Politics Only - Continued. - Page 2

BabyEagle4U,

There is no USSR anymore.

We're next,  then China.    Europe may survive it all,  but the middle east is gonna burn and will be radioactive for the next million years or so.    Oil will glow, cancer will grow and the world will never be the same.

You guy's should apply for cabinet position's.

Your right Bob O,

About all we can do is learn to deal with it.   Since we haven't learned how to use our head's.

You'd all be better off voting for the Pirate's than the choice's you have now.   When are we gonna say enough is enough and put a stop to this game we play every four year's?

I still have those match's.

Brent.

Capt'n Mike ran off with Yellowrose, so who you gonna replace him with, Two Moons??????

Thats very interesting ahsighee.

I wonder.

R U N N O F T !!

AhSighEE,

You can never replace a great man, or woman.   You can only hope another will emerge and have the greatness.   Each one great unto his own self and original.

This political crap has played out like a scratched LP record with no new thinking, sshhhhhhticssshhhhhticshhhhhhtic.

There is no greatness to be found today, maybe tomorrow or the next day.

I would vote for the devil I know rather than one who hide's in waiting for his day.   A wise man might spend his effort on the people and forget the politition's plan's all together.    A great man would not need the office to lead his people.

Right now the people are not worthy to be lead.   They are not ready.  

The day will come of that I am sure.

Until then,

SSDD.

Like I said on the other thread to Preston::::

"It won't Be Long"

I can hear Trumpets sounding"

I don't know about Trumpet's but anyone should be able to see what's playing out and figure out how it's gonna end.

The time line is the only thing thats an unknown.

I don't believe in miracle's.

And I try to avoid fool's and idiot's.

This is just an attempt to fight off boredom.

I'm losing the fight.

Nice post Bob-O. Certainly agree that being a military hero (however defined), on its own anyhow, is no qualification for high office. And as you say, the American Ideal is open to many interpretations; more so since my experience of the US is one of many Americas: ranging from cosmopolitan New York to the melting-pot and gritty realism that’s Chicago, from ostensibly glitzy LA to the conservative Mid West or South’s Bible Belt. Whether the relatively few Harvard, Princeton or Yale educated wealthy to the middle-class majority and low-wage factory worker. It’s what makes America great, if perhaps not also its weakness.

Modern society replaces Roman proletariat’s preoccupation with endless festivals and arena’s bloody spectacles with sport, advertising instilled unrealistic expectations, celebrity and television, together with some narcissistic accumulation of things for its own sake. Hollywood fiction and real life blurs into one, with even our nightly news softened into feel-good entertainment; Tiger Woods sinking a particular putt ranks right alongside or above latest bit of Iraqi bloodletting, soldiers killed in Afghanistan or another African genocide. According to Attorney General’s figures, from memory, anything up to forty or fifty million Americans are unable to read anything more complex than a newspaper headline. This hardly accords with the need for eternal democratic vigilance. Whilst common societal syndrome of ‘the world owes me a living’ or is ‘so unfair’ is alive and well!

As for others, you see the nation as a republic “balanced by the ideas of democracy.” When posters previously asserted that the US was a republic as distinct from a democracy I did have some idea that either they sought, as for Ron Paul, stronger state rights than presently the case or, were minded of eighteenth century notions on republicanism (Plato’s wise elders ruling benevolently on behalf of all etc). Despite some additional electoral twists, I see the US mostly as simply another democratic federation, but would appreciate your thoughts thereon.

Posters here view US Constitution as something cast in stone (Supreme Court seems to take a similar approach!). Insofar modern societies and broader world are in a perpetual state of flux, forever evolving into more sophisticated(?) forms embodying new lifestyles and attitudes, this is surely self-defeating. Mainstream religions incur similar handicap: opponents, resorting to latest scientific knowledge and whatnot, readily conjure up new narratives; the religionists/theologians, on the other hand, are left to recycle the same tired old imagery. (Still, some Evangelist Churches, tax exempt and lacking real financial accountability) seem happy enough with tenets and pronouncements akin to those of a Middle Ages Catholic priest’s handbook!)

I take you point about the connection between public’s perception and the economy, keepthefaith, and your point about the Office’s right to veto spending bills.

When were men ever created equal, BabyEagle, or Creator-bestowed with cited rights – un-or-in-alienable? Despite utopian wording, there never was such a thing as free lunch!

You and I both, Brent. Ever read the Jehovah Witnesses’ predictions on the ‘end of time’!
 

Blackwater Mercs & Israeli Commandoes in New Orleans during Katrina..

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3606

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUzrV0lJ-0A

Hummm