What should we look for in our politicians.

Well this is a good question.
I wish people would have asked this before voting in the last election.

The things we need to look for are things like….
Values and morality, Honesty, Integrity, Character, Capability, Knowledge/Understanding of the issues, and he/she ought to have a good workable plan for solving the issues and addressing the problems.

And of course Experience is a plus.

Unfortunately the candidate/s we had and ultimately voted for lacked many of these points.

I will grant you neither candidate had a good plan for addressing the issues. Indeed neither seemed to have a grasp of the issues let alone a plan.

But we ended up with the candidate who also had no real character. We voted for the glib charismatic. This worries me. What’s worse it seems that many people realized on some level what he was about and chose to vote for him purely because he was a black man.

Now THAT is racism! To vote for someone JUST because of his skin color is wrong.

Based on my list of qualities I have a short list of people who I think would be reasonable candidates for leadership.

Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby, Sarah Palin, Chick Norris, Steve Cole, Joe Arpaio, Harrison Ford, Will Smith And Denzel Washington.

I know most of these guys are movie stars but they all exhibit a kind of strength of character that I feel we need in the White House… They seem to have moral values that I can support. And at least some of them are aware of the issues and are prepared to do something about it.

The presidency is not about popularity though. And we need to realize that.

The well analogy

I thought of another good analogy recently! I feel like a guy at the bottom of a well. I felt piled on by the economy, the recession, the war/s, in short all the issues.

I am betting that a lot of other people felt the same. Obama came along and like a beacon of hope promised change, and many bought it.

However I saw the bucket that he was hiding behind his back. (and so didn't vote for him)
See Obama is the guy who came to the top of the well looked down at us and said “I can get you out of there.) Everyone thought he meant with a rope or something.

But what he has been doing since is dumping more water on our heads. He is, even now, dragging a fire hose over so he can make it worse. (he literally plans on doubling the debt with his plans in the next 10 years alone).

He might be thinking that raising the water level will cause us to float to the top but unfortunately by the time we do we will all be drowned.

See so his plan will kill us before it can save us. I hope we will wise up and stop him before it’s too late.

The Star Wars link

I debated whether I was going to post this as a blog or not… my reasons for the debate were somewhat selfish.
I was concerned that a certain element in our society would be a little too… thick to figure out the meaning of this blog and would thus make fun of me/my blog. I was afraid in other words that posting this would be compromising what I was trying to say.

But then I realized that those people would deliberately misunderstand things anyway! So it doesn’t matter how straight or humorous I try to make it. They will still try to put me down by taking things out of context so here I go.

Recently the Liberals who are pro Obama have been complaining about the town hall meetings.
They have a problem with the signs that compare this administration with the early Nazi party.

I think they are right.

For one thing Hitler was a short, angry, white guy. Obama is a tall, Angry, Black guy.

For another Hitler was clearly interested from the start in killing everyone he didn’t like.
Obama hasn’t made it clear who he wants to kill, yet.

But there is a similarity in the sci fi world.
For my analogy today I turn to Star Wars.

I would compare President Obama to Emperor Palpatine.

Let us look at the similarities… Palpatine got control of the republic by a vote of no confidence over the old administration. So did Obama. (remember? “John McCain will just be another George Bush”)

Palpatine manipulated things to get his position. So did Obama.
Both incited fear issues in order to get in.
Palpatine took dangerous, major, Sweeping steps to consolidate his position once in place. So is Obama.
Both of them, in their campaigns, promised hope and change.
Both claimed to be on the side of the people.
Neither lived up to the expectations people had, apparently preferring to serve themselves.

So for me the question arises, Who qualifies as the Jedi in this scenario? Who is the rebellion? And does Obama have his own "order 66" already in place? These are important to know.


Of course there is also the point Mace Windu made… “There is always two, the master and the apprentice.”
If Obama is the “Sith Lord” then who is his apprentice?(or his he the apprentice? in which case we need to look for the master.)
Personally, I say we need to start watching out for a little boy with a cutsie (semi Girlish)nickname!