I'm back! Got really busy and was not able to write. But, here I am and I thought I would say a little about the Presidential campaign as it seems that it is more interesting than I thought it would be. I watched the Republican Debate Saturday and could not stop laughing. Most of my friends know where I stand politically and I do have a few conservative, far to the right, friends. We all are allowed to have differing views of the world without being shunned by people of differing views. So yes I do have friends who don't see the world as I do and that is ok.
But, back to the debates. After listening to the Republicans left attempting to oust President Obama I think the debates should be put on the Comedy Channel or at least aired on Saturday Night Live. The inaccuracies espoused not only about present policies but about each other was astounding. This lack of knowledge about the important people on stage was like hearing my students tell me that Las Vegas is the capitol of California. Hysterical! And then to hear the Republican candidates pontificate about character was even more laughable. When attempting to run for political office they forget history or skew it to their advantage it is no wonder we don't trust any politician. What was more important to me was that all them talked more about things unattached to the people. They weren't interested in helping people but business. Yes business is people, ask the worker that was laid off months before retirement, the worker that is making substandard wages, the worker that is working in substandard working conditions. How about the people who have gotten sick due to the lack of environmental controls or a businesses lack to follow the ones we already have, the people who lost their medical insurance because their company laid them off and sent whole departments over seas where people work for 30 cents an hour or child labor laws are non existent? Those issues seem to be absent in their discussions of the economy and many other issues. I wonder if the real people they meet have any impact on any of them. It seems that people are like the machinery in a factory, to be treated as assets, equipment and numbers on a spread sheet. If I was a Republican and I really disliked the present administrations policies I would be sincerely discouraged. No one on that stage has my interests at heart, my landlord, my employer, my insurance carrier maybe, but not me.
I think the only worries President Obama has in his bid for re-election is losing to the square "none of the above."
By the way, I do know that there is no "none of the above" on the ballot. Please vote, it allows you the right to criticize and complain as you participated in the democratic process and expressed your opinion. If you don't participate you let others make decisions for you and abdicate the right to express displeasure.
