Nothings changed. United States of America...

Sorry to report , that nothing has changed in the past couple of weeks. The Presidental campaign is still dividing the country. On the the one hand you have a candidate who has never offered any specifics on any issue, choosing instead to just say that on DAY ONE I will do this , or I will do that, never really offering any type of plan other than to say I will do it differently. Regettably, never considering the very fact that in order to do anything both houses of congress and the President have got to work together and put forth some amount of effort and work as a United group striving towards a common goal. No longer: we don't do that here in America any more. Now sadly, we just point fingers and place blame, even if the facts don't bear out the issues. We now stand pat in our opposition at all cost. And this really is the sad point about all of the division that has swept America, all cost. Blind allegiance to an unknown, following blindly not knowing where one is headed but going there just the same. The other hand, has had three and a half years to show us what he is made of and that fact usually would be the tale of the tape under normal circumstances not any longer. This President wasted some time in the beginning of his Presidency that could of been used working on some of the very issues that are now coming back to haunt him. Did he really control both the House and the Senate. In the beginning, sure he had those two branches of our government on paper but he did not hold the allegiance of the parties involved. Sour grapes: there were sore losers among both branches who had their pollitical aspirations dashed by this upitty community organizer and they were not about to allow our President, a black man to gain in any of his attempts at solving any of the problems that are facing us. The President worked through this and did gain their trust and allegiance only to find that nothing was still not going to be achomplished as long as this man was black.. Mid terms: the mid terms brought another set of obstacles with the advent of the tea party and the removal of the majority that this man may have enjoyed. Now he was at the mercy of the G O P and there was no way that they were ever going to allow a black man to solve the very problems , that they themselves had been unable or unwilling to fix for decades. Childish behavior: In grammer school, we expect a certain amount of backstabbing,finger pointing and name calling as this comes with the adolescent mind. We don't however expect to have this kind of behavior coming from our so called professional politicians. These people have earned for the most part at least some sort of degree, having gone through at least some college. These people have sold themselves to us as the be all and end all of all of our problems. If they can't fix it no one can. They all claim that they know how to run a business/ government, yet if they were sitting at the helm of a company that has not achomplished anything in over three years, you would think that they would seriously be thinking about the removal of the over FIVE hundred workers responsible that have done nothing. We hold the upper hand: sorry Mr. President , but you seem to be forgetting that we do hold all of the cards. One term: one term and out has been the battle cry of the GOP for the duration of the Presidency, AT All COST. Did I say childish and it is not going to change anytime soon....

Republican nomination process complete, well almost

This past week Governor Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination, with a win in Texas. Now the gloves have come off and Katie bar the door, as everything is free game. Does it matter if it is true, not anymore just say it enough times and well you know it worked for George. I read the comments on Yahoo News stories from time to time , to gauge where the American people stand on a variety of topics, and I can tell you that we have never had as much hate and mistrust for our fellow countrymen as we have have now. Do yourself a favor and spend a few minutes reading some of the comments, and you will come away with the same feelings of dread and apprehension as I have about the future of our country. We are in the desperate need of someone who can unite Americans from both sides to work together at the problems facing this once great land. Does it bother me to use the term this once great land? you had better believe it. There is no reason why our country cannot still be the shining example to the rest of the world . Have you no honor: I was telling my wife during the Memorial day holiday that as children, America was a great place to live. A place where if you applied yourself, you could obtain whatever your dream was. Patriotism: not anymore. Once upon a time in America, come every holiday most homes would fly the American flag with a proud sense of belonging . Do you own one Did it fly. Looking back : perhaps things were not as rosey as I would like to remember them. We did have the space race , with an ever growing sense of pride that we Americans could come together and apply our knowledge to obtain something greater than the just for me attitude that we now find oursleves embracing. Unemployment fell from just over seven percent in 1-61 to run at just below four percent thru 1-70 It was a great time in America. Then of course there was a war, and a Presidential scandal forever blackening the eye of the collective American populace. Maybe not as great as I would like to have believed, but still better than the prospect that we now hold. It's time...