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May 18, 2010
A salute to FEMA in Nashville
George W. Bush taught Barack Obama one big thing, and the new president learned the lesson well. When a storm strikes it’s important to send help, not grudging hindrance.
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A little salt for the polls
Public-opinion polling, like politics, prostitution and punditry, are honorable enough professions, if properly understood and taken with enough salt. But usually they aren’t.
We’re awash now in polls, most of them contradictory, each pretending to be an accurate barometer of what’s on the mind of the average voter. Alas, the average voter has the attention span of a fruit fly flitting from banana to mango to plum. This suits the average politician just fine, since managing and manipulating attention spans is the key to what counts most, his survival.
The average politician understands what polls can tell him and what they can’t, enabling him to adjust his convictions and rearrange his principles, if necessary, and sometimes even government policy, as public opinion shifts and changes with each news cycle.
This is not what Barack Obama expected for a coming-out party. The “historic” revelation that he is now fully evolved, as from tadpole to frog, and now grooves on same-sex marriage, was meant to be marked with quiet ceremony. No music, no flowers, no kiss, no dancing, not even a cupcake.
Barack Obama, now fully evolved, is once more the rage of the demimonde. All it took was for him to man up, to acknowledge what everyone already knows the president thinks about “gay sex.”
Smashmouth politics, the norm nearly everywhere else, has overtaken “Indiana nice” on the banks of the old Wabash. A lion of the Senate – as Senate lions are now measured – is likely to fall today.
Recent comments
Of course you miss the big picture, the importance of the whole spectacle.
When politicians FAIL at their real tasks that would make the country a great place to live, they must distract the voters with a non-issue such as gay marriage or flag burning.
These issues really don’t affect us, they don’t affect our day-to-day lives. Nobody doesn’t eat because a flag got burned somewhere. Even for gay men living together, the gay marriage issue rarely impacts their day-to-day lives. Sure, there are inconveniences, hospital visitation, inheritance, in some cases employment benefits, although more and more companies extend benefits for domestic partnerships. Other issues can be addressed with contracts and legal documents.
Simply put, these are election distractions to polarize the two parties and get them whipped up into a fervor such that voters will forget everything else that has been bungled. Economic collapse, loss of personal liberty, expansion of government size and power, deficit spending, botched foreign policy, Iraq, but we MUST pass a constitutional amendment to define marriage RIGHT NOW. Why? Because politicians need a straw man political issue upon which they can take a stand, garner votes, and secure their own re-elections.
I can define Marriage in America without the help of a constitutional amendment. Over half fail. Some married people cheat, some married people are repeat offenders, some married people won a reality t.v. show, some married people are miserable. Our founding fathers came to this country and immediately tried to protect us from the problems of the country they just fled, namely RELIGION. The main goal of the founding fathers was to make sure religion was not part of our government. They wanted to protect our right to worship any god we want, or no god at all. The country they left was so messed up from the intertwining of government and politics that they wrote it in the constitution. Our rights are endowed by “our creator”, not Allah, not God, not The Great Spirit, our creator (whoever you believe your creator is). The very first amendment forbade the government from taking a side in religious debates.
It’s been said that only a fool fights in a burning house, and this entire country is on fire. What issues do we hold important that we would fight as our house burns down around us, who we legally get marry? When the pain comes, we only have our own selves to blame. Prepare to make sacrifices in the economic turmoil that is coming, and always remember the important lesson, we let it happen. We prioritized Gay Marriage over governmental fiscal responsibility.
I agree with Lon. It’s a weak, toothless response: install imperfect people to monitor imperfect people. This just picks at the scab. Holding those in violation accountable for their actions is the answer, but Liberals have no clue how to discipline a 3rd grader, let alone a grown man whose job it is to absorb high-impact projectiles with his flesh, which, incidentally was the thing that predominated his decision-making process to lie with the unclean women. I say, raise the gauntlet of INTEGRITY and, uh…wait, no…it’s so hard to follow in integrity those who lead without an ounce of it in their own blood. Heck, let’s just skip all the pretense and get to where we’re going anyway: firing squad!!
Hiring babysitters is an expensive, weak solution that can easily be circumvented by a motivated person. Reiteration of the rules and firing agents who violate them is all that’s necessary. Hiring babysitters as preventive action is more embarrassing than the problem.
Mitt should adopt for his campaign the old Mormon song which goes as follows:
Put your shoulder to the wheel,push along
Do your duty with a heart full of song
We all must work
Let no one shirk
Put your shoulder to the wheel
What will Obama’s song be,the Internationale?
For those interested in French politics and culture, take a look at: galliawatch.com
Lost in all this is that Santorum being outspent 4 to 1 and having Paul Ryan and the Republican Senator endorse the other guy still got 38% of the vote in Wisconsin to Mitt Romney’s 42. In fact, close to 60% of votes cast thusfar in all primaries have been for a candidate other than Romney.
Romney is a weak front runner who wins mostly by pounding down his opponents with negative ads and suppressing voter turnout.
As far as the delegate math the projections depend mostly on who is doing the calculations. While it looks likely Romney will be the nominee it is not at this point a certainty. Santorum could still force a brokered convention. That’s a fact.
I would think as I heard President Obama address the Supreme Court on the matter of his Obamacare. That the President threaten the Court. Since he is the President and could over rule what any Court says. He does have the power. Why could he not dissolve the Court. He does have good reason to do what ever he wants. His Blog supporters could fill the Internet and clog any radio station with tied up phone lines. He could dissolve Congress as well. People might not like it, but who cares. He is still the President. He could with little trouble void the Nov. elections.
Then he could either make himself King or by that German word for leader. Fu
Richard
Dare I post what is in my heart. What belief that I hold of my faith. That my Entity is of the first of all who are worship, yet we are forbidden to do the same. Lacking relics that others claim, where we do not have to go to be with Her. Is it nice that other religions can have a place to say it is their own, a rock here a foot path there, even a pile of dodo can be worship as divine. It is this time of the year where new life springs forth. Where religion seems to be tired to the seasons as those in the far distinct past were. Odd is it not.
But that is to question a person or region belief in things that lack reality.
Secretary
Good luck to the newsreaders. they keep trying to predict the future, when they wont even look at the present, much less the past.
It is not only Israel that doesn`t need friends like the man occupying the WH, anyone with 1 gram of brains would not want friends like him. Why American Jews “must” always vote Democrat? Are they that blind, deaf and dumb? It`s time for Jews to vote this man out of office or they will seriously endanger the State of Israel!