On occasion, I consolidate comments I’d attempted to post in response to articles appearing recently on Yahoo News. I share my comments with you here hoping to reach an audience immune from Yahoo’s periodic attempts to block or censor. My posts are written as if I actually were the US President. As is my usual custom, if I open with a quoted item, that’s from the article itself.
I hope you enjoy all 14 of these mini-essays.
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ONE:
[My response here is in response to an article about some of Mitt Romney’s touted VP possibilities showing their chops as attack dogs. My view? Gentlemen, if you’re going to venture down that road, do it right and do it well or prepare to be scathed.]
OK…my turn to rebut the rebutters (if that’s a word):
Chris Christie should have said: “…WAS the most ill-prepared.” Obama had assumed the presidency 3+ years ago, so he’s well past the point of assumption.
Next…Rubix Cubio: The only reason Obama proved to be so “divisive” is that the Party of No made it clear from early on that they were determined that Obama be a one-term president. The Pubbers didn’t even have the decency to hide their gleeful lynch-mob mentality.
Next…Paul Ryan: There are a lot of “wrong directions” in which the US could be lead. A lot of (esp) independent voters are starting to get it: Money[R] will bow to rightist pressure to lead the US back to the 1950s and we don’t want to go there.
Next…Jindal: So you think Obama’s incompetent? It’s easy to leap to that conclusion while pandering to a Pubber audience in Alabama. But much of what you call “incompetence” has to do with an economy inherited from Bush and Pubbers in Congress who are far from being a “loyal opposition.” You do know what that is, don’t you? Or do you draw your conclusions by reading Yahoo posters who call him “Odumbo?”
If any of these clowns wants to “audition,” they would do better to put on a straw hat and try to song-and-dance us with the old soft-shoe. Oh wait, that’s exactly what they’re already doing.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“These veep wannabes are as lame as is Mittens – so any one of them would ‘pair up’ nicely with him.”
TWO:
“…the powerful [Egyptian] army, which sees itself as the guardian of the state.” Armies tend to overemphasize their importance. Actually, Allah is the guardian of the state. Apparently, the army has a problem with that.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“I say, give the [Muslim] Brotherhood a chance because the army hasn’t done much with the decades’ worth of chances it’s had.”
THREE:
[In response to the GOP’s pride and joy, Sam Brownback, featured in this article: “Kansas governor signs bill banning Islamic law.”]
The US Constitution doesn’t bar sharia law – in fact, it’s intentionally vague so as to give as much Power to the People as possible to run their own lives. These two quotes in particular are worth remembering by Tea Partiers who rail against too much government and yet support this outrageous KS law:
Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Amendment 14: “…No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States…”
If people of a particular faith community feel it’s God’s will to be bound by religious law, then secular courts should interfere only if there’s a specific claim of contradiction to the law of the land. Of course, Mormons were surprised when the US Supreme Court ruled against polygamous marriage. They believed they were protected by the First Amendment. The Court ruled otherwise. The Court was mistaken.
All that’s happening here is (GOP!) Gov. Mossback is pandering to anti-Muslim sentiment among the base. And they’re not called “the base” for nothing.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Mossback should be ashamed of himself.”
FOUR:
Loki,
If Greece “may be little,” yet capable of starting that Domino Effect, then the euro zone is a lot weaker than we dare suspect. I find it interesting that everybody focuses on Greece and the other weak players (Spain and Portugal) and on the strong players (France and Germany). However, the main country to keep an eye on, virtually unmentioned in the mainstream news, is a non-eurozone entity: Switzerland.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“For an unindicted co-conspirator in support of Nazi efforts in WWII, Switzerland has done very well indeed for itself.”
FIVE:
[Loki wrote this, to which my response immediately follows: “YNP - They [the Swiss] have throughout their history fished in murky waters and have done very well for themselves! I cant fault them for that! People and Governments usually go to them!!”]
Loki,
They have done very well but I question their ethics. There are a lot of people to whom the successful are forgiven or overlooked of grievous character faults. Another way of saying: Everyone loves a winner. Not everyone. I don’t. As for “people and governments usually go to them,” which people and which governments?
