The report this week about Presidential
candidate Mitt Romney is that he may not have paid taxes over the past
decade. Wait!!! I don’t care, I’m getting to my point. The news yesterday was from Obama’s college
classmate from Columbia, Mr Wayne Root, who says nobody knew Obama at Columbia,
and maybe he applied to Columbia as a foreign exchange student. Wait!!! I don’t care about this either…we are
almost there. What is my point. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Candidate is
being left out of the debates, and he isn’t even included in the Polling
questions…and he wants to talk about undeclared wars the USA is involved in,
marijuana arrests and prosecutions that fill up our jails, the government’s
role in marriage, the debt and defecit that is bankrupting our country, the
foreign aid we give to countries who would do us harm, the lack of energy
independence and the wasting of tax money on private green energy projects the
private sector KNOWS are not feasible...and so on. Mr Romney, Mr Root and President Obama, with
all due respect to your education, your knowledge of American politics and your
positions in our government as “leaders”, can you kindly pull your heads out of
your asses and deal with the issues that are important to us…the average guy.
I understand that Mitt
has money, and people with money can afford to find loopholes in tax codes; but
Gary Johnson wants to overhaul our tax code so it is more fair to the average
guy without a team of attorneys. I
understand that Obama has sealed records of his collegiate history at Columbia
and Harvard…but the average guy can’t get a job to pay back their college loan.
When is your duty to your country,
including the oath you take to defend her, more important than the ego-driven
need you seem to have to convince the public that your opponent is a bigger ass
than you are? This notion that we must
define the biggest evil, then vote for the other is driving me crazy. It would be like me dating a serial cheater
and then getting the opportunity to dump her for a gold digging woman who will
bleed me dry and leave me broke. What do
I do?
Do we, as Americans, have so little self-esteem
that we stay in a bad relationship until we can find someone less evil…not even
bothering to change our patterns and look for someone who isn’t the exact same
problem, or worse, that we complain about every day? Is our desire to control everyone else’s
personal decisions so strong because we are so weak in our own convictions that
we need the government to make sure others live up to our standards? Are we willing to allow our leaders to steal
from us, waste our resources and outright lie to us because we fear ever having
to deal with our own problems ever again?
There were days when someone running for office was considered honorable,
I dare you to find an honorable person in congress now. One without a hand in the till. One who doesn’t take a lobby job when he
loses office. One who does not benefit
from the laws he passes. One who does
his or her job with the interest of America before the interests of him/herself. We are on a ship that is headed for a rock,
the rock will not move, and we are arguing about which captain we should
choose, the one who thinks we can run over the rock, or the one who does not
see the rock.
I don’t know if Mitt paid taxes, and I
don’t care…I care that he thinks we can keep this government control of our
personal lives going without bankrupting our criminal justice system with
marijuana smokers sitting in jail while we debate about how much money it will
cost to keep Jared Laughner in prison. I
care that he thinks the government should tell two American adults whether or
not they can marry each other. I care
that he thinks a war with Iran will make the Middle-East our friends. I care that he thinks tweaking the tax code
by a percentage point is going to make it fair that I am only going to get a
tax break if I make less money and get food stamps. I don’t know if Mitt is a tax cheat, and I
don’t care. I do care that his ideas are
wrong for America’s future, even though he is slightly less wrong on some
issues than Obama. Not good enough.
I don’t know if Obama got into college
through a lie or loophole, I don’t care.
I care that he acts like people deserve food stamps and welfare because
they tried. If failure was a rationale
for accepting government assistance, everyone who ever tried and failed would
be on it. How about wiping off the
blood, selling your xbox or nike’s and try again. When you are hungry for three days, and you
can’t get a landscaping job, or a paper route, or peel shrimp at a plant
downtown, or load trucks in a warehouse at night…then ask for help. What Obama cares about is an illusion. The illusion is that we have poor
people. The poorest people in America
are fat, lazy and know they can get food, housing and spending cash from some
source of government aid. All of
them? Maybe not, but how many millions
of people are getting assistance because some work is too hard for them, or
beneath their threshold of dignity or effort?
I don’t care about Obama’s college grades, I care that he hasn’t gotten
us out of war, and that damned Noble prize for peace is still in his
possession. I don’t care that he is
black, I care that he has pandered to a base that condemns people who disagree
with him as racist. I don’t care about
his trips on Airforce One with Michelle and the kids, I care that he thinks tax
money should be gifted to help American companies that are being run into the ground and will fail, but they don’t have to change their ways.
I care that Obama hasn’t decriminalized marijuana, even though he smoked
a metric ton of it in his life. I care
that he hasn’t offered a lawsuit against the government's marriage restrictions on
homosexuals, even though the American principle of individual freedom is
supposed to be irrespective of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation…I mean
come on…what makes a Democrat different than a Republican now a days? Tax records?
College transcripts? Why can’t we
get to the issues that matter?
The only candidate running for President
that is staying on message is Gary Johnson.
He is a Libertarian, somewhat like Wayne Root who is writing and being
interviewed on every Right Wing news outlet available. Wayne seems to think that America cares about
Obama’s college transcripts…and of course this focus will surely help Mitt win
as the least evil candidate getting coverage.
If the media will only cover Libertarians who play the
Republican/Democrat game, then Libertarians won't ever be taken
seriously…and that is where we are. But
if Gary Johnson can get into the debates, and these two “viable” candidates get
into a cat fight…maybe the country will be able to see, the only person running
who can actually solve any of our problems, is also the only one talking about
what our REAL problems are.
-Rev
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