What Makes A True Leader?

It’s a question of leadership and which of the two political Presidential candidates do we want with his finger on the launch button?  Clearly Romney and Ryan have little to no foreign policy experience.  Romney is a man who loves to parrot phrases he thinks will win him support but even if he occasionally says something Americans go along with we know he doesn’t believe it.  Romney is like a parrot, like Pete Richards, who got good grades in college because he had a talent for regurgitating back the things the teachers had said in class, that he really didn’t believe.  Romney is that “thing of wax” that Jefferson spoke of that the Constitution was in peril of becomming, that could be melted down and used again with a new impression, like the Etch-a-sketch of its day.  Romney uses the same phrase of “American excellence” but he doesn’t mean it the same way President Obama uses the term.  James Dobson was talking about “leadership” when it comes to “getting your woman to fall in line”, and Dobson seem to voice the opinion that bringing back wife beating wouldn’t be such a bad idea.  He then went on to say that “These women have issues have issues going back to when they were little girls, and never got the proper male role model from their father to know the place of the female sex.”  Romney says “I want to cut taxes for the middle class but not taxes for the rich.  (in this he was referring to his stance on Capital Gains taxes, and I will vouch that he said it during the campaign.  I’ll also say that Romney’s tax policy of 25% is not as bad as Gingrich proposed, of 15%)  But the written Republican platform says the rate will be virtually abolished)  Romney says he wants female rape victims to have access to abortion, but we know the platform in writing of his political party says otherwise.  And unlike the Democrats who had an objectionable plank in their platform involving God, Romney took no steps to alter any plank of the Republican platform including abortions to save the life of the mother.  Romney is that classic individual who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.  He by his many interactions during the campaign exhibits an appaling lack of familiarity with the most basic day to day problems people have to face.  You are bombarded with this “out of touch” feeling when he comes across a veteran in a wheel chair apparently in pain and medical marijuana is the only thing that helps and he’s asked if he were President “Would you have people like me arrested?” and Romney just said “My position is that I’m against medical marijuana.  Often, as pointed out on the Stephanie Miller problem - - Leadership Qualities are not simply using brute force to compel others to do your will but rather to use perswasion and identification and cooperation with the needs of others to encourage them inwardly to go along with your positions, and THAT is the way to get things accomplished for America.  Many times there are too many flame throwers such as the Media’s seeming exaguration of these protests overseas to try and perhaps manufacture some war scenario crisis where “The whole Moslem world has turned against us” with all these Moslem protests of that movie.  Now on the roster of nations yesterday was added Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and today I guess Syria and Lebanon join the list.  We got a sample of “the possible world of Mitt Romney” back with the Waco incident in the spring of 1993 and I just watched that forty minute film yesterday.  You have these ATF “pig” men in black or whatever- - strongarming this collection of families who just want to live in peace.  And there appears, and we only have their word, no small amount of lying by the FBI on just what happened at Waco.  Many issues I can agree with true conservatives on.  For instance I agree with Ron Paul on such issues as medical marijuana and Presidential war powers, and aspects of the Patriot act.  I have in common with the right- - identifying with the words of four Presidents, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson and Jackson.  All four in their day has strong words condemning the actions of the US Supreme Court of their day.  And I agree with them that the Supreme Court should not ucerp the legislative process carried out by men actually elected by the people into power.  Justice Guinsberg after all is 121 years old or whatever- - and will probably be the next justice to be replaced by whoever is President next year.  Therefore your vote this November becomes especially vital.  Sometimes real leadership is a question of moving chess pieces around.  For instance we needed Saddam Hussein of Iraq to keep Iran in line and absorb the bulk of their bellicose threats, and with Iraq turned Shiite, now that attack is targeted directly on Israel itself.  Being President is not the easiest job in the world.  That’s why so few ever attain to it.  For Presieent Obama to say that the jury is still out on the Egyptian government now- - that means we still have a choice in just “what opinion they will form about America” based on our subsequent action.  To do the whole Judy right wing flame thrower routing is ill advised.  There is an old fashioned word called Temperance, and this is one quality Mitt Romney is lacking.

Here is a "metaphysically correct version of John chapter one.  In the Beginning was the Command and the Command said "It is not good for me to be alone" so he had sex with his Twin Sister, and they begat three children and their names were Time, Space, and Psychic Awareness.  And Time did have a Son and the name of the son was called Chance.  And Time begat many sons just like Chance.  But though they every one was different, they all honored their Mother, Logic.  And behold Space had an alias and his alias was "The God particle".  And the God particle beget two twins named matter and gravity.  And their grandfather Command did say to them, Ye shall grow up to be Mighty Rulers.  And the third son of Command was in the likeness of his father, for his father did say to him "Thou hast insight, and because thou hast Insight- - - it shall follow like the night doth the day, that thou shalt also have Will- - and in this way I shall be Glorified for as far as anyone can see into the future.

This is Thursday morning September 13, 2012 just after breakfast.  One person on the Stephanie Miller show said just now “I’m not pro or anti Moslem.  I’m for anybody who wants to work out our mutual problems peaceably”.  I have noted that a lot of the most astute analyzers of our current situation in the world - - are Black callers.  Time and time again I have noticed this.  Black people have a way of cutting through all the bullshit and getting to the heart of the matter.  I slept quite well last night and got up for the first time at ten after five.  I could have just used the bathroom and gone back to sleep.  But I deliberately wanted to hear what Bill Press was saying on his program about our current problems.

We had chili beans for lunch with corn bread and a green salad, with honeydew for desert.  I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and later on in the hour did that blog post.  I turned on the Soap Opera a little after one and there is a lot of mystifying conversation in that.  At two I turned Randy Rhodes back on.  I took a break at ten to three and turned on Dr. Oz for the last few minutes and the start of the Katie Kuric show till I noticed Bill had dozed off.  I had the computer on looking for that You Tube Islamic video.  First I listened to portions of two bluesy songs by the Black Keys.  Then I had an NBC piece on Harry Reed and Romney’s taxes and the commentator was sympathetic to Obama.  Then I listened to three tracks of “Cultesaurus Erectus” of most of Black Blade and Divine Wind, and all of “Deadline”.  Then I watched two trailers from that “innocence” movie and that movie is completely sick.  The actors are horrible and portray people seemed crazed and drugged out or something.  I’d had enough.  Then I watched a “Rules of Engagement’ trailer that featured a massacre of civilians by armed troops.  Then I saw the Waco thing and the Branch Davidian sect in Texas.  This thing ran forty minutes and I watched a good chunk of it.  I was completely sympathetic to their cause until they started quoting all these Bible verses and saying their lives were just like Nahom prophesying against the city of Ninevah.  The FBI began shining lights and playing loud music and other noises, and cut off the power and water in late March as negotiations seemed less hopeful than before.  I took a break to go to dinner and then watched a little more after dinner.  The weather here is heating up and has been getting progressively hotter all afternoon.  Last night I looked at Google weather and they are predicting temperatures over a hundred.  I’m glad out AC is working good.  Nora was here in the afternoon and mopped the floor.  It would seem I’m going to type this whole file in one day, which I can hardly believe.  We will see about tomorrow.