Controlling More than Just the Global Economy

Here’s a scenario: Just before Halloween 2008, Israel attacks Iran in an effort to eliminate the Muslim country’s nuclear weapons program. The Middle East democracy will have to do this eventually, anyway, and with the potential for an uncooperative liberal administration looming, there is little incentive to wait. The Iranian’s would mull over their options ranging from blocking the Strait of Hormuz to a retaliation strike on the Jewish homeland. The headlines would scream, and the International incident would sweep the economy off of the front page and place the notion of “survival” squarely in the laps of the Presidential electorate.

Senator John McCain would immediately voice support for Israel, as likely Senator Obama would too. However, the scene would benefit Senator McCain and work against senator Obama since McCain is the experienced world leader with foreign policy credentials. People would again see a strong world leader. Senator Obama’s response would be critical. If his reaction is weak as his performance in the Georgia crisis, he would likely lose the election.

With the proper timing of such a crisis, the dynamic of the American election would be altered. McCain, who has been hurt by the economic situation, would find an issue equally out of his control, but one that would counter its ill effects. His own party’s administration began McCain’s troubles by hailing the coming economic crisis with great fanfare, and a code red alert. They couldn’t have shouted any louder if they had been in the wheelhouse of the Titanic. The panic that ensued is the direct result of a pushy administration announcing that the sky is falling, instead of calmly handling the situation. They made the resulting panic much worse than it would have been.

McCain, who was screwed during the 2000 primary election by the Bush campaign, now gets his second dose at the end of the Bush Presidency. It makes one think that the Bush’s have something against Senator McCain.

Perhaps an outside interest that would prefer to see a McCain Presidency over one headed by Obama would consider pulling a trigger. The Israeli one described above is the most likely. The small democratic country has little faith in an Obama administration. Israel does not know how much backing it would receive from Obama despite his rhetoric. McCain’s support, they can count on; Obama’s is suspect. Given the nature of Israel’s history and its sensitivity toward its own survival, anything is possible even before the election. Such action would not only be a method to eliminate Iranian nuclear advancement, but it is the most direct way Israel could affect American policy at its root. They have the power to create alternative outcomes for the U.S. presidential race based upon their action, or lack of it.

What happens and when should be of primary concern to both Presidential candidates, as well as would-be supporters of each. Voters need to keep an eye on the global scene because in the crisis arena the military picture always trumps the economic one.

Ulterior Motives

The jig is up! American’s no longer will believe stories from one side of the Congressional mouth, and ignore the truth that lies beneath. The recent vote on a self described economic bail-out has been seen in that light. Droves of constituents bombarded their Congressional representatives to vent and remind the House, the Senate, the President, the Treasury secretary and the rest of the Administration that America does not favor socialism. The economic bail-out package saw initial defeat for a number of reasons. Much of the typical Washington doublespeak highlighted the shenanigans, and Americans immediately saw through it. Check out public opinion polls on Congress. They are rated lower than the President. The people have little faith in their government. The bail-out plan is a prime example why. The tumbling stock market calamity is a psychological melt-down not one where business across the globe has suddenly turned sour. Perception is reality. With socialism taking hold of the White House financial folks have lost their nerve, and that is just the Bush Administration. If the far left leaning Barack Obama wins the General election there is no telling where the country will be in a year.

Before the 1960’s the citizenry took their elected officials explanations at face value for the most part. However, as that turbulent decade progressed the people’s eyes were opened and innocence shattered. The corruption, which likely had been in the government for generations, came to the forefront. The decline of faith in the institutions of government began there and winds its way through to the present day. Most recently it has infected the financial sector and global markets around the world. Like each cultural generation pushing the envelope in a game of “let’s see you top this” Congress has gone overboard as a matter of practice rather than exception. Witness since the 1980’s when political foes Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neal battled it out politically, and yet remained friendly afterward. Today’s representative doesn’t represent us. They are as much interested in jumping through hoops for lobbyists in order to keep their job, advance their power and advance their own career. Hence the personal bitter attacks on each other. The leaders of financial giants have become robber barons of the 1890’s all over again and are feeling the lack of consumer confidence in the form of a stinging backlash. Congress, corporations and media corruption has endangered each ones job efficiently, and confidence is imperiled. They put themselves ahead of the constituents they are responsible to represent and inform.

The American people are tired of the smiling President telling us everything will be alright, after a number of crises’ have been mishandled by the Administration. They are tired of nonexistent Congressional oversight and the lack of accountability. Heads must roll from government, corporate America, and from media outlets. The gutless ones in Congress no longer have to worry about that because the American people are noticing and beginning to make these frauds accountable! We’ll see how that plays out after the election.

When Senator Obama says he is going to give tax relief to 95% of the population, he doesn’t mention that 5% of the country pays 90% of the taxes. Much of them are businesses that create jobs and drive the economic train. His motive is to fool you like a snake oil salesman. To date he has faired well. When John McCain rushes back to Washington to help improve the bail-out package and get Republican colleagues a seat at the table, many find it disheartening when he doesn’t follow through. He claimed he would stay to make sure the vote passed. He didn’t. Political fall-out from potentially skipping a debate brought him back to Washington gamesmanship. The flash of guts turned out to be as much political show as leadership. Both are indicative of the root problem of our government. The institution is corrupt, and its influence corrupts all who touch it. At least McCain has admitted as much in the past. With him the people have a prayer. Aside from that everyone is as bad as the next.

