“It’s the Issues, Folks!”


I feel so turned off about this Primary.

What started out for me as hope has flitted away.

Now, we are awash in constant bickering and character assassination.

Should a candidate be judged by his friends and mentors?

Should the campaigns be reduced to name calling and innuendos and blows delivered below the belt?

I don’t think so.

But what do I know.

In the meantime, there is an encyclopedia of issues that have barely been touched on.

What I am really worried about is the War, the economy, jobs, Global Warming, international relations, clean air/clean water, alternative energy, rising costs of fuel and food, a good health care system, social security’s survival, our growing indebtedness, the mortgage crunch, the state of public education, NAFTA, the NAU, divisive politics, money in government, the power and influence of the lobbyists, the cost of drugs and on and on….

This is where we need elaboration and detail; not who one of the candidates hangs out with.

We don’t want to know either that one of the candidates places winning above fair play.

When is Hillary going to get us out of Iraq.

What is Obama going to do to stop a war with Iran.

What is Hillary’s position on elevated green cards that sap away our jobs.

How are we going to keep jobs here.

What about the rich that escape paying the taxes that we need to keep our country going?

Who’s got the best ideas for education?

Who’s going to put us back on track to become number one in science and technology?

This just scratches the surface.

In a year of politicking we should have known the answers to these questions.

The blame is shared between the candidates and the media who asked the questions.

Twenty debates and we hardly know more now than we did at the very beginning.

Now, bickering and back-stabbing seems to be omnipresent.

Bill Clinton with his innuendos and outbursts has denigrated the dialogue and the blacks are fleeing from his side….

But both hope to pressure into calling for Super Delegates to ignore the delegate counts and the numbers and press for Hillary.


Meanwhile, the issues that really define them never rise to the surface.

It is sad to see the most important election of our lives so diminished.

Now, all we know is that we will be going into a Convention that is riddled with dissension and bad will.

Will we emerge from such a debacle ennobled?

Hardly!

A sad day for Democrats…..


Les Aaron