One Mans Opinion 5/29/2011
By Dewaine Shoulders
It's Memorial Day weekend, and we should all remember those that have sacrificed so much for this nation. From our troops currently serving across this planet, to the ones that have long since faded into history. We also should remember the police officers and fire fighters that do their jobs to keep us safe here at home on a daily basis. They work thankless jobs, but they are also warriors in the cause of freedom.
Now, having said that, I have a personal story to share. It happened last night and I'm still trying to process what happened.
Those people who know me know that I'm someone who cares about people, animals, and lost causes. I have banged my head against a brick wall on more than one occasion, trying to save something, or make a difference when I can. But what happened last night was a bit strange. I'll explain...
Saturday night, date night. My lady friend and I, along with her two sons, went out for a quasi-family night of dinner and Putt Putt. We all had fun, and then I decided that ice cream was in store. We drove to the Dairy Queen and loaded up on shakes and malts, having a great time.
An All-American night of fun.
Okay, it was time to take the kiddies home and here we are in the car, heading back to the lady friends house when we came to a red light. Now, not being familiar with where I'm talking about, I'll try to explain it the best I can. There is a Kroger in a strip mall on the right side of the road where we were sitting at the light, and then a bit further ahead on the right side of the road is a Walmart. We were at the light in front of the Walmart, already having passed the entrance to the Kroger.
While sitting at the light. I heard a voice in my head saying, "Turn around, go back and have money ready." Without thinking twice, I glanced back to see if anything was coming from behind me and quickly got into the turning lane to Walmart. From there, I turned right and then another right onto a side street that leads back to the Kroger parking lot. I reached around and took my wallet from my pocket and pulled a five dollar bill out (all I had left in cash). My lady friend and her kids are looking at me and wondering what the hell I was doing. I tried to explain it quickly and came to the entrance to Kroger. As I turned right once again, thanks to the headlights of the car, I saw a man standing there. A hood was drawn over his head, in a pair of raggedy shorts. He held a sign that looked like it was drawn in pencil.
'Homeless - Please help.'
Now, it's dark out. This is 10:30 at night, away from the parking lot lights and I can read the sign as plain as if it were day. Don't ask me how, because I have no idea. My glasses aren't that good, and the headlights could not have illuminated the sign that well.
I stopped in front of the man and rolled down the window. The man continued to lean against a concrete embankment. He had no clue I was there. I called out, "Are you hungry?"
He slowly raised his head. He had been asleep. He looked exhausted, malnourished and from what my lady friend told me later, dehydrated. She's in the medical field, and I'll take her at her word. He wobbled slightly. His legs were mere bones covered in skin. His red hoodie was filthy. I could tell that this man had been sleeping outdoors. And he seemed truly embarrassed. This isn't a man that normally begs for money. This man looked to be totally down on his luck and barely alive.
He said, "I'm sorry to be begging." He explained that he'd lost his job, his home, his wife and children all within a few months and had nowhere to go and no money to do anything with. He looked as weak as anyone I had ever seen and needed to be fed desperately. I reached across the car and handed him a $5 bill and said, "Go get something to eat."
Again, he looked embarrassed. He again apologized and said, "God bless you!" upon seeing the money wasn't a dollar bill. I said "God bless you and good luck" and drove away. I saw him slowly walking toward the Burger King across the parking lot as I looked in the rear view mirror.
I drove away... And then it hit me.
I hadn't seen this man standing there as I passed moments before. In fact, he was in a place where I wouldn't have seen him in broad daylight. How the heck did I know he was there? He was standing in the dark, away from the lights of the parking lot. How could I have known that man even existed?
The voice in my head had told me to, "Turn around, go back and have money ready."
Was it God that told me? I don't know, but whatever happened, I may have saved that man's life last night. I don't know if he had eaten in days. From the looks of him, he hadn't. But if he was going to die that night, at least he'd have a full belly and the knowledge that someone out there gave a damn about him.
