September 24, 2008
My Opinion
Where\'s Superman?
I grew up in the early forties. In those days you went to the movies or you listened to the radio or you read. I loved the Superman series and I was a big fan of Tarzan too. I would come home from a movie and would act out the movie plot. When my parents bought a TV in the early fifties, I couldn’t wait to watch Superman. I was a strange kid. I didn\'t play with trucks like my friends did and I couldn\'t stand Howdy Doody. But Superman, wow, he was cool. He stopped bullets and he was faster than speeding train, but most of all, he believed in truth justice and the American way.
When we went to war in Vietnam, I thought it was OK because my president said it was important to do so, I believed him. When I watched American Soldiers coming home in body bags, I thought there was a good reason for this. As I got older, I started to realize that our government lies. Vietnam was useless and our boys died for nothing. Vietnam was not like World War II, or even Korea. It was about American interests there. Which in short means money.
When John Kennedy was assassinated, then Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Bobby Kennedy, I thought, what is happening to the America I love? During the sixties, I watched as Americans marched for freedom and equal rights for black people. I have to admit, I was so wrapped up in my career, and I didn\'t pay much attention to it. I had no idea what black people were going through up till then. All I knew is at one time they were slaves. When I was a kid in school, not much attention was focused on it. I hardly knew anything about Indians, except they were the bad guys in the movies. When the Watergate scandal broke, I was shocked. Here was our President lying. I guess I had a rue awakening starting around then, but I still loved America, although truth justice and the American way started to fade.
Then in 1978 Christopher Reeves became Superman. I took my kids to the movies and we all laughed and cheered when Superman saved Lois Lane from falling to her death. In that scene Superman reveals himself for the first time to the world. Again, truth, justice and the American way back. For some reason that movie, for me, began a healing and revived my feeling for land that I loved.
Here we are thirty years later. Most of the planet hates us. We are virtually in a war with terrorists and ourselves. 911 changed us forever. From confident, we went to fearful. We have a President who stole the election, lies and started a war to get oil and make money for his friends, no matter what the cost in American lives. We have a Congress filled with liars, crooks and degenerates. All for money! Yet when Katrina came around, what happened? Can anyone forget those pictures the TV of people dying and asking for help while Bush sat on his hands for days. There are still people from New Orleans who haven\'t come home. There are new trailers, bought by our government from Bush\'s cronies, and yet no one is living in them.
Most people can\'t afford to buy gas. My way of living has gone from comfortable to who knows what’s next? We have children starving and uneducated and sick in a country where we are supposed to be the richest country in the world. We have sold American land and businesses to foreign countries. We owe trillions of dollars and people are loosing jobs and homes by the thousands and our greedy financial institutions are bellying up and being bailed out while the American people suffer. And Global warming may change the make-up of the Earth while we sit and watch.
We have a Republican candidate, running for the presidency, who lies as much as Bush does. And his running mate is even worse. Are they the best this country has to offer? At least with Baraka Bama and Joe Biden, there is some class, knowledge and statesmanship. But, then again, who knows what can happen when they get into the White House? Does anyone remember Jimmy Carter?
What happened to truth justice and the American way?
Who can we trust to restore truth justice and the American way?
Where\'s Superman when you need him?
October 3, 2008
The Sarah and Joe Show
Last night I turned on the TV at 9PM, anxiously waiting for the only debate of the two potential Vice Presidents’. I am very familiar with Joe Biden,
I have watched and listened to him for years. My impression of him, from the very start, was that he was honest and truthful. A quality I have found lacking in most politicians. Ask Joe a question, and you will get an answer. It might not be the answer you were looking for, but it would be an answer and it would be truthful and honest. Senator Biden never impressed me as someone who would make up stuff just to be right; which brings me to Sarah Palin.
I was shocked when McCain picked her ass a running mate. Not because she was a woman, or from Alaska, but because she came off as really stupid and like so many others, I have had enough of stupid. I kept waiting these last few weeks for her to say something original and thought provoking, but all I got was, “Maverick and six pack totin’ woman”, A person of the people. At least that’s what she and the Republican Party kept telling us.
