Well, really

I am in Seattle staying in a downtown hotel. It noisy with sirens sounding all over the place. I would like to think this is unusual but I've been here often enough to know that it is typical. Quite a contrast to the peace and quiet of Bonners Ferry. And there is traffic, traffic like you can't believe. When I lived here forty years ago it was very different. Forty years ago! I can't believe it.

I didn't see much news today which I think may have been a blessing. Perusing the web just now it appears that most of the candidates for President, both Democratic and Reublican, don't know what they are talking about. Romney, I believe, is the worst of the worst. How anyone could seriously consider him for President is unbelievable to me. He says absolutely absurd things, like having been a hunter all his life, we need to double Guantanamo, and such. Now he insisted that Sadam Hussein refused to let the inspectors in. This, of course, is blatantly false (even though Bush has said it also). Either Romney is well informed but lying or he just doesn't know what he is talking about.

Hillary has now said that we are safer now than before (presumably because of the efforts of Bush/Cheney). This indicates to me that she doesn't know what she is talking about. She claims the American public overwhelmingly believes we are safer. This is in absolute opposition to what we know is the case - The American public overwhelmingly believes we are not safer, or even less safer.

Rudy Giuliani says the sentence Libby received is excessive. Fred Thompson says Libby didn't do anything illegal. Many Republicans seem to think Libby should be pardoned and that Bush is in a quandary over the issue. What is the quandary? Libby lied and got caught. He has been sentenced. What would be the basis for a pardon? Libby is above the law?

When you find out that these people simply either don't know what is going on, or think they can just lie for their advantage, it doesn't make one very pleased with the state of our nation or with the caliber of our Presidential candidates. The Republicans, at least some of them, are not pleased with their current ten candidates and are looking for Fred Thompson to be another Ronald Reagan. If this is what we have to look forward to on the part of Republicans, god help us. The current Democratic candidates don't look to me to be a whole lot better.

Yes, I think Al Gore would be by far the best next President. But I'm not certain I would wish that role even on my worst enemy. First, the problems left over from this disastrous Bush/Cheney bunch will be virtually impossible to solve in any finite time. Second, the expectations will be unreasonable. Whoever takes on the job will surely fail on some things. Bush has managed to get along partly because the press has always given him the benefit of low expectations. They will do the opposite with Gore whose Presidency might be doomed from the beginning because of MSM false expectations. But at least Gore knows what he's talking about which seems to be more than you can say for Romney, Hillary, and the rest of the current crop of candidates.

LKBIQ:

"You know, we're all still just infants in increasingly decaying bodies."
Mel Firestone