The Name Game
Filed under: Elections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
If his surname weren’t Bush, Jeb would be the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, hands down.
Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and brother of George W. Bush, is probably one of the most thoughtful and articulate public figures on the American political scene. Every once in a while he is interviewed, usually on Fox TV, but even on media outlets that are identified as liberal or publishes an article in some national newspaper. Invariably we find him informative. But more importantly he provides pathways of thinking and action that are simple, clear but challenging in their breadth and achievement. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal Jeb Bush argues, that “[s]tability has replaced growth as the foremost objective of economic policy. But growth over the next 10 years is more consequential to our well-being than any new regulations promulgated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council or cost-cutting considered by the new congressional super committee. Absent strong growth, any projected improvements in the country’s fiscal position won’t materialize.”
Yes, it’s too bad that his last name is Bush. Perhaps as time progresses and memories retreat into the press of our daily challenges and America takes the full measure of President Obama’s administration as against that of George W. Bush’s we may remember that old Romanian proverb, “A change in leaders is the joy of fools” and Jeb Bush’s day may yet come.
Joker’s Wild
Filed under: Elections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
In a recent interview with Shawn Hannity, Donald Trump informed viewers that if the Republican Party doesn’t nominate someone to his liking he will run as a third party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. The ultimate spoiled brat now becomes a spoiler.
Donald Trump, aka “The Donald” is a person with whom New Yorkers are quite familiar. For heaven’s sake his name in New York City is emblazoned on every building he has either built (very few) or to whom he has sold his name (a great many). He has never hidden the fact that, in effect, The Donald, is up for sale.
So let’s follow how this spoiler threat from The Donald will actually unfold. The first thing we must take into account is that one of The Donald’s modus operandi is that he will do everything and anything to avoid spending his own money. And there is a reason for this: In the universe of people who have lots of money The Donald is a piker, protestations to the contrary. As we all know running for the office of the President of the United States requires lots of money. President Obama says he needs a 1 billion for starters. If the The Donald is going to run for President as a third party candidate he’s not going to get his money from any Republicans, that’s for sure. Independents aren’t known to make campaign contributions unless they are committed. And I don’t see Independents committed to the likes of the The Donald. So the only viable place for The Donald to find lots of money is among Democrats who see in the The Donald the true spoiler that he is. “Hello, George Soros speaking. Yes Donald how are you.”
Two Ring Circus
Filed under: Elections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
In politics you are defined by your enemies. Yesterday morning at an unscheduled press conference President Obama referred to one of his enemies as a “carnival barker.” Gee! I wonder to whom he was referring?
At yesterday’s press conference President Obama revealed something about himself that makes the American people uncomfortable: He can’t take punch, a political one, that is. This “birther” thing has been a subject of discussion ever since Hillary Clinton raised the matter during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary concerning whether Barack Hussein Obama was born in the U.S. or Kenya. But during these last 2½ years the birther issue just wouldn’t go away. Based upon what we now know the President could have resolved this issue during the 2008 campaign but by choosing not to he obviously had designed some sort of strategy that took into account, timing. What with Donald Trump getting in front of every cable and TV camera raising the “birther” issue this altered the President’s strategy.
The President blinked and instead of apologizing to the American people for failing to address the “birther” issue when it was first raised he rather goes on a rampage against a carnival barker. To sum up: The President likes dishing it out but if can’t take the high pitched shouting of, what he describes as nothing more than a circus performer, for Obama this presidential campaign is going to be very painful.
Donald Duck
Filed under: Elections, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
Donald Trump is the Republican version of Barack Obama: Brash, mocking, divisive, mean spirited, in-experienced and when it comes to foreign affairs fundamentally naïf.
With Donald Trump having entered the presidential campaign it probably hasn’t occurred to the American people that a good part of the reason that Trump’s campaign has taken off like a rocket is that the city in which he lives and works is the media capital of the U.S. Any New Yorker knows that when Donald Trump builds a building in New York City it will have his named blazoned all over it. Every New Yorker knows that when Donald Trump gets into a tangle with somebody in the city, whether another builder, or a TV personality or a wife or a former wife his mug will be all over the evening cable and TV news outlets. And finally every New Yorker knows that Donald Trump is a gargantuan self-promoter and self-aggrandizer.
The Republican elite is aghast that another empty suit, such as Barack Obama, is now capturing the hearts and minds of those on the right who actually believe that this political prankster can convince the American people that he can be a president of the U.S. Well let’s put it this way, I will take ABO, Anybody but Obama, Trump included, as long as he or she is not a Socialist, such as the current resident in the White House.
Arms Of Obama
Filed under: International Reflections, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
With the 2011 budget compromise behind us, finally, we can now concentrate on what America’s future will look like. And the foundation of that future will be the perpetuation of America’s military dominance throughout the world.
The presidential election of 2012 will determine how we will meet the fiscal challenges of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security for the next 30 years. And it is only by resolving these seemingly mundane mandates that we will be able to continue to maintain our armed forces so that our nation can continue to be the beacon of freedom throughout the world.
President Obama does not yet grasp the relationship between our fiscal health and our world mission. I don’t think he ever will because the core of his beliefs stem from the bankrupt ideology of statism and government control. He views this nation as one that selfishly delivers benefits to its own people not as an angel for freedom.
If the Constitution of the United States represents our nation’s rule of law it is our Declaration of Independence that represents our soul. And it is to our soul, to our core beliefs, the very sinews of our existence as a great nation, which freedom loving peoples throughout the world look for comfort and support.
