We deserve better. For the first time I can remember, we are entering into a Presidential election and there is nobody I am for. Obama and McCain are two of the sorriest candidates I have ever seen. Here are our choices. We can pick between a 71 year old man who hopefully will learn to give a public speech after his doctors shoot him up with some B-12 and give him a Viagara pill. For God sakes, John, show some life. It’s bad enough that we can’t tell the difference between your policies and Hillary’s. Can your attempt to woo the conservative base be any more strained? And lose the green backdrop. You looked washed out as it is. I didn’t think anyone could make Bob Dole look good. We thank you for your military service. But being a hero 40 years ago doesn’t make you any more qualified to be President than the next guy. This is politics. The question is: what have you done for us lately?
Then there is Obama…the hippies last stand. Here is a classic leftist with a whole 4 years Senate experience, whose main claim to fame is he gave a great speech at the last Democratic Convention. His senate record is a big zero, with a propensity to vote present so he doesn’t have to take a stand on controversial issues. He has associated himself with left wing, racist, America hating, pacifist radicals, using them as a base to propel himself onto the national stage…and those associates have subjected this country to some of the most vile and racially charged comments I have heard publicly uttered in my lifetime. Senator, you are judged by the company you keep…and the company you keep stinks. So don’t look so innocent when we question what you truly believe. You gave that church money for 20 years, and got Father Pfleger a $100,000.00 of our tax money 2 years ago. These are your friends and supporters, not mine.
I am concerned for the future of the country if either of these folks is elected. What is wrong with our system that it has spawned two such mediocre Presidential candidates? Where is the leadership of Ronald Reagan, the quiet wisdom of Dwight Eisenhower, the idealism of John Kennedy, the guts of Harry Truman? In a time when our country craves leadership after 8 years of doing without, we are forced to choose between a redux of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. It is pitiful. It makes me longingly look overseas for the likes of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, John Major. Even Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president of France, looks good. At least he married a babe after getting elected. We know he is alive.
Then there is Obama…the hippies last stand. Here is a classic leftist with a whole 4 years Senate experience, whose main claim to fame is he gave a great speech at the last Democratic Convention. His senate record is a big zero, with a propensity to vote present so he doesn’t have to take a stand on controversial issues. He has associated himself with left wing, racist, America hating, pacifist radicals, using them as a base to propel himself onto the national stage…and those associates have subjected this country to some of the most vile and racially charged comments I have heard publicly uttered in my lifetime. Senator, you are judged by the company you keep…and the company you keep stinks. So don’t look so innocent when we question what you truly believe. You gave that church money for 20 years, and got Father Pfleger a $100,000.00 of our tax money 2 years ago. These are your friends and supporters, not mine.
I am concerned for the future of the country if either of these folks is elected. What is wrong with our system that it has spawned two such mediocre Presidential candidates? Where is the leadership of Ronald Reagan, the quiet wisdom of Dwight Eisenhower, the idealism of John Kennedy, the guts of Harry Truman? In a time when our country craves leadership after 8 years of doing without, we are forced to choose between a redux of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. It is pitiful. It makes me longingly look overseas for the likes of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, John Major. Even Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president of France, looks good. At least he married a babe after getting elected. We know he is alive.
It is my sincere hope that as we look at the crop of possible political candidates coming up behind this batch, that there is a true leader making his/her way to the forefront. We can always hope. The question is, what do we do now?
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