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May 12, 2007
A little less apathy, a little more opinion
Despite the next federal election being 19 months away, the media insists on covering the candidates that are positioning themselves for their prospective nomination for president. I guess there isn't a person out there that wants to get rid of Bush asap. Don't blame me! I voted for Kerry.
So what do you do if you want to be president nowadays. It's has nothing to do with political experience it seems. It's just another Hollywood story, when you get down to it. People don't care about what a person has achieved previously in office. But how can a candidate excite the public, about anything, no matter how trivial it is.
I'm not going to bash the Iraq war here... I think it's time for our soldiers to get all the support we can give them, so that they can just finish up and come home. It was a mistake to go there. Enough said.
But now that we are there, what now? Taking our troops out while leaving the Iraqis to deal with these insurgents is not an answer. It will only harbor hostility towards the United States; the Americans came into our country, and now they leave it like this? The rhetoric isn't hard to find that could convince anyone growing up in that mess that this is all the United States' fault.
But back to the president. I have finally found one that I like. It took a while, ever since Evan Bayh dropped out, but I found one: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. To be honest I was never crazy about Barack's inexperience, Hillary's record or background, and anyone else in the field. Richardson truly has the best experience of any candidate in the field, Democratic or Republican. Any president that we elect, if anything, needs to be respected in the world. Bush, like no other president in modern history, is the butt of so many jokes all over the world. He really does appear like an idiot, to everyone, and that's a fact.
I guess we can only go up from here. Anyone has got to be better than our illiterate cowboy of a president. But why not find the best:
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico.
Tommy Thompson seems to think that he is a good candidate for president because he has experience in health care and that is the most important thing for Americans. Not exactly true.
What excites Americans more is something more everyday. Health care is health care, and it's fine for me. Paying $4/gallon for gasoline is something to which I am much more sensitive. And, if there's anything that gets me riled up, it's talking about modernizing our energy system, something Gov. Richardson has experience in as Sec. of the Dept of Energy. He's dealt with the Middle East in a much more diplomatic way than Bush will ever be remembered for. He's also respected at the United Nations with his experience there. And he's not from the Northeast. Democrats will get California for sure, but this will give them some attractiveness in Ohio, Arizona, Montana and Missouri.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Any Democratic candidate from the Northeast is unelectable in 2008. Gov. Richardson has a much more continental appeal, something that any Democratic candidate must have to win an election these times. Hillary doesn't have it. Barack doesn't have the experience. What he lacks in popularity he more than makes up for in the best resumé in the field. The media should give him more air time.
Posted by piep0058 at May 12, 2007 01:29 PM | Society
Comments
Can you please contact me re some of the maple leaf photos on your blog??
Thanks!
Deborah (in Nova Scotia)
Posted by: Deborah at May 19, 2007 11:41 PM
Oh! My e-mail address is
DeborahMarch@gmail.com
:)
Posted by: Deborah at May 19, 2007 11:42 PM