WHAT THEN SHOULD BE DO NOW?

President Obama says it “Is not the end” as far as his famous Jobs bill is concerned that was going to turn around the economy, as well as his popularity numbers. He and I read the tea leaves different. To me it appears he’s had it- - zilch, kaput. The Republicans in the debate made it abundantly clear that they would accept No Part of this bill- - even a 2% payroll tax rate cut. So I don’t see where the President is coming from. To me the best thing he could do at this time is to announce that he would not seek another term as President in 2012. This announcement alone would make it a whole new ball game and more importantly- defuse and disarm his opponents. One way in which the tea leaves don’t augur well for him at all is that no big names are out there supporting him. Tell me, Where are all the hosts of Hollywood celebrities? You used to see them all the time such as Al Gore and the green movement. You’d see them out there with their red AIDS ribbons and their pink breast cancer ribbons. You would see the anti fur people out and the tree huggers who camp out in redwoods for weeks to keep them from being cut down. They’re nowhere. Where are the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? They are AWOL. The President has blown off so many people I guess it isn’t surprising that nobody is giving him moral support in his time of need. The media sure isn’t on his side. They are treating Herald Cain’s “nine, nine, nine” plan as though it were from a serious contender and many in the media are praising it. Keep in mind this whole plan assumes the complete elimination of Social Security payments. Period. Also all capital gains taxes are wiped out as well as all estate taxes are wiped out. I told you what the capital gains thing would do to the stock market. Unfortunately it seems the average voter in the rest of backwoods America has the brain sharpness of a 75 year old, the income of a wall street executive, and the educational background of Jethro Bodeine. Whatever happened to science, and history, and economics in our schools. These things seem to be completely eliminated otherwise the swill of the tea party would never have been accepted by so much of Americans, and its precepts never questioned from that point on. Do all these small business people who complain business is slow realize they hadn’t seen anything in terms of economic heartache if a Rick Perry or Herman Cain were sitting in the Oval Office? The out of control deflationary cycle would overwhelm them. And I guess even at that point they would still blame Obama.

Abdul Al Matali, the underwear Christmas bomber plead guilty in court yesterday as his trial was just getting underway. The evidence against him was piling up quickly and it seemed pointless to go on. Of course Matali was defiant in court as he openly declared his hatred of Americans and a desire to kill as many as possible. Obviously Al Qaeda’s best days are behind them. They are never going to pull off another stunt where they down two skyscrapers and kill three thousand people. Of course they needed a little help from the Bush Administration to do that. That’s why nothing remotely close to that will ever happen again. Abdul Al Matali is another name you can check off in the “Done” list if the government is keeping tabs, and I know it is. Actually I have absolutely no idea how powerful Al Qaeda still is. I don’t know what their recruitment activities are these days, or whether or not they are at all successful.

Dr. Conrad Murray is someone else who well might consider entering a Guilty plea along about now. The court evidence is piling up rapidly against him. They said his trial is being broadcast live on 5.2 and I keep forgetting to tune it in. Already the evidence against him is impressive. First of all he lied about making the 911 call whenhe did. Yesterday a medical official stated unequivocally that Michael Jackson could have been saved had he not just been left alone for 45 minutes or whatever. Of course there were no Michael Jackson finger prints on any of the key medical vials, only the doctor’s. Yesterday they said even if Jackson actually ingested the Propothol it would not have had the lethal effects it would have from injection. And clearly Jackson was already too doped up to inject himself. Well, other cases have appeared to be slam dunks before in recent high profile LA court history, like the OJ case. And we know what happened in that one. This doctor is one sick puppy and deserves to lose his Medical license.

Now other groups are getting into the act. There is a group called the 53% ers because they represent the 53% of the American people who actually Pay federal income tax, who regard the lower 47% of Americans as mainly freeloaders. Of course these consist of the poor and the minorities, and the elderly, and in so many cases they are urban. Also there are still some University campuses out there where it is still respectable to be a liberal. I would imagine the majority of intellectual Atheists are also liberals because they teach human responsability. And now we have added to these the "one percenters", who are from the one percent of the privileged rich who feel they need to "give back" something to the country that enabeled them to prosper. You know, people make mistake in life they have to own up to. President Obama should realize that his pushing Obama Care was the single biggest mistake he made in office. I am waiting for him to say these words. Some mistakes I made in my own life were a mixture of bad decision making and not knowing all of the facts. Was publishing my prophecy book a mistake? Maybe. Was getting married to Laura in 1981 a mistake? Maybe. In both cases I felt these moves were prudent and would make me a better Christian. But I'll tell you what a bigger mistake I made was and that was getting a divorce in mid 1985. Both she and I made mistakes but I probably made more. When I moved back into the BOSC house it was a summer of oppressive heat all through July and most of August. Relations with BOSC mates were pretty bad and at least two of them weren't there before, and really all three. I wasn't ready for any "new relationship" even of the four legged variety. Dan Di Marco gave his dog Lobo to Ron a year earlier and I ignored the dog. Ron wasn't even living there any more. But let's get back to politics. I think it was a mistake for the Democratic Convention not to allow Hillary's name to be placed in nomination. What were they afraid of? If they were afraid of "dividing their base" well guess what? What they feared most has come upon them. Nobody supports Obama these days. I haven't talked to anybody who supports Obama in a long time. About the only supporters of the President these days are First Lady Michelle, Ron Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Timothy Geitner, and that's about it. And if there should per chance be any supporters of the President it's really shallow, and I offer myself as Exhibit A. Contrast this with candidates like Rick Perry or Herman Cain. Backers of these candidates would go to the end of the earth to elect their candidates. You know some Christian pastors will bemoan the lack of "Sacrificial devotion" in their church, as if you could just congure it up. Such sacrificial devotion is the result of a lot of positive karma and earned reputation. Most people would not regard "character" as one of the President's positive attributes. They see him as an aimless flake. Perhaps this is why the celebrities are not rallying around in his support. It's because they themselves don't want to be associated with a sinking ship. Perhaps these celebreties have become "corporatized" and now realize that "going with the money" is their financially prudent course. If the President had taken my advised and said he would not run last July when I suggested it, just think of all the political heartache he could have saved himself in the past few months. These are times that try men's souls. One thing we on the responsable left should perhaps do is "ghettoize outselves" like people on the political right sure do. At least we would feel better about ourselves. We on the left in our effort to be fair, want to hear both sides of an argument. Whereas those on the Right live in their own political echo chamber where dissent is not allowed. But I am fresh out of ideas. I guess this whole political tradgity will unfold in the coming months in whatever manner in which the Almighty has decreed it.

OK now for a little trivial clarification on something I said. I said that Mal Evans banned the "Flaming Pie" album in 1998. Now that I remember it was in 1998 after Linda died. Linda told Mal that this particular album depressed her. When I was doing a Mc Cartney compilation I decided I needed ONE more song representing "Band on the Run". I had two. Mal Evans first suggested "1985" saying "It will make a great plug for your Prophecy book". In the book I state that the Rapture of the Church will occur in early August of 1985. I didn't like that. Then Mal said "Linda likes Bluebird" and I thought "well how can I fight that? Bluebird it is". But then as the album was released in the Federation the concencus grew that most people would rather see "No Words for my Love" in that slot and "Bluebird' taken out. And so that happened.