Wonderings and Curiosities 12/9/09

Just some more thoughts floating around my mind.

For eight long years....The previous administration.....George Bush did/didn't....George Bush is/isn't....Bush/Cheney....Its now impossible not to hear these words (and what usually follows) without a rolling of the eyes. None of what happened during the Bush years is sound justification for the crap being inflicted on the country and its future.

Why is it that voters who didn't fall in kneejerk fashion for the weak 2008 Republican offering are held to a greater amount of blame than those who voted for the weak 2008 Democrat candidate? What the national leaderships of both major parties and their media lapdogs don't seem to understand is the simplest of principles: Run a strong candidate of character and the voters will come.

In the same vein. why is it a reflex reaction to assume that those of us who live outside of the Beltway or far away from either coast are automatically assumed to be too daft to understand 'politics'? Knowing right from wrong doesn't take any Ivy League education, only common sense.

When did this country switch to looking at everything through a legal prism vs. the traditional right/wrong method? Over the last few months we've seen in full high-def clarity they aren't even close to the same thing-as if it weren't completely obvious before that if we'd have been paying attention in the first place. Turn off the reality TV and start participating in the reality beyond the remote control.

The quickest way to turn the country around? Start with 'number one'. Instead of going into personal attack mode at the first hint of criticism look in the mirror. There is a difference between constructive and destructive criticism. Americans have simply lost the ability to know the difference.

Can anyone identify the exact date when reporters stopped reporting?

If there's really anything to take from Max Baucus showing the world he's just another run-of-the-mill D.C. hack for nominating his girlfriend for a government position, no pun intended, its just how completely incestuous the US Politburo has become.

A new opinion of 'Global warming' in Hurricane Algore's own words: He lied to us. He played on our fears. (Make sure you're screaming them)

Republican pundits and talking heads yap loudly about having a tent big enough for 'diverse opinions'. However, nothing is more of a turnoff than being an independent with views closer to libertarian than republican. Hearing highbrow scorn from folks who don't tend to land anywhere in between when traveling from one coast to the other tells me my vote really isn't valued at all.

Would it now be an easier accounting for women who haven't slept with Tiger Woods to come forward? I've lost count.

Thanks for reading.