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“I don’t easily forgive Nazis or those who launder money for criminals.”
SIX:
[In response to Mitt Romney who bleats about the necessity of maintaining the world’s most dominant military force.]
There’s a price to be paid for having the world’s mightiest military. And that’s a certain mindset. A certain tension and air of crisis mentality have to exist or doubt starts to set in. And I mean, doubt within the ranks as to the validity of their role in society.
If we insist on maintaining such a behemoth, we put ourselves in a position of having to put our troops in harm’s way. Intentionally, with or without justification.
If as much as a decade would go by without conflict, our troops would lose their edge. And no amount of simulation can keep that edge. A soldier has to know – has to have it forcefully and (at times) artificially driven home to him – that he could die a violent death. If he doubts that much, then his role becomes much less real to him, risking a loss of motivation. And, believe me, we will never run out of enemies as long as that mindset underlies our strategic thinking.
Are you ready to pay that price?
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Next stop? Africa!”
“Next stop? Africa!”
SEVEN:
[In a personal note here: I loathe George Will but not as much as corpo-media which insists on foisting him on the American people again and again.]
The word “bloviating” applies more to George “the Kardashian” Will than to Trump. Will is the kind of guy who is tapped when a panel needs someone with a large vocabulary and professorial air. That doesn’t mean he’s particularly intelligent but a lot of people assume he is. And that’s good enough to keep those panel invitations rolling in. Yup, George is a pretty good self-promoter himself. Just saying.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Doesn’t it strike you as rather strange that the same old panelists keep gracing our airwaves when, in fact, there are tens of thousands of far superior intellects out there?”
EIGHT:
[In response to noises made by US Congressman Charles Rangel (Democrat) to revive the military draft.]
From my written contract with the American people (2007):
“There will be no military draft during my presidency. If Congress enacts a draft, however, I will encourage all draftees to be inducted. Immediately after induction, though, they will be subject to this blanket order: Do not follow any orders from any member of the military except this order from me, your Commander in Chief: ‘Carry on with your civilian lives as if you had never been drafted.’”
Sooner or later, the subject of the draft will raise its ugly head with force. I saw this coming back in 2007 when I was a candidate for the presidency fighting a long shot race against Obama and McCain. I was (and still am) the only presidential candidate in this country’s history to offer a written and enforceable contract to the voters in exchange for office. Were I to violate any of the promises made in that contract, I would forfeit my office. The preceding paragraph was point # 8 of that contract.
I believe a soldier should be paid what he’s worth – and that’s a lot more than he’s being paid now. I believe conscription is a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. And what my contract proposed here is entirely constitutional.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Watch out for these MF’s, they’ll try to snooker a draft on you by hook or crook.”
NINE:
[In response to the death of a young US Marine who fought in Afghanistan (among other reasons, I’m sure) to give that’s country’s children a brighter future.]
I am sure this young Marine was sincere in his belief. However, I can’t help but thinking of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, the complete title of which is: The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands.
The fact of the matter is, we didn’t go into Afghanistan to help their children or uplift their women. We went there for the basest of motives and stayed far longer than our sham pretentions could ever justify. Another fact of the matter: No matter how much the idealists among us want to “save others from themselves,” most of [those others] don’t want our whites [asses] in their country.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“If this young man wanted to teach and help children, he could have braved another front: Teaching in an American ghetto school.”
[Personal note: Some voters, in view of the sentiments expressed above, might feel I’m not being sufficiently respectful of our military. If I should actually get elected, how can I expect our servicemen to follow my orders if they should feel I disrespect them? My answer: “I don’t care if they actually hate me. But I do fully expect them to obey orders and follow their sworn oath. Life doesn’t get any simpler than that. But I’ll offer this much in mitigation: I promise I’ll never use them as props in a photo op with banners displayed which announce: ‘Mission Accomplished.’”]
TEN:
[In response to General Tolley’s claim that the US had parachuted its own and South Korean military personnel into North Korea.]
