Michael1942's Blog

The recent posting by a contributor to the local paper railed against the Presidents decision to hold off on the Keystone XL pipeline. This opinion is based  apparently more on political or personal feelings than fact. The real facts are:  America is producing more than half of our oil domestically. We are coming out of a 40 year decline in oil production and under the leadership of President Obama we are poised to start a gas and oil boom within our own borders. The keys to this boom is based on insuring that the gathering of these resources do no environmental harm ( or at least minimal and short term). It is everyone’s right to voice opinions but these opinions need to be based in fact and or experience rather than political  innuendo and misunderstood information. There in absolutely nothing wrong with opinions if they have some basis in fact but political “facts” and possibly prejudicial feelings are not truth.

In the progression of this years presidential race many sides of the candidates are revealed.  As an explanation,  a well known western has the perfect name to explain this spectacle ” the good, the bad and the ugly”!  Where each candidate fits is the choice of the voters. Our Congress has been the constant in these recent elections but no one appears to see this correlation. Congress enacts laws, not the president. Congress denies passage of laws, not the President, Congress funds and declares war, not the President. The President gets the blame for all manner of ills that befalls the country yet the President is in office 4 or 8 years and the Congress on average is in office 12 to 30 years. Where would you think the power to change is? Could we as the people who elect the Congress push for changes that will give us a better Congress and insist on changes in their pay, term of office,pension ans office perks? I believe we can.

A news reporter on national TV condemned a RNC representative who castigated the President by comparing him to the Italian Cruise ship captain. Politics has always been dirty but since 2008 it has become racist. The assorted factions who normally are anti current government for  any number of reasons have basically removed all stops in an effort to have the White house “White” again. Our Congress has led the way with the resistance to any change, more because of the person who proposed it isn’t white. It is bad enough that this country has problems initiated by the “white” establishment years ago we now have once closeted Racists emerging into the light. America wake up, the last thing we need is another Rosewood, Wounded Knee or My Lai  in our history. If we are to ever really become a Democracy to be proud of, we need to stop supporting any group or faction that has the nerve to promote racism as a way of life. It can be said that is this just political rhetoric but it is way beyond that. This type of situation is a primary reason for NOT following any particular party and limiting the time our Congress can serve (?).