Day: July 29, 2009

A Fox News poll indicates that ten percent of those polled think Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor, should have a career as a college professor,  while seven percent of Republicans feel the same way.

The good thing is that a substantial minority think she should just be a housewife and mother,  which  is, I think, what is best for her. 

But the concept that Palin would be qualified to be a college professor is preposterous to the extreme, and actually is insulting to me,  a college professor, who  knows the amount of years of work and sacrifice that one must go through to achieve the goal of teaching on the college level.

Palin has only one degree, gained after attending five colleges over six years.  She majored in communications and minored in political science.  She has shown no evidence of being competent in anything other than complaining about how her family is being treated, and in being demagogic to gain attention of Americans who share her biases and prejudices.  She has shown no evidence that she can think on her feet,  come up with any profound thoughts,  and even to demonstrate curiosity and the desire to learn.  She is no intellectual, and has no capability to teach college students.   The best she could do is deliver a political speech tailored to a certain narrow group which represents maybe one quarter to one third of the country.  She is in in many ways one of the least qualified people ever to run for public office in this country, and would be ignored if it were not for John McCain’s mistake in picking her as his running mate in 2008.

I really hope that Sarah Palin will make a few speeches for money, publish a book ghost written by someone else, be satisfied with her materialistic accomplishments, and then leave us alone.  As I have said earlier,  good riddance, Sarah Palin!

A new poll commissioned by the NY TIMES and CBS NEWS indicates that a majority of Americans are concerned about the growing budget deficit.

At the same time, they do not want to pay more taxes, but also are against cutting of the defense budget,  education and health care.

This situation is obviously incongruous, and demonstrates just how confused the American public really is.

It is ironic that in a country that loves to say that more than ever we are educating more people through more years of school,  that the public seems ever more ignorant than it was in  the past.  It is a sad commentary on America’s future if we have the country’s  citizens unable to understand reality, or just possibly unwilling to do anything in the way of sacrifice,  a trait that brought America to its greatness in past generations.

President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are now faced with outrageous accusations being promoted by conservatives in think tanks,  talk radio, television ads, and Fox News Channel:  that IF Obama’s health care plan becomes law, it will lead to the deaths of millions of senior citizens by leaving the decision on their health care to federal bureaucrats, rather than their doctors and hospitals.  This could be called promotion of "euthanasia",  but the demagogues promoting this scare tactic add to it the idea that abortion would be paid for by a government that is out to kill seniors.  This is totally untrue and must be condemned without any pretense of  niceties.  The "Deathers" are liars that must be exposed!

We are now embroiled in a battle royale, and the President and his supporters need to stop pulling punches, and aggressively attack and expose these despicable special interests who have no concern about health care, but only are out to promote the continuation of the outrageous profits in the drug and health insurance industries, without any concern on their part for those lacking health care coverage,  those who have pre existing conditions,  and those who are being forced into bankruptcy or being faced with the reality of death,   because of skyrocketing health care costs that they cannot afford.

There is no longer the need or desire to promote bipartisanship, as it is obvious that the opposition will stoop as low as possible to get their way.  So I say, let’s see discipline among the Democrats, and an understanding with the "blue dog"  Democrats that it is time to stop flirting with those who distort reality, and come to the support of their party and the American people.

Passage of a comprehensive health care bill will win support for the Democrats in 2010, and this opportunity of a lifetime must not be allowed to go the way of the failed Clinton health care plan in 1993-94.  We must not allow people like Virginia Foxx of North Carolina,  Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota,  Jim DeMint of South Carolina, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, among many others who should be ashamed at their behavior,  but who obviously have no shame,  to destroy health care reform!

Glenn Beck has been acting crazier than usual lately, as has Rush Limbaugh.  It is time for both of them, despite the 1st Amendment, to shut up, as they are a disgrace to journalism and public discourse.

Both men are fanatics, irresponsible,  promote hate,  and are obvious racists,  and both have the gall to call President Obama a racist,  as well as Sonia Sotomayor a racist.

This morning, on Fox and Friends on Fox News Channel,  Glenn Beck emphasized his hate of Obama as a supreme racist, and referred to the Gates controversy,  and imagine this:  Fox News Channel, which gives him an hour each day to rant and rave, issued a statement making clear that his comments  represented his view, and not that of the station.

This is a first for Fox News Channel, which has overlooked all of the outrageous assertions of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, among others.  Could it be that Fox News Channel realizes finally that they are losing all credibility by having all these demagogues representing their image in journalism?  It would be hoped so,  but don’t count on it!  🙁