As an avid sports fan I have often been amazed by the sports writer that devotes a column to the ball game I just saw and as I read the column I scratch my head and ask myself, was he watching the same game I was? He says, 'the big play was a fluke', I say it was brilliant! How can that be?
Then there's the sports writer that loves to write about drugs, high payrolls and owners profits and easily puts aside the game and who's playing. What we love about sports, is the game, not who's testifying before Congress. Obviously, some love to read about the low side of the game. Too bad really, the game is a wonderful thing. So is America. It's the same with politics, there are two points of view about everything from abortion, to the economy, to defense. Conservatives vs. liberals, even the media has multiply points of view.
I think of America as an optimistic, can-do, should-do, nation, always has been and always will be, but there are many that disagree. They believe in the Dark Side; we have done to much, we should hold back, slow down, back off, don't be so pushy. They believe America is to blame for warming the planet, for imperialism, causing an economic world crisis, creating an unstable Middle East, etc. If something is wrong in the world America is surly to blame.
I, quite naturally, disagree. I'm not going to bore you with my reasons just now, but suffice to say that if you believe America is to blame for a screwed up world, I'm not interested in your gloom and doom reasons just now either.
What I will concede is that I don't see any American leader on the horizon that will have the moral strength of character, leadership and vision to guide the Dark Side into the light of optimism.
Too bad we don't elect the most qualified leaders, only the one's who run the best campaigns.
When history is examined it proves that winning the game is the reason it's played. America plays the game around the world every day, and we play to win. Our corporations play to win, our military plays to win, our state department plays to win, and I like it that way. Those that stand in the way of winning are the problem, not the other way 'round as many would have you believe.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
After The Primarys in New Hampshire
Romney lost, Obama lost, meaning Hillary and McCain won. Or did they?
Hillary won by a tight margin but did she stop Barack's momentum?
Obama fires up a crowd to the point that all he needs is a slogan and the audience starts shouting it back.'Change we can believe in', believe again, etc.' He continually finds hot buttons to press and it's working. I don't know if anyone knows what he means by those slogans but he's got them riled up. I don't think it will last. I think he will run short of slogans and be exposed as a young, very well intentioned spokesman for the party but his lack of any executive experience in running a government will be glaring in the near future by Hillary.
Hillary is old school politics. She is well connected with a lot of old bureaucrats in Washington and believe me that counts for a big voting machine. They want jobs and they know what to do for Hillary to get them. They have no idea what Obama wants or what he will or won't do for them. Hillary has had a well known, long term leftist political agenda since college. She has wanted to turn America in to the European model of socialism. Her health care agenda is only the beginning, watch her push for nationalising business including oil, energy, and communications. Think of all the new bureaucrats she will create. All this is all scary stuff to me but to the casual voter and observer maybe not.
Most of today's voter is a whole lot less interested in politics than I am. Most are living good and happy with their lot until they are told that we need change, or we need to end this war, or the economy is failing, or we need health care for those forty seven that don't have it. Catchy slogans, scare tactics, sound bites, good hair, groomed appearance, Hollywood endorsements, is the order of the day. Voters have no more idea on what they are getting themselves into than what their kids teacher is teaching their kids.
They don't know that of the forty seven million without health care, that most are fifteen million youngsters working in slow and fast food industries, (I didn't have health insurance for me and my wife until we were in our thirties)or twenty to twenty five million are unregistered and registered aliens, and the rest, a very small minority, are the very, very poor, like the homeless, the unemployed, the chronic unemployed and .
Voters forget, if we don't fight the islamofasists over there we will be fighting them over here. My choice is to fight them over there.
The capitalistic economy has yo-yo ed for years. When the government keeps it's hand off it always rights itself.
The border fence is leaking to the point of our country being unsafe. I say fix it, throw out the bad aliens and make a law to permit US children with alien parents be allowed to gain citizenship, give the rest temporary work permits with expiration dates.
Romney, McCain, Guliani, and Huckabee have a long fight going forward.
Hillary won by a tight margin but did she stop Barack's momentum?
Obama fires up a crowd to the point that all he needs is a slogan and the audience starts shouting it back.'Change we can believe in', believe again, etc.' He continually finds hot buttons to press and it's working. I don't know if anyone knows what he means by those slogans but he's got them riled up. I don't think it will last. I think he will run short of slogans and be exposed as a young, very well intentioned spokesman for the party but his lack of any executive experience in running a government will be glaring in the near future by Hillary.
Hillary is old school politics. She is well connected with a lot of old bureaucrats in Washington and believe me that counts for a big voting machine. They want jobs and they know what to do for Hillary to get them. They have no idea what Obama wants or what he will or won't do for them. Hillary has had a well known, long term leftist political agenda since college. She has wanted to turn America in to the European model of socialism. Her health care agenda is only the beginning, watch her push for nationalising business including oil, energy, and communications. Think of all the new bureaucrats she will create. All this is all scary stuff to me but to the casual voter and observer maybe not.
Most of today's voter is a whole lot less interested in politics than I am. Most are living good and happy with their lot until they are told that we need change, or we need to end this war, or the economy is failing, or we need health care for those forty seven that don't have it. Catchy slogans, scare tactics, sound bites, good hair, groomed appearance, Hollywood endorsements, is the order of the day. Voters have no more idea on what they are getting themselves into than what their kids teacher is teaching their kids.
