A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

I am dreading the results from the election if the R's get their hands on the power button.

They are definitely the ME party and not the WE .

My wish for our country is that the courage and will to dismantle the HomeLand Security Department will launch an effort in Congress to take the funds being wasted in that bureaucratic behemoth and use them instead to make our food safer, our water and air more healthful and our disintegrating infrastructure restored to acceptable standards -- avoiding these needs of the entire country puts us in more peril than the paranoid exaggeration of TERRORISTS. There might even be health benefits and less illness, fewer accidents.

Where oh where is common sense?


graysmoke

Radicalization Prize

From neocon to teapartier is a giant step backwards for the Republican party and only a few elections will tell whether it will also be a slide backwards for the country.

I am hoping that their antics will serve to stimulate moderates in their party to be more influential and active but also that the Democrats will be energized into storming the voting booth November 2.

I can understand the sense of desperation that many in our country are living with, homeless, foreclosed, ill, the unemployed -- the underemployed -- the employed that are just making minimum wage, and yes, even those "making" it financially are in a state of ambiguity about what the future of the country might hold. This has the effect of bringing out the worst as one result that must be countered by those who can hold on to the future and make it something where all can enjoy life, health and pursue happiness.

The one thing that "bugs" me the most is the republican assumption that they are not to blame, they want everyone to think that this is all President Obama's fault ---- facts show the opposite -- never has there been a president that was handed the severe problems created or ignored by the previous administration. When the mass media quits tolerating this false image - then we might also achieve a more calm political climate.


graysmoke

MIDTERMS NAILED

On the PBS Newshour last evening, a Friday when they have their weekly analysis fest-- the regulars were on hand David Brooks and Mark Shields -- the latter used a phrase that I think fits like a glove and I don't know if it was original or not. He described the midterms as the Sam Alito/John Roberts Memorial Election.

I hope it catches on.

I loved it!

graysmoke

Gossip or Gospel?

Or -- Why I won't be reading Bob Woodward's new book.

I have seen him interviewed over and over, on four different broadcasts or more, and I think his views are not objective.

A couple of "for instances"-He states that Obama "still blames Bush" etc -- my view is that naming who is responsible for the war and economic disasters that Obama inherited is not "blaming" - it is a factual statement.

Also Woodward's conclusion that because Obama is commander-in-chief that "it" is Obama's war - strikes me as a pejorative position in choosing to report it as such. Such yellow journalism has become fashionable because it "sells" -- which seems to have become Woodward's singular goal.

Who is Woodward's continuing WH mole? It seems a lot of what is reported to be in the book is second hand (hearsay?) opinions garnered from someone that has loyalties not to Obama but to Woodward.


Thus my questioning as to how believable the allegations in the book are when compared to other reports from the oval office.

I'll take a pass, thank you.


graysmoke