Brigadier General Neil Tolley is lying – pure and simple – and the North Koreans are laughing at his feeble attempt at disinformation. If he were telling the truth, he’d be saying things he shouldn’t in public, and risking lives in any such future missions.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“I’ll tell you exactly what this means: Our government thinks we’re so stupid we’d actually believe something this lame.”
ELEVEN:
Romney is being quite astute in not denouncing Trump. He’s appearing both reasonable (everybody’s entitled to their own opinion) and open-minded (giving a wink to those who think Obama isn’t a natural US born citizen).
I personally don’t care if Obama’s not a citizen. If it’s ultimately proven that he isn’t, too many people will end up pointing fingers of blame at others making it too difficult to determine who’s at fault. Obama? The Democrats? The state of Hawaii for verifying a bogus certificate? Whoever forged that certificate so as to fool Hawaiian officials? The US military for giving Obama security clearance based on an incomplete background check? Go on, beat up on our military, I dare you.
Something about Obama doesn’t seem quite right, though, but I can’t put my finger on what. Meteoric rise, coming from nowhere, aided by a lamestream media that absolutely refused to ask 2008 candidate Obama any hard questions. Like American patriot Patrick Henry said, when he learned of a Convention to amend the Articles of Confederation, “I smell a rat.”
As for you Yahoos who jumped on Romney for saying, “But I need to get 50.1 percent or more [of the popular vote to get elected],” he is fully aware that he needs 270 Electoral College votes to win. But he knows that would be a hollow victory without a mandate if he failed to win the popular vote. Mitt Romney isn’t stupid, but if Yahoos who like to point stuff out want to think so, by all means they should be allowed their cheap thrill.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“All this aside, it won’t matter who gets elected, since civilized life as we know it will cease to exist within 5 years. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is change you can believe in.”
TWELVE:
[In response to an article about a preacher who died after handling a rattlesnake as part of a religious ceremony. More specifically, died after setting the snake down, after which it bit him.]
Mark 16: 17 – 18 claims yet another victim. Maybe Wolford overlooked the last part about laying hands on the sick. If he had lain hands on himself, he would have recovered – no doubt about it.
Not to mention: the preacher didn’t get bit until after he put the snake down, so he was able to successfully “take UP” with a serpent. Maybe to “take up serpents” means to preach to them so they get taken up to heaven.
As for that speaking in “new tongues” part, I always took that to mean one who truly believes is able to preach in order to save and convert by using a power of persuasion he never had before. If these verses mean what [preacher] Wolford took them to mean, then why don’t more Christians embrace the practice?
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Not doing these things doesn’t mean one believes any the less.”
THIRTEEN:
[My response to an article about Obama having given the order to use cyber warfare against Iran.]
So “in the early months of his presidency,” Barack Obama initiated an act of war against Iran. Surely had Iran done something like that to us, we would have reacted as if that was an act of war.
As for this being a “joint venture between the U.S. and Israel,” I’m sure there was nothing “joint” about it. That is, the US did all the work and simply gave the Stuxnet code to Israel. If Israel and Obama continue playing their silly games, maybe neither should be surprised if one of those “mushroom clouds” Condoleeza Rice had spoken of years ago appears within their borders.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Barack Obama was a fool for having been persuaded to follow this course so early in his presidency; and still is. I never really believed he was in charge anyway.”
FOURTEEN:
[In response to a charge that a Chinese government official paid $1M for sex with a film actress.]
I heard Minister Bo paid $1M upfront to Zhang at 11:50 PM “for the night.” Ten minutes later, “the night” was over because it was morning of the next day. That’s right, folks - $1M for 10 minutes of sex. And worse? That’s all he had “in” him.
Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Bo must have been a really terrible Commerce Minister (as well!) if that’s how he conducts his business.”
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Steven Searle for US President in 2012
Founder of The Independent Contractors’ Party
“I’ll leave you with this – a theme I shall explore in a future posting: It isn’t at all accurate to view Mitt Romney as a CEO businessman who is ready to transplant those skills to the White House. He’s really more like a glorified accountant/numbers-cruncher, who is even further removed from the reality of the American people than are CEO businessmen.”
Contact me at bpa_cinc@yahoo.com
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