Sometimes I begin to think that there is nothing new that a speech writer can come up with that hasn't been said, in one form or another, by somebody at some time.
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Such was the case with President Obama's Second Inaugural Address. He turned a few nice phrases, but there were virtually no new ideas or proposals that could electrify the audience. The reference to equality for gays is certainly not new but he did have a new way of expressing the concept of what "equal" means.
Back to the old bluster and business of the GOP vs the President. I wonder why it isn't the GOP versus the Democrats in Congress rather than vs the President.
I swear, we ought to try a Parliamentary System some time with the party of the President being the party with the majority of the legislature. I also like the single house of congress concept. The last time the Budget had a surplus was under Bill Clinton and his party controlled both houses of Congress. Don't you ever wonder if something different could work better?
What an exhausting six months of campaigning. Not only were the televisions and the mail boxes filled with Presidential Election pitches, but with Senatorial races and Congressional faces and the local places too.
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Hundreds of candidates to choose from!
By the end I just wished it would all go away. Not only do our campaigns go on and on for months, we have too many elections.
Cram it all into three months, I say, and be done with it!
I am so fed up with all the political ads and misleading statements from candidates that I just need a break from politics. After next Tuesday, I will be watching to see whether or not the new Congress will be able to work together better than the last one. There are some important decisions to be made with regard to spending cuts that will impact us all.
I am pretty certain that Obama will win the Presidency. The election should not be as close as the pollsters want us to believe. Predicting a very close result is good for voter turnout.
I can not understand why any woman, any minority, an aged person, any veteran, any person of color or any student would seriously think he or she is voting in his or her own interests by casting a GOP ballot. Absolutely astounding to me how blind some people are to the facts. No GOP President will help to improve the well-being of anyone making less than $250 thousand a year.
Mitt Romney has amply demonstrated that he is not up to snuff on much of anything. I could not picture him in the White House. I could not even imagine him making military decisions. This election should not even be close, but neither candidate wants to say that, of course.
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