Running On Empty
January 12, 2009
I’ll admit it, I used to be a political junky. In my younger days I would have been considered a liberal Democrat. A few years later after some soul searching I became a conservative Republican. I then realized I don’t have enough in common with the GOP to be a Republican. I’m much more of a libertarian, but mostly I just feel lost.
President Bush appeared on Fox News Sunday over the weekend and he said, “during the darkest days of Iraq, people came to me and said, ‘You’re creating incredible political difficulties for us’ and I said, ‘Oh, really? What do you suggest I do?’ And some suggested retreat, pull out of Iraq.” This is exactly the type of politics that doesn’t only make me feel lost, but makes me sick of the entire process. Is politics only as important as winning the next election? Look, I know elections have to be won in order to carry out your agenda, but what happened to standing up for your principles. In politics, they just don’t exist. Politicians continually turn to polling in order to form their beliefs and form them around what those polls say.
This isn’t about the war either. If you thought American troops should have pulled out of Iraq long ago–good for you. If you think they should stay–good for you. It’s about the fact that someone in the Republican Party came to the President and asked him to retreat in Iraq only to score a political victory. That’s shameful.
President-elect Barack Obama held a press conference last week in which he said we should expect trillion dollar deficits for years to come. So much for change. Obama has two young children. He and all the other politicians in Washington are writing checks that they will have to pay. Again we see politicians mortgaging the future of this country in order to win another election. Who cares about tomorrow? It’s sickening.
I’m optimistic by nature. I love this country. I believe in it as I believe in the American people. I know we can solve any problem that comes our way. The people we elect have an amazing ability to crush my optimism and make me look at this half empty glass.
-Rob Hunter is the producer Ankarlo Mornings
Oh Great Oz, “So much for Change” because “Change” is all the American man, woman, and child alike has. So much for “Change”, Obama didn’t rub his magic “Hamas” or “Hezbollah” lamp and poof, poof 3.1 Trillion Dollars spent over the last 8 eight years to “Consolidate You Unto Him” Private Foreign Equity Social Security Accounts with 12 million newly branded (hispanic not latino) “Z” people. So much for Change!
While it’s “Brother can you spare me a dime, her a dime, and my child a dime” it’s Obama that wanted to “Protect America” with a GOP Republican “Protect America Act” that was just the otherside label to David Vitter’s new “Diaper Ranch” for Senate and lonely.
Oh Great Oz Ankarlo, Hero of the Hood, is now optimistic! Wow, Woopee, you Go Boy! Thata Boy! The Conservative party of Thieves and their “Theft By Deception” ways and means of destroying the very fabric of American Society in the name of the “Homeland.” Well Vos Ist Los to you to and the new “Motherland” aka George Bush NEO Cheney Gingrich Norquist Conservative Coup de American, rendered and forced attested Homeland.
By the way, what is the “Homeland” Germany! Israel! the “Fourth Reich.” Because men and women In “Theatre” address it as the “Motherland.”
Don’t be optimistic or just “Suspect” be honest instead of “Lost”