Once you’re past Goodboys Invitational weekend you make the transition from mid-summer to late summer. Just being here at my folks place in Massachusetts these past nearly three weeks you can see the days getting shorter and the sun angle getting a little lower. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not as if fall is around the corner, but the kids are heading back to shool in a couple of weeks back in Arizona, and the TV is full of back-to-school commercials. I guarantee that if I head to Petsmart for bunny supplies in the next two weeks they’ll already have their doggy Halloween stuff out, and I’m guessing that in the next couple of weeks the Sam Summer at the local Fry’s will have been replaced with Sam Octoberfest.
With all the golf-related travel and rounds of the past few weeks I haven’t really paid much attention to politics, so it’s reassuring to know that President Obama is once again – for like the seventh time – going to pivot his presidency around the economy. Heard him blathering on during a Friday speech in which he mentioned the word “inequality” a dozen times. The guy just doesn’t seem to get the fact that there is no way to level 100% the playing field in a capitalistic system like we have – even as much as the Obama presidency has tried its best to put his socialistic ideals into the mix wherever possible. There’s simply no way to eliminate inequality in even the most socialist or communist systems – heck, in the old USSR and East germany (about as communist as you could get) the rampant inequality that existed all came from cronyism – as long as you knew someone with influence you had a leg up.
I really think Obama says these things not because he plans on doing anything about it, but because he just says stuff he knows people want him to say. AS long as he spouts dream-weaver stuff and doesn’t get bogged down in the politics of it he takes the high road, goes and play golf and hang with his Hollywood celebrity friends, and enjoys the perks of the Presidency without having to do anything that comes close to work. He’s an empty suit who knows no one in the liberal mainstream media has the guts to call him on it.
I’ve avoided commenting about the George Zimmerman verdict because, frankly, I didn’t pay any attention to the case or the trial. The only thing I will say is that our legal system is supposed to operate under the philosophy that you’re innocent until proven guilty, and that anytime there is reasonable doubt the accused has to go free. Our system isn’t perfect by a long shot, but that’s how it operates. Which is why it’s sad that the typical race-baiters and Hollywood limousine liberals won’t let the hard work of the Zimmerman jury stand as they decided based on the evidence that was provided.
Anthony Wiener. That’s a joke, right?
