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Stupid political lie of the day, #237…
[Ohio Democrat Secretary of State] Brunner has said the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud but has set up a verification plan.
And again, how is it that wanting to insure the sanctity of the voting process is always some evil “GOP bid to disenfranchise voters?”
One more sterling example of the failure of socialist liberalism, a concept toward which we’re rushing headlong…Hawaii ends universal child health care program just months after adopting it.
I love this quote, illustrating the tragic law of unintended consequences…
“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.”
Duh…you think?!?!?
One of those infamous “dump lists.” Nothing to see here, move along…
I used to love politics. I used to savor the give-and-take of a good, hard-fought campaign. “Back in the day,” it seemed that most campaigns were pretty passionate presentations of differing visions and ideas for solving serious problems.
Lately, though, I’ve become a little more cynical. It seems that all the candidates – and yes, I mean all the candidates! – are only interested in yapping and yakking about how terrible their opponents are, while avoiding any real, positive, tangible vision for the future.
With that in mind, and as a naive “bitter clinger” to what I believe is the greatest political experiment in the history of the world, I’m wondering a couple of things today…
I’m just wondering about these and other things this afternoon.
If you can play nice and offer some constructive opinions, you can comment, and maybe, just maybe, we can learn something about ourselves, our nation, and our future. You don’t have to agree with me – or with any of the other two people who read my blog – but you do have to be civil. Passionate? Sure! Informative? Hopefully!
Jump in! I can’t wait to hear from you!
Because I don’t the grasp of the issues or the way with words about those issues like these two guys, among others…
Randy Bohlender on Why the Debate Stunk
Geoff Baggett on Obama and the Evangelical Vote
One day last week, Rush Limbaugh opined something like…
You mean to tell me that there are over 300 million people in our country, and these are the best two we can find to run for President?
The more I hear, the more I agree…
…for the two Bozos running for President of the United States…
From Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861…
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bond of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they wll be, by the better angels of our nature.
From a message to Congress, December 1, 1862…
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
And this one, from a letter to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863…
The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit pervades in it. And now beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward, and give us victories.
That last one is most appropriate for this election, and the constant, but misplaced campaign against an incumbent who is not on the ballot. It’s most appropriate for candidates – both of them – who appear to masters of the blame game, but who are short on positive, inspiring vision.
We’ll end up with the “leaders” (and I use that term very loosely, because both of the major candidates appear nothing more than political hacks!) that we deserve. And God help the one who gets elected by inciting distrust and disunity among our nation, for what goes around will surely come around.
Just some thoughts post-debate tonight. Of course, your mileage may vary…