Wednesday, September 5, 2012

BloggeRhythms 9/5/2012

Didn’t bother to watch the Dem convention in Charlotte yesterday, But did read some recaps this morning on-line. Other than finding out that I didn’t miss a thing except the same old, same old, party line, two items stood out.
 
In a speech, Newark, NJ’s mayor, Cory Booker -the guy who actually heartily praised Mitt Romney’s business record and acumen until party hacks forced him to rescind his endorsement- said,  "We must choose forward...we must choose growing together." And then went on to state that, as far as pay higher taxes goes, "being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare, its patriotism.”

Now, whatever one’s opinion regarding taxes, I certainly understand why they’re needed. Because we live in a democracy where everyone’s supposed to share governmental costs. And in a pure sense, that’s an underlying fundamental of our political system. However, if taxpayer’s money is misspent, or government has no understanding of basic economics, or worse yet, makes foolish errors upon errors with no thought, caring or the slightest attempt toward financial correction, exactly how much of that cost are innocent civilians supposed to bear?

To  me, our tax situation -which is currently totally borne by only the income earning half of our population- is much like folks with some money left being asked to give more and more of it to a drunken, uneducated  sailor having a very few bad years at the track. Because the guy at the top hasn’t made a sound financial decision yet, after almost four years of trying to learn on the job, and while he actually deserves an “F” for job performance, even he grades himself “ incomplete.”

So, proving himself to be another political hack who either knows nothing about economics, or doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about those who are being asked to support inept amateurs in office, Booker’s proved himself to be simply another sellout, putting politics above the most basic elements of common sense. And to me, that’s really a shame because he’s one of a very, very few politicians who actually sounds like he might even be bright. However, the crooks behind him won’t even let him apply his superior intellect because they know it will harm them.   

And then there’s the Dem platform itself, which for forty years, with the exception of 1988, included language either describing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, supported moving the U.S. Embassy there, or both. 

So here, along with continual pressure to keep Israel from acting against Iran to allow instead, useless talk and sanctions that permit Iran to keep building nuclear weapons, the administration's now kicked Israel considerably further under the bus. 

Interestingly enough, however, the prior Jerusalem exception in the Dem platform occurred in 1988, although the candidate, Michael Dukakis, did voice support for Israel’s claim to the city, telling the Los Angeles Times “if Israel wants its capital in Jerusalem, then as far as I’m concerned, it’s capital is in Jerusalem.” 
 
In the end, though, and perhaps as a harbinger of things to come, Dukakis was defeated by Republican George H.W. Bush.

Consequently, If you total up the gaffes, outright mistakes and incredible errors in judgment made by the current incumbent, I think one has to conclude that the most common recurring problems really don’t indicate simply a rash of an extremely long run of poor choices. I think there's a much deeper problem then that. Because those kinds of outright foolish decisions seem to indicate someone who’s not only quite far from the top of the intellectual heap, but arrogantly stubborn to boot.

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios

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