There was a point yesterday when I thought this whole dumb act was a joke.
She was faking it and during the debate, her real brilliance would appear as if there was magic was in the air.
Well magic was in the air. Sarah Palin is the real deal. She is dumb!
I couldn’t believe that she had the audacity from the very start to say she wasn’t going to answer the questions. I guess she didn’t realize she was there to answer the questions asked of her. Throughout the whole 90-minute debate she hardly answered one question. She did prove she could memorize quotes that McCain had made and she could mimic the Republican agenda at any given point, except, she constantly kept repeating that point over and over again but never answering whatever question was put to her.
All she knew is what she was told. Government was too big. Yes, the crooks that are in the White House for the last eight years have made Government too big, not by expanding, but by letting go of management. But isn’t that the same party that Sarah belongs too. I guess by reducing the troops in Iraq and setting up a reasonable time line to bring our troops home is “throwing in the white flag of surrender”. God forbid something happens to her son, what do you think she would say then?
She also thought that Dick Cheney was a great Vice President. I guess she was right; the VP needs to have his powers extended (where does she get this stuff?) Do you think a woman who enjoys shooting animals from helicopters will make a wonderful President if Mc Cain wins, then kicks the bucket?
She wants clean air and alternative energy by drilling for more oil. The same oil that polluted the atmosphere in the first place. I don’t think that anyone has told her that the millions of gallons of oil in Alaska would only be a band aide and by the time they got the oil we would be in more trouble and her beautiful state would be ruined
You could tell she is already planning on being President. Here’s a woman who is concerned with woman’s rights. Yet she doesn’t believe in the morning after pill or abortions for women who have been raped or victims of incest. She is a fast learner. I’ll give her that. She learned how to lie with the best of them. She believes in equal rights for homosexual couples. I guess she didn’t discuss this with her Christian allies. How about special needs children? Yet she drags her special needs child with her to every event. When she got off the plane at St. Louis, the baby didn’t have a blanket wrapped around her. She believes in non-partisan politics. She keeps her friends close, that’s why her staff looks like her high school yearbook.
She is brave. She went out there last night and for the first time she revealed herself to the American public. Knowing how much she doesn’t know, that took guts. Embarrassing-yes! But guts
November 8, 2008
It's About Time
I\'ve waited 4 days after the election before I wrote a new blog. I wanted the feeling of new hope for America to sink in. I along with many of my friends were truly scared. If the Republicans had won, I was seriously thinking about moving to another country.
The best thing about John McCain was his concession speech on Tuesday night. If he had spoken and acted with that kind of warmth and intelligence minus Sara Palin, I may have gone the other way.
America has been stooped in stupidity, criminal behavior, injustice, greed and dishonesty long enough. Maybe with Obama we may just have a chance. The world has always looked towards America for leadership, but for the last 8 years that has disappeared. With Obama, who already has the look and feel of a President, we may soon again be the kind of world leader we should to be.
Not only is our new President a role model to all of us, he is what young Afro Amercians\' have needed for many years. Someone who is educated, has command of the English language and speaks with a compassionate intelligence that has been sorely missed.
Maybe with Obama as a role model, that old adage, \" In America you can be anything you want to be\" will be a wake up call to all the American teenagers who idolize wild sports heroes or rappers or those who speak and behave like a street punks. Maybe it will be like it was in the early 1900\'s when immigrants came from all over the world to be Americans, because they knew, in America they would have a chance at a better life. Many of those immigrants realized unless they could speak the language and get an education, life would be hard. Maybe our young will finally realize it doesn\'t have to be as hard as it is, if they would only take some responsibility and buckle down and get that education. Obama did. He came from a single parent houehold living on food stamps, and yet he worked hard and and received the best education only because he wanted it and he studied to get it, and he got it on scholarship merit.
So let\'s all put down our differences and work with our new President to help restore Amercia to the greatness it is meant to be.
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