Thoughts

Thoughts:
For as long as I can remember, liberals liked to tout their guy, or gal, as wiser than Solomon. They did it with Adlai Stevenson in 1956 when he was running against Eisenhower for the presidency. That was when I was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and most likely voted for Stevenson even though I didn’t see the wisdom of unilaterally stopping the testing of nuclear weapons that he advocated (kinda reminds me of the latest drive by President Obama to scrap most of our 5000 nuclear weapons and reduce our stockpile to about 300). Six years later we were faced with the Cuban Missile crisis. Fortunately for us, General Eisenhower took over the reins of government in ’56 and “the balance of terror” that the press liked to speak of, had the final result of weighing in our favor.
When Bill Bradley ran for the Senate in New Jersey once again the flag of “Mr. Brilliance” was being waved in our faces. If SAT scores are any measure of how smart one is, it could be very disheartening to the admirers of Senator Bradley to know that he scored 81 points lower than, as the article on the Internet says, the “slow witted” GW Bush – 485-566.
And now we’re being pelted with how brilliant our Apologizer-in-Chief is, in spite of him very guardedly not letting us see his school records. That he has a great glowing charismatic personality and a great gift of gab can’t be denied. He mustn’t get away from the prepared script on the teleprompter though. When he does that he makes almost as many gaffs as Vice-President Biden. I can picture him as having a great career in show business once he’s out of the White House. But as president he’s a disaster.
Does it not occur to President Obama that there’s a better way to stimulate the research and development of renewal sources of energy than purposely driving the price of gasoline through the roof? Does he not know the dampener this puts on the overall economy when families have to spend the biggest part of their budget on gasoline and the trucking and transportation industries are saddled with costs that they have to pass off to the consumer?
This country is the richest nation in the world in oil and natural gas. And if we were to rely on coal alone for many of our needs, except heating our houses, it would take 400 years to deplete our known reserves. Surely, long before that renewables will serve the nation’s needs. (Will it be a Republic then? None ever lasted much more than 200 years.)
The revenue that would be generated with the robust economy that energy independence would give us would not only serve to cure all our financial ills but a certain amount could be dedicated to nothing else but the research and development of the renewables that President Obama is so ardently in favor of. The smothering national debt that impedes our ability to conduct our foreign affairs properly could be gradually paid off instead of just paying the interest on that debt billions of dollars at a time.