America’s Future and Past!


      Lately I have been blogging about the Republican Candidates and their run to capture the White House. Before they can even do so, they will need one candidate who doesn’t stumble over what he says, or doesn’t have more baggage he is carrying then all the airlines in the world. It’s sad when candidates for the world’s most powerful office, actually, don’t look like they deserve to run or manage it, isn’t it?

       Across Florida a battle is now raging for votes for the Republican Candidate and their primary. Millions are flying through Florida for signage, phone calls, ads on television and radio, all talking about four candidates who are talking about one another like little boys in a school ground playground in elementary school. Why?

      When the fore-fathers of America, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams and many more gathered and discussed this country and it’s Independence, do you think they threw slanders at one another, attacked each other over silly things having nothing to do with running the country?  Or lets stop and think about Abraham Lincoln and  would he have fought and attacked his fellow candidates so hard he slandered them and hurt his own chances at the Presidency? I think not at all! Sadly political battles have become a three-ring circus that most Americans don’t really pay much attention to anymore. It’s not the robo-calls, or the TV Ads. or the debates, or money that gets us to listen, its actual solutions and common sence. One of these days one political party or the other will get this and listen.

      America is in desperate need of a person who can look into a camera and tell us the real state of the Union, not what they want it to be, or would like it to be, but what it is. Then give working solutions to correcting it all and get the congress to work with him. It’s not easy doing away with self-pride to get the best results for the country is it folks?

      I have lived now through Eisenhower, at least the end of his term, Kennedy,Johnson,Nixon,Carter, Regan,Two Bushes, Clinton and more to get to 56 years old today. Each President was unique in their own way of course and not all were great. Kennedy actually in his short time saved us from war with Russia, Johnson did Civil Rights that Kennedy started.Nixon opened up Russia and China and took us off the gold standard and out of Vietnam, and on and on. But the man or person in the White House has to match the times and problems for America for all to work.

      Also checks and balances I agree on folks and it does work in the American government, but when you elect one party the Presidency and the other  Congress you are asking for what we currently have gridlock. Gridlock stops growth, stops expansion, messes up trade and more, Americans you want progress if you re-elect Obama give him Democrats in Congress to move us forward. If you Elect a Republican match that in Congress or more gridlock will occur, we can’t get progress if these two parties can not talk and agree on anything can we?

      One more thing before I end my blog today. If the Republicans allow Newt Gingrich and his load of baggage to win their nomination, it will be one joke of a national election come fall. His temperament, his past. his infidelities and history itself says he will never be President, so why bother backing him and wasting the nomination on him? Don’t ask me that’s all I can say!

 

Florida Must Speak!


Florida is next for the Republican Primary Contest and so far we have three different winner in three different states, why?  Well, because each state is slightly different in what is wrong with it and how it thinks due to religious beliefs. It seems all in the end have religioius beliefs that color and sway their voting.

       As Florida is one week away now from having its say in the Republican’s choice for their nominee, the people of Florida have a big decision to make. When their primary ends, and a clear front-runner emerges in either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, the last man standing Rick Santorum will more then likely drop then, and suspend his campaign too. By the time it becomes a two-man race we will get a clearer picture of who each man really is.

       If I were the Republicans, I would think twice about giving our nomination to Newt Gingrich a man loaded with old baggage from his past. Three marriages, Infidelity,Lies, the Freddie Mac controversy, and why was he finally done as Speaker of the House , investigate folks! Mr. Gingrich is indeed a good debater but in the end, how much baggage will be in the Republican Party’s way to get the Presidency? Someone needs to look and see!

       Mitt Romney has tried yes indeed to be elected before, and failed, maybe through of all that is left he is indeed the best choice. He isn’t in this for money that’s for sure he has plenty and spends it. He isn’t in it for benefits he has all money can buy that’s for sure. Can it be possible that Mit Romney is actually running because he wants to really help the American People not himself. I think if Mitt Romney can clarify a few things for all, he can get the nomination.

       Mitt, show us the tax returns and that hurdle will drop. Explain to the American people all about Bain and what the company really did and why. Steer clear of religious issues, not give up your faith at all that you love so well, just don’t discuss it so much. Explain to the nation why your home state, needed your Health care program you put in place and make it clear it should be done state by state not nationally. Leave Obama‘s Health Care Program alone, don’t try to remove it, improve it instead. Mitt do yourself a favor and the elderly and disabled a favor too, don’t attack Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security or anyone’s disability payments. find a way to plug the leak in Social Security by stopping Congress from borrowing from it.

