Extremely Loud and Increasingly Chaotic
by: Dr. Ada Fisher Date: 2/8/2012
If Republicans don’t quit shooting themselves in the foot, there may be no candidate left standing to carry our mantle for freedom, liberty and the US Constitution. Who knew Reagan is less important than who has the right skill set to lead a nation. Who has the big ideas may be a good consideration as would making sure those ideas are pragmatic. Who passes a moral litmus test though not important to some, does play well to the evangelicals and conservative crowds while possibly writing off a large number of independents, but does it square with the rest of America? Is it compassionate to deny amnesty for illegal immigrants appreciating as did Eisenhower and Truman in sending millions home that our first priority should be putting citizens back to work?
Though many have wanted to be President based on domestic issues, it is foreign
policy that intricately affects the dynamics of all administrations. No candidate can candidly state what he would do as President without publicly compromising the nation’s international leverage. Only one soldier is left standing among those vying for the presidency and the media as well as some conservatives have tried to marginalize Ron Paul’s views as unacceptable. On the domestic front, the willingness to legislate the womb and birth control practices of citizens for many is seen as a slap in the face of women, especially in having legislators and a candidate whose personal behavior with the fairer sex has been less than sterling.
Meanwhile Israel has gotten or should have the attention of the world with its posture that it may bomb Iran to prevent their access to nuclear weapons. Unleashing such a preemptive attack in the cauldron of a very unstable Middle East could herald the advent of WWIII. Still on that side of the world Greece still threatens to implode and other European nations remain quite shaky. No matter what happens, it should be clear that the USA will be asked to again become bail out specialist of first resort.
Behind the bubbling uptick in the numbers employed is the pressure cooker’s dampening of the heat by economic forces still lingering in housing, manufacturing and growth of new industries. A serious plan to reduce the national debt below its present $16 million dollars ceiling (which is probably higher) portends the desire of many to live on Michael Jackson’s ‘Neverland’ estate while most wonder are those elected for real and do they have a clue?
In the 2012 election it really becomes a question in the game of trust—“Who do you trust” with the nation’s national security and economic well-being.
