All I Want For President . . .

Do Republicans or Democrats Really Want to Win This One?

In the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Quattrain 71 it reflects some wisdom for all ages noting:

The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,

Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,

Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it.

What isn’t adequately reflected in these words is that time must move ever forward and people must grow and adapt to changing circumstances. Though Ronald Reagan was a good president and the Contract with America reflects a governmental discipline which hasn’t been seen since, America is at a different place and time trying as Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg address “. . . to determine if we are dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Republicans can continue going at each other and in the process make the last man standing too weak to go after the real problem or decide to bring solutions to the table rather than continue the pitiful stop Romney campaigns. And the Democrats can allow Obama to be the standard bearer for increasing the national debt while seeking to alter the course of defense without citizen input, one of the few nationally mandated federal constitutional assurances. Or will the independent spirits who can’t get their way, chose as they did in 2008 to sit this one out and let the lesser of two supposed evils duke it out. All of this while millions demand entry at our doors, whether legally or illegally.

In every election folks chose up sides and try to portray the other as something different than they probably are. Sometimes it looks as if Obama is trying to give it away and the Republicans really don’t want it either. Each side passionately believes this is a contest for the heart and soul of the USA. If the electorate expects a fair or civil fight, forget about it for this isn’t just about the middle class, it is about all of us. Swept under the rug in this battle for the US Presidency is the extent and nature of the sacrifices being asked of those citizens upon whose backs such will be had:

The national debt will rise without pause but with more taxation.

The price of gas will continue escalating.

The cost of homeownership will remain unaffordable for too many.

The security of retirement funds as well as social security will be threatened by

cuts in the payroll tax deductions.

The economy will remain unsettled.

The jobs of the future haven’t even been imagined.

And the turmoil and instability of a world obsessed with wages not reflecting

the value of the work done to existing markets remains unquestioned.

The solutions being proposed on both sides are just deferments until tomorrow of the important work that should have been done today, for as Scarlett O’Hara said in “Gone With The Wind”, "Tomorrow I'll think of some way . . . after all, tomorrow is another day."

Are we staying tuned as Shakespeare would say to “Much Ado About Nothing?”

Dr. Ada M. Fisher is a PHYSICIAN, licensed teacher for secondary education in mathematics and science, previously elected school board member, AUTHOR and IS THE nc rEPUBLICAN nATIONAL cOMMITTEEWOMAN. Contact her at P. O. Box 777; Salisbury, NC 28145; DrFisher@DrAdaMFisher.COM

Author of Pending Book published by Amazon.com Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions Solutions for what ails us.