The only thing wrong with the Audacity of Hope is that it has no substance as a national policy. Now, while it's positive as a personal philosophy of life in dealing with our daily personal challenges, it provides no strategy for our country's economy or defense. While Obama claimed that we are experiencing higher employment and other upward statistics, I don't think that it translates to many lives. He even said that people are coming to American to open factories. We are hard pressed to keep our remaining factories open. People are working longer for less. He can certainly lead the choir in singing Kumbaya, but will the country again rally around hope and promise?
ADDENDUM: HILLARY AND THE GLASS CEILING
Hillary delivered the best speech of her life, but no less would have sufficed. She is caught in the contradiction of praising the recovery under Obama, but simultaneously addressing the underemployment reality of America. In talking about her plans for the first 100 days, she promised to put a chicken in every pot.
While accusing Trump of dividing us, she would pay for those chickens by squeezing Wall Street and the rich. The fact that she felt it necessary to mention Trump so many times, indicates how close she believes this election will be.
She was most successful when addressing the subject of weapons. She built a case that she might have a better demeanor to be Commander In Chief than Trump. Her approach to gun control was pragmatic; Honor the second amendment, but refine the background checks.
Both she and Trump are actually running on the same issues, national security and jobs.
Watching the Democrats’ convention lionize Hillary Clinton gave me some sense of the way Moses must have cringed when he looked from Mount Sinai and saw his relatives and friends dancing around the image of a golden calf.
ReplyDeleteIt really puzzles me why her supporters feel compelled to pay homage to this woman? It’s not as if folks don’t understand who she is: absent a single generous bone, grasping, a proven serial liar and character assassin endlessly contemptuous of those who can’t answer back and with her only admitted interest in this great republic is the power which may be hers as president.
The wench has a stench you couldn’t dissipate with ten thousand celebrity endorsements or a million balloons.
It only remains to find out how many voters don’t mind the smell.