-pack out of the market with computers
and crooks, crooks the Obama administration has failed to prosecute. We still have a lot of corruption,
discrimination, and even human trafficking, but we never miss a chance to blast
other nations for their faults while ignoring our own.
International Terrorism
Terrorism thrives because
of the foreign policy stupidity of both political parties.
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Economy
Our economy may very well
be on life-support, as only the rich seem to have benefited from the economic
recovery. If the American public no
longer has faith and trust in our many institutions it is for a very good
reason, they do not deserve it.
Hope or a Dope
Still I have hope and
remain optimistic that in the end the people will regain control of their
government and force our politicians to fix the mess.
The Silent Majority
I never lose sight of the
fact that when Obama won re-election in 2012 by the largest margin in his two
campaigns, he still only won the overwhelming support of just twenty-six
percent of the eligible voters in America. An astonishing seventy-four percent of the
eligible voters did not support him or his agenda.
One day all of our silent
majority will finally register and vote and when they do all the money and
professional politicians in the world will not be able to stop the tidal wave
of reform the people will unleash on America.
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