PONDERING POLITICS

I have more to do tonight than sit here and ponder the future of US politics, but ponder I am. I am not really a political person and I always vote my conscience instead party lines although I have leaned toward the Republican party the last two elections. I grew up listening to my dad discuss politics and he was always a die hard Democrat. As a matter of fact there was a time in the south, if you wasn't a Democrat, you were kind of looked on as an outsider or worse yet just downright freakish.

I have been trying to decide whom I should cast my vote for. Not to offend anyone, but I feel that we need to make another change. The honeymoon lasted longer than the marriage this last time around. I can't imagine another four years of rising gas prices, more people losing their homes, and food prices growing faster that Jack's bean stalk can possibly grow. I am getting ready to quit work in a few months and I really am afraid to make this move. It's better to have a paycheck coming in each week than to be looking for another job in a few months that would only pay minimum wage.

I have been trying to listen to some of the candidates and this is kind of what I deduct.

1. We seem to get some pretty sorry a** people seeking the presidential position.
2. It seems corruption and scandal is the biggest thing on the agenda.
3. I keep thinking that surely there must be at least one upright honest person left somewhere
in America.
4. Why would I want to vote for a person that is doing things that I would be canned for.

I guess I buy into a lot of the Obama criticism. And again not to offend anyone, but I have questions that I would like to see answered. Where did he actually come from? Was his family independently wealthy? How did he get to go to these Ivy League schools? He is only forty something now. How did he get so much wealth accumulated so quickly. He could only have been in his mid twenties when he graduated, quickly found a job making boo koos of money, got elected into congress (or the senate), served part of a term and was immediately elected President of the United States by the age of what? 42. Now I know there are a lot of people that I don't know, but I had never heard of him until he became a candidate for President. Even with Bill Clinton, I knew he was Governor of Arkansas before he was president. Was Obama beamed down from a spaceship. Just kidding about that last sentence.

Now on the other hand you have our Republican candidates. Mitt Romney: Does he have a clue about the trials that mid to lower income people are dealing with. Just having money to buy gas to drive to work every day is a problem with most people. Buying food to feed a family of four or five is sometimes mind boggling. Keeping your kids in clothes. Paying utilities and the list goes on and on. I think his wealth sets him way too far above most people at this time. Mr. Romney, put all your money except for 20-30 thousand dollars in an account, forget about it for four years and try to live on that 20-30 thousand or less for the next four years then come back and run in 2016. I think you would make a great president then.

Rick Santoram: Another that I know nothing about. He seems to have some good values, but to me he seems a little naive and leans a little too much on what his wife has to say. I think we need someone with a little more toughness about them.

Newt Gingrich: I think he is a smooth talker and probably a great debater. He wouldn't be afraid to get right in your face and tell you what he thinks. His problem is that he has the morals of Bill Clinton. I feel that we not only need a president that serves all the people but also has a sense of decency and is honorable in his own life.

Ron Paul: Now this is a name that I have seen on little signs stuck on the side of the road and nailed to telephone polls for years now. He is for the military, jobs, housing, lowering everything that needs to be lowered and raising everything that needs to raised. According to the pamplets I have seen about him he would turn this whole mess around and fix it NOW. He is an older, level headed, patriotic, God fearing person. The only problem I see with him is that he would need a magic wand to do all the things he promises. Does anyone have a magic wand? If you do send it to me and I will fix it myself.