Actors, Statesmen and Presidents

I have the feeling right now that Obama is feeling pretty torn asunder. I don't blame him. The jackels are baying at the moon, waiting to sink in their teeth, not realizing that ideology maybe great but it ignores present realities in the empire.
I think Obama know this and so he's still trying to play both ends.
Unfortunately like La Clinton said,there is a vast right wing conspiracy, and it's positively mad hatter redux.
I have liked Ron Paul and what he has said regarding banking and other things but to see the teapots cheer when asked if a man who didn't have insurance should be allowed to accept his own choices for not having insurance made me sick to my stomach.
In fact of the whole lot the only one who has a decent track record, offers actual plans or solutions is a very successful Morman businessman who seems to not want to attack just for the sake of attack.

 I usually haven't voted Republican. I voted for Obama and was disappointed though I feel that he is still essentially a good, bright and capable man. Unfortunately he is surrounded by less stellar associates and seems to compromise when he doesn't need to. He is very charismatic but it remains to be seen if voted in again, which he very well might be, how much leadership he can display on a worsening economic front.
You can't tell people just to hang on when they're losing everything especially when certain strata have been given so much. I think he senses this and is pushing with all his might to do the right thing now but it may be late in the game.

Luckily for the elites of this nation the people are asleep as to the real owners and players of the game. But the wars, paid for on a big credit card, the endless giveaway of the power of the people to unelected lobbies for corporations run by a narrow elite spells doom in the long run. It is very fortunate for them that this nation has a well run propaganda system called "news" that makes it seem that the USA is still number one in all things and has the best democracy money can buy.

Unfortunately the rest of the world is hip to the trip and there's a lot of resentment for the military adventures of Team USA. Dick Cheney take note, there's a price for going to the Dark Side but you won't pay it. Sip that fine wine in your vast estate and keep thinking you can blugeon your way to safety.

There are a lot of good, honest, hard-working people in the United States. The military is full of them. So is the government. This is where I differ with the angry teapots. We are not in 1776, not 1880, or even the 1950's with I like Ike(though it would be nice to go back I'm sure).

The globally revolutionized world is moving on, and the internal politics of the United States are increasingly becoming a Weimar situation with no good prospects. Hate can be a wonderful mobilizer but it has consequences.
The evangelical right seems to understand that scapegoats are what is needed to advance the cause and there are plenty to choose from as this is a diverse nation.

The Mexican crossing the border though didn't cause the loss of jobs. The homosexual community hasn't destroyed the culture. The Planned Parenthood doesn't want to kill all the babies. And so on. But some of us believe these things.

So what is needed are statesman,in the sense male and female from all walks of life to drop ideology and pursue vigorously solutions. Plain and simple. Not saints that have never made a mistake(since who among us is without...oh never mind),
and we need to rid ourselves of hypocrites who proclaim vast ideals while secretly betting against our collective self interests. I could go into detail but I won't. It is loathsome that when we see the payment, benefits and perks of those of high office contrasted with their baying at the moon that the rest of us need to stop being so entitled and hogging the table. Pass the peas?
I'll pass the peas to you, and you'll be wearing them if you get my drift.

But I need to take the focus off them per se and deal with me and what I can do.
Make the lemonade so to say.
Enuff said, and by the way it's a beautiful day in the Empire.