Seventy and Still Learning

I spent the better part of Saturday glued to the TV watching the Democrats go through the motions of pretending to solve a problem they, in all probability, had decided on long before they arrived in Washington DC. What a waste of time. And what a farce.

I am a democrat and a Democrat. I am a liberal person and a Liberal as defined by the Republicans. I love this country for one thing: the ability to descent from the poplular view points even if I am the only one who thinks this way.

When I came to this country the Warren court was in Washington and I thought:”…this is what the democratic system is all about. If stupid people can’t govern themselves inteligently, then at least they can count on smart, inteligent, and compassionate individuals to do the thinking for them. What a wonderful system that provides a mechanism to govern inteligently during times when people do not use their heads or their hearts.

If one takes the time to check one would see that this country does not use their constitutional right to vote. We consider a 30% (thirty per cent) participation acceptable. That means that we are governed by 15% plus one.

15% of the population chooses and decides what our lives are going to be all about for the next four to …… number of years. if the wrong person appoints heartless individuals to the Supreme Court then for as long as these people live and serve, we would be served by heartless people.

If Selfish individuals run our country and represent the few who helped put them in office then most of us get to suffer the consequenses for a very long time. We get to pay the bills many years after those individuals have left office and have gone back to their ranch in Texas.

Yesterday we witnessed, once more, the short coming of our system. Take Florida as an example: The Republican Legislature decides to move the Primary up so that they can be in the forefront of the primary system. The Democrats in Florida, being the minority, and having to choose between voting for Election Reform along with the Republicans - or going on record as having voted agains the reforming of the system in Florida - and we all know how well the Florida system can be manipulated - and watch the Republicans pass it anyway since they have the Majority.

Now comes the National Democratic Commity (DNC) and informs the Florida Democrats that if they hold their primary early they will not be seated.

Then the DNC goes through this unbelievable waste of time on Saturday 05/31/2008 and decides to permit the Florida delegation to be seated (What an embarassment if there are all these empty seats at the convention) but in their unbelievable wisdom (LOL) they permit the Florida delegates only half a vote instead of a full vote.

The Michigan story is even more disturbing:
The DNC permits the delegation to be seated (again, to avoid the embarassment of empty seats in the area where the Michigan delegation is assigned to be seated) and apportions the delegated on a percentage basis to persons for whom the “uncommitted” did not vote. What kind of an absurd action; I did not hear any discussion on the possibility that a percentage of the “uncommitted” may have been Clinton voters. That some people choose to be undeclared for personal or business reasons. I can emagine deviding the uncommitted delegates on a percentage basis by calculating the percentage of the declared as compared to the total, then the undeclared as a percentage of the total and then deviding the uncommitted, undeclared delegated on that basis and awarding the delegates. But to say that “…it can be assumed that the undeclared are Obama voters” is making an assumption that can not be substantiated.

So much for smart people doing the thinking for us.

Finally: if things continue in this manner for the next 6 months then Mr. McCain will be moving into the White House while the democrats, in their incredible short sitedness will be arguing about who should be the nominee.

I am not sure why Senator Obama could not have suggested that Senator Clinton get it for the next eight years and then Senator Obama take the White house for the subsequent eight years; That would have given the country 16 years of Democratice Government with little competition. But That would have been the “smart” thing to do, and we never do the “smart” thing.
JR

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