Michael1942's Blog

As I read the seemingly endless stream of rails against the President by well known pundits, legislators and half knowledgeables, I am wondering if any of these nattering nabobs have a sense of what being the President is? Without excusing any errors made by this administration, we have a war to conclude in Afghanistan and several “hot” spots elsewhere in the world that have used up time and effort that should have been used in the US for repairing the economy. The Congress (some of them) are looking for POTUS to do something about Syria, Egypt & yes the economy, however rash actions will not help us at all. Sidewalk superintendents have never constructed a building so why are we to believe the sideline Pundits can run the country? It is imperative that all readers of the news, magazines and media viewers understand what being President means and how long it takes to get any work done. We  should remember that all of these things are occurring at the same time. We are experiencing  laws (new and changed) that the second President Bush started, some issues have ended, others have not started. There are some that the current President started but has just begun (the affordable health care act). The initial start has helped many, part of it has been implemented but has some flaws yet these flaws could have been worked out if the Locked bowel Congress would have spent any time in really reading the proposed law and making changes as needed. The idea that our representatives spent valuable time in the media ranting about how bad the act was instead of making it better indicates that our Congress is more the issue that the POTUS. The outright resistance to an elected CIC because?-Race. Party or what? is definitely why we need to replace as many as we can through elections as soon as possible.  How can we believe in elected officials who do not believe in us?  We have for years listened to the political rhetoric, vague promises, adverse statements against the other guy that we have come to think it is true, This is real life not a televised soap opera and there are no commercial breaks or cliff hangers to be resolved next week. I recently wrote to the local newspaper about the printing of nationally known pundits whose agenda does not involve  most of us but still affects what we do. The modern political machine does not exist for the voters, it exists for the politicians and their backers (big money). Think about how many billions of dollars was spent on the last election and how much was received from the public in comparison to what was spent by the “big money”. The only thing we have going for us is quantity, the numbers of average Americans who are willing to vote against the status quo. It may take several election cycles but it can be done.  The question is “do we have the will”?

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