They don't know that of the forty seven million without health care, that most are fifteen million youngsters working in slow and fast food industries, (I didn't have health insurance for me and my wife until we were in our thirties)or twenty to twenty five million are unregistered and registered aliens, and the rest, a very small minority, are the very, very poor, like the homeless, the unemployed, the chronic unemployed and .
Voters forget, if we don't fight the islamofasists over there we will be fighting them over here. My choice is to fight them over there.
The capitalistic economy has yo-yo ed for years. When the government keeps it's hand off it always rights itself.
The border fence is leaking to the point of our country being unsafe. I say fix it, throw out the bad aliens and make a law to permit US children with alien parents be allowed to gain citizenship, give the rest temporary work permits with expiration dates.
Romney, McCain, Guliani, and Huckabee have a long fight going forward.
Monday, November 20, 2006
After the election
John Kerry who was for the war, for paying for it, then said he was against it. He called himself a hero of Viet Nam, then had the Swift Boat officers prove him a liar. Kerry denouncing his fellow soldiers as rapists, murders, killers before a Democrat sub committee. He recently called anybody in the military stupid.
Nancy Palosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Durbin, and Kennedy are all against everything and for nothing. They have no new ideas except to raise the minimum wage. They have no ideas for halting the world wide Islamic terror campaign except to say we need to go in a new direction. What direction?
Eighty per cent of the national newspaper and television media are liberal. With zeal they publish government secrets, like NSA’s program for recording calls from Al Quida and Islamic fundamentalists that could repeat a Nine Eleven episode.
Terrorists have been terrorizing the world since way before Nine Eleven but liberals continue to be complacent and hold a blind eye. They believe it is all America’s fault for Islamic terrorism through out the world. Bush, et al, are fighting terror in Iraq instead of here at home. What a brilliant idea, Bush wants to spread liberty in the Middle East and the people of the Middle East voted to prove they want him to do so. What a brilliant concept. Spread liberty and secure our future safty.
If you believe the American media then you believe that there were no elections in Iraq, or Afghanistan, no improvement or gains made, no eighty thousand new businesses, no 100’s of schools reopened, water running , lights that go on, women voting and going to school, driving cars, and holding twenty five per cent of all government positions. In Kurdish northern Iraq there has not been one life lost by terrorism of our military or among the civilian population in over a year. The Kurds have built their first university and named it the American University. They love Americans. There are over a hundred and fifty free and independent newspapers and television stations now operating in Iraq. More than double the oil revenues are now being produced for the people than under Saddam for himself.
We lost 3000 troops and 40,000 Iraqis in three and a half years of fighting Saddam's Bathist party and then Islamic Fundamental terrorists, then death squads, then Shiite and Sunni militias. We lost 3000 troops in Iwo Jima in one hour fighting Japanese. Saddam is responsible for killing over a million of his own people. If we would have left him alone as the Democrats would have done we would have left Saddam to develop and sell or give away weapons to fellow terrorists.
To support of the idea of do nothing, or obstruct, or undermine this countries efforts to end terrorism or despotism as have liberal news media, and liberal politicians have done, and to not promote liberty thought out the world will leave to our children the fight of what O Sama says is WWIII. We in the west are in a global fight of Islamic fundimental thirteenth century beliefs versus freedom.
Nancy Palosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Durbin, and Kennedy are all against everything and for nothing. They have no new ideas except to raise the minimum wage. They have no ideas for halting the world wide Islamic terror campaign except to say we need to go in a new direction. What direction?
Eighty per cent of the national newspaper and television media are liberal. With zeal they publish government secrets, like NSA’s program for recording calls from Al Quida and Islamic fundamentalists that could repeat a Nine Eleven episode.
Terrorists have been terrorizing the world since way before Nine Eleven but liberals continue to be complacent and hold a blind eye. They believe it is all America’s fault for Islamic terrorism through out the world. Bush, et al, are fighting terror in Iraq instead of here at home. What a brilliant idea, Bush wants to spread liberty in the Middle East and the people of the Middle East voted to prove they want him to do so. What a brilliant concept. Spread liberty and secure our future safty.
If you believe the American media then you believe that there were no elections in Iraq, or Afghanistan, no improvement or gains made, no eighty thousand new businesses, no 100’s of schools reopened, water running , lights that go on, women voting and going to school, driving cars, and holding twenty five per cent of all government positions. In Kurdish northern Iraq there has not been one life lost by terrorism of our military or among the civilian population in over a year. The Kurds have built their first university and named it the American University. They love Americans. There are over a hundred and fifty free and independent newspapers and television stations now operating in Iraq. More than double the oil revenues are now being produced for the people than under Saddam for himself.
We lost 3000 troops and 40,000 Iraqis in three and a half years of fighting Saddam's Bathist party and then Islamic Fundamental terrorists, then death squads, then Shiite and Sunni militias. We lost 3000 troops in Iwo Jima in one hour fighting Japanese. Saddam is responsible for killing over a million of his own people. If we would have left him alone as the Democrats would have done we would have left Saddam to develop and sell or give away weapons to fellow terrorists.
To support of the idea of do nothing, or obstruct, or undermine this countries efforts to end terrorism or despotism as have liberal news media, and liberal politicians have done, and to not promote liberty thought out the world will leave to our children the fight of what O Sama says is WWIII. We in the west are in a global fight of Islamic fundimental thirteenth century beliefs versus freedom.
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