Everyone has heard the bruhaha about Trump’s comment on McCain. I don’t usually get involved in politics and don’t really want to here. But I do feel like Mr. McCaine’s triumph over being a Prisoner of War has been utilized to the extreme, and underminds, the 100’s of other men who not only were captured but were killed during their service.
I think often times, we overlook the ones who are in the shadows, and try to glorify those who were lucky enough to become public figures and have their stories told.
During Vietnam, we still have soldiers that went to Prison Camp’s and have never come home alive or dead. Those are the ones we should be celebrating and acknowledging.
I applaud Mr. McCain for having a survivor mentality, and that is a good thing. But again, there were many men and have been throughout the wars that deserve as much recognition, or perhaps more since they gave us their lives.
I think a man needs to run on his ability to run a country if he thinks about being President. It is a business, a very big business, and someone has to show that they are able to be sucessful in that area to be a good President.
Currently I don’t know that we have any candidates with that ability. They all seem to have abilities to tell people what they want to hear. You tell the poor that you are going to take care of them, or promise that tomorrow will be better for everyone, and people go to the polls and vote, on personality, and looks, and whatever else is important to them, whatever makes them feel good about tomorrow.
Then a few years into the Presidency we are all shocked, that things haven’t changed, and all of the promises were just hype, and the states that could barter the best received the aid, and the best Lobbyist got their bills passed, without reading most of them.
No one has ever read completely a bill that has been passed yet!
It’ a fairy tale, and Prince Charming is usally elected. And when the castle starts to deteroiate, a new prince will be brought into the picture, and we will all believe in Cindarealla again, for a while.
Sandra