I refer to Sarah McLachlan’s moving rendition:
“In the arms of an Angel, far away from here, …..
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here.”
Progressive Socialist Barack Obama
Filed under: Elections, Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me.” That was true when I was a kid growing up in Ozone Park but that’s not going to be true for President Barak Obama when he runs for re-election in 2012.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
When it comes to politics names can be very important. For example, try running for public office on the Upper Westside in Manhattan with a sign that identifies you as a Republican. You just might get home alive. Voters on the Upper Westside identify themselves as progressives. This was the name Henry Wallace, an undeconstructed Socialist, gave to his party when he ran for President in 1948 against Harry Truman. I want you to appreciate that even though there were a lot of Socialist sympathizers in America at that time, especially on the Upper Westside, there was no way Wallace could even get enough petitions to get on the ballot if he called himself what he really was, a Socialist. And I’m being kind.
Or take George McGovern, he received the nomination from the Democratic Party in 1972 when he ran against Richard Nixon. McGovern was a delegate to Wallace’s Socialist Party, oops, I forgot, Progressive Party in 1948. However by 1972 no one running for public office wanted to be called a progressive, including McGovern, since that would mean you’re a Socialist. Oh yes, names are very important.
Now in the 2008 presidential campaign Barak Obama wiggled and waggled. He too gave himself the name of Progressive along with Hillary Clinton. Now the voters who lived on the Upper Westside knew exactly what that meant. But the rest of the electorate was clueless, especially the starry-eyed, twitterers below the age of 30. To them the name Henry Wallace could be a companion beer to Sam Adams for all they knew.
So where does all take us? Well it takes us to the subject of who or what Barack Obama really is. And those chumps who get their underwear in a twist about whether he was born in the United States are really being distracted from the important fact: President Barak Obama is exactly what he names himself, a progressive or what the Upper Westsiders know him to be, a Henry Wallace Socialist.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Socialism Has Hit The Internet, Now A Regulatory Crisis
Socialism is a stealth ideology. The reason is quite simple: Unless you belong to the privileged classes its tenets are inconsistent with freedom and individual liberty and those that who proselytize it know this.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 2, that’s 3 Democrats to 2 Republicans to impose a massive regulatory scheme upon those that provide internet services throughout the country. Supporters call it Net-Neutrality. Just think, 3 people, that’s right 3, in a country of 3 hundred million decided to control probably its most dynamic and ubiquitous industry. And it was carried out not in the halls of our federally elected officials, 300 hundred of whom signed a letter opposing the Commission’s proposed regulations but by an agency, fairly small compared to say the Department of Labor or the IRS and which few Americans even know about.
And what is more troubling many argue that by voting to impose these regulations upon this industry they will address problems that don’t even exist. If that isn’t Socialism, what is? How did this happen? To answer that question all you have to do is look at the supporters of these regulations and you will find a Rogues Gallery of those who believe in socialism as the preferred form of government. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal lists the usual suspects: MoveOn.org, Bill Moyers’s Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, George Soro’s Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation and Free Press run by a Robert McChesney professor of communications at the University of Illinois. He is an admitted Socialist. Mr. McChesney is quoted as saying that “any serious effort to reform the media system [read "internet"] would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.”
What with an admitted socialist president in office and probably the most liberal congress since the founding of our nation it will take a generation to get this country back on its free market and individual liberty tracks. However in the last 2 years Congress’s stealth socialism has been revealed and this last November the American people threw the bums out. In 2012 President Obama will be next no matter how he triangulates and no matter the economy or the unemployment rate. Stealth socialism at least for most of America is a dead letter.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Secretary General Obama
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, Presidential Watch
We are deep in conversation about politics in America on a flight from La Guardia to Chicago. She then pauses in mid sentence leans toward me and announces under her breath: Obama will not run in 2012 because he will be appointed by the United Nations General Assembly to be Secretary-General.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
At first I don’t fully comprehend this seemingly outlandish statement but then I begin to parse its significance. First, it reflects what a large number of Americans are beginning to suspect: Obama’s presidency is in serious irreparable trouble. And ironically the very momentous, game-changing legislation for which he proudly takes credit and which he claims defines his presidency is in fact the very cause of his diving approval ratings.
Members of his own party whisper among themselves whether Obama will be able to reverse these devastating numbers. Republicans, on the other hand, do not wish to speak of the matter for fear that such talk will only alert Obama’s supporters thereby providing them more time to prepare for the oncoming presidential election.
But what no one seems to have taken into their calculations is that President Obama himself does not want the Presidency for another 4 years. The responsibilities of being an American President, especially while the country is fighting 2 unpopular wars, is too daunting an experience for a person of Obama’s character: lazy, unfocused, fearful of making tough choices, legalistic and lacking the necessary deep and abiding love for America as an idea in History.
However being Secretary-General of the United Nations fits his character like a glove. The position is filled with pomp and protocol. He will receive the adoration of leaders of countries who share his Socialist beliefs many of whom are corrupt and who he believes he can influence with his unchallenged rhetoric. And from that lofty position he can promote policies without having to be concerned with their achievement or practicality.
Think about it boys and girls, United Nations Secretary-General Barack Hussein Obama takes the podium of the first meeting of the General Assembly in the year 2013. And, and we are free at last of this Socialist aberration.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
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