I still can’t bring myself to endorse any of the current U.S. Presidential candidates. This doesn’t really surprise me; the choices available are fairly equal to one another depending on how you view them through the political prism. On one hand we have a power-hungry feminist Senator from New York, and on the other, a legal-savvy in-fighter from New York City. On one hand we have the tall gravitas of a seasoned Republican actor, and on the other, the lanky charm of a spirited Democratic newcomer. And that’s just the front line.
You get the picture, I’m sure.
So, how do we decide? Who will best serve the United States of America after 2008?
These questions are best answered by understanding that we have to seek out why we need a President in the coming years and what should be expected of him or her.
Priorities matter. Let’s get that into the ring right away and examine the basics that we already know are being put out there by the candidates.
Global Warming isn’t a priority to me, but freeing ourselves from the grasp of Big Oil is. Do the two coincide? You bet, and that’s good, because that gives much of America something to agree on.
Universal Health Care has been kicked around and kicked around and it’s going to continue to be kicked around, because at the end of the day, whether people like it or not, the best medical care available in the world is still here in the U.S.A., and though we pay through the nose for it, it’s still better than going socialized with our standards for life and well-being. So, that issue is dead to me. It is not a priority.
Abortion? This is a religious matter, in my humble opinion, and it has never deserved attention in the public political arena on the level that it has gotten. It is used as a diversionary tactic by both major political parties whenever it suits them. I say let women have control of their own bodies, and the Religious Right can allow God to judge their actions, not man. Sound wise? I thought so, too.
Illegal Immigration? This one’s a no-brainer. Fix the problem damnit.
Iraq. Afghanistan. Guess what, folks. These are just battles. The real war is just getting started. A real President would know this.
Islamism. Say what? You’ve never heard the term? You must be new around these parts, but don’t be alarmed. It also doesn’t help that this major topic, that should be at the top of the list of priorities for our U.S. Presidential candidates, is almost non-existent in the debates. I’m even being politely optimistic when I state that.
Frankly, the subject of Islamism is non-existent in the Presidential Debates.
This should piss you all off. Yes, the time for political niceties is over. You should be contemptuous of both parties because they ignore the plague of our time. Islam is in our face now, just as people like myself have been predicting since 2001. All of us that watch the news in the morning for even a few minutes, or read a blog like this one, or buy a book occasionally off of the New York Times Best Sellers list are quite aware that there’s something about this Islam-ism thing-ism. It has really become extraordinarily bothersome. It’s everywhere.
When something is everywhere all the time, that is a warning that you’re going to be affected by it. Islam isn’t going away quietly. Islam isn’t going to play by the old rules; Islamists believe they make the rules, in the name of Allah. Islam isn’t humble or meek. Islam is here to stay as long as we keep denying that it is making us so damn uncomfortable.
Yet, these supposedly wise and powerful leaders that are vying for the highest office in the Land are not even discussing Islam or its -ism. If you’re very lucky, you might hear the term jihadism tossed out for a minute or two by someone. Should we all coo with pleasure then? Hardly. It’s seemingly just the advice from a lackey taking shape in front of a news camera long enough to score a few points, supposedly, with folks like most of the ones that come to a site like the Anvil. Unfortunately, most regular readers of a blog like mine are not so easily convinced that a candidate really is that knowledgeable or concerned by the onslaught of the Islamic Glacier and the creepy-crawly of Sharia Creep just because he knows how to say jihadism.
What we want our new President of the United States of America to say before they get elected is this: “Islam is a big problem. We are going to examine it and do whatever it takes to protect the interests of the U.S.A. worldwide in the face of this threat.”
Well, I’m not expecting that exactly, but anywhere in the ballpark is certainly better than the trite baloney that is being paraded before the American people thus far. Americans deserve a leader that has the courage to tell us the obvious truth. Isn’t that Painful Truth about Islam already in our collective psyche? Isn’t it? So Islamism and the threat Islam poses to the Western World, indeed the non-Muslim world, not just the United States alone, should not be a tough subject for a true leader to breech.
So why do we need a President to lead us? We need a President that will stand up to Islam.
Now you know exactly what you should be expecting in 2008.
I sincerely hope that some candidates get a chance to read a hard-copy of this sojourn of mine into the logical and common-sensical. I know it would do them some good to get the idea that it is indeed OK to actually lead, and not just wave hands in our faces on television and hope that a big smile and lots of promises of lower taxes and greener grasses is going to make the future bright. War is here. True leaders will be aware of that. The future President of the United States will hopefully be more than just awakened to the conflict though. The new President had better have an axe over the shoulder and be looking to knock a few things down along the path to victory.
America is waiting.
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I seldom come across someone with the guts to publicly state what should be obvious and do it so well. I think a lot of people understand what you say but are so whipped into being politically correct they truly feel thinking such things must be wrong.
I have another item which is very important to me. Our tax system is totally broken primarily because the politicians use it as a method of income redistribution in order to retain power. The deciding item for me may come down to the candidate most likely to support a consumption tax.
I am thoroughly disappointed with all of the candidates so far. I want the truth not obfuscation. I will never vote for a Ny’er. Heck I live in Ca a junior NY. Yes we are not as blue as NY we still have the right to protect ourselves from the islamist menace a menace that is helped along by the pols refusal to acknowledge the enemy. I will sit this one out if a candidate is not put forward in the memory of our greatest modern President Ronald Reagan, period! Ted Roosevelt second though I believe Ron got many of his ideas from Ted. So put one forward that I can endorse otherwise I will take my chances with a democrat starting a civil war, don’t believe me? Just read their blogs, they would intern us and reeducate us, we would only throw them out! So who is really the compassionate one here? US/A not them. I agree with Mr. Harkrider the key is tax reform, welfare reform, dependence reform.
