The Die Is Cast
History was made yesterday when Hillary Clinton finally reached the conclusion that she had been defeated. I know that she came that conclusion a few days earlier but the announcement cemented the end of her historic clash. So what next? We have knocked the woman out of the race and are now faced with two other history making candidates. Who would have thought even 8 years ago, when Gore, the shadow of the uber-president and soon to be savior of the pseudo-scientists and Bush, the failed re-invigorator of the conservative movement were to reenact the Clash of the Titans. Can anyone say Florida?
So now we have a racist black man and a senile white guy as our choices. One is charismatic and the other a decorated Vietnam War POW. One is a first time senator and the other has spent his life (other than the time in a POW camp) spending other peoples money in our nation's capitol. Neither share the conservative view that the way to help people is to not throw money at them. They both want to spend their way out of poverty instead of providing opportunity for people to help themselves. Neither support lowering taxes as a way to stimulate the economy (although McCain has done an about face since the Bush tax cuts; see historic expansion of the last 7 years). I implore Americans to take a hard look at what we are being presented as Presidential material. Is this the best we can do? Really, it this it? Wow, what a system failure.
Julius Caesar is reported to have said, "The die is cast." when he took his army into Rome and started the civil war against Pompey. It refers to an instance in time when you have reached the point of no return. With the elimination of Hillary as an option, we have cast the die and provided no clear cut opportunity to succeed. We will get what we ask for in either candidate. Our southern border will become a veritable cattle crossing of immigration. It will make the cowboy roundups of old look like a snail stampede. We will get higher taxes on those that create jobs, thereby eliminating their desire to be penalized to create more. We will get national medical insurance which will increase the deficit, create lines at the doctors office and destroy the American health care system. Is this the best we can do? Are we so blind that we are willing to give away the last of our freedoms to have the government spread it's smothering quilt over everything we do.
Maybe Julius Caesar has it right. The die is cast.
Icool
Cobb
So now we have a racist black man and a senile white guy as our choices. One is charismatic and the other a decorated Vietnam War POW. One is a first time senator and the other has spent his life (other than the time in a POW camp) spending other peoples money in our nation's capitol. Neither share the conservative view that the way to help people is to not throw money at them. They both want to spend their way out of poverty instead of providing opportunity for people to help themselves. Neither support lowering taxes as a way to stimulate the economy (although McCain has done an about face since the Bush tax cuts; see historic expansion of the last 7 years). I implore Americans to take a hard look at what we are being presented as Presidential material. Is this the best we can do? Really, it this it? Wow, what a system failure.
Julius Caesar is reported to have said, "The die is cast." when he took his army into Rome and started the civil war against Pompey. It refers to an instance in time when you have reached the point of no return. With the elimination of Hillary as an option, we have cast the die and provided no clear cut opportunity to succeed. We will get what we ask for in either candidate. Our southern border will become a veritable cattle crossing of immigration. It will make the cowboy roundups of old look like a snail stampede. We will get higher taxes on those that create jobs, thereby eliminating their desire to be penalized to create more. We will get national medical insurance which will increase the deficit, create lines at the doctors office and destroy the American health care system. Is this the best we can do? Are we so blind that we are willing to give away the last of our freedoms to have the government spread it's smothering quilt over everything we do.
Maybe Julius Caesar has it right. The die is cast.
Icool
Cobb
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