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Blunders May Not Go Away

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Friday, January 18, 2008 10:46:33 PM
January 18, 2008,

I clearly remember the Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter debate where Ford ended his campaign by looking at a map of Eastern Europe poised on an easel and firmly declaring that "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". I liked Gerald Ford, he served his country admirably. But that dramatic and damaging error did follow him for a long time, rearing it's ugly head almost like a mantra of sorts. Very often voters will perceive these so-called blunders or political mistakes as the candidate simply having a lapse of memory or something inconsequential that soon is forgotton. Sometimes, however, because of the persona of the candidate, there history of shrewdness and calculation and particularly  if the apparent blunder was considered by the electorate to be deliberate and hurtful, it will not go away. That is exactly why I wonder why Hillary decided to go back more than forty years in history to make a statement that came about at a crucial time in Black American history where it appeared that she for some unknown and puzzling reason credited Lyndon Baines Johnson with empowering and igniting Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream as if he had not initiated his landmark visions of success and happiness for everyone previous to 1964 on his own. Specifically, I cannot exactly figure out why this subject was brought up at all, especially in 2008. I also think that this was definitely a classic blunder and as blunders go may not permanently exit voter's memories.

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Why Is The Confederate Flag On The 2008 Election Agenda?

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Friday, January 18, 2008 9:51:16 PM
January 18, 2008

All I hear now on cable news is that the presidential candidates are now embroiled in a heated debate in the media, even paying money for commercials concerning the advisability of flying a flag as subjected. As an American as decimated and effected adversely in almost a condescending manner by what appears to be an imploding economy,a failing health care system, an abusive and falsely rendered underwriting procedure that is unilaterally designed by an uncaring and bottom line oriented insurance industry that is not properly legislated and controlled by the government  which is the fox guarding the chicken coop, where people admittedly through their own ignorance and lack of business sense have lost their homes through a mortgage crisis that is bleeding our people and industries into an interminable submission to fiscal malaise, where we are now seeing what seems to be racially motivated and voter avoidance strategies furthered to gain toe holds in primary elections, where very few people in this country can actually achieve a livable wage, where there is an oil crisis and a concomitant war that has to be solved and where children kill children in our school systems and finally and most sadly, where not too along ago where we as Americans were attacked by a foreign source on our soil and 3000 brave citizens died in a tragedy that we have no way of conclusively realizing whether if we drop our guard something additional could possibly happen-we are vigorously debating and wasting every bodies time talking about a flag. I think the voters deserve and absolutely require and are entitled to a more substantive and helpful debate that will help to eventually solve the real problems that we face. I'm thinking that the next important issue will be why Hillary consistently wears a pants suit. I hope the convention culminates in the issuance of a dark horse candidate who can go to work and fix our country. After rising to the level of excellence that i know we as the greatest country in the world can achieve, we can then talk about the weather, Hollywood gossip or whatever innocuous and humorous topic we can conjure up. Let's go to work first.


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There You Go

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:33:32 AM
January 16, 2008

With all the intrinsic and volatile definitive problems and threats facing Americans from within our borders and from consequences emanating from more than a few countries, Election 2008 is digressing and imploding. I am reminded of our beloved and effective former President Reagan when he looked across the table at his Democrat adversary and simply said the words "There you go". Reagan. in those days could take an opponent out with less than one sentence. So far in 2008 we are witnessing lawsuits designed to alter the conclusion of a primary, candidates completely dismissing American voters in certain states in an unprecedented political chess game that smacks of maneuvering a win instead of solving our problems, racial divide replete with incredible and often offensive statements, gender considerations that are for the most part ill advised, dispositions on flying the Confederate Flag, religious intolerance and on another note-fear of religious fanaticism. There you go. We have seen this ying yang politics before only now we may have to actually prevent emerging markets from controlling our financial institutions, eventually bring a wheelbarrow full of cash to the Exxon station, and lose our jobs forever. While the auto industry may conceivably defer to the Japanese soon as the Camry surpasses our mid-size entries and auto workers are experiencing a building sense of repetitive alienation and unmitigated despair, our crop of candidates continue their  dog and pony show. I am beginning to anticipate a brokered or contrived convention scenario because we need a dark horse somewhere along the line. Someone with specific plans versus flowery prose and empty inconsequential rhetoric. I'll give you the quote one more time "There you go"

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