Reluctant Politician

The protests which have led to an uprising of the people in Egypt have given new hope to democracy taken root in the Arab world. Admittedly the protests in Egypt and the response by the government seems to have been fairly peaceful to date. The military does not appear to have taken up arms against the protesters who wish to end the three-decade reign of President Hosni Mubarak. Although such is not all that surprising when you consider the very fact that the Egyptian military is largely paid for by the American government. Why a country with a $13 trillion deficit is financing the militaries of foreign governments is an altogether different issue. So let’s just leave it on the table hidden under a napkin and move on for now.

United States President Barack Obama and his administration have reportedly been discussing with Egyptian officials a variety of proposals to create a transitional government and remove Mubarak from office immediately. The odds are those discussions have been fairly one sided with the Obama administration calling for the immediate removal of Mubarak and elevation of their choice as the new president. My personal opinion is that such discussions are a mistake. And not a small mistake at that. (continue reading…)

It’s days like these where I seriously think I should be running the country!

Right now Hitler would have a better chance of getting my vote in 2012 than Obama considering his canceling of the government’s manned spacecraft program upon the Space Shuttle’s retirement later this year.

OK, admittedly that statement is a bit extreme. I would not vote for Hitler.

However, I am quickly becoming strongly convinced that Obama is looking more and more like a one-term lame duck president.

Not to be outdone by the Nobel Prize Committee, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has just announced that President Barack Obama will be eligible in every category for next years Emmy Awards. This is in response to his many hours of ‘service’ on prime time TV. Apparently without him, the networks would have had to schedule another eight shows staring Regis Philbin each week.

You can do little but laugh at the thought that Obama was awarded a Nobel Prize basically just for being elected president (as well as for not being George W. Bush). There once was a time when the prize was awarded for past actions, not future potential.

A man in New Hampshire man got the shock of his life when he discovered he had been charged more than $23 quadrillion for a pack of cigarettes he had purchased hours earlier at a gas station.

$23,148,855,308,184,500!! Finally. Looks like Obama now has a tax plan to pay for national health care AND erase the national debt. Wondering if it will be enough to fund the next eight years of his programs?

Now I am not having voter’s remorse. I was never thrilled with either candidate. I am concerned that the good ole U.S.A. is gradually becoming a socialist state and that is is happening without hardly any of it’s citizens truly realizing it.

I don’t limit myself to be labeled as a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or whatever. I vote for whom I feel is best candidate, or as if often the case, the least worst candidate.

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