Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass....I use to complain regularly about Bill Clinton and his antics and contrary to what most of my friends thought, I did not and do not think he was a good President. We are creatures of the moment and thus are basically unable to identify the bad side of good times. When the stock market was being manipulated out the roof we basically thought it was great. When our souls were being given away through Nafta and Gatt we couldn't see anything that resembled the exodus of manufacturing jobs to foreign countries that would leave to never return again. When the housing market was booming we couldn't correlate the fake bookkeeping that was being installed by the government to contribute to the coming crash landing of the dreams of the ever shrinking middle class. Now that gas is $3.00 a gallon we are unable to look back and identify when the trip to oblivion started. Instead we insist on blaming all our current troubles on George Bush as if he is responsible for every ill we are enduring, all the while listening to the dribble of a very large segment of our populace that believes he's too dumb to tie his shoes. I think anyone who runs for and occupies the highest office in the land is anything but dumb. I do believe that all insanity has its time, and if the historical chain of events that brought us 9-11 had not occured I think the economic bad judgement of the Clinton administration would have been unmasked and we could have dealt with it and probably recovered to continue making the same bad judgements that would have taken another 50 years or so before collapsing our economy. But that's not the way it came down. Instead of having a weak President with no real Public mandate that would have wallowed through one term then be tossed out, we had a President that realized very quickly the great opportunity of building a legacy through tragedy that could reunite and make America great beyond imagination. The time was right for weakness and bad judgement to prevail, and through fear we grabbed on to everything that could be remotely considered and in the process gave away our freedom and our future. Because of the madness that fear instigates we are scared to death of each other, cannot get a job carrying bedpans in an old folks home without extensive background checks, and now I have to present my birth certificate, additional forms of identification, and a current utility bill with my name and current address on it to renew my drivers license. I also have to show approved additional identification to vote at election time. I cannot get a doctors appointment in a reasonable time and the asking price for a pretty good health insurance plan for me and my bride at our age is somewhere over $700. each approaching $1500. in total. A casual trip to the emergency room runs in the hundreds of dollars assuming you don't need much care. This is the legacy George Bush is leaving for me and my childrens children. While I don't think George is stupid, I do think he's very out of touch with reality and will drift on into history leaving behind a particularly vicious kind of misery that he will never experience in the same way the average American will. In missing his opportunity to be a truly great leader and uniting his people through truth, strength and resolve and instead ruling from a threshhold of fear, his stubborness in refusing to look at things as they are as opposed to what he wishes them to be makes him the worst president in history..................