Calibabe Wed 04 Aug 2010, 6:18 pm
Grits wrote:There are so many unanswered questions about him, but yet scores of reporters took off to Alaska to destroy Sarah Palin with every tiny tidbit of her life...
I guess that's another "things that make you go...hmmmm...."
Yeah, doesn't that just bite you right in the butt. I swear if she had been a Dem/Lib/Socialist they would have thought she was the neatest thing since the bee's knees. She has that author Joe McGuiness up there now living next door to her. How creepy would that be? Seriously I would absolutely hate to have someone peering over the fence looking daily at what I was doing. It would really tick me off to tell you the truth.
There are so many unanswered questions about this man that is president of this country. There was enough information available to anyone that wanted to take the time to read up on him, which I did, and made my choice based on what was availabe to me. When I first saw him speak at the Dem Convention (yes, I actually admit to watching the conventions, both of them every four years--I guess old habits die hard) I said to my husband "That man could actually be president of this country. He doesn't sound like a Democrat. He sounds mainstream". Oh how wrong that comment was. He is the biggest threat to this country, in my opinion, to come along in many years. I think people bought into the glitz and the appearance to make him look "JFK" like with the wife and two children. However, appearances are deceiving and this man is very deceitful. He is slowly killing this country along with the congress. If the voters this year don't literally throw out half the congress I fear that these slugs will continue their slow dismantling of the Constitution that has been underway for a long time. Between the judiciary reading what they want into laws and the congress making mandates like health care, we are seriously in trouble. Yet, somewhere I think people just aren't seeing it or don't want to admit it. I was glad to see that Missouri rejected by large numbers the participation of their states people in the health care law. That is a good sign. That could certainly spread to other states that have ballot initiatives, like CA, who could then put this on their ballot for the people to reject or approve. I know even here people are really ticked that law passed. I just hope that they keep that anger and replace their individual congressmen in November. We have all gotten complacent with the people that are in office. I always voted for the person that I felt would do a good job or that I felt would do a good job for the people, like myself, that voted them into office to represent my interests. I will have to say that while I don't like Sen. Feinstein in CA, she took the time, twice, to write me when I contacted her about my concerns about the healthcare bill. Sen Boxer when sent the same questions never did. I will vote to replace her this November. Not only on that issue but on the shear fact that she has been there far too long. She has gotten to the point that she believes that she has worked "so hard" for the title of senator. That is arrogance and I don't want that in an elected official. While humility would be nice for a change, I am of the belief that if we are going to limit our president to 8 years, then all other elected officials should serve no longer than that as well, at least on the federal level. That is just my point of view. I think when they get in there for 15, 20, 30, 35 years or longer that they do get complacient and feel entitled to be there for life or as long as they want to serve. That is wrong and they are not entitled to that position. These people also need to remember that we are a "representative republic" and that the people that we elect are supposed to represent our ideas on how we want government run and what we think is good to be passed for the people and what is bad. While it is not a perfect system, it is one that people all over this world want to come to. There has to be a reason why.
I just hope that this November the people awaken out of the deep sleep they have been in for the last couple of years and vote these people out of office by their actions over the past year. I am just not sure that the people will do it. While I have seen encouraging signs like the election of governors in states that were liberal and that several sitting congressmen have already lost primaries, I still have the fear that come November that people will sit back and do what they always do and just not vote. When more people vote on American Idol than they do for president or the congress of this country we have a serious problem.