Whether his story was true or not really doesn't matter. What mattered to me was that I did something I wouldn't have done under normal circumstances. Driving in the dark, hunting down someone I didn't know that could have killed all of us. You think about it after the fact and it's scary. He could have had a gun, or been some nutcase that could have tried to yank one of the kids from the car. But none of that happened. Here was a man that needed help, and I did what I could at that moment. Again, in other circumstances, I would have never seen him. But that voice in my head had led me to him.
"Turn around, go back and have money ready."
Whatever the reason I felt compelled to show this one human being any compassion is still a mystery. I have asked myself several times since then if maybe I spotted him out of the corner of my eye and felt sorry for him, or if God truly spoke to my heart and led me there. I believe that it was God that spoke to my heart and allowed me to show this man some small bit of kindness. Again, I don't think my eyes are that good to have spotted him in the darkness otherwise.
"Turn around, go back and have money ready."
The lesson learned here was that both of the kids thought what I had done was noble and pretty cool. My lady friend did so as well. As for me, I tend to think God knows my heart, and how I root for the underdogs and can't turn away someone in need.
Well, there's the story. In processing it in my head and now with writing the words down, I think God speaks to all of us from time to time - those of us who truly believe in Him. And I hope that next time He chooses to speak to me, I can help someone else out. Not because I think I have to do it, but because I want to do it.
God only knows that we all need help from time to time.
And Memorial Day will not only be a day that I remember all of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines, and those that serve and protect us daily - the cops and the firefighters - because they care enough to give of themselves to keep us safe and free, but a day that I'll think of one homeless man.
That one homeless man, wherever he is today, is in my prayers too, along with the troops, past and present, that are out there doing what's necessary. Each of us are called upon to do what's necessary occasionally. Whether it's buying a soldier a meal in a restaurant, or helping some homeless person eat when they haven't got two nickels to rub together.
I just hope God will speak to someone else to make sure that the homeless man I helped is fed again and can make it back to life like he knew it before the hard times fell upon him.
Times are tough in the world today, and sometimes a little compassion can go a long way. Make a difference if you can. It's not the liberal thing or the conservative thing to do... It's the American thing to do.
May God bless us all.
Dewaine Shoulders - 5/29/2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
One Mans Opinion 5/27/2011
By Dewaine Shoulders
Well, it's Memorial Day weekend, and summer is upon us. Besides looking forward to high gas prices and a stagnant economy, there's not a lot to celebrate out there... Unless you see this bus.
If you happen to see this bus rolling down a highway near you, follow it. Inside, a leader is preparing to make history.
Sarah Palin's One Nation Bus Tour will be hitting many American cities and towns all across the Fruited Plain in hopes to reach out to everyday Americans. Her message will be a simple one: It's time to restore America, not fundamentally change it. It's time to go back to Constitutional Law, not Case Law as is currently the case. It's time to restore, preserve and celebrate America's Greatness and Uniqueness, not blend in with the rest of the world as the current POTUS desires. And it's time to unleash the American Industrial Machine, creating jobs and bringing everyone's standard of living up. And it's time to rely on American Oil to run that machine, not foreign oil.
This is the tour that will launch Sarah Palin's run for the White House. This is the tour that will allow Sarah Palin to show the nation that she is the real deal. This tour will establish the groundwork for what she envisions for this nation and its people. A restoration of all that's good in America. This tour will also warn the Progressives in both parties that their day in the sun is at an end, because We the People want our country back!
Yes, America is about to see a leader emerge. A leader with a simple message... One Nation, under God, with common sense leadership and prosperity for all.
That leader is Sarah Palin!
But that's just my opinion, I could be right!
Monday, May 23, 2011
One Mans Opinion 5/23/2011
By Dewaine Shoulders
History is repeating itself yet again... The leftist mythmakers are once again spreading dirt on Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast are trying to stir up their base with another fact-less piece from another liberal rag and running with it as if it were the gospel (oh, don’t get em started on religion LOL). It amazes me how low that these sites will go for reporting (or making-up) the news. Worse than the tabloids (which have better reporters and actually do some research on their stories), these Internet sites of choice for liberal loonfish are incapable of getting it right.
