Now before anyone yells at me for not naming sources I am the source for this thread. I keep my ears open and my mouth moving in the political scene in Iowa.
My predictions for the Jan. 3 caucus.
The Democrats-Barrack Obama. With John Edwards 2nd and Hillary a close third.
My reasoning. Obama represents a change of pace. Yes he is young and doesn't have all the experience the other candidates do he also doesn't have the level of corruption. John Edwards has always been a golden boy to the Iowa Democrats. Hillary is to dishonest and shady. I hate to plagerize myself but on another thread I wrote that Hillary is George Bush with breasts and better hair. I think that pretty much sums it up.
For the Republicans. Mitt Romney. He has been consistant in his issues over the last several months and he hasn't done all the mud slinging the other candidates have. I for one appreciate that about Romney. Huckabee in second. I have to admit I haven't followed his campaign like I should have but he seems to have a lot of support in Iowa and it is growing. I will have to start paying attention. And bringing up the last in the big 3. Rudy Guilliani. I see Rudy as a flake. He was a Democrat now he is a Republican. Yes this worked for Reagan but let's face it Rudy is no Gipper. And frankly Rudy's only real claim to fame is he happened to be in the right position at the right time during the 9/11 tragedy.
My 2 cents.
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Thanks Jennifer. I am waiting to see if I am right too.
Yeah, crawling... like cockroaches... Quick! Someone turn on a light!
Being independent must be nice , slamming both sides ala Lou Dobbs .
Ha ha! Check my previous articles, Lori. I have been saying these young people are really afire for the Senator. Why do you think my Yahoo! is out of control? Over 5,000 emails!
I cannot get a handle on the thing. I have nearly given up.
Senator Obama is the leader for the 21st century. Modern thinkers really need to embrace the future and leave 20th century thinking IN the 20th century. It is time to move forward with progress, but then again. The forward thinking seniors are also embracing Senator Obama. It is what is called Senior Citizens' WISDOM.
I shall take WISDOM over so-called "experience" any ole day.
Thanks, Lori!
I would love to see a Hillary/Obama and a Romney/Ron Paul race. I'd probably never make it to election day I'd be laughing so hard at the antics of both sides.
Carolyn why do they make you lie?
Thanks Bob.
Stumbling over his words may add to Obama's youthful image but it does not inspire confidence in his ability to conduct negotiations with more experienced world leaders and even less experienced world leaders who have propelled themselves into the limelight.
Lady Nalita,
As a comparatively young senior who many years ago saw the the wisdom of not dismissing the ideas of my elders as a generational thing I find no wisdom in attempting dismiss the ideas of others as the result of a generational gap! As the youngest of a large family I have had enough of generational gaps. I still get that kind of crap from some of my older siblings who don't see me as a member of their generation because I happen to have the audacity to disagree with them. It is a put down and sign of lack of respect whether it is directed at those older or younger than oneself.
Where my nieces and nephews are concerned, there is no "communication gap" there either. Again, I have no idea to what you speak, or what goes on in your family, nor do I want to know.
Sometimes it does well to take Jackie Kennedy Onassis' advice and consider some things about our families "private matters".
It is too bad about your family problems.
If you don't know that Obama suggested the differences between himself and the Clintons was a generational thing perhaps you should pay more attention to what your candidate says.
Actually, I now get along quite well with my siblings despite our age differences. Never having to really deal with it with our parents or most members of the preceding generation, I was an adult when it I became aware that it even existed. By then my siblings were beginning to have to dealing with issues between themselves and their baby boomer children that were amplified by the the attributing of difference of the sixties to a "generational gap" and due to being closer in age to many of those baby boomers. As a result, I was often unconsciously treated as a not peer with whom them might respectfully disagree but as a youth who had yet to attain their wisdom.
The sixties and early seventies were tumultuous times and while I too look at them with a degree of nostalgia I feel the some of those issues are still with us because they were dismissed as nothing but a "generational thing". While that was the easiest way for many to deal with the differences in opinion on a personal family level it did little to resolve the issues themselves. What progress has been made has been accomplished by the passing of time and the acceptance of attitudes of what was then our society's younger members by what is now society's older members.
To a certain extent that is a natural evolution of social change, but it is also the result of the eventual acceptance of compromise by members of both generations. Like most people my age, I do not have another forty years to wait to see change accomplished and unless we are willing to treat our differences of opinion with the respect they deserve and work to achieve compromise on today's issues, it will take another forty years, and I will be dead and you and our descendants will still be dealing with many of them.