       As January 30th, 2012 comes closer and this couid indeed be the pivotal primary for Republicans, the state of Florida its people need to look closer and make a great choice in this race. If you vote Gingrich, watch out the baggage will come flying out, his temperament will change, his aggression will show and he will lose against Obama.

       Ron Paul already said he doesn’t expect to win the nomination, but he does want some say at the convention is all, into the platform for the fall. Rick Santorum is a good man, but too inexperienced to run a full-fledged nationwide primary. So, Republicans the choice will be between Romney and Gingrich and if you choose wrong you will lose the national election come November!

Something to Think About!


      Somethings the world should think about comes to mind this am. Like do we ever know when a volcano can erupt and kill humanity? Do we really know where civilization came from or are we really guessing with evolution,the big bang theory and God? And what about is there life on other planets in the universe or beyond? So many questions, but very few real answers, isn’t it funny how that happens?.

      I ponder many thoughts and ideas daily, maybe the biggest one is why diseases are in the world to kill humanity?  How will we ever find solutions to cancer or other deadly diseases? No one knows, but our experts keep trying don’t they? What fates did God intend for humanity and what did he put us here for? Do we really have any idea on this, I doubt it!.

      We awaken and stumble from our beds and head off to do jobs created by people to employ and make life worth living for all. I know they come in different degrees and kinds and different purposes, but without them people would get lost, just look at the high unemployment rate now and how people stumble about! It all comes back to the real purpose we were all put here and given the life we cherish and hold on to for so long. Do we really know what that real purpose is and why we were created? I still think not we guess a lot and theorize a lot but no firm foundation has ever been proven, has it?

       So many questions can be asked, but as we all used to say when I was young there is no stupid question, just stupid answers. One must look for information and gather it to survive and knowledge there is no doubt makes for a better civilization and world correct? What of the knowledge we really were not intended to have but do anyway? Do you really think we were supposed to know, how to split the atom and make bombs and rockets? Do you really believe humanity is supposed to know how many ways to kill itself off, like we do? Sadly, I don’t think so, but we keep inventing ways to destroy each other and the planet don’t we? Why?

       Is it really vital to each of us, to actually play the old game of keeping up with the neighbors? Just because they have something we have to too? Is all the electronic devices we have really necessary or can’t we ever go back to pencils and pens?  The advancements that led to electronics such as I-Pads,Tablets, PCs,E-Readers and more, including game consoles like X-Box 360, Playstation 3 and others, what do they really do to our minds and bodies and personalities? Were we intended to have full-grown adults of all races, nationalities and creeds and colors staring at flat screen monitors or tv and pushing buttons on little controllers for hours or days at end? Just somethings to think about for all, stop and think when you have not much to do, and you may find when you do, you will find a thought worthy of both me and you!

News and Commentators


      I grew up in the 1960’s , when Television was still black and white and just beginning to turn to color. The days when President Kennedy was in office and got shot by Oswald and Oswald got shot by Ruby. The days before humanity officially reached the moon and elections were covered seriously by news men and women who worked for the big three Networks , yes the old, CBS, ABC and NBC days when we had Harry Reasoner, Huntly and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, all newsmen who gathered and held respect in the industry and on the air. So tell me what happened to this kind of newsperson with integrity and respect backing them up who can just report the facts? Where are they today?

      CNN is the most popular news station on Television today, and it does have some good reporters on it, but then they are teamed with some bad commentators who are racial and bias and foolish too. I used to watch CNN, just to hear the news and see what is happening in the world today and that is always good to do, because when it just reports the news, CNN is great.  But when it comes to political coverage of Primaries and Elections, no one has the tools CNN has for counting the numbers, but, it also has problem commentators.

        My biggest problem with any commentator is if they say one thing and then change it, or they color the news or thought of the day, with their own bias or discrimination in any way. I don’t mind a commentator who  backs a candidate or believes a candidate will win or lose. I do have a problem with people who color their commentary with racial remarks or constantly throw race into everything.

       CNN has many good commentators and newsmen, so why keep newsmen or women who let race get to them on-screen and allow them to show how they really feel. And on the other hand why is CNN always running racial programs in their spare time, like Black in America, or Hispanic in America,and then constantly referring to the struggles of these races in America? Is it really necessary to do this ? My opinion is by doing this to any race, color, or nationality, you tend to put them under a microscope and people stare.

