I doubt if the Democrats need too much political maneuvering to win the midterms since the Republican party is spit in two now--maybe more than two. The Republicans have not yet addressed their lack of diversity or their candidates tendency to sound unscientific and superstitious. Nor have they distanced themselves from Fox News and talk radio shysters. The Buckley conservatives of the mid-twentieth century rejected the extremist right wing we see today. Some of the so-called Tea Party Republicans may win but only because they come from tactically gerrymandered districts. No political maneuvering will affect that. But it doesnt matter what the president does, whether it is something pragmatic that is intended to improve the our health care system or something necessary required by circumstances, he will never ever do anything right to people seeking to always find fault. Of course there is another line of thinking that says everything anyone does in political in some way so a statement that our president is being political is redundant. I liked President Bush until he went to war with Iraq, that is, as long as he did not make a speech. He made us Americans sound smug and ignorant sometimes with his stupid smirk and broken English. I have always wanted our elected officials to do well. How can I think otherwise? Only a puerile person or a fool would want an elected official to fail. I have never hoped any president failed. I have never spun failure out of everything any president attempted. Ideological pundits spin only if a politicians record does not speak for itself and if they know their audience either does not care or does not know the facts. Indeed, spinning is a form of lying and propaganda. As I loved watching MSNBC when President Obama ran for office, I took myself off that sugary diet eventually just because their pundits were rarely objective. We get better objectivity from THE COLBERT REPORT and THE DAILY SHOW. Of course, Im older and have paid attention to events since I began watching the Watergate hearings in 1973 when I was a sophomore in high school. Subsequently, I attended universities that taught the value of being objective and the value of reasoned debate. Although I am a registered Democrat, and that is mainly because Klan and Nazis vote Republican, I am always looking for candidates who are pragmatic, who will use reason and science to solve problems, not those incompetent close cousins called superstition and ideology.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:44:37 +0000
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