Sunday, June 6, 2010
It's time to end politics as usual
Yes, it took time to think of a topic this week...well, actually to "narrow down" a topic this week as there are SO many...I mean, ANOTHER perfect game in Major League Baseball (the last one "taken away" by a bad call), thus stirring up more calls for instant replay...but seriously, my last post, the Tower of Power "Only so much oil," is soon to become a classic and I wanted to give the masses a few more days to check it out. Yeah, right...
Anyway, it's election day on Tuesday and one of the Sheriff candidates here in Sacramento County has a slogan which says, "it's time to end politics as usual...vote for Scott Jones," uh, as endorsed by retiring Sheriff John McGuiness...who was "hand picked" for the job by former Sheriff Lou Blanas...who came on the heels of former Sheriff Duane Lowe...hell, even one term former Sheriff Robbie Waters (hick!) became a city councilman in Sacramento.
When are we gonna learn? We keep electing the same bozos...and then whine that things never change. We have an excellent candidate for Sheriff here in Sacto...Jim Cooper...who has 25 years of "actual" law enforcement experience...yeah, STREET experience...patrols, jails, gangs, drugs, undercover...does he have a chance? Not if history is any lesson...
During my (pathetic?) lifetime, we've been maintaining the status quo for so long...you know, the masses v. the elites...and neither the two shall meet. If you've been around long enough, you remember "Nixon's the one," or even "I like Ike." How about Ed Muskie breaking down in New Hampshire...or Thomas Eagleton, he of the "brief" 1972 George McGovern ticket, just plain breaking down and being replaced by Sargent Shriver...
...and don't get me started about Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan, from Joe Kennedy on down to John (JKF) Kennedy, Bobby (RFK) Kennedy, and Edward (hick!) Kennedy to Patrick Kennedy, Bobby (Jr.) Kennedy, even Caroline (Schlossberg) Kennedy. You wanna talk about "All in the Family." Geez, Edith (Bunker)...where's meathead?
Even Hollywood and former actor Ronald Reagan had his George Bush (talk about government insider)...and Alexander Haig (thus lending more credence to the military/industrial complexion of the US government)...and Donald Rumsfeld (yes, even back then). "Outsider" Jimmy Carter had his own Walter Mondale and (Energy Secretary) James Schlessinger, uh, to get us "off" of foreign oil, and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski...
It doesn't end there!! Never had there been more of an "insider's outsider" than Bill Clinton, he of Rhodes Scholar fame. Clinton surrounded himself with outsiders like Texan Lloyd Benson (Treasury), a four term US Senator who even ran for Veep alongside Michael Dukakis, as well as Bruce Babbitt (Interior), former Arizona governor, and Bill Richardson (Energy...again!), future (and current) New Mexico governor...
Please, don't get me started on the South...pseudo home (if you don't count Maine) of George W. Bush. Plus DICK CHENEY...need I say more? I mean, wow!! When it comes right down to it, they're ALL "insiders," and it's ALL politics as usual. Well, except now we DO have an outsider in the White House. We FINALLY did something right and elected a group from outside the beltway. Yes, Barack Hussein Obama!!
Hmmm...maybe we should vote for Scott Jones and politics as usual...
Anyway, it's election day on Tuesday and one of the Sheriff candidates here in Sacramento County has a slogan which says, "it's time to end politics as usual...vote for Scott Jones," uh, as endorsed by retiring Sheriff John McGuiness...who was "hand picked" for the job by former Sheriff Lou Blanas...who came on the heels of former Sheriff Duane Lowe...hell, even one term former Sheriff Robbie Waters (hick!) became a city councilman in Sacramento.
When are we gonna learn? We keep electing the same bozos...and then whine that things never change. We have an excellent candidate for Sheriff here in Sacto...Jim Cooper...who has 25 years of "actual" law enforcement experience...yeah, STREET experience...patrols, jails, gangs, drugs, undercover...does he have a chance? Not if history is any lesson...
During my (pathetic?) lifetime, we've been maintaining the status quo for so long...you know, the masses v. the elites...and neither the two shall meet. If you've been around long enough, you remember "Nixon's the one," or even "I like Ike." How about Ed Muskie breaking down in New Hampshire...or Thomas Eagleton, he of the "brief" 1972 George McGovern ticket, just plain breaking down and being replaced by Sargent Shriver...
...and don't get me started about Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan, from Joe Kennedy on down to John (JKF) Kennedy, Bobby (RFK) Kennedy, and Edward (hick!) Kennedy to Patrick Kennedy, Bobby (Jr.) Kennedy, even Caroline (Schlossberg) Kennedy. You wanna talk about "All in the Family." Geez, Edith (Bunker)...where's meathead?
Even Hollywood and former actor Ronald Reagan had his George Bush (talk about government insider)...and Alexander Haig (thus lending more credence to the military/industrial complexion of the US government)...and Donald Rumsfeld (yes, even back then). "Outsider" Jimmy Carter had his own Walter Mondale and (Energy Secretary) James Schlessinger, uh, to get us "off" of foreign oil, and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski...
It doesn't end there!! Never had there been more of an "insider's outsider" than Bill Clinton, he of Rhodes Scholar fame. Clinton surrounded himself with outsiders like Texan Lloyd Benson (Treasury), a four term US Senator who even ran for Veep alongside Michael Dukakis, as well as Bruce Babbitt (Interior), former Arizona governor, and Bill Richardson (Energy...again!), future (and current) New Mexico governor...
Please, don't get me started on the South...pseudo home (if you don't count Maine) of George W. Bush. Plus DICK CHENEY...need I say more? I mean, wow!! When it comes right down to it, they're ALL "insiders," and it's ALL politics as usual. Well, except now we DO have an outsider in the White House. We FINALLY did something right and elected a group from outside the beltway. Yes, Barack Hussein Obama!!
Hmmm...maybe we should vote for Scott Jones and politics as usual...
# posted by mediacopp : 7:51 AM
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