When will the voters of this country wake up and commit these people to mental institutions, prisons or kindergartens?
Some of our “leadership” are simply tools of their plutocratic owners. Others have not the intelligence to understand how ridiculous is the economic twattle that impresses them so much. They even gift us with a self-satisfied smile while exhibiting their ignorance – though some of those smiles might more accurately be described as smirks. To them we are cockroaches.
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You may already know that Romney has 24 advisers on foreign policy, all neo-cons. Seventeen came from the Bush Administration.
Now we are turning to Romney’s chief adviser on the economy, Glenn Hubbard, formerly Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers Chairman.
In other words, if you miss W’s administration, policies and accomplished missions, you can relive them simply by electing Mitt. Of course, adding another economic catastrophe at this time might delay recovery a few generations.
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Do you see anything wrong in the graphic? It’s right there in your face; perhaps too obvious.
It’s a political statement by someone who considers himself a super patriot.
Some untutored person quite inappropriately has attached the words “States Rights” to a picture of the Constitution. Untutored? Inappropriate? Sadly.
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Everyone knows what terrorism is, right? Obviously not.
I watched a couple of news shows. One has an interview with Senator John McCain. The following show had an interview with another Republican.
Both are criticizing the president, subsequent to the second debate. Both are referring to the killings in Libya as acts of terrorism. Both are ignorant.
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Snake oil salesmen are no longer tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. Now they become Republican congressmen or presidential candidates. Their present-day scam is tax cuts, a miracle cure-all.
Tax cuts. Oh, it sounds so good. But, is it? The seductive, siren call was injected into the recent vice presidential debate. If you are in the top 2% of earners, they seem god-given rewards for being good Christians, greedy and ignorant. For the rest of us, it’s a lump of coal in our Christmas stocking.
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Mitt won the first debate. Truth lost. America lost.
People lie for various reasons. Sometimes it’s to spare someone’s feelings. Sometimes it’s for reasons far less noble.
Everyone does it occasionally. Some do it so much that others know not to put trust in anything they say. Then you have people who get away with it. Myth Romney falls into that last group.
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It’s not often that “you people” get to eavesdrop on one of the elite expressing the contempt the elite has for Mr. John Q. Public.
Mitt Romney and his audience of millionaire donors consider 47% of your fellow Americans to be worthless bums. It is a pitiful state of affairs when these plutocrats have so little understanding of those over whom they rule. Truly a pitiable group that does not know what they do not know.
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This is a chance for me to think more highly of myself as a writer.
Every year the English department of San Jose State University holds the Bulwer-Lytton competition. It is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.
Why honor a person with whom you are likely unfamiliar? He is the author infamous for the cliché opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Prepare yourself. It’s literature but it ain’t Shakespeare.
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Words may fail me but seem never to have failed that master polemicist, Gore Vidal.
It’s difficult to consider oneself a writer whenever one reads a titan such as he. It does, however, give one a truer perspective.
In light of our relative literary strengths, I will rely for the greater part of this small tribute on the words of the master. However difficult it may be for me to command the background, here it is appropriate.
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As a kid (child) I often saw my grandmother cut off the head of a chicken, then let it run around for a couple of minutes before hanging it on the clothesline by its feet to drain the blood.
Initially, it was funny. As I grew older, it became much less amusing. Now it is impossible to avoid an analog that was never amusing: our reaction to the destruction of the country. In this case it is not the head that is being discarded. It’s the body.
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