Once Christmas is over there is a quick bit we call New Years Eve, and then dead winter for three dreary months. Except this year the nation anxiously awaits a new President and first family. This is a transition that more people want to happen than probably any time since Roosevelt said goodbye to Hoover. The country is tired of W, his misadventures, his wars, and his economic catastrophe. Except this economic cataclysm belongs as much to President Clinton as to Bush. And why not, the same bankers advised both administrations, and are Obama's wise men as well.
The new Gallop Poll shows Obama wildly admired by the public. But so what, W was once widely admired by a gullible public. For that matter, Henry Kissinger, the un-indicted war criminal, topped the list three years in a row. But much like Charlie Brown, who always has the ball pulled away before he can kick it, Americans are fooled again and again. And why shouldn't they be? Americans believe that they live in a working Democracy, that their elected leaders are empowered to find solutions to their problems. It would be to much of a shock for the celebrity watching, fantasy loving, gasoline addicted public to focus on whats really happened to their country. That a cabal of oil rich war profiteers are in charge. Half the population won't even admit we are an Empire, despite the overwhelming evidence. Do Americans really believe that our bloated, obscene military spending is endured for the defense of the homeland? Or that we shoulder the cost because Europe lacks the will to police the world? What Europe lacks is the desire to bankrupt itself, the way the former Soviet Union did. And please, don't even attempt to argue that our super power fleet is needed to stop hijackers and terrorists.The men in charge know that tanks and fleets are useless in this brave new world order.That's why they are developing new and un-American tactics like waterboarding and detention w/out legal rights. And just as we watch the West Wing on TV and think that's reality, we believe that waterboarding and detention w/out rights could never happen to us here in the land of the free.
George Washington famously warned the young republic to stay disentangled from Europe's wars. He could never have imagined the 21st century, where Europe remains, (to a degree) disentangled from Americas militaristic adventure's worldwide.
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- Tom Walker
- Who for years traveled the country in search of redemption but now resides in Heaven.
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Tom, this most recent post is one of my favorites from your entire blog. I really enjoy your writing style and the more you blog, the better you get. I am not just flattering you either.
First of all, I think it's important that you acknowledge the fault of both the Clinton administration and the Bush administration in the current economic crisis. The housing crisis, which arguably is at the center of this entire "recession," was caused by (a) greed of mortgage companies in seeking potential buyers and greed of consumers to want bigger and bigger even if they can't afford it as well as (b) the forceful edicts of the Clinton administration requiring mortgage companies to take on clients with low credit scores and higher risk accounts. When so many of these people defaulted, the housing market plummeted.
The other part of your blog is your comment about George Washington's plead with America to stay "disentangled" with European affairs. With the large military as large as it is, I am also reminded of another presidential word of caution. When Eisenhower emphatically warned America to prevent the massive growth of the military-industrial complex. Have we headed either warning? Absolutely not.
Anyway, thanks for the words. I always enjoy reading. Talk to you soon.
Well Trey, Democrats or Republicans it doesn't really matter. The elite are in charge, just like they were in Rome.
America is The Roman Empire, and by the way,wouldn't tolerate any real "Christianity'.
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