America doesn't want to deal with the serious business of terrorism, the border, medical care, etc etc. Americans are into instant gratification, and letting Joe do the heavy lifting. Sad but true. Let's get somebody elected so we can go back to putting our heads in the sand and figuring out how we can scrape together the money for a new snowmobile/fishing gear/gun/cruise/car/bike/ ad nauseum. Never mind a closer look at the R and D platforms would find them chock full of programs that loses us more freedom and costs more money.
Obama is a smooth talking snake oil salesman; which is pretty much what every one of the candidates are to varying degrees. There is only one candidate that thinks and talks in terms of what America should be about if the constitution was our guiding principal. Everybody thinks he's a loon, so never mind.
Maybe who is president is less important than who is running the congress and on the federal benches. America probably needs a president who is a smooth talking snake oil salesman because that is just exactly who the rest of the world responds to as well. The problem with Obama is that he is a socialist just like most of the democrats, although the masses of D's don't have a clue about the long term ramification of that. Unfortunately, most of the R's are socialists as well.
If we had a congress that was serious enough about energy, border security/immigration, and finding some kind of a national project that would excite the masses like building nuclear power plants, exploiting our own resources in a sane fashion, and maybe dividing the nation up into quadrants and building a high speed, elevated electric rail system put out to bid by private industry and hiring the unemployed healthy folks, stepping up to the plate in that regard, perhaps whoever is president could re analyze just what our national interest are abroad. Maybe then we could pull this country back together a bit.
Ask Obama if he has ever read The Closed Circle, by David Pryce-Jones. It is the definitive text book on the Arab culture. If he hasn't read it, tell him to keep his mouth shut about how to deal with anybody in the ME. If he hasn't read that book he doesn't know his ass from in a hole in the ground about how to deal with reality in the ME, or eastern Europe for that matter. In fact, ask all of the candidates if they've read the book.
We live in a complicated world that we overcomplicate and I see no one capable of dealing with the reality of that. I think I am going to quit thinking about how we have come to be governed by fools and start living in a little cocoon here in W. Michigan. I don't have many years left. I've actually done my bit so after tonight I don't give a rat's ass any more. I'm going to drink expensive booze, smoke a fine cigar once in awhile, play in the snow, and float around on my lake in the summer reading good books that make me happy. I'm gonna be just like all the other eloi. I think maybe that is better rather than weeping when I look and my grandchildren because I wonder if they will curse me in 30 years for allowing the ***h**** to screw up the world.
If I hear one more politician talking about "fundamental change" and not offering up just what the **** they mean by that, my brain is going to explode. I'm done!!
