Where is 2008’s FDR?

Whoa, we are drawing near the end of the most chaotic election of my time, but I wonder if the real chaos will come after the winner takes office. Richard Nixon was the last Senator to become President of the United States. It has always been difficult for a Senator to prove he is vetted in executive leadership and capable of managing. However, it seems the last two standing are both Senators that lack the executive resume a governor has. Senator Obama and McCain have been chosen as representatives of the Democratic and Republican parties and will be confirmed by their upcoming conventions.

I am an avid news watcher and have kept a daily track of the presidential race. That said, I can not understand why these two men are the last standing. Where are the FDR’s and JFK’s? I refuse to believe there are none left. This is a pivotal moment for our country. We face recession, a must succeeded situation in a war we can no longer afford, gas prices that will leave many jobless, rampant costly natural disasters, home owners facing homelessness, American businesses facing bankruptcy, Medicaid cuts leaving many without care, a SSI and SS system verging on collapse, etc etc. The list is growing and worsening each day. Yet, we as a nation lift either Senator McCain or Obama as the means to fix these problems. I fail to comprehend the thought process behind this. Take the Rev Wright, Czechoslovakia, and all the other muddy fiascos out of the equation. Neither men have ever actually run anything of mass. Neither have even laid out an A-Z plan to evade the pending disasters I listed above.

For example, go to Senator Obama’s web site and try to find his solution to the SSI system facing collapse. You will not find one……what you will find is a watered down hit line about making the process easier for those in need, filing less paper work, etc. As the mother of a severely handicapped child, I know first hand the SSI systems problems, weakness, and eventual downfall. The system( as is )enables those who don’t try to provide for themselves to be rewarded and those that do try to be punished. The problem isn’t with how much paperwork is there, but what kind of paper work it is. I have watched mothers come in with children running around like a wild jack rabbits and having no physical or mental handicap to be seen leave with a smiling face. They prance out to their forty thousand dollar vehicle and await their SSI check. I know because the five thousand dollar spinning rims nearly blind me as I try to get my kid out of the car I struggle to keep running. Meanwhile, my blind child sits in a wheelchair drooling and I have to hire lawyers to get a four hundred dollar disability check. I actually emailed the Obama camp for detailed plans related to my listed problems. Surprisingly, I have yet to receive a response. Although, I have received multiple emails to contribute to the campaign.

On the other hand, check out Senator McCain’s solution to the economic crisis. First of all, just last year Senator McCain professed he knew little about economics and would depend on his advisors to guide him on those matters. However, now he is oozing with supposed solutions. For years he has opposed drilling in Alaska, but now says it is a must. He is committed to bringing fiscal improvement to the nation, but simultaneously plans to stay in a trillion dollar a year war. Hummmm, I think he better check his cool aide jug…… because it seems to have multiple holes in it. Again, I emailed his camp for answers and received the same request for donations, but no answers.

These are just a few holes in the two campaigns. Essentially, you can take any issue I listed above and fail to find a comprehensive plan of action. I want hope, change, and patriotism, but I am not seeing any means to achieve them.

I refuse to believe this is the best we have to offer up for the highest position in our nation. However, I feel there is much more going on here than usual inept politicians bulling their way into nominations they don’t deserve. This election has been truly unique with the first African American, woman, and Mormon to actually have a chance to become president, and has fueled passionate fires within the identity voters out there. Those whose candidates have been defeated are not so eager to have their fire extinguished and are vowing to literally burn the remaining candidate in their party. I happen to be Mormon and a previous Romney supporter. However, I was not voting for Romney based on identify politics. I truly had faith that a man who had turned around multi billion dollar businesses from fiscal ruin to thriving successes could only improve the state of the union. After all, America is nothing but a gigantic business. There was much about his changing stances that I did not agree with, but taken on accomplishment and capability he was the only candidate I could put my faith in. He was the one candidate that spelled out hope, change, and patriotism with a plan to arrive there. So, I understand that not all blacks are voting Senator Obama based on identify politics. However, when ninety five percent of a group just happens to be voting for the someone they have an identity parallel with, it is abundantly obvious it is mostly identity politics propelling Senator Obama.

I am at a stage where I don’t know who to vote for. I honestly feel that the two remaining candidates will only add to the decline of our great nation. There is little chance of any third party candidate being much better….much less have a chance at ever sitting behind the oval office desk. So, my hands are in the air and I feel cheated. All that’s left is my nightly pleas to God, “Where is 2008’s FDR?”