The HuffyPo, and the aforementioned Daily Beast, are spreading gossip concerning a story in New York Magazine. According to the article, Roger Ailes thinks Sarah Palin is stupid. Really? Roger Ailes, the man who also got Chris Matthews his start in TV, thinks Sarah Palin is stupid? What about Chris 'I get a tingle up my leg' Matthews? Anytime he speaks, dogs howl for miles around! Does Ailes think Matthews is stupid too? Hmm? I truly think it was Mr. Matthews that Mr. Ailes was referring to, but the liberals can't seem to get the facts straight. Go figure!
“He (Roger Ailes) thinks she’s (Sarah Palin) stupid,” a source told New York magazine. “He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven’t elevated the Conservative movement.” The article alleges that Ailes wants to put a Republican in the White House, but he is unimpressed with the current crop of candidates. “Roger is worried about the future of our country,” the source said. (From New York Magazine).
First of all... Who is this anonymous source their quoting? We want names, not sources! Give us facts, not fairy tales! Wait, that’s all the liberals can believe in are fairy tales. Reality doesn’t exist to them. Remember, they believed in Hope and Change. LOL
Anyway, why is it always that the left uses an anonymous source to leak a story for these trash sites to run with? Only loonfish liberals would believe anonymous sources. We conservatives need proof. When Roger Ailes goes on Fox News and says what the story supposedly says, then I'll believe the story. Until then, take that trash and shove it!
Honestly, I'm not impressed with the current slate of candidates in the GOP either. But the difference is that I'm not Roger Ailes, and I don't have anonymous sources leaking things to the New York Maggotzine either! Odds are that he never said these things and some liberal buffoon with a keyboard and a vivid imagination is stirring a steaming pot of rabid dog crap for the loonfish to devour. It wouldn't be the first time, and most certainly won't be the last time that this will happen.
Liberals are so easily led astray.
Aside for thinking about a run, Sarah Palin has yet to announce her intentions, thus isn't one of the current candidates. So, Ailes wasn't referring to Sarah Palin in the alleged statement from the 'source' in regards to the current candidates in question. There’s a fine line between exploring the possibility and actually running… But that’s all but a blur to the Libs.
Let's face it, this is yet another half-baked hit-piece from the left to make Sarah Palin look bad. You'd think by now they'd give it up already, but they can't let it go. Like so many things about the left, they cannot learn from their own mistakes. They keep making the same mistakes over and over again, hoping for a different outcome. It's the typical liberal tomfoolery.
Nuff said about that!
Also in the Sarah Palin Rumor Mill is that she may be about to (or has already) purchased a home in Scottsdale, Arizona. So what? Would it matter if she bought a home in, say, Newark? How about Chicago? Or perhaps Boise?
Of course, the speculation is that she'll be using the Scottsdale home as a base during a presidential run - if she elects to jump into the race. Again, so what?
Here's the bottom line, Sarah Palin, whether she decides to run for president or not, has made the money to buy a home wherever she wishes to buy one. She may have bought (or planning to buy) the home to be close to Bristol, who bought a home in Tucson. Who really knows for sure, and who really needs to make it their business? Once again, the dinosaur media, and the liberal internet blog jockeys are all gaga over anything Sarah Palin does.
She could write her laundry list on Facebook or Twitter and make national news. What does that say about the state of modern journalism in America today? Not too much… In my humble opinion.
As far as I'm concerned, she is free to live wherever she chooses in America, and do what she pleases as a free citizen of this country. Sarah Palin has rights too, ya know! Only the pundits, the busybodies in the media and the liberal bloggers seem to be nosing into her business. Maybe we should be sticking our noses into their business... But where is the sport in that, right?
Or, we can let Sarah Palin do what she feels she must for her and her family. If she decides to run for president, then all of the speculation surrounding her every move becomes justified. Until then, she's a regular American citizen, and for Pete’s sake, let her have some private time and space to live like the rest of us! How would the MSM like to have their every move critiqued in the HuffyPo or the rest of the MSM every single day. But, of course, that would only happen if the MSM folks in question were conservatives... How silly of me to think otherwise!
