Hell if I know.
I'm looking at the current crop of candidates. I've pretty much tossed out the idea of voting for a Democrat - as front runners you've got Obama the Anointed and Untested and the Queen Bee who is ENTITLED, you damn peasant, and how dare you question whether she'd be a good President?
The rest of 'em - eh. Edwards - no. Kucinich? No. He ought to concentrate on his wife, I think. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, woo what a hottie.) At least he doesn't have to run for President to get a date anymore. Biden? Doesn't play nice with others. Richardson? My folks were very unimpressed with him during his tenure as New Mexico governer. Kerry and Gore, thank heaven, don't seem to be running at the present time, although I suppose it depends on the definition of 'running'. The rest... no. I ain't feeling the love, people.
On the Republican side... man. So many to choose from, so many... so I'm going to wait and see for a while. I'm partial to Giuliani, and Cox is at least a FairTax supporter, though he hasn't held any office of note so I'm doubtful on his experience. The rest aren't sparking much interest.
Realistically, we've had Presidents who frittered away their time in office, and others who stepped up at times of crisis to do what they thought right. It'll be interesting to see what we get that seem up to the task.
Interesting - and more than a bit disheartening. It's not about the party and what's best for it - it's about what's best for the country. If they get my attention and agreement on that, they'll have my vote. But I think the current climate's got our politicians seeing the other side as more of a threat than Al Quaeda and a nuke-armed Iran could ever be. And THAT just won't cut it.
J.
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Not decided myself, but the main decision point is that of survival instinct.
Anyone that tries to bring up any 20th century nostrum or slogan doesn't have it.
No 'People Power'.
No 'Free trade makes people free'.
No 'Peace in our time'.
No 'There ought to be a law'.
These have failed and have given us the world we now have.
Basics which should be obvious to us:
- Being nice to tyrants and appeasers and terrorists gets you death and destruction. It also leads to war as they try to grasp more.
- Running from a fight makes the world worse, not better.
- International institutions have not safeguarded peace, have not protected the weak and have not expanded freedom. So sorry!
- Free trade and unaccountable trade has given the enemies of freedom a cheap and well distributed arsenal. It is getting us killed as a civilization.
- Government programs take liberty and money from people and is spent with little in the way of oversight and accountability.
One word on trying to stop 'global warming' and I know a candidate has no seriousness. A gun to the head is much more important than a thermostat for the planet which no one can find.
These ideas and outlooks from the 20th century have *failed*. It is time to try something else before they get us killed, enslaved or made a part of a lovely Islamic Empire. Platitudes and nostrums and sloganeering on same 20th century views are non-survival at this point in time. They have had time to work for 90 years in the Middle East: they have failed.
Get over it.
Left and Right, get serious about surviving or take a hike.
Human nature red of tooth and claw walks this earth again and effete views will not quench its hunger for blood and power. That is the #1 and only serious threat we have today and as it puts all else in its sights, *nothing* is more important than addressing it.
I expect to be very, very disappointed in my fellow Americans who will look to make a suicide pact with despots and tyrants. That has never worked and has only gotten more and worse war and death. Fighting to keep civilization does not mean health care, global warming, or any of those slogans as one must SURVIVE to have them. Thus we must name and address our enemies as enemies in the old fashioned way, as the new fashioned just hasn't cut it. You cannot have those fine things if you have no rights as enslaved or are just plain dead.
Posted by ajacksonian | May 3, 2007 2:12 PM
Posted on May 3, 2007 14:12
Suvival is paramount, I agree. And we've got too many politicians who should know better worried about the frosting on the cake when the wheat isn't even harvested yet to MAKE the cake.
It's all about priorities - and I don't think the majority of our politicians have got the right ones. So, as always, it turns to a vote for the 'least worst' one.
Dammit.
J.
Posted by JLawson | May 4, 2007 9:10 AM
Posted on May 4, 2007 09:10
J - I have yet to see any of these candidates actually address survival and what needs to be done. We have more enemies getting deadlier not due to fighting in Iraq, but due to newer and better weapons getting cheaper on a global basis. Terrorism funds itself through many points, including the criminal, and I have yet to see organized crime disappear from the planet... that melding of capabilities is not one that makes for a good future on the course we are going.
That is the course of 'wisdom' that all the British Luxury Liners had in the North Atlantic: avoid the iceberg. Can't scratch the paint job, you know! Costs far too much to fix that...
Worked so well for the Titanic!
Survival in this world means enforcing the concept of Nation State, holding Nations accountable to their agreements and actions and then actually *doing what you say you will do* if those other Nations do not do so. Trying to avoid conflict is going to get a lot of folks killed. The more I remember of 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' the more I remember realizing that people *knew* that WWII was coming and tried to live like they couoldn't feel that was so. It was chilling to read that novel... not the most powerful one that he wrote, but now I remember it. For that is how I feel and that is what I see today.
We feel that oncoming storm and wish to deny it is coming. We run around doing the same old things hoping that it will miss us. Basically, it feels like what I have read and listened to about 1937-38. The same appeasement.
The same running from tyrants.
The same slogans of things that never worked and never will.
And still we deny it is coming when the harbingers have already shown up. The first hard, cold drops of rain. The rising wind in the tree tops.
Confront it and it will be nasty and bloody, but we will survive.
Run and there will be hell to pay, because we are the targets.
And no politician dares say that, until it is too late.
Posted by ajacksonian | May 4, 2007 5:04 PM
Posted on May 4, 2007 17:04