We argue about Governor Palins’ ability to step in for Senator McCain
in case he dies in office. There is nothing like having a wake before
the person dies. She is not running for President. Senator Obama is
running for President with his lack of experience. So how do you argue
for his inexperience versus Sara Palin’s inexperience when she is
unlikely to have to step in for Senator McCain. Let us not forget one
of the most famous inexperienced Vice Presidents, Harry Truman. He
owned a haberdashery. Selling mens clothing. He was in the dark
completely about the war and the atom bomb. Yet when thrust into the
Presidency by Roosevelts death grasped the concept of dropping the bomb
and saving thousands of our military. Duh, Roosevelt could have dropped
the bomb earlier but was too much of a patrician. Elitism personified
who fought every social change until blackmailed by the union
president. Yeah you don’t need degrees to make a calculated choice just
good advisors and the will not to sit on your hands thinking about what
to do.
Crazy Old World just keeps turning along.
We argue about
McCain’s campaign staff members being lobbyists. What do retired
Washington politicians do but become lobbyists. What about Senator
Obama. The national press likes to show him as someone that worked
their way through Harvard. This stretches all credulity. I had the GI
Bill and still had to work fulltime to pay my way through a State
college. So what is the truth? Senator Obama aligned himself with a New
York City Councilman that linked him to a Moslem living in Texas that
has problems with the Jewish Holocaust. This “esteemed” person called a
Saudi prince that then “asked?” Harvard to enroll Obama as a personal
favor. This Prince then paid all of Obama’s expenses and college costs.
Now tell me he doesn’t owe someone some big favors. So what is the
difference. At least McCain has American friends not foreign backers.
Crazy Old World just keeps rolling along.
President
Bush has a lot of baggage and decisions to answer for but so do all the
members of the Senate and Congress. Let’s not forget the former
President William Clinton. Wasn’t he the one that the national press
referred to as a Rhodes scholar when all the documents I’ve read say
Fulbright scholar. Major difference, Rhodes scholar equates to proven
genius while Fulbright scholar equates to a political gift for up and
coming politicians based on who you know not what you know. Clinton was
also the one that pushed the free trade agreements that was going to
keep people in their own country and promote trade. We bled jobs,
killed unions, lowered living standards for thousands, took away
benefits to create a medical mess. Bill Clinton also encouraged lenders
to lower the qualifications for mortgage loans creating a low initial
payment and almost destroying fixed rate mortgages just to get people
into their own homes. This was based on the hope that in five years the
homes would have value that people could parlay into downpayments in
the future. Also people would get raises that would cover the balloon
payment. Trouble was with the the trade agreements no one was getting
raises, benefits were destroyed and when it came time to pay the piper
these same people could not afford the monthly payments. Mass
foreclosures, and a still questionable future economy based on someone
using taxpayer monies for someones personal altruism. Since when did I
agree to ruin my life and waste my years of hard work and savings to
give away what I earned.
Sure is a Crazy Old World that just keeps limping along.