Politics
Pick a Good One
I have chosen NOT to publicly express my personal political preferences since the shooting of John F. Kennedy.
My reasons are many, the biggest being the limited choices we have had and the poor choices we have made.
I have enjoyed watching the “show” however and for sanity reasons have looked at it more as entertaintment than serious business.
I have strong, yet unspoken views about our current choices for President and Vice President. That extends to all of the tactics I have seen from both sides. If forced to take a stand I would opt to do away with the two party system where people feel obliged to go along with one of the two people their delegates put up there. I would prefer to see a literal “free for all” system, with no primary, where we didn’t have to take sides, and instead pick the best person for the job. Doing this would eliminate the candidates talking more about their opponent’s faults and their history than their own plans if elected.
I hope to see some comments in here.
What do YOU think about these choices put before us in 2008?
August 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Well said Ron; I too struggle with the choice, however since I must make one, I am going with Barack Obama. My reason is pretty sad. I just thing the “other guy” could get sick or even die before his term ends, leaving us with some unknown, inexperienced woman from Alaska to run the country.
As least Obama had the conscious to pick a running mate that could succeed him if something were to happen to him. Presidents have been assassinated before.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
It’s unlike you, Ron, to not voice an opinion, yet to ask us to voice ours. What, again, is your reason for not telling us your choice?
August 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Ron Here:
Aloha Pam,
Expressing my personal feeling about the options given is not worth the risk of getting into political debates with my clientele, many of which have strong feelings about one candidate or the other; I don’t. The only passionate position I take is stated in my post; “Dump the two parties.”
I am apalled by the predictable responses to anything done by either candidate along party lines to attempt to justify anything they do; good or bad. It’s a “gag me with a spoon thing.”
August 29th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
What a weenie you are Ron; come out and say it. I’m guessing that you are a big fan of the Obama clan. This aint basketball were playing here, and this aint South Chicago we are talking about running. This is the whole country, not the hood.
John McCain has the nuts needed to finish this war with bullets and bombs; nuclear if need be, not orchestrated words. And Mrs. Alaska has even bigger balls than he does; she hunts and fishes like a man, but apparently has sex like a woman (5 kids). Dick Cheney may not be able to tell a pheasant from a lawyer, but she can.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Aloha Ron,
I think keeping your opinion to your self is O.K. I personally like Obama, I think we need a fresh start and I believe anyone is better than what we have now. There has to be a change in the system and it may take more than one or two terms to even start to clean - up what has happened. The positive part about this election is that more people are registered, more people are voting and more people are taking responsibility for the fact that “Americans” have to take part in our country, our environment our homelessness, our problems and deal with our silent majority and inspire everybody to take action in our daily lives and build our country back up!
With Aloha,
Char
August 30th, 2008 at 8:41 am
It must be Obama. He is in touch with us; he proved that while vacationing in Hawaii and doing the things he did as a young boy and that we do as young adults. We have had enough old fuddy duddys running this country into the ground under the guise of protecting it.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Here’s the “reality” folks.
We do need “balls” in the White House, and 4 are better than the two that Obama and Biden have between them.
If you can’t figure that one out; one has two and the other has none.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
LOL Hey Jack; I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
I’m actually scared to death that this jive jackass might actually go all of the way. If so, I will lose a lot of respect for the American judgment. I think it would be more a matter of uneducated losers going to the polls for the 1st time to get their boy elected so they can get more welfare and other goverment handouts that we working folks have to earn the old fashion way.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I am proud to be an American and will be jumping for joy when I see Barack Obama standing alone as the overwhelming winner on November 4. He has shown that we can be anything we want to be, and he will bring about the change needed in Washington. When the dust settles and the changes start taking place, everyone will be able to see what he has already seen.
GO OBAMA!
August 30th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Outrageous!!!
How can John McCain look in the mirror after so many months of claiming that Barack Obama is not experienced enough to be Commander in Chief, and then on his 72nd birthday announce Sarah Palin as his choice for VP?
The answer is obvious; desperation!
Sarah Palin may be a strong personality, but when it comes to real experience, she has NONE!
August 31st, 2008 at 7:30 am
I would vote for the guy in this photo over either of those two birds running! At least EVERYONE knows that he’s stupid. A lot of people think that the two we have to pick from are smart. The truth be told, you have to be stupid just to want that job.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Never before have I seen such a clear choice. We have the opportunity to choose right over wrong; peace over war, honest over deceit, fresh over dull, nice over nasty!
Vote Obama!!!
August 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
McCain is the one; hands down!
August 31st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I discovered this blog several months ago and look at it every day. I have not commented before, but feel that I have to now. I think that John McCain is of the opinion that picking a woman as his running mate will win him the women who were loyal to Hillary; Wrong. Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton.
