I will be spending the entire work in Kutztown, PA working at an FCA Camp. I’m probably going to be coaching golf which, if you didn’t know, is possibly my worst sport. But also the one that I want to get better at the most. So this could be a really good situation.
Also, if you have not listened to the new Coldplay album ambigously entitled Viva La Vida then do so. It’s extremely interesting and you’re no doubt going to hear a lot about it in the near future.
I’m amazed at just how naive people are when it comes to certain things. Music, religion, and sports all come to mind. But possibly the two most relevant are gas prices and presidents. Just two quick questions to the general populace:
- If the problem with gas prices was really just the Saudi’s (like many think), do you really think we would still have the problem?
It is just not that simple. Oil is a speculation based market. In a nutshell, that means that there are people who set prices for oil based on how valuable it is or how hard it is to get. Some of these people are Saudi. Some are Iraqi. Many are American. Just for fun, look up the Enron clause put into a recent energy bill. It essentially gives energy companies carte blanche in the area of energy (read: oil) speculation. They can set prices however they want with no government oversight.
Also, in case people didn’t notice, much of the world’s oil comes from places outside the middle east in areas such as Nigeria, Russia, South America, and the Gulf of Mexico.
- Is it really a good idea to elect a President who said himself that he has no foreign policy experience in the context of the public relations and foreign policy meltdown that has occupied the Oval Office for the past eight years?
Given that nothing major gets done domestically because it gets caught up in red tape in the Capitol building, foreign policy and the economy are the two areas where our candidates have a real, honest chance to do some good. One has publicly stated he has no experience with foreign policy and no knowledge on the economy.
I’m never going to tell someone how to vote because that is a personal decision. But I will be voting for someone with fresh, thoughtful ideas, the willingness and ability to lead, the intellectual capacity to reason, the council to succeed, and the drive to do so.
But first I need to find a candidate who fits that description.
