LAST WORD -- FOR NOW AT LEAST -- Just a Minute for Monday 7-21-08

Hello again –

 

Well, it doesn’t happen too often – but the programs we put out for Thursday and Friday were trying to break through the mounting indifference on the part of some conservatives who believe McCain isn’t sufficiently in agreement with their views to warrant their vote… so they’re thinking about just not voting.

 

My point Thursday and Friday was – “That’s how we got four years of Jimmy Carter. Do you want to pay that kind of price again?” 

 

Believe me – having worked in the Nixon White House for a period during which Watergate was winding down to it’s ignoble end – and living through election night in November 1964 when as a staffer at the Republican National Committee I thought Barry Goldwater would pull it off – I’ve made more than my share of misjudgments on the political scene. But I just don’t want to see America have to go through all that political white-water again.  On the other hand – maybe the Lord has other ideas. If that’s the way he has to teach us…  Well, I’ll leave it at that for now.

 

What came as a surprise to me over the weekend was to see that Michael Barone – who is a Fox News contributor, a Michigan boy, who went to Harvard, got a Harvard Law degree, graduated into polling and writing for prestigious magazines etc. and is Chief Editor of what I think is the most politically dependable reference book in Washington these days ( The Almanac of American Politics) that appears bi-annually at a hefty price of above $60 but is, for those who need it, well worth the money and has the info needed when writing about politics – anyway  Michael agreed with me that the Carter-Ford race of 1976 is the *most like* our current contest for the presidency.  And he and I agree for basically the same reasons… America is fed up with Republicans abandoning their principles for expediency. (He doesn’t say it exactly that way – but I do.)

 

That’s how we got Bro. Jimmeh from down in Plains in the fall of 1976… and unless something changes reasonably soon… that’s how we’re gonna have to put up with Obama & company for the next four (or more) years unless the ‘wishy washies’ wake up. And in case you’re thinking of just staying home or … voting for Mr. O’… “c’mere let may knock on yo head” as my Uncle Pierce used to say to my cousins.

 

Well… we can’t keep up this totality of politics on through to November… we’re not even to the conventions yet (although from the lack of coverage of the Republican one by the 3 major nets you’d not know they are even gearing up to have one…) anyone care to guess where and when the GOP meets to anoint Sen. McCain? (No peekin’ now… e-mail me with your genuine guess – if you’re right, I’ll print your name but not your address right here.)

 

Tomorrow – Lord willin’ – we’ll talk about Taiwan (again) – and later in the week some additional news from China.

 

Anyway… Keep listening please.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama07-21-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt07-21-08.doc

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

LAST WORD – FOR NOW

Just A Minute – Thanks for hanging with me Thursday and Friday about the importance of this election.

May I point out, Michael Barone, Harvard Law grad, senior writer for U.S. News and Editor of the bi-annual Almanac of American Politics – who’s visited not only every state, but every congressional district – wrote a TOWNHALL column Saturday agreeing with me the Carter-Ford race of ‘76 is, in the past 40 years, most like the current contest.

Was he listening to Just a Minute? Anyway - Barone also noted the Washington Post sums up Obama’s problem: quote: “… The message the Democrat sends, is he is ultimately indifferent to the war's outcome — that Iraq … must be speedily evacuated regardless of the consequences. That's an irrational and a-historical way to view [Iraq] at the strategic center of the Middle East, with major oil reserves. --  Whether or not the war was a mistake, Iraq's future is a vital U.S. security interest. If he is elected president, Mr. Obama sooner or later will have to tailor his Iraq strategy to that reality.” Unquote

All that to say – if you’re not inclined to believe me – believe them.

            <> I’m Jack Buttram

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