Speaking of the left and the danger of a coming civil war, it’s the crazy left that will drive things out of control:
Can Leftists Cozy Up with Jihadis?
Amen.
In my haste this morning, I left out that I myself support the idea of a fair Flat Tax. I suppose it wasn’t quite so relevant to the thrust of my editorial, but it is damn important to change our taxation in the U.S.A. and I am quite definitely in agreement with both Mr. Harkrider and tgusa on that matter.
I won’t be voting, but a couple of things I would like to add to this discussion.
Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Guiliani and if you watch the clip I hope you feel a bit better:
blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/20...bertson_to_endorse_giuliani.html
Also this piece from WND is enough reason for some serious action as we know that jihadis mean what they say.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58529
I agree global warming is a non-issue. There is too much around now that seems to have disrupted the “consensus”. In case any one doesn’t know the ice shelf in Antarctica has, in fact, grown and that’s just for starters. Gore is making too much money out of it - funny.
Global islam is way more frightening.
I have to say our health system here is not perfect but better. I have dear friends in the US who have been injured, one during work, and they are facing ruin. Medicare here is generally not paid for by the employer. There is a basic Government scheme to which all tax-payers pay a small amount, and if you want higher cover it’s up to you. I pay $1300 a year for top hospital cover, and each year I don’t have to use it, I am very thankful.
Mr. Foehammer, maybe you should run for president
I’m quite certain that the rich and powerful would see to it that a brash, loud-mouth like myself was destroyed in some way in the public eye by way of my life’s story were I ever to run for President of the United States.
Put me into Congress or a suitable think tank. I’d do far more good chewing the right ears.
I was saving that comment to an appropriate post, and this was it…
media.newsbusters.org/stories/wea...al-warming-greatest-scam-history
newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...-biofuels-crime-against-humanity
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tgusa
there is so much about re “global warming” Thanks for the link.
Climate change has always occurred: can’t argue with that, but
I know wacademics. They need funding and need to come up with something scary to get it.
This was one of the best pieces:
mobile2.wsj.com/beta2/htmlsite/ht...ml?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Its a distraction and a money spinner.Almost tempting to buy into a carbon-trading scheme if one had the $$$$.
As for elections: I dunno.
But my prediction is that whoever gets voted in here or in the USA are in for some of the toughest financial and political decisions we will be facing for a very long time.
I am glad to see this post becuase there is too little discussion of the need for correct understanding of Islam and recognition of the global jihad in both MSM and the blogosphere as it relates to the presidential election.
The willingness to publicly identify the threat of global jihad, not just with rhetoric such as that shown recently by Romney ads (who thinks Hezbollah is a good model of Islamic political party activism) is the single most important criteria of any presidential candidate and Foehammer is correct to say none of them meet that test.
Fair taxes, abortion, health care are all important but I don’t give a hoot about that right now. Failure to address those issues correctly will not result in the destruction of our civilization. They are ALL second tier issues as far as I am concerned.
I cannot understand why there are no politicians willing to utter the phrase “Islam is the problem”. That politician would probably have to come out from of the fringes, not mainstream politics, but boy would he/she kick up firestorm. It may not bring that person to the White House but at least it would start a national debate about Islam, the evil ideology, not Islam, the supposed “Religion of Peace”.
Look at Iraq, Iran, and now Pakistan, and think how much safer you would feel if there was a person in charge that said. “Islam is the problem”. How are we going to find that person when nobody asks the right questions? So, not only are the candidates not talking about it, no one can even get close enough to ask the damn question!!
Each candidate needs to be asked “Sir/Madam, yes or no please, do you believe as the current president does, that Islam is a Religion of Peace? . Yes or no. Then please explain.”
Now why is this so difficult to ask? Never mind the answer for now, but why can’t somebody just ask the damn question so there can be a public debate about it?
THANKS for pointing this out!!!!
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You are welcome.
The third link I provided follows the unstoppable global warming every fifteen hundred years issue on a regular basis. The links change daily but not necessarily at the same time, the site also does a pretty good global roundup of events that not only affect us here but all our friends and compatriots across the globe as well. If you wanted to take over the world and you had already tried but failed through the oppression of people what would be the best way to do it? Hijack Mother Earth and then use her as an excuse to force your agenda on all the rest of us. Some elementary schools are indoctrinating our youth in Gores scare mongering, something I liken to the training of the Hitler Youth during the thirties. Places like Marin County and others, I wonder how much carbon is being produced by them and their rotting vegetation they refuse to clean up? More than their fair share I would wager. The next generation of eco nazis is being created by these rats and I am a proponent of, if something goes wrong go right to the source of the problem. So I am following the goings on closely and I like most of you have a long memory. Don’t anyone get me wrong I was a scout, I believe in treating the environment with care but we were doing that here in Ca when Agor was still sucking up energy and polluting the Earth with his useless trips to wherever. Most of our pollution now comes across the Pacific in a big brown cloud from our buddies the Chinese. Some of the rest is home grown and I am still cleaning up right now, yep, rotting vegetation burns! And we get choked out by smoke and ashes, hack, hack, cough, cough. Pardon me.
tgusa
Agree. Politicians are now too afraid to go against the stream of global warming, and they are all falling for it because they know they have to.
It should be seen as several issues:
conservation
ecology
environment
pollution,,etc etc and not just come under one umbrella.
Australia emits 1.5% of total “green house gases”.
But they want us to ruin our economy for this new “religion” of the Goracle.
On another ‘blog someone said:
“It’s like the old Catholic indulgences. Same scam - new religion”.
I think that’s it in a nutshell.
No one has as yet succeeded in changing the weather yet they are trying to make us believe it can be done now.
I have no doubt the world is going insane.