Mitt Romney: A Little Boy

Mitt Romney is out on the stump. He's trying to get elected president. His trite philosophy reminds me when I was eight years old and what I believed . Put aside his shop keepers affected urgency in selling his ideas, it's his beliefs that remind me of Peggy Lee's lyric " Is that all there is?"  When I was eight ,I too believed that if we bombed people enough we would somehow make the world a better place. I too believed that all Americans are equal. I too belived that enough money in the hands of consumers would insure the perpetual existence of our democracy. I also believed that Israel should exist and America owed a great debt to the friendly, honest and well meaning Zionists. I too belived that trees were meant for harvesting. And also that fish and animals are all here for our enjoyment or slaughter. I belived in god but gave up on the tooth fairy.

The question is , is the boy Mitt Romney a better choice than the affirmative action darky Barack Obama? For me, it's just another false choice .

Imperial Presidency Needs Imperial Congress

Obama is arrogant. Bush #2 was arrogant.Clinton was arrogant.Bush #1 was arrogant. Reagan was arrogant. Carter was arrogant. Etc. Etc. Etc. So what? All those preidents couldn't express their arrogance without the help of an arrogant congress. If one wants to stop arrogance then one has to go after the whole infrastructure of arrogance. That includes both the executive and the legislative branches. Don't forget the judicial branch. It swings back and forth with its own activism. Actually, in proportional comparative terms,it carries more arrogance per pound than the other two put together.

So what's to be done? Then it came to me in a dream . I dreamed I pushed one of my represenatives in congress into traffic. I woke up refreshed and empowered.

9/11: Lesson

The attacks of 9/11 were not a valadation of our imperial foreign policy. The attacks were more like the rent we must pay for occupying others lands and cultures. Nothing is free.