When Sarah Palin does make her decision, then she sets herself up for the constant scrutiny that she seems to be getting anyway. In that case, with what the MSM and the leftist bloggers and those wonderful folks over at the HuffyPo and the Daily Beast have been doing to her for over two years already, she'll be immune to it completely. The truth be known, I think the MSM have pretty much fired everything they have at her already. All they’ll be doing is rehashing everything they have tried and failed at before, and will get the same results yet again. By the time they get done with their assaults, Teflon Sarah will still be standing there and all the lamestreamer loonfish will be able to at that point will be to hurl spit wads at her. Gross!
Once again, the likes of the Huffy Post or the Daily Beast and the left-leaning media and bloggers have been sticking their collective noses into Sarah Palin's business. For someone they consider irrelevant, the sure seems to be showing their total fixation on Sarah Palin.
Isn't Palin Derangement Syndrome a wonderful thing?
The funny thing is, if she does run for president, they'll not be able to do anything else to her that they haven't already done, and that will make Sarah Palin the strongest candidate out there. She's been vetted more as a Governor and as a private citizen than they ever did to the Community Organizer in Chief by a factor of 10,000! And if the MSM continues to try to go after her and not the male candidates in the running on the GOP side, then they'll prove themselves totally biased and chauvinistic, thus further damaging their non-existent credentials for being unbiased. Of course, the liberal media and unbiased reporting is truly an oxymoron!
So, here's a big Thank You to all of you wonderful HuffyPo-ers and Daily Beasters out there. And a big shout-out to those leftist loonfish bloggers and LSM folks, who have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sarah Palin is the candidate to beat in 2012 by your continued attempts to destroy her. Well done, guys and gals on the left, well done. And thanks for all of your hard work! Keep it up and President Palin can personally thank you after her election.
But that's just my opinion, I could be right!
By Dewaine Shoulders
History is repeating itself yet again... The leftist mythmakers are once again spreading dirt on Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast are trying to stir up their base with another fact-less piece from another liberal rag and running with it as if it were the gospel (oh, don’t get em started on religion LOL). It amazes me how low that these sites will go for reporting (or making-up) the news. Worse than the tabloids (which have better reporters and actually do some research on their stories), these Internet sites of choice for liberal loonfish are incapable of getting it right.
The HuffyPo, and the aforementioned Daily Beast, are spreading gossip concerning a story in New York Magazine. According to the article, Roger Ailes thinks Sarah Palin is stupid. Really? Roger Ailes, the man who also got Chris Matthews his start in TV, thinks Sarah Palin is stupid? What about Chris 'I get a tingle up my leg' Matthews? Anytime he speaks, dogs howl for miles around! Does Ailes think Matthews is stupid too? Hmm? I truly think it was Mr. Matthews that Mr. Ailes was referring to, but the liberals can't seem to get the facts straight. Go figure!
“He (Roger Ailes) thinks she’s (Sarah Palin) stupid,” a source told New York magazine. “He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven’t elevated the Conservative movement.” The article alleges that Ailes wants to put a Republican in the White House, but he is unimpressed with the current crop of candidates. “Roger is worried about the future of our country,” the source said. (From New York Magazine).
First of all... Who is this anonymous source their quoting? We want names, not sources! Give us facts, not fairy tales! Wait, that’s all the liberals can believe in are fairy tales. Reality doesn’t exist to them. Remember, they believed in Hope and Change. LOL
Anyway, why is it always that the left uses an anonymous source to leak a story for these trash sites to run with? Only loonfish liberals would believe anonymous sources. We conservatives need proof. When Roger Ailes goes on Fox News and says what the story supposedly says, then I'll believe the story. Until then, take that trash and shove it!
Honestly, I'm not impressed with the current slate of candidates in the GOP either. But the difference is that I'm not Roger Ailes, and I don't have anonymous sources leaking things to the New York Maggotzine either! Odds are that he never said these things and some liberal buffoon with a keyboard and a vivid imagination is stirring a steaming pot of rabid dog crap for the loonfish to devour. It wouldn't be the first time, and most certainly won't be the last time that this will happen.