     Humanity and civilization has made many mistakes against each other we all know it and we don’t need commentators throwing it in people’s faces 24/7 on a Cable Channel filled with News. Of all of the people I have seen on Television News with this kind of bias and discrimination and outright aggression toward other races, is Mr. Roland Martin. He can comentate very well on Election Coverages and he is fine when speaking of anything other than racial tensions or interactions. He is the first and foremost to step up and attack anyone who says anything against the black race or African-American Race. And I agree the African-American race did get a raw deal when they were dragged to American and mistreated, and I do agree race should make no difference in the land of the free. What I don’t agree with is, why an African-American with Mr. Roland Martin’s education and background can come on television and tell American not to discriminate against his race when he discriminates against other races. I can’t see Mr. Roland Martin accepting a caucasian person calling a African-American a black person, yet he goes around calling Caucasians white?  We are not white, we are not clear, we are not bad and will always be here. Fairness and equality says if you can point a finger at a caucasian and call us white, honkies, and more than we should be able to call your race names too. Yet we don’t all do this and the ignorant people in the world are the only ones who do. I love my news, I love CNN, I love Politics and more, I don’t love people who use words like White, Honkie,Nigger,Black, or any other descriptive name for any race on public television and can incite people to fight against one another.

       The Red Tails of  World War 2 were honored recently, watch their interviews and their story on the big screen when you can. They went to war, flew and fought and died for America and the world not for the color of their skins, not for African-American pride or anything else, they did it to save American Lives in a world of war and to defend freedom, everywhere.

        African-Americans, Caucasians, Hispanics, Orientals and more, we are all Americans despite what race, color, or nationality. That is what makes us the Greatest Nation on Earth to live in, that and the Constitution of The United States of America. In New Yorks harbor there stands a statue given to us by the French People, long ago now. and a sign that says give us your weak and  your homeless  and more and we shall build. At least that’s the general sentiment of it all, we accept all and we have for over 200 years. Can we now all  just accept each other who live under our flag, our Constitution, and on American Soil and forget discrimination please! Just report the news, just get the Election Results out and keep it news about Politics and not racial . No Commentator needs to be on air calling another race names, or disrespecting anyone.

Republicans might be making a Big Mistake!


Republicans might be making a Big Mistake!.

Republicans might be making a Big Mistake!


     Today January 21, 2012 is the Republican South Carolina Primary. As all that are left are 4 candidates now the field has slimmed down big time. But even with the remaining 4 choices, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, there is no real front runner at this late date. Santorum won Iowa , Romney won New Hampshire and now it is looking like Gingrich will take South Carolina. The real question now becomes who do the republicans really want to face Obama in the fall election and who can win?.

       My opinion of these candidates on the Republican side is not a good one by anyone standards or calls. The way I see it is the republican voters give South Carolina to Newt Gingrich they lose in the fall election, If they give it to Ron Paul they are not voting for a conservative but a liberal republican.  Give it to Santorum and you give it to a moderate republican with religious views and ideas that don’t match the party he wishes to represent. That would leave Mitt Romney, but again each and every candidate in these Republican Primaries have their own forms of baggage and problems.

       I think the Republicans should think it over again in more ways than one, Newt Gingrich has more baggage then all of the remaining four combined. His record in Congress and as Speaker of the House speaks for itself. And how many conservative Republicans will trust a candidate who was married three times, asked for an open marriage from his second wife, and claims to be a Regan Republican and isn’t?.

        Sadly as I watch the election results get ready to roll in and people line up to speak about the candidates I can’t help but stop to think, Will any of the four left be able to actually stand up to Obama ? I don’t believe they can and survive his tactics nor his speaking against them. I know, I know what many will say, it’s either Gingrich or Romney and that’s it today!. Well your all probably right, but in the end, which would be best for the Republican Party? I believe the man for the job has to be Mitt Romney, at least he talks sense, controls his temper, and may listen to advisors and his own party, can the same be said of the former Speaker of The House Newt Gingrich, I doubt it!.

       So, here is what I say to Republicans across the land we live in, and i say it as an Independent, you choose to run Newt Gingrich against Barrack Obama you lose in November, no doubt in my mind.  While Mr. Gingrich is a rough and tumbler, fighter in debates and he can stand his own, when do we know when he willexplode on himself. his wife, his life or the american people and not be in full control/ And do we need an American President with tempermental problems and rudeness as well as outright aggressiveness to other nations? I don’t think so, so stop and think South Carolina and Florida who is next.We need economic solutions, a peacefull face towards the world and a President who will save Medicare, Medicade and Social Security, for all the aged citizens of today. I firmly believe to vote for Newt Gingrich is to vote for a person who can explode or get angry at anytime and who will make rash decisions instead of thinking things out fully. I just hope Republicans realize this before they give Mr. Gingrich the Nomination on a plater.