This also appears at the blog site of the Democratic Party. To read any comments that people have made about this brief essay please read it there.
I get a kick out of the way some people have accused me of being a GOP plant. The only plants around here are those non-thinking individuals who will blindly follow the leader no matter where he or she will take them.
I suppose it could be said that that is the mark of a good leader, one people will follow blindly without question. Bubba Clinton has his adherents no matter how many flaws he had as a person and a President. They will go to their graves denying that he ever did anything wrong. But, I think one's own moral compass is what should determine one's vote, not the leader or the party.
My moral compass is not either of the major parties. My moral compass is me.
I see strength in my own moral compass every time someone accuses me of being a conservative. I see it when my neighbor accuses me of being a liberal. I see that this is where 2008 will be decided and I am kind of enjoying this sense of power. I can now understand why the GOP wants power and wants to keep it. I can now understand why the Democrats want the same thing.
My power is in my vote and, yes, I have made up my mind already for whom I will not support nor vote �" ever. I have stated numerous times that I cannot find anything in Hillary Clinton to support. I have not seen anything in any of the GOP announced candidates either. And the more I learn about the potential candidates of both parties, I do not like any of them either.
Does that mean that if the Dems put up Hillary I will not vote for her? Yes, it does. So what? It is my vote and I will cast it for the person I want to lead this nation. And I consider almost any of the announced Democratic candidates far more suited than Hillary Clinton to run the show. And, save her, I consider almost any of them infinitely superior to any of the announced GOP candidates.
So if the Dems want Hillary, that will be their choice. Come November, 2008, I will make mine. It won't be her. It won't be the GOP either. I will vote, but I will look at another lever to pull. Now that is real power, and I am really looking forward to exercising it.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Another "Live" Concert
This also appears at the blog site of the Democratic Party. To read any comments that people have made about this brief essay please read it there.
On July 4 we celebrate yet another year of our independence as a nation and as a people. Almost every person, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender has heard, or knows by heart, Jefferson's words:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Over the years I have been on this planet, and a citizen of this great nation for those same years, we seem to have forgotten those words and what they really mean or should mean.
So it's disheartening to read stuff like this:
What happened our right to Liberty? The liberty to think what we want without having to have a "mass persuasion?" Are the holes in the global warming theory (and make no mistake, it is a hypothesis, a conjecture of what might happen) so big and the evidence so flimsy that we now need to be persuaded on a mass, global basis?
I'm sorry. People can believe Al Gore all they want. They can start buying Priuses or other energy efficient vehicles, cut their lawns and shovel their sidewalks by hand, recycle, and whatever else they want to do to save the planet. All the more power to them.
But when people like Big Al start talking about "mass persuasion" it should be a big red flag to people who truly believe in freedom of thought. It's just propaganda. And propaganda is nothing more than brain-washing. And woe to anybody who disagrees with the propaganda.
And some people want Al to enter the race for 2008? He scares me more than Hillary sometimes.
On July 4 we celebrate yet another year of our independence as a nation and as a people. Almost every person, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender has heard, or knows by heart, Jefferson's words:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Over the years I have been on this planet, and a citizen of this great nation for those same years, we seem to have forgotten those words and what they really mean or should mean.
So it's disheartening to read stuff like this:
Live Earth is a musical show being put on ostensibly to bolster the global warming alarms being raised by Al Gore and other environmentalists. Former Vice President Al Gore, whose Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" jump-started the debate about global warming and environmentalism, says Live Earth will be the start of a "worldwide, mass persuasion communications campaign" that will last up to five years. (Link)
What happened our right to Liberty? The liberty to think what we want without having to have a "mass persuasion?" Are the holes in the global warming theory (and make no mistake, it is a hypothesis, a conjecture of what might happen) so big and the evidence so flimsy that we now need to be persuaded on a mass, global basis?
I'm sorry. People can believe Al Gore all they want. They can start buying Priuses or other energy efficient vehicles, cut their lawns and shovel their sidewalks by hand, recycle, and whatever else they want to do to save the planet. All the more power to them.
But when people like Big Al start talking about "mass persuasion" it should be a big red flag to people who truly believe in freedom of thought. It's just propaganda. And propaganda is nothing more than brain-washing. And woe to anybody who disagrees with the propaganda.
And some people want Al to enter the race for 2008? He scares me more than Hillary sometimes.
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