Liberals are so easily led astray.
Aside for thinking about a run, Sarah Palin has yet to announce her intentions, thus isn't one of the current candidates. So, Ailes wasn't referring to Sarah Palin in the alleged statement from the 'source' in regards to the current candidates in question. There’s a fine line between exploring the possibility and actually running… But that’s all but a blur to the Libs.
Let's face it, this is yet another half-baked hit-piece from the left to make Sarah Palin look bad. You'd think by now they'd give it up already, but they can't let it go. Like so many things about the left, they cannot learn from their own mistakes. They keep making the same mistakes over and over again, hoping for a different outcome. It's the typical liberal tomfoolery.
Nuff said about that!
Also in the Sarah Palin Rumor Mill is that she may be about to (or has already) purchased a home in Scottsdale, Arizona. So what? Would it matter if she bought a home in, say, Newark? How about Chicago? Or perhaps Boise?
Of course, the speculation is that she'll be using the Scottsdale home as a base during a presidential run - if she elects to jump into the race. Again, so what?
Here's the bottom line, Sarah Palin, whether she decides to run for president or not, has made the money to buy a home wherever she wishes to buy one. She may have bought (or planning to buy) the home to be close to Bristol, who bought a home in Tucson. Who really knows for sure, and who really needs to make it their business? Once again, the dinosaur media, and the liberal internet blog jockeys are all gaga over anything Sarah Palin does.
She could write her laundry list on Facebook or Twitter and make national news. What does that say about the state of modern journalism in America today? Not too much… In my humble opinion.
As far as I'm concerned, she is free to live wherever she chooses in America, and do what she pleases as a free citizen of this country. Sarah Palin has rights too, ya know! Only the pundits, the busybodies in the media and the liberal bloggers seem to be nosing into her business. Maybe we should be sticking our noses into their business... But where is the sport in that, right?
Or, we can let Sarah Palin do what she feels she must for her and her family. If she decides to run for president, then all of the speculation surrounding her every move becomes justified. Until then, she's a regular American citizen, and for Pete’s sake, let her have some private time and space to live like the rest of us! How would the MSM like to have their every move critiqued in the HuffyPo or the rest of the MSM every single day. But, of course, that would only happen if the MSM folks in question were conservatives... How silly of me to think otherwise!
When Sarah Palin does make her decision, then she sets herself up for the constant scrutiny that she seems to be getting anyway. In that case, with what the MSM and the leftist bloggers and those wonderful folks over at the HuffyPo and the Daily Beast have been doing to her for over two years already, she'll be immune to it completely. The truth be known, I think the MSM have pretty much fired everything they have at her already. All they’ll be doing is rehashing everything they have tried and failed at before, and will get the same results yet again. By the time they get done with their assaults, Teflon Sarah will still be standing there and all the lamestreamer loonfish will be able to at that point will be to hurl spit wads at her. Gross!
Once again, the likes of the Huffy Post or the Daily Beast and the left-leaning media and bloggers have been sticking their collective noses into Sarah Palin's business. For someone they consider irrelevant, the sure seems to be showing their total fixation on Sarah Palin.
Isn't Palin Derangement Syndrome a wonderful thing?
The funny thing is, if she does run for president, they'll not be able to do anything else to her that they haven't already done, and that will make Sarah Palin the strongest candidate out there. She's been vetted more as a Governor and as a private citizen than they ever did to the Community Organizer in Chief by a factor of 10,000! And if the MSM continues to try to go after her and not the male candidates in the running on the GOP side, then they'll prove themselves totally biased and chauvinistic, thus further damaging their non-existent credentials for being unbiased. Of course, the liberal media and unbiased reporting is truly an oxymoron!
So, here's a big Thank You to all of you wonderful HuffyPo-ers and Daily Beasters out there. And a big shout-out to those leftist loonfish bloggers and LSM folks, who have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sarah Palin is the candidate to beat in 2012 by your continued attempts to destroy her. Well done, guys and gals on the left, well done. And thanks for all of your hard work! Keep it up and President Palin can personally thank you after her election.
