History Forum / General / British History / July 2008

Hi,

Something to think about

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YMyDJMAlHGI

most people want a president not someone who is a commander in chief.
When will we get to that time, in that video where people can drive
and sing again given everything life gives you (good and bad).

Although, some say that this time was bad, it was time I remember when
people were happier, did not need to work 60 hours/week/two jobs
(because the export of Japan's overwork did not arrive here yet), and
our shores were safe even at the height of the cold war.

Mr. Hines is in a predicament similar to that of Rush Limbaugh.  Rush
completely detests having McCain as the Republican presidential
candidate.   Mr. Hines told us McCain is "too old" for the job and
obviously feels that America's Mayor, his favorite candidate, was much
better qualified.

Both face having to support a candidate they think isn't qualified.
But only Rush has a good excuse to do so -- he is a political
commentator.

The way Rush deals with it is by saying that it's like the Super Bowl,
even when your team doesn't make it you still root for the team you
hate less.

I guess he has to, he can't afford to just skip the whole thing, it's
his job to be a loud Republican for his fans.

Mr. Hines is No Rush.

Mr. Hines can afford to skip the whole thing instead of supporting a
candidate he thinks is "too old" for the job.   Except that his
loyalty to party won't allow it.

Yes folks even anarchy is better than blind partisanship.
Partisanship that makes a man support for president someone who is
"too old" and obviously not good for the country, just because he is a
Republican.

Our species began with individuals being loyal to a small tribe or
about a hundred people; as groups merged we evolved to the city state,
the settled nation, and finally the empire.   In a thousand years,
historians, if there are any, will look back at our time as a turning
point.  If the hawks don't destroy civilization, it will be the time
when we could have destroyed ourselves and we came to our senses and
did not.   It will be the time in which we started to send robot
emissaries to nearby worlds, but most importantly, it will be the time
in which the world began to be bound up.   Great increases in the
speed of travel and communications made all aware that we are all in
the same boat.  Although the world is still a patchwork of political,
ethnic, economic, and religious identifications owing allegiance to
groups of up to a billion people or more, there is a steady trend and
if it continues some time in a not distant future the average person's
typical identification will be with the everyone on Earth, the human
species.

The process no doubt will be slightly impeded by the Mr. Hines of this
world, whose parochial, local, provincial view of things has the
political party as their planet, their third rock from the sun.
That's what matters to Mr. Hines, all else be damned.   You go
forward, you look ahead, he is quite happy being a Limbaugh copy, with
his tomato-pelting audience, and his steady supply of things to say,
courtesy of James Taranto and Charles Krauthammer, to drive the
Republican nail home.

Hence, don't miss Mr. Hines For McCain in Honolulu this summer.
Presiding over his own chapter of the Salvation Navy, Mr. Hines parade
of one will criss-cross neighborhoods.   Aloha! he'll be sitting in a
rowboat on wheels beating a drum as he so well does...

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