Posted on 10/07/2015 4:46:42 PM PDT by markomalley
The modern day process for electing a president, seems to me, to be more of media circus and a personality pageant than the serious, issue-oriented, truth-seeking operation it should be.
Basically, media coverage and the debates are the only ways we have of finding out the character and the mettle of the candidates, and unfortunately, much of the media is biased and the debate questions are aimed more at stirring up an argument among the participants than getting to the root of the myriad of vital questions that need to be answered for a voter to make a well-informed decision.
With the many and diverse ultra-serious problems the next president will have to deal with, wasting time on personal conflicts and criticisms does an injustice to the citizens trying to make up their minds.
We have so many situations that border on emergencies – both domestic and foreign issues – that are being sidestepped by our president. Meanwhile, he is treading water and marking time in hopes that nothing catastrophic will happen so he can pass the problems he has created and the ones he has ignored on to the next president.
Whoever moves in to the White House in 2017 will have an overflowing full plate of vital problems that will not allow for an orientation period, but will require immediate and decisive action, with decisions on priority and the method decided before time.
And we the people, as the ultimate voice in this nation, deserve to know how the candidates would go about it, at least the philosophical approach. And we deserve to know as many details as could be considered at this time.
We need to know what, how and to what degree the candidate would deal with the destruction of ISIS.
To what lengths will they go to root out domestic terrorists?
Would they call Islamic terrorism, Islamic terrorism?
We need to know a realistic assessment of how they would deal, once and for all, with our immigration debacle.
What will they do about bringing our lost industries back to our shores?
What is their stand on Obamacare and the freeing up of interstate medical insurance sales to create the competition that would help stabilize the cost of health care?
How about their course of action for dealing with the people who game the entitlement system and the bums who father children and leave them to be supported by taxpayers?
What is their stand on the second amendment and sensible gun laws?
How will they clean up the gang violence and thugs in the inner cities?
Will they create a coherent and doable foreign policy that would, over time, restore lost American prestige and respect to our country?
Will they let it be known that when they draw a line it is not to be crossed, and that they don't fear Vladimir and won’t take it easy on him?
How will they restore Israel's trust in America?
How will they let it be known that they are our allies, and that we will guarantee their sovereignty by whatever means necessary?
What about our ailing educational system? Do they have the guts to go up against the teachers union if that's what it takes?
How will they address America's mountainous debt?
I know that this is only a very small tip of a very large iceberg, but these and many other questions need to be answered by the candidates for American voters to cast a well-informed vote.
Enough personality clashes. Enough juvenile sniping, back biting and gotchas.
The media and the candidates owe Americans answers, straight talk in layman's language.
Enough bluff, bluster and side-stepping.
There's a lot of talk about low-information voters. The way our elections are handled, it's no wonder there are so many of them.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Whenever I see the name Charlie Daniels, I think of a bottle of whiskey for some reason.
That’s his brother Jack.
I wanna go fishing with Charlie Daniels and Trace Adkins!
Romans 1:..
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Proverbs 6:16-19
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
I believe Trump when he says he can do all this and ‘make America great again’.
I believe Ted Cruz said that he would do just that.
I reckon that depends on who you talk to. "Sensible" to me means a repeal of everything back to and including the NFA of '34. Others would ban firearms in private hands with the same phrase. Most fall somewhere in the middle, but more restrictive than I'd like.
Good point; but there IS another Voice with which to be reckoned...
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
We've ignored it for way too long...
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981)
Go fishing with Bill Dance, he’s more fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InpVTPK6o9Q
Notice how he changes hands with a boat battery in mid air.
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