Is All Well?

Lost Decade for Stocks?

sammyg123,

I enjoyed your thoughtful presentation. For your arguments to work we need competent leaders: Republican, Democrat or other. Given their idiotic subservience to ideology uber alles, is there any hope in either of our political parties? This will be the undoing of this country unless we elect someone who has the audacity to search for a different path. Can anyone be as wretchedly wrong-headed and close-minded as our current "fearless" leader???? Maybe.

GW had our adversary bin Laden pinned down in Afghanistan after we took on the Taleban after 9/11. If we had kept him and his pals pinned down in that region, they might still be there in their mountain tunnels paid for by our previous "smart" leaders who were paying him to slay the Russians. Given the terrific hideouts that the CIA financed for him in the mountains of Afghanistan, we might still be looking for him and his henchmen there...BUT not across the entire globe and with the even larger bands of extremists that they have spawned since GW, RC and DR et al. got distracted by some other agenda.

You may be right about the need to fight a war at times, especially when attacked...but let's finish one war before we start another. Too bad Mr. McCain, a proven war hero, allowed a vagabond military-evader like GW, out-maneuver him in 2000? Is this the character we want in our next leader? Courage in the face of a challenge to the homeland? I dare say that Mr. McCain might have been able to make a difference in our military response to 9/11 had he been a real patriot and stood up to the Rovian Bush machine WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE. He might have prosecuted the search for bin Laden that the military leaders favored. Too late for that now, Senator!

Hilary Clinton is more of the same old same old. This is her last shot, given her age, to go down in history with her husband as being the only couple to swap positions in the White House. I wonder what she can achieve in the Oval Office, or the corridors nearby. Ego uber alles.

What is America's choice? No doubt we will get what we deserve, hasn't it happened like that most recently? How does the American voter take back some control in electing a leader in whom it has confidence? Perhaps every ballot with a choice of "None of the Above" will be a start to getting some accountability. Can it be possible that “None of the Above” might come out a winner in some election choices we are given. Best of luck to us, since our ensconced solons are loathe to dethrone themselves.

I agree that money is irrelevant in the face of crisis. We have a major crisis in leadership that has been unfolding for some time now...not just the financial mess that greedy players have been allowed to contrive.

My ideal ticket...Michael Bloomberg/Barack Obama or vici versa. It is time for some fresh ideas. Is America ready?