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Random Thoughts from a Hot Summer Day...
Posted
6-12-2007
I know this is an election year, and we are in
the middle of a race for re-election, but things have quieted
down so much, there isn't very much to say about the
Commissioners' race right now.
I do know one thing; no one stole Virginia
Oplinger's signs. They are still up along every exit ramp. Since
she never took them down, the grass has grown above them.
Talking about her votes now is kind of
irrelevant. The primary is over and done with, and we know the
candidates for the General Election. We'll see who gets the
votes that didn't go the winners' way in the primary.
I guess it will come down to the Republican
candidates' record as part-time elected officials in two
townships versus ours running a $334 million non-profit.
I'm confessing right now, I have read Perry
Christopher's Blog. I know, it is a sad commentary on how boring
my life has become. I'm not interested in his musical tastes or
what places he has visited recently, but it is amusing to watch
the political warfare back and forth. The criticism of Tom
Ceraso and me is interesting (not by Perry because all he does
is quote the Tribune Review) because some of it is so
far-fetched. But I did like the comments about who really runs
Hempfield Township on a daily basis, my former assistant Rob
Ritson. I liked the theory that if he was the right man for that
job, where did he get his qualifications for that job? Working
for Westmoreland County. So what happened, we knew what we were
doing when he worked here and now we don't?
Well we finally know where George Bush is
popular, Albania. The President with the 32% approval rating was
mobbed by pro-American Albanians as if he personally liberated
them from a communist dictatorship. It was funny how the
Albanians could get so close to him. Heck, here in the USA, the
Secret Service would bust heads if you tried to touch Bush.
Since he cannot seek re-election here, he should move to Albania
and run there. If he takes Rove with him, they'll figure out how
to steal the election there and he might have a positive legacy
there, since he will not have one here.
The Alberto Gonzales controversy has gone on
long enough. Every President has cut lose people in their
administrations when they have become an embarrassment. Why not
Bush? Can't he admit when things have gone wrong? Anyone who has
watched Gonzales in hearings has to admit his evasiveness was
terrible for the chief law enforcement official in the USA. Of
course you have to watch the "Daily Show" to actually see any
details of the hearings. But Gonzales and his deputies cannot
get their stories straight and his responses have exasperated
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Why can't the Republicans take Joe Liebermann
once and for all? Now the phony Democrat says it would be okay
to bomb Iran. Did he feel the same way when Israel developed
nuclear weapons? Or how about China or India? I don't know how
the global community decides who is allowed to possess nuclear
weapons and who is not. I'm tired of all the saber rattling
about Iran. If we should have learned one lesson from invading
Iraq, it should be that we cannot dictate to other nations how
to behave. Sure we can bomb them into ruin, but we are not going
to make them behave according to our wishes.
And finally, I am looking forward to debates
this year for the commissioners' race. I hope some non-partisan
group(s) sponsors them. My only caveat is that I hope they are
televised because historically, the only people in the audience
are supporters of the candidates. I also hope the format allows
for questions that aren't given to us in advance, and real
debate between the candidates.
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