More Thoughts this Morning: Our so called Presidents, Bush and Obama

To me , John F. Kennedy was a REAL president, and in our history of presidents, some were more really presidential than others ( we can google up what President Harrison was like, for instance, or Millenials will have to google Kennedy really).

Our latest batch of presidents don't quite cut it.

I am reminded of this by the fact that former so-called President Geo W Bush will be attending the funeral of NYPD Office Rafael Ramos while current so-called President Barack Obama will not be, running off to Hawaii and happier climes. Maybe he wishes now he had never left Hawaii.

This is happening because, as politics are working out now, we have ballsy, brazen even Republicans and timid Democrats even when they are being their most daring. 

Look at how Obama sold out to the drug companies and the whole concept of single payer health coverage with Obamacare.

He was afraid he would have the same experience as Hillary Clinton's initiative for health care that got called "Hillarycare" and was doomed from the beginning.

Bill Clinton has balls, he fiddled with the acceptance of gays in the military when all these people (who meant it) said they would assassinate him if he made homosexuality acceptable in the military ( especially the Marines).

The trouble is, Bill Clinton is also brazen like modern Republicans and thought he could get away with his philandering and lying about it the way Republicans now lie about caring about people and somehow doing away with the deficit.

I mean, Republicans are now the --well, not just anti-poor party, they are the anti-people party, -- unless you REALLY think a CORPORATION is a PERSON.

People are now speculating who the next President will be, and from what I have seen, it is all up for grabs. There are good reasons why "None of the Above" seems to apply for the next Presidential election. 

To take just one example, Chris Christie has balls or guts or whatever but he comes across also as a bully. And maybe too "New Jersey" for most of America. He is also still, let us say, an oversized figure. I thought he had surgery that would reduce his girth. 

Well, maybe since most Americans are fat now, that is not the problem it used to be. Americans and most Europeans, when polled, admit they are fat but say they are healthy. Only the Germans admit they are not really doing right, diet wise and weight wise. They are struggling with the question, being a very pragmatic people if nothing else.

I won't get into the shortcomings of the other potential candidates, like Marco Rubio; let me just say there are heavy negatives for all of them.

And that's about all I have to say for now.