But that's just my opinion, I could be right!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
One Mans Opinion 5/18/2011
By Dewaine Shoulders
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I took a month off. I was working on another book and otherwise taking in the political landscape with one eye while keeping the other on the road-of-life that's ahead of me. Also, I had to take some time off in order to maintain my sanity - with all of the pre-election predictions and the calls for this person or that person to toss their hat into the proverbial ring.
Plus, it's a crazy time in America, and there's too many loons to deal with. It makes it harder to focus on the big picture. Speaking of the Big Picture, let's see what's been happening since we last talked.
Here's a good one - Birthergate (ala Donald Trump) and the now infamous Obama Record of Live Birth/ possibly forged (possibly, probably, whatever?) Birth Certificate/ Photoshopped copy of a possible faux copy of a possible faux Live Birth Record from someone that... Oh, you get the point.
Then there's the Osama/Usama (I say Osama, you say Usama...) bin Laden ordeal - as in bin Laden getting whacked Soprano-style by SEAL Team 6 (copyright - The Walt Disney Company?).
And then, there’s the $4 plus a gallon "Let's Take America to the Cleaners" campaign run by The Anointed One and his Socialist Green Friends (Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Injustice...). Obama says he wants to drill domestically for oil, just not anyplace where there might actually be any.
Now, This Week in Politics…
Donald Trump teased us all this past month or so, whether he'd run for President. That speculation ended Monday when NBC dangled the $60 million carrot in front of him for another season of The Apprentice. He says his passion is his business, and running for president would be a cut in pay for The Donald. I can't say that I blame him for garnering the publicity, but now - back to reality already in progress.
And least we forget the lackluster statement last Saturday on his Fox TV show, Huckabee, where Smilin' Mike said he'd not be in the running for the president's job. Did I hear a collective Awwww? Wait, that was my next-door neighbor about to sneeze. Never mind.
Then there is good old Newt Gingrich, who not only said he was running, but has already given most of us in the GOP reason to ask him to step aside already. This past Sunday, he blasted fellow GOP member, Paul Ryan, for trying to do a 'Right-wing social-engineering job' on America. Newt, one piece of advice, shaddup already! You may have a chance at getting a few votes if you do, otherwise you'll be giving more credence to Ron Paul.
Speaking of Ron Paul, he's announced his intentions to take the youth vote away from the GOP and hand another victory to Obama Bin Laden... I mean, the Community Organizer in Chief.
Let's face the facts folks... The election is a year and a half away and many big and not so big names will be entering the race between now and this fall. Nevertheless, the only one that people are still talking and wondering about is Sarah Palin. Will she run? Well, will she?
Now, here’s where I part company with conventional wisdom or plain old Vulcan logic. My basic questions are: Is she being shrewd and hanging back to see whose running? Or is she doing a Donald Trump and teasing us? I tend to believe in the former and not the latter of the two. She is looking at all of the potential candidates and doing what all potential candidates normally do (or should do anyway) - look for their weaknesses and use them to her advantage. She is a politician after all… But, before I urinate anyone (my PC term for not POing anyone), she's so much more. Sarah Palin is using the common sense approach to running for president.
If someone is going to run on a platform that is close to hers, she'll not run and back them, ensuring that person will get far more exposure than what might be otherwise expected.
But, if no one out there in GOPland has the cajones to run on what this nation truly needs to do in order to save itself from bankruptcy, rebellion, anarchy, etc., then look for Sarah Palin to come into the race (probably in the mid-summer/early fall - if I were a betting man).
Now, just as I took a month off to get my head together and do some other important work, I suspect that Sarah Palin is doing that very same thing. She's not the stupid bimbo, airhead that the lamestream media and the leftist bloggers would have everyone believing. She is a thoughtful, calculating woman who knows when the time will be right for choosing (strike while the iron is hot, Old Ben Franklin said).
I just hope that when the time comes, Ms. Palin will do what's right for America and run. I think after seeing the early contenders already in the running, and those that will run (Romney, et al), Sarah Palin could win the GOP nomination hands down, and take on that corrupt, anti-American bunch of nincompoops already running the nation.
