I watched most of the presidential debates this past week
(Thursday – Republicans & Sunday-Democrats) and decided that what I saw was
worth to come out of retirement for, and re-start this Soap Box…
Going in chronological order, I will first comment on the
Republican side, Varsity Team (I did not bother with the JV debate/show between
Pandering Carly, Pastor Mike and Pataki (is he still in?) … First, I believe
the only grown up in the whole cast of 13 (down from 17) is Rand Paul. And, as
such, he decided not to join the matinee function (JV show) of the RP-RNC
(Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee) Circus…
The opening act, starring Bozo (Trump) and Pennywise (Cruz)
went for a 15 to 20 minutes give and take shouting match reminiscent of a 4th
grade argument; first, a troublemaker (Bozo) gets under the (very thin) skin of
a Constitutional Lawyer (Pennywise) by floating the rumor that Cruz is not
eligible to be President because he is foreign born (Canada) contrary to what
is stipulated in the Constitution. And Pennywise, instead of slamming the door
on this Constitutional area using his alleged vast Constitutional Lawyering
experience, lets it become an issue in which these two pretenders spent most of
the first 20 minutes of the debate. The ringmasters, Cavuto and Martiromo, let
the charade go for as long as they could, milking it for more debate/ratings/
fodder for the rumor mill… What a great first act!
Eventually the show continued with none of them answering
the questions posed to them; instead, the all followed the following pattern:
·
Not one of them was able to articulate any new
position, any new approach to issues, new areas to think about, new proposals
to solve issues, nothing! How much more pandering are these clowns willing to
do to try to steal the finite amount of votes amongst the GOP voters? None of
them, except for Rand Paul (and he sometimes goes off the deep end too!) is
bringing up issues and their solutions that may be of interest to independent
folks, or non-dogmatic folks who may be looking at all the candidates…
·
All of these ‘senior leaders’ of a national
party, the venerable and respected Good Ole Party, seem to be eager, willing,
and ready to ‘do carpet bombing’, ‘put boots on the ground’, ‘send in special
forces’, ‘establish no fly zones’, ‘shoot down Putin planes’, and all other
sorts of descriptions of actions/engagements that eventually boil down to war.
Two things come to mind that merit asking:
o
On one hand everybody complains (rightfully so)
about the budget deficits and the growing foreign debt, but there seems to be
no qualms at the prospect of spending trillions of dollars (that we don’t have)
on more wars… What gives?
o
None of these folks have either served in the
military of fought in a war; however, they have no second thoughts whatsoever
about sending other people sons and daughters to the slaughter… How callous are
you?
·
They all seem to be running against Barack
Obama; nobody seems to realize that (a) Obama is not running and (b) his 2nd
term is over in January 2017, regardless of who wins, as per the 22nd
Amendment to the Constitution of the USA. When not running against (read
insulting) Obama, the focus is on Hillary Clinton (more comments about Ronald
McDonald below). Meanwhile, Donald J Trump, a non-political politician, is
arousing a part of the base of the Republican party with messages that resonate
with them and is eating the rest of the field’s lunch! If the rest of these
clowns do not wake up in time, Bozo will run away with the nomination!
Now, on the Democratic side, I am going to keep it shorter
because there are less entrants, and because, as you will see, my opinions are
very cut, dry, terse, unambiguous and to the point. On this side, there are
also all sort of shenanigans going on with Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and DNC
trying to ‘protect’ Clintons lead. And there is also an exception to the politics-as-usual
rule and that is Bernie Sanders: call him what you want or wish, but he’s
always been an unashamed socialist, has hidden it from no one, deceived no one,
and he panders to no one. The other two are very special, each on their own way.
Martin O’Malley is still showing up for debates, and that’s all the key-strokes
I am willing to dedicate to him; good night!
Then there is Ronald McDonald! This woman gives the
impression of being the stereotypical politician; the one routinely bought, and
paid for, by special interests; the darling of the lobbyists; the one who would
say anything to anybody at any time as long as she thought she could get either
money of votes – or both - out of them. She is also the one with – allegedly –
the least amount of integrity in the whole bipartisan field: she was ‘cleared’ of
culpability or negligence or ineptitude on the Benghazi deaths not because of
her, but because of an incompetent and over eager and partisan committee, and a
gift from McCarthy; and then there is her arrogance about the e-mails issue,
conducting government business on commercial/private lines with complete
disregard of express rules and regulations, and also ignoring potential
exposure of private government business…
I don’t know yet what the ultimate field will look like, and
if there could be new entrants; I do know – for sure - who I am NOT voting for (Bozo, Pennywise and
Ronald McDonald)!
Stay tuned… We’ll talk again after Iowa and New Hampshire…