I was actually going to vote for McCain after Hillary lost, but this act of desperation on his part turns me off so much that I will now remain loyal to my party and vote for Obama. “Anything to win” tactics are not welcome in my book.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Palin has more experience than Obama … hands down… at least she has had to make some kind of executive decisions being Gov of ALaska… all Obama has done is make speeches and vote on bills (most times absent vote)
Wait until the debates start and Obama is exposed with his ties to Rezko, Ayers, and Rev Wright… all self proclaimed mentors.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
What are the chances of a hurricane taking the glow off of the Republican Convention? Well, if you understand Karma, you will see them as pretty high. The timing of this hurricane is God’s answer to the timing of McCain’s selection of “What’shername” as his running mate to take the headlines away from Obama after his brilliant acceptance speech.
Yes, Karma is real; so is Barack Obama.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
I’m with Jeff all the way, with one exception and that is that I am willing to stick my neck out and tell the whole truth, which is that we are not a country to be led by a black person. If we all that know that were willing to stop hiding behind the truth we could push that issue and push John McCain into the White House; yes it is a WHITE House. I have no doubt that Jeff, John McCain, the majority of the Republican Party and especially Sarah Palin think the same as I do. Let’s admit it and say it like it is. This is a free country and we have the right to state our minds.
This is NOT South Chicago; this is the United States of America!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:50 am
I have long known and felt in my gut that race was a part of the emotion we see in this election, and here it is, brought out into the open by mauijeff and Reality Check. Thanks guys; you deserve our disgust!
Not since Martin Luther King has there been such opposition to and fear of someone seeking to make change. And we still have change to make.
Thank God for Barack Obama, and God Bless America!
September 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
OK Ron, fair enough.
To address your original point; I would agree in principle to eliminating the parties but I am afraid that the best person for the job may not have the money to get the national recognition needed to win.
Perhaps we could eliminate political advertising (breath of fresh air) and create some way where applicants for the job could present their message to the public via the generosity of the television stations or the Internet. Then after a primary election with meaning we could narrow it down to the top 10, then the top 5, then the winner.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I am now convinced that Ron’s idea is the way to go. As a lifetime Republican it is getting more and more difficult to remain loyal to the party, yet if I were to vote Democratic my father would turn over in his grave, and my mother would disown me. This comment is about how I feel as a Republican as I watch my party members scramble to justify the very things they would be screaming bloody murder about if they had been done by the Democrats.
I cringe (but laugh) every time David Letterman shows his “Great moments in presidential speeches” segment. What an embarrassment!
Now I feel the tear of decision as “our candidate” demonstrates such poor judgment in creating his running mate. I fear that he was so focused on the political side (getting elected) that he overlooked the important side (trust and integrity).
This is not about HER having a pregnant daughter, or practicing cronyism in her office, but about HIM having the poor judgment in putting someone up there with these problems.
Every time I hear the words “Troopergate” my mind goes back to the horrible days of Watergate. When I heard Barack Obama say, “Children are off limits”, I wanted to hug him, but I just cannot vote for him. What to do??????
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Martin Luther King Jr said:
“I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
Obama is the Antithesis to Martin Luther King dream!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Mark my words; tonight’s speeches in Denver will be the most negative speeches ever at a presidential convention. There will be a lot more talk about Barack Obama than there will John McCain. As they “preach to the choir”, (the died in the wool Republicans, they will even further offend the congregation, (the American majority), and when they wake up in the morning there will be an even wider gap in the polls with Obama surging ahead.
I could hear a gasp in the room when Fred Thompson praised Sarah Palin for being able to “field dress a moose.” OMG what an image that is!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 am
Hey Ron, you said that you would not accept any more racist comments and then you allowed mauijeff to distance Barack Obama from Martin Luther King. How absurd is that?
When I first read his comment I thought he was attempting to redeem himself, or had been enlightened in some way, and then I looked the word “antithesis” up in the dictionary. I have been to Maui and found Hawaii to be about as culturally mixed as anyplace I have been. I don’t understand how mauijeff could exist there with his racist views, but I guess there are racists everywhere.
Those who are anti-blacks will soon get their just due when they see Barack Obama sworn in as President of this free country. Incidentally, my name “Willy” is short for Wilfred. I am white and from Germany; a country that understands racial hatred like no other.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
Ron Here;
Okay, enough is enough. I am allowing Willie’s comment in the spirit of “equal time,” but will now consider this Blog subject to be officially closed. I will not accept any further comments; NONE!
Those desiring to air any form of hatred views can go to Google and type in Black Hatred Blogs or White Hatred Blogs, or Barack Obama Hatred Blogs, or John McCain Hatred Blogs. I’m sure that you will find plenty of forums to express your views.
I deleted 21 comments this morning that I found racially offensive, but somehow failed to feel what Willie did in what mauijeff was saying.
When I started this Blog I was warned that managing and monitoring it could become a full time job. Truer words were never spoken. Whew!