But that's just my opinion, I could be right.
By Dewaine Shoulders
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I took a month off. I was working on another book and otherwise taking in the political landscape with one eye while keeping the other on the road-of-life that's ahead of me. Also, I had to take some time off in order to maintain my sanity - with all of the pre-election predictions and the calls for this person or that person to toss their hat into the proverbial ring.
Plus, it's a crazy time in America, and there's too many loons to deal with. It makes it harder to focus on the big picture. Speaking of the Big Picture, let's see what's been happening since we last talked.
Here's a good one - Birthergate (ala Donald Trump) and the now infamous Obama Record of Live Birth/ possibly forged (possibly, probably, whatever?) Birth Certificate/ Photoshopped copy of a possible faux copy of a possible faux Live Birth Record from someone that... Oh, you get the point.
Then there's the Osama/Usama (I say Osama, you say Usama...) bin Laden ordeal - as in bin Laden getting whacked Soprano-style by SEAL Team 6 (copyright - The Walt Disney Company?).
And then, there’s the $4 plus a gallon "Let's Take America to the Cleaners" campaign run by The Anointed One and his Socialist Green Friends (Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Injustice...). Obama says he wants to drill domestically for oil, just not anyplace where there might actually be any.
Now, This Week in Politics…
Donald Trump teased us all this past month or so, whether he'd run for President. That speculation ended Monday when NBC dangled the $60 million carrot in front of him for another season of The Apprentice. He says his passion is his business, and running for president would be a cut in pay for The Donald. I can't say that I blame him for garnering the publicity, but now - back to reality already in progress.
And least we forget the lackluster statement last Saturday on his Fox TV show, Huckabee, where Smilin' Mike said he'd not be in the running for the president's job. Did I hear a collective Awwww? Wait, that was my next-door neighbor about to sneeze. Never mind.
Then there is good old Newt Gingrich, who not only said he was running, but has already given most of us in the GOP reason to ask him to step aside already. This past Sunday, he blasted fellow GOP member, Paul Ryan, for trying to do a 'Right-wing social-engineering job' on America. Newt, one piece of advice, shaddup already! You may have a chance at getting a few votes if you do, otherwise you'll be giving more credence to Ron Paul.
Speaking of Ron Paul, he's announced his intentions to take the youth vote away from the GOP and hand another victory to Obama Bin Laden... I mean, the Community Organizer in Chief.
Let's face the facts folks... The election is a year and a half away and many big and not so big names will be entering the race between now and this fall. Nevertheless, the only one that people are still talking and wondering about is Sarah Palin. Will she run? Well, will she?
Now, here’s where I part company with conventional wisdom or plain old Vulcan logic. My basic questions are: Is she being shrewd and hanging back to see whose running? Or is she doing a Donald Trump and teasing us? I tend to believe in the former and not the latter of the two. She is looking at all of the potential candidates and doing what all potential candidates normally do (or should do anyway) - look for their weaknesses and use them to her advantage. She is a politician after all… But, before I urinate anyone (my PC term for not POing anyone), she's so much more. Sarah Palin is using the common sense approach to running for president.
If someone is going to run on a platform that is close to hers, she'll not run and back them, ensuring that person will get far more exposure than what might be otherwise expected.
But, if no one out there in GOPland has the cajones to run on what this nation truly needs to do in order to save itself from bankruptcy, rebellion, anarchy, etc., then look for Sarah Palin to come into the race (probably in the mid-summer/early fall - if I were a betting man).
Now, just as I took a month off to get my head together and do some other important work, I suspect that Sarah Palin is doing that very same thing. She's not the stupid bimbo, airhead that the lamestream media and the leftist bloggers would have everyone believing. She is a thoughtful, calculating woman who knows when the time will be right for choosing (strike while the iron is hot, Old Ben Franklin said).
I just hope that when the time comes, Ms. Palin will do what's right for America and run. I think after seeing the early contenders already in the running, and those that will run (Romney, et al), Sarah Palin could win the GOP nomination hands down, and take on that corrupt, anti-American bunch of nincompoops already running the nation.
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