Things were far
simpler in 1936, when I first experienced life. Next January, I turn eighty and each day I seem to
understand less and less about the world I am now living in.
THE LEAST INCOMPETENT
We have two snake-oil
salesmen leading the race to be the GOP candidate for the Presidency. One is a
blustery, loud-mouthed white man, who has yet to propose a workable plan to
“Make America Great Again.” He doesn’t
quite tell lies, but has perfected the innuendo style of speaking used by
Richard Milhous Nixon.
That style can best be
described as, “I’m not saying that my opponent is a (liar, thief, crook,
dishonest, incompetent), that’s for you to decide,” statements.
The second is a
soft-spoken Black man, who embellishes (or creates) tales of his wayward youth,
and how he was resurrected while sitting in the bathroom after one of his
misdeeds. He hasn’t exactly told the media, “You are looking for any wrong
doings because I am a successful neurosurgeon of color,” and seems to be a bit more
subtle in his Nixon-like campaign direction.
THE TRUSTWORTHIEST
On the Democratic
side, we have a kindly, honest, fireball of a Jewish grandfather running
against William Jefferson Blythe III’s wife Hillary. Some women are supporting
her because she is a woman, and they say this country needs a woman President
to inspire young girls to have higher goals and rise above the secretarial pool.
Isn’t that what Carly did, or said that she had done? There’s a hesitancy to
believe anything a politician says.
When Tuesday, November
8, 2016 arrives and I vote for the President, I will once again be forced to
decide which candidate from which party, will do the least amount of damage to my
country and me over the next four years.
I am fortunate enough
to have safe havens to move to if the “wrong” person is elected President,
thanks to my wife. She’s not only a citizen of the United States, but also of
Canada where she lived for thirty-six years, and of Spain where she was born.
We can either move north and be “owt and abowt,” or be “muy contento” in España,
as long as there isn’t another Inquisition.
Political cartoonists
will also face a difficult adjustment figuring out to incorporate the elected
candidate’s ears, hair, facial coloring, pantsuit, or other attire, to
incorporate within their renderings.
IS IT NEWS, OR ‘NU?’
When it comes to
television news, I have had a great deal of trouble listening to Obama over his
two terms as he vacillates when he talks the talk, without walking the walk. If
anyone but Bernie is elected, I will have to figure out how to use the time I
will gain by not watching any television news over the next four years. If
someone spends an average of only thirty-minutes a day watching any and all television
news programs, that would total 43,920 minutes over the next President’s
four-year term, or 732 hours of time.
If I gave up watching
all television news for those four years, I would have ample time to write a
novel, or to write more blog posts kvetching about what’s going on in the
world, and wondering if anyone is reading what I have to say.
Incidentally, has
anyone read this?
THOSE WHO CAN’T
REMEMBER THE PAST
REMEMBER THE PAST
Would you vote for a
candidate for the Presidency, whose political resume included less than eight
years serving in his state’s legislature?
What if he had been a U.S. Senator for little more than three years,
when he sought his party’s nomination to be their candidate for President? What
if he had no real experience as a Governor or another such elected position, to
show that he could actually govern and lead the United States during troubled
times? What if his Father had been born in another land?
Can I ride on your shirttail if you have to leave our country. I agree about Trump and Carson...two deadheads.
ReplyDeleteVoltaire once said...my country right or wrong my country. Was he right or wrong
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ReplyDeleteWhile still living in the U.S., I was asked where my loyalties are, as a dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel. I said the question is irrelevant. Since both countries share the same values and take the same direction, there is no problem with dual loyalty. I added that if one country strays, I will be loyal to the country that didn't.
ReplyDeleteThis was in the 1990s.
Today, I have the opposite problem, as neither country represents me.
Of the insiders my preference is for Rand Paul of the outsiders Carly Fiorina. Trump is a non-starter for me. I think Carson is a good person who's not really up to the job.
ReplyDeleteWell, as a matter of fact, I did read it. I disagree about Trump: he is an out-and-out, IMHO. He lied about seeing people jump from the World Trade Towers, he lied about Muslims applauding in NJ after 9/11. He lied about the type of Mecicans coming into this country. He has lied about some of his "deals." Ben Carson is more, IMHO, a shader of the truth. Neither of them offer much in the way of expertise, diplomacy, foreign affairs experience, or thoughtful consideration of the myriad of domestic problems we have.
ReplyDeleteIMHO, Hilary is experienced enough, astute enough, and tough enough to do the job. (Plus, we get an ex-president as a free adviser.) My worry about her is that she is too secretive, and too much a hawk.