Friday, October 14, 2011

PEPPERONI WITH THAT??

Maybe I've seen the same movie too many times. I mean, I've watched Vietnam turn into Iraq and Afghanastan, trickle down or trickle up economics turn into just a trickle, and of course all of the great hopes every year for Philadelphia sports teams turn into another next year. Now, the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination is a pizza king! Have we learned nothing from the past 3 years? Are we that desperate? Why are we wasting time, newsprint and airwaves on something sense and history says just won't happen?

Barrack Obama was the fresh faced, golden tongued candidate with wonderful ideas and little government experience four years ago. I supported him then. Now, well, he is not so fresh faced, still has the golden tongue, and still has those wonderful ideas, but, I think because of the lack of real government experience, not much has come of those wonderful ideas.

Now we have Herman Cain, who seems to be a smart guy. He was CEO of a decent sized, successful business, but he has absolutely no governing experience, and his chief economic advisor is a local accountant. Let's be a little serious! Before that, we had Perry, Bachman, Newt..... All people who really had no chance of getting elected, and who quickly faded after their 15 minutes of fame, when another novelty came along.

I know that there is still a lot of time before the election, and we will painfully be hearing the political messages for all of that time, but let's get serious. Let's get some real candidates with real ideas that we can think and talk about, who might actually be electable!