Saturday, February 16, 2013

Rubio or Obama

A couple of days ago, I watched President Obama's State of the Union Address, and I have to say, I was surprised. I wasn't surprised at how good he did, but rather how he said so much without actually saying anything. Contrast that with Marco Rubio, the Senator from Florida, and he took about a third of the time to say about three times the amount that Obama had said. His message was good, but no one really knows what it actually was because everyone focused on his little drink he took near the latter part of his speech. Is this right? No. Does it matter? No. Because the media holds complete control of the message in the country. Please comment on your thoughts.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Where is civility

If you have seen some of my earlier posts or any of my comments on other blogs, you will see a recurring idea I keep making is that the political and ideological world is no longer has the civility it used to, so I will back it up with this post.

To start with, I will give a couple of examples of older civility. The first example I have is Ronald Reagan with the Democrat speaker of the house Tip O'Neil.



Tip O'Neil fought Reagan tooth and nail in the talks through balancing the budget, but then they could have a good laugh together afterward.

Even in the 90s, Bill Clinton could work with the Republicans, like John Kasich, as long as Newt Gingrich wasn't involved.

But today in America, there is no civility. I mean, can you honestly see Paul Ryan and Barack Obama working together getting anything done? The only way to survive this time of division is if we become more civil with each other, so please comment on your thoughts, especially if you are a different ideology than me and see if we can begin to become more civil when we disagree.