Pogo’s
Advice
By
Dr.
Jimmie R. Applegate
“We Have Met the Enemy and He is
Us”
Walt Kelly via Pogo
“Albert: We’re gonna secede and start a new country.
Pogo: Why in the worl'?Albert: So things will be more equal for all and we’ll all
share more better.
Pogo: In that case I better eat the other half of
my sammitch
afore you shares the whole thing………”
The Republican seekers after the Grail
readily attack each other in debates, town hall meetings and in millions of dollars’
worth of TV ads. They, mindless to the
damage they are doing, challenge each other’s qualifications and experiences
with half-truths and with words and positions taken out of context in efforts
to knock down and drag out their opponents.
They sound more like Iranian President Ahmadinejad everyday with hostile
and unwarranted comments full of bluster and defiance. American citizens deserve better than that.
The candidates should focus on their qualifications, experiences and ideas to uphold, honor and respect the Constitution of the United States, to add jobs, to limit spending and reduce debt, to limit the scope of the federal government, to return power and responsibility to the states, to increase the energy independence of the United States, to control and protect our borders, to restore the constitutional separation of power doctrine and to emphasize the independence and exceptionalism of the American people.
“Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do
what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which
are ugly……… There is no
need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human
are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny
blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours,
he may be us.
Forward!”Pogo told us what the problem is, now let’s hope the candidates wise up and do something about it by focusing their stump comments directly on their analyses of, and solutions to, the critical issues of today. Let voting Americans citizens judge the candidates on what they say, rather than on the innuendo and allegations made by opposing candidates.
As a Dem watching from the sidelines, I would say the biggest offender is Newt Gingrich and his boundless hypocrisy. He was a major league negative campaigner in his day, and to hear him decrying Mitt Romney's Superpac ads and declaring war on Romney with Newt's OWN superpac was pretty rich. Now, he's attacking Romney as somehow effete, on the grounds that Romney speaks fluent French--when Newt spent two years in France with the family as a teenager and got around quite nicely. And then there are the attacks on Romney for being a venture capitalist...are you kidding me?! It seems to me Ron Paul is a pretty consistent performer, so is Rick Santorum, but Newt is more volatile now than he ever was as a back bencher in the 90s. I forgot to mention his plan to arrest recalcitrant federal judges...madness! There's a sense that if he can't have the nomination himself, he's going to inflict as much damage on the likely nominee as possible. That's awfully nihilistic, and as you point out, destructive. He's not going to get a cabinet position or ambassadorship at this rate, he's going to be purged or exiled!
ReplyDeleteWell said Buckarooskidoo! Analytical and to the point. Huntsman will be out tomorrow--and the field narrows! I assume you will attend the Obama Campaign Organizational Meeting in Pendleton. Tell them to keep it clean and on task. I've already told my candidates. Now it is your turn before the two nominees turn the heat up on each other. The American voters do not need to be subjected to more irrelevancy! Enough is enough.
ReplyDeleteWill do my best. I won't make that first meeting, because we have Casey Eye Institute checkup earlier that day in PDX, but will be participating as time allows. I have to keep a low profile, doing all my politicking over here in pdt, because it isn't good as a prof to be publicly partisan.
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