Well I watched about 45 minutes of Chris Matthews on MSNBC. The college game ended just after three and it seems that Friday’s Hardball show ran over 35 minutes in its own right. I watched one more ten minute segment till almost four. The concencus now about President Obama now is that he has just “failed to deliver the knock-out punch”. People are still talking as if the President could well lose in November since his popularity numbers seem to be hovering in the high forties and not rising despite the raft of economic good news. Just yesterday we were bombarded with stories that droves of people are finding new hope and reentering the labor market. So even though a lot of jobs were created last month unemployment remained frozen at 8.3%. But as I told Judy weeks ago “The real unemployment rate is coming down a lot faster than that”. The fact is that the Candidate has to assume that the American people are when you come down to it as simple minded as Forest Gump and cannot hold more than one thought in their minds at a time. This is a problem I would certainly have running for office in that I would give people credit for more intelligence than they have. So the President is admonished to “keep it Positive” and don’t even hint as “looking back where we’ve been” although to me this is to deny the obvious. I think we all know Obama’s “hopey changy” message of 2008 kind of backfired on him and as such I don’t hold the Tea Party entirely at fault for their coming to resent this President so soon. On the other hand Mitt Romney has not exactly been the brightest bulb in the package and the people are picking up on that. If he has to say “I’m really angry at this President” and doesn’t LOOK it, people will pick up on it. Someone said he was “too contented as a candidate”. And the whole Romney line about “turning this economy around” could backfire if people think we are now on the right path where we’re going. But Romney too has “failed to deliver the knock out punch”. Not since 1992 has the outcome of a Party Nomination process been in doubt this long. And Tuesday will do little to clarify things. The commentators got on Romney’s case for other odd remarks such as “I feel like I’m at an away game being down South”. But in an attempt to show he was “morphing’ into one of them throws in a few awkward “Youall’s” and then says “something is happening to me”. Others have pointed out that conservatives themselves WANT Mitt Romney to be the standard bearer because even THEY admit he’s the best choice to take on President Obama in the fall with the best chance of winning. And when push comes to shove they really have to admit he pretty much represents their views. So now they are saying “The conservatives want to “Out-source” their Campaign to a Moderate. That’s funny!
I really want to see this “Game Change” movie. It would seem that Sarah Palin holds a central theme of this movie. The Mc Cain people picked her out of some irrational desperation and basically “weren’t thinking”. Now in the movie they say Sarah Palin was given tutorials on just who the nations were who fought in World War II and who won. I guess they thought she was Michelle Bachman. They say this movie is not cherry picking or biased but that “over twenty people were interviewed for the material facts of this movie, and this movie is a compilation of all of them”. This is just another case of the Conservatives firing blanks. Just like they were firing blanks with Acorn and Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright. You know my feelings about Jeremiah Wright. You pick one line out of one sermon to a targeted audience and judge a man’s entire multi decade history and credibility as a Christian by that one remark. It seems to be a trend now to soft peddle people you regard as your enemies and to somehow over-compensate and “understand them” and take a “sympathetic view” of their mind set and all and how they “can’t really help it”. That reasoning won’t wash with me. Not one bit.
Tonight some different guy was sitting in the Black John’s chair and John was sitting in mind. They got him out of there and I took John’s chair for today. We had a tomato based beef and rice casserole and carrots and a green salad. I got seconds on the casserole and salad. We had applesauce for desert. I asked if anybody knew when Manfred would be back. He’s been gone for going on two months and now it really is beginning to look like he’s not coming back. As to that new attractive brunette who sat at our table once a week or so ago and seemed so friendly, I haven’t seen her since. I hope she didn’t get scared off thinking this place was too whacko for her. If I had my way we’d get more “high functioning people” in here. As for Loretta there is a definite wall or distance between us these days and I don’t know why. Sometimes you wish you knew why “walls’ suddenly form like this. It sure happened often enough with various people associated with Pastor Mark’s church. I think this President needs to look for a moment and think “Is it ONLY racism why people don’t like me?” Maybe the true source of tea party resentment of President Obama is something yet to be discovered.
People say that ‘An Eye for an Eye” is not a good philosophy to live by. But some have suggested that this scripture was put in scripture not to Encourage vengeance, but to Limit it to JUST that. For instance if you “dis” a gang or mafia leader in public because you know they can’t do anything right then- - they won’t just respond in kind. They will track you down in a dark back alley one night and beat you to within an inch of your life probably breaking your nose and your jaw and whatever. They want to make sure “You get it real good”. And we as human beings tend, I believe, to still think this way. We may not reflect it in physical violence but other types of “getting even” in social situations where the punishment far exceeds the crime and after a while it goes from hurt to just blind, unreasoning resentment. (Selah) If you asked why Santorum’s remarks calling college people “snobs” strikes such a strong chord with southern hicks, they might not even be able to tell you. Most likely it’s a deep seated insecurety about their OWN intelligence and “mental where with all” and they don’t even dare admit it. Therefore in their minds the best defense is a good offence. Of course the other adage of these people is “be sure and get in the first shot”. That one also explains a lot. Since they also believe if they are Macho enough that the “thrill of Victory” so to speak, will drown out any thoughts about the shoddy reason that led them into aggressive conduct to begin with.
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