The U.S. population is tired of corporations being over-reaching in their zeal like frat boys at an all night party who don’t realize that it is now noon and the body will collapse without proper sleep. Bail yourselves out is what the people have said but once again they were ignored. The American people are tired of the usual politics. Every word spoken to the cameras is a line to cover up what someone really is hiding beneath the surface. American’s know it, have known if for some time, and are finally raising their hand to slap down the perpetrators. The guilty, so accustomed to the undisciplined sweet life, continue to be characteristically arrogant. They know what’s best for you because you elected them. How dare they not give us 700 billion that we asked for? We told them it was to save the economy what more do they want? In a week since Congressional indignation, the stock market has responded with a slow motion crash. Eight ugly days and the evaporation of $8 trillion is the response to emergency action. It seems like the folks are no longer buying the smoke and mirrors that has created bubble after bubble in the global economy. Maybe it’s time to toss ‘em all out of office!

Americans might swallow a capitalistic market bail-out yourself approach, but it would also take time. With a left leaning administration perhaps coming to power, look for a likely extension of the agony for a decade, rather than a few years. The people will suffer at the hands of socialist elements. The Democrat Presidential candidate is allied with the very double crossing snakes in the grass that ignored this problem. McCain tried to warn Congress two years ago, but to no avail. As a result the financial melt down is what rose up and bit them all in the ass. This time the American people wore the chompers. The election year cinched the power of the people. You spoke and Congress actually listened for a brief moment. The initial bail-out was defeated. Then we were told without it we’d see a melt down. So they passed it again rather than listen to the people. Guess what they were wrong. They passed out our $700 billion dollars over our objections and the stock market has ended up in the toilet, which the bail-out was supposed to stave off.

The folks who have any money should now invest in the stock market. The vast majority of people are spooked by the crash. Now is the time to buy. That is how rich tycoons become so wealthy. Buy low and sell high. There are bargains to be had everywhere in companies that are as valuable today as they were yesterday even if their stock doesn’t say so. Americans are poised to take back their power, both politically and financially. If anyone has the guts, now is the time to do so!

Double Standards

Is it any surprise that we have stunning double standards in our political and journalistic circles? Fat people are maligned in the general society, women still have a tougher time in the work place in some industries, and racism is a cottage industry that leads certain minorities to prosper off of past wrongdoing. Hollywood movie types and sports figures are idolized, while those teaching children, the medical profession and the regular Joe are relegated to be one of the unwashed masses. The way “haves” versus “have-nots” are treated in this culture is the epitome of a lack of ethics and a society in decline. The whole culture is riddled with it.

An easy illustration is the Presidential election. Fore nearly two years Barack Obama has been fawned over and Senator McCain more maligned. Liberals don’t readily see it, but conservative think they are watching a version of the “especially for women” daytime bull session “The View.” The Vice Presidential debate also, offers other evidence of corruption among those charged with maintaining high ethical standards. Gwen Ifill is the moderator of the debate. She may be a respected journalist in some circles, but her political point of view is well known. Asking tough questions of either candidate is not as much at issue as the slide in acceptable behavior. Walter Cronkite, the much respected journalist of the 1960’s and 70’s was equally as liberal as Ifill, maybe more so. The country however, never knew his political stance. He wouldn’t allow it. His reporting never showed it. He never would have been caught dead on camera touting one candidate over another or using his writing skill to that end. In his day such a thing was unethical!

Look how far we’ve come down off of such a principled high horse. Ifill has a book “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” that is scheduled to be released on Inauguration Day 2009. The book’s title even en measures today’s politics with Obama as the standard. Should he win the Presidency her book might be a best seller, and make her substantial money. A loss might cost her that chance to pad her wallet. She has a vested interest in a Senator Obama win in the coming election. She should not be a moderator in a debate where she has a vested interest in one of the parties. Our cultural moral compass, like much of journalism, has embraced double standard as a way of life. To make it worse those “withes” pretend as if there is no double standard against the “withouts,” and don’t recognize their own complicity in the debauchery of human values.

Since this information became known to the general public, .Ms.. Ifill response is typical of the double standard perpetrator. She claims her professionalism enables her to maintain the role as moderator. Herein lays the rub. Whether or not she appears unbiased, is not the issue. The appearance of impropriety tells us all we need to know about Ms. Ifills standards, and they don’t measure up. For liberals though, the traditional standard of ethics has a very low bar. Moral principles, espoused by the Democrat Party, typify the single edged sword. The in-group can do no wrong, the out-group, no right.

Should Brit Hume, Bill O’Riley or someone else with a suspected conservative credential moderate a similar debate? If so could they have a positive book deal pending on the virtue of John McCain, the war hero? Not without liberals displaying a wild emotional conniption to make it a crisis issue.

It is this cultural “us” verses “them” mentality that permeates all levels of government, media, entertainment, and much of the society as a whole. The difference is that both
O’ Riley and Hume would recuse themselves from such a process because of the very morals that liberals deride. Ms. Ifill, like so many others in this culture, does not believe in recusing herself from the limelight, and uses her responsibilities as a journalist as a convenient cover. She like so many others embraces elitism because she thinks from the heart she can adequately perform this service to America. Like Senator Obama, Ifill largely illustrates the arrogance of the left and its lack of high moral standards. Both carry an air of condescension to “regular folk.” Their elitist point of view stems from the Higher education system in this country, which unfortunately gives us attractive choices for journalists, and Presidential candidates with substantially lacking moral authority, and good judgment.