January 27, 2008

  • We Must Let Go To Know What's Right

    "There's only us; there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today."

    I figured I was about due for another update.  Life is good.  I am back into the swing of things and have a routine again.  I started a job.  4:15 to 8:15 Monday through Friday.  I'm a custodian.  Hey, it pays the rent.  (well, it will start paying the rent in the spring).

    A lot of people are blogging about politics.  I fear that the race for president has become a popularity contest and we will never have a capable president again.  I'm so jaded with President Bush, but I don't think Kerry would have done any better.  Or Al'Gore.

    I don't like any of our candidates.  According to some research I've done, I actually agree most often with Mitt Romney's platform, although it is the few points that I disagree with that are the most important issues to me right now.  People complain that he flip flopped.  I do too, although not because I think flip flopping is  wrong (I have changed my mind, and I hope politicians can change theirs too.  In fact, I think Ron Paul's scariest flaw is his lack of change).  I complain because I liked him better before he flip-flopped.  I liked him better as a moderate who was slightly liberal on social issues and slightly conservative on fiscal issues.  I do not like the new conservative bigot Mitt.

    None of the other Republican candidates do anything for me either, so that leaves me liking Hilary Clinton as my second choice.  She is better on those issues that I differ from Mitt on, although my biggest fear with Hilary is having more of the same Presidential families in the white house.  So far we've had 12 years with the Bush family, and 8 with the Clinton family.  Do we really want 24 years of having the same 2 families in the Oval Office?  That's where Obama is nice, but he scares me because I don't think he has any experience.  He sure is a nice talker, something that is a must have in my book after GW, but he's never run an organization.  I don't want a committee man as a President.

    So if you don't hear me blogging about politics over the next 10 months, it is because I am too fed up with all of our politicians.  I want them all to loose.  Maybe we should revolt and dissolve the office.  And the judicial system while we're at it.  Reorganize the government!  Now that is something I could get passionate about.  Let's start a revolution.

    "There's only now; there's only here.  Give in to love, or live in fear.  No other path.  No other way.  No day but today."