Six Big Issues

As I see it there are six major issues that our three remaining presidential candidates need to address:

1- US Economy. Is it my imagination or did the price of "everything" go up this past year? Can you attribute that to a few things... the high price of crude oil, the obscene profits by big oil and the increase in the US minimum wage. Lots of other things factor into our current recession but these items effect every American in the country. If you have to pay workers more and the cost of transportation is constantly going up- is there a reason to expect anything else. Hello inflation of the 1970s.

2- The Twin E's. Energy, and the Environment. So what's it going to be? How are we going to approach this problem? The Bush plan of vague promises for the future but make all the oil profits we can now is total bullshit. Where's a plan... I mean a real plan... for the not just the next five years but the next 500 years? The next president needs to step up and address this concern... and soon!

3- Global Warming. Does it really matter if all this pollution, waste, burning of fossil fuels etc is the source of the problem. The fact is the weather is shifting and the way it is shifting isn't good for us... you know the voters who have to live with it. We need to get the industries of our country to clean up their acts. Not because it's being legislated - but because it's the right thing to do. If they don't know what the right thing to do is... then we should f$#%ing tell them! The next President can't cozy up to big business and let them continue dumping toxic wastes into our ground and water and polluting the air we breathe. The President will need courage to stand up, look these greedy bastards in the face and say... "You know what? You've made billions of dollars ripping off the people and polluting the countryside. It's time to take ownership and clean up your mess...or else."

4- Jobs, fair trade and health care. We need to make it easier to sell our own products in our own country. It's not fair to everyday Americans that their paycheck comes from menial service industry jobs and our products get cheaply made by dollar an hour Chinese laborers. We need to have decent jobs so employers and workers can afford health care for themselves and their families.

5- The War. The next President needs to be able to solve the problems we have around the world that we hae created and exacerbated during the last four years. Not having a foreign policy has hurt economically, politically and in the stature we "used to have" around the world. We've burned any diplomatic bridges we've had in the past and a true statesman will be needed to let the world see the good in America again.

6- Should we get out of Iraq? I think we should let them fight their own battles. We've been there for over five years and those spineless Iraqi's have run away from taking any and all responsibilities for the state of their nation. They could really care less whether they have a democracy or not... so why the heck should we care? Thousands of Americans have died and for what? So their citizens can remain just as corrupt as the day we invaded? WMDs... where are they? Instead of kicking their asses like every invading country should... we are letting them bleed us dry until we leave with our tails between our legs.... beaten and broken. McCain is right... if you're going to fight then fight to win. If it means crushing their asses with overwhelming force then that is what you do. War is hell and if you're fighting a war you fight to achieve TOTAL VICTORY or you get what you have now in Iraq. It was the same stupid strategy Johnson used in Vietnam. Worthless, weak and ineffective.

Crush your opponents and they will fear you- coddle them like we have and they crap all over you. Rumsfeld is a total chickenshit for not pulling out all the stops and delivering a crippling and deadly blow to the enemy. His cowardice and short-sighted war fighting has earned him the the stained reputation for his cowardly, yet arrogant attitude. What a putz.

What message will that send to the world? The message will be that America is a pushover. Now we have Iran sitting with nuclear reactors/weapons? and salivating to get in and control the weak Iraqi's.

W....just another fine mess you've gotten us into!

Give them back their sheikdoms and dictatorship.

So our next President faces all these challenges and many more. You would have thought that a Republican President and Congress would have been able to accomplish something (hell anything would have been nice) together- instead it has only divided the country. The whole sorry mess that the past 20 years of Bush-Clinton-Bush makes me want to vomit.

... with all this we are left with a bunch of inexperienced candidates and empty (headed) promises.

Here's my rundown on the final three:

Obama.
Inexperienced Senator from Illinois. Talks a good game but doesn't have a track record to back him up. The dude has been hanging around the the wrong people in his past and as his preacher puts it... "the chickens have come home to roost." You're known by the company you keep Mr. Obama... and the company you have kept in the past is a little shady.

Clinton.
Egomanical Senator from New York. Holds office because of her husband and wants to get elected President on the same qualifications. Lies, cheats, steals, and can't be trusted. But you can almost forgive her since all politicians are that way... but she's so totally unlikeable... like fingernails on a chalkboard. We don't need a rerun of the drama that was the Clinton years.

McCain.
Honest, squeaky clean Senator from Arizona... whose own party members aren't sure about. He's been a maverick his whole life. Can he be trusted to do the right thing? A war hero, POW and patriot... with a mean streak in him a mile wide. Known for his temper and of course at 74 he's older than dirt. If he doesn't get his way will he throw a tantrum? Seems like the spoiled, bratty kid who never grew up.


Okay... now you can cast your vote... It's almost comical if it weren't so sad. I think we're in for another rough road ahead... after the November elections.