Fighting to Preserve Liberty in America
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Throughout out the Republican campaign process, Herman Cain has been portrayed as an interesting candidate, but with no serious chance of winning the Republican nomination. What I found was the most curious logic was on the O’Reilly Factor the other night. Bill’s reasoning that Herman Cain won’t win the nomination was because the most important thing to Republicans was to unseat Obama and that independents won’t vote for Cain because he is too conservative.
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One of the knocks on Herman Cain is that he has never held political office and therefore he doesn’t have the necessary experience. I, for one, would like to see a lot more people who have met a payroll go into government, than be governed by those who have never done anything other than live off of a government paycheck. They have no concept of the real world, but love to write the rules the real world must live by.
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Today in New York City, the bastion of blue, in the bluest of states there is an upset in the making. Republican Bob Turner is leading Democrat David Weprin for the Congressional seat vacated by the disgraced Anthony Weiner, a protegé of Senator Chuck Schumer.
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The stock market is bouncing up and down like Fatty Arbuckle on a bungee cord. The job numbers are just as dismal as they were last week. The CBO says we can expect unemployment to continue north of eight percent until 2016. Is it just me or is the honeymoon over?
The oil companies announce their first quarter earnings and they are good news for the oil companies and their investors. Not to let an opportunity pass, Congressman Tim Bishop, against a backdrop of $4 per gallon gasoline prices, introduces legislation titled, “The Big Oil Welfare Repeal Act.” On his own website he admits that this legislation “will not impact gas prices for American consumers.” The legislation’s purpose is to eliminate a tax credit for the oil companies, not all oil companies just the five largest. It also doesn’t address subsidies to other energy companies such as ethanol, wind, solar, coal, geothermal, and a $7,500 tax credit if you buy a Chevy Volt. Why not?
To No Fly or Not to No Fly, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of indecision
Or take arms against a tin pot dictator
And by opposing end him. To golf, to play
No more – and by play to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand responsibilities
This job requires. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To golf, to play –
To play, perchance to bracket: ay, there’s the rub,
To watch one’s pick, march on the final four
When at last we watch Duke play Pitt,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of getting elected.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of this job,
Bush’s problems, the Tea Party’s contumely
The pangs of despised polls, the Constitution’s stubbornness,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his departure make
With an electoral loss? Who would want this job?
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after this office,
The undiscovered retirement, from whose bourn
Only Bill Clinton returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than to fly to others that we know not of?
Thus making decisions does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of
Longing to be a community organizer again
Or to be able to vote “present”
And lose the name of action. – Soft you now,
Jimmy Carter, to you I will be compared
By all my sins remembered.
Apologies to William Shakespeare
That’s my opinion; I’d like to know yours. Please comment below.
You almost have to wonder, why in the world did he run for president? Was he swept up in the ego trip? Was he reading too much into his own press clippings? Did the historic opportunity of being the first real black president, sorry Bill Clinton, in U.S. history overwhelm a careful consideration of what the job entailed?
The common themes in each presidential race turn on a hope and dream for the future, defining a common purpose and a call to action. Candidates usually win on the success of their ability to marshal these themes into a cohesive series of arguments for their nomination and eventually election to office. Few were as effective as Ronald Reagan at recruiting the support of the average listener. If he could get your ear, he could get your vote. Candidate Barack Obama frequently compared himself with Ronald Reagan during his campaign. His media cohorts happily aligned themselves with this maladapted relationship, with the centrist and even right leaning (business friendly and low/fair taxes) themes hinted by Obama’s vague comparisons.
