It’s Legacy Time People

There comes a time in most everyones life, where they face undeniable facts that they let an opportunity slip away.  The girl that got away, the job that would have been great, the dream career - you sulk for a while, say a few choice words and move on.  It is time for someone close to, and in a private manner tell Hillary that this is her time.

The nomination for the Democratic Party’s Candidate for President has slipped from her grasp.  The question is, with so much of media and the political world having a dislike of her, what to do now.  She has been lampooned as someone who will continue to run for the nomination even on Inauguration Day.

The legacy of this campaign will be of a woman candidate who found one glass ceiling that was unable to be broken.  It will also be remembered for being poorly mismanaged and having an air of entitlement to it.  Both of these reasons are why she finds herself in this condition.

What Hillary needs to do now is to preserve her legacy against those who would seek to do it much more damage, so they can feel better about themselves and their failures during the Presidency of her Husband.  Should Hillary continue to keep the fight and continue to run a campaign against Obama, she will be pointed to as the cause of John McCain’s election to the Office of the President of the United States.

Hillary will be vilified as the cause of the Democratic Party fracture which will be an excuse that will be thrown out, regardless of its validity, as to why Democrats failed to win the White House.  Should that happen her career as a Senator will be placed in great jeopardy and she will have truly carpet bombed a very notable career.

Senator Ted Kennedy can understand the nature of legacies.  He has been a part of the family that has been both romanticized due to the eloquence of the words that his brothers Jack and Bobby spoke, as well as the despicable nature that they were taken from us.  Senator Kennedy launched bids to be in the Oval Office as well, and was met with defeat.  It was then he decided to make his legacy in the Senate, where he has been the lion for social justice and progressive legislature.

It is when the realization that a dream has been destroyed, that the quality of ones self is revealed.  One can become bitter, and vindictive in order to make others suffer in order to soothe one’s own pain.  I call these people Republicans.  Then there are those who see that the moment is greater than them, and while they feel they would do a better job, any movement forward would benefit us, as the policies in place now are not working.

So shape up, cause It’s Legacy Time People

Change For Changes Sake

If there is one thing that we should learn from surviving the Bush Presidency, it is that not everything one’s predecessor did is necessarily bad thing.  Clinton’s rice for calming down the North Korea nuclear program kept the country from thumbing its nose on the grand and public scale of global politics.

Bush canceling the program because North Korea would cheat on the program every now and again to make sure the food would keep coming, was a stark warning sign of how little he knew about global policies and his role as President in dealing with them.

There are certain parts of the world where change, no matter how badly needed by outside influence, cannot be changed through military intervention.  This would include all three parts of the “Axis of Evil”, as well as Africa.  (Africa is included because as famine, genocide, and an aids epidemic sweep the country-nobody seems to care so long as they teach abstinence and don’t have abortions)

North Korea has the protection from their “comrades” in China, as well as their cousins in South Korea.  China still harbors feelings of inadequacy and is uncomfortable having a democracy right on its border, and it knows that should North Korea fall, they will receive immigrants by the bucket load, and they don’t want them.

South Korea wants to keep the North propped up because of the economics involved.  Sure, they will receive immigrants too, but then the possibility of reunification will come to surface, and despite the rhetoric, nobody in the South wants that.   The reasons for this are simple especially when we look at the other example of reunification last century, Germany.

The evil, diabolic, swine infested pinko commie bastards, here to will be referred to as “Russians”, they at least provided East Germany with some sort of infrastructure.  They had roads, schools, buildings, and a really impressive wall.  Germany is still recovering economically from absorbing that half of the country.  North Korea is basically a couple of cities and farmland.  The costs of absorbing would set South Korea back generations.

The other parts of the Axis of Evil we have history.   Aparently the United States was an integrel part of the crusades.  Which I find surprising because if it were true, the Middle East would have been conquered centuries ago and not be the flea infested kitty litter box it is today.

What the next President needs to take from the Bush experiment is that having someone unstable and uncompromising is not a terrible thing.  Sure he can’t have any real power, but it is nice to be able to keep our enemies concerned.  The way we tinker this, is have someone with that personality, that actually knows what they are doing.

Threatening to invade and then do air strikes.   Though I w was thoroughly disappointed with the shock and awe that took place at the opening of Bush’s War.  This is what is good about Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh, they are freking crazy lunatics.  You don’t give them any REAL influence, but they keep people on their toes.

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” was the foreign policy by Teddy Roosevelt,  and it worked for many years because it understood both the global environment and the United States role in it.  The next President needs to take us back to a policy that can do the same.

Diplomacy is a tool that can only be effective when applied with leverage.   While this leverage need not be a nuclear weapon being detonated upon Mecca and Medina, pointing out the option usually gets one’s attention and shows how serious the situation now is.  Economic benefits, military contracts, hosting the Olympics are all tools that can be used to gain that leverage.

It should also be pointed out that Peace for the sake of Peace is incorrect policy as well.  While there are moral absolutes in almost any field, Global policy is the least affected, as the shades of gray are numerous. These are not easy decisions, for no matter what you decide people die.   It is the next President’s job to determine where, what nationality, and how many.

Controlled aggression, just like in poker and love, is often rewarded in global politics.   Where one gets into trouble is when we are over come by our passions, and allow aggression to go unchecked.  Influenced by God, Power, Fearlessness, Principles, or unresolved father issues, we are now living through what can happen when the desire for change goes too far.

The definition of insanity is to repeat the same cycle of decisions, and expect different results.  Change is necessary and sometimes painful.  What this country needs now is to adapt, which can be even more intimidating.  What we cannot do, is Change For Changes Sake.