MY BOOTS AREN'T HIGH ENOUGH

You'd have to be wearing fisherman's waders to stay above the political B.S. today. First, Obama addresses the U.N. general assembly. Over half his speech concerned American domestic problems. What in the h*** makes him think that the representatives of Uganda or Indonesia, or Bolivia, or anywhere else give one hoot about our problems??? The other half addressed the Islamic terrorism problem and the Mideast peace process.
A wonderful speech, but with the typical idealists problem. They don't live in the real world.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the things the idealists espouse are where the human race needs to go if we are to survive the next thousand years without annihilating ourselves or poisoning our planet to where no life can live on it. The problem at this point in time is that humanity as a whole is not advanced beyond the point of individual self - interest. Granted, if the race is to survive long term, it will take visionary leaders to push the agenda. Unfortunately, Obama is about 20 generations ahead of his time, and he doesn't understand that or the raw savagery humans still embrace in many parts of the world. He needs to watch the videos of the terrorists beheading their captives. These people aren't even in the 20th century, let alone the 21st.

And then, the Republicans big press conference about their "Promise to America". What a typical farce. Orchestrated to make them appear like ordinary middle class citizens, dressed in casual clothes, no ties etc. Half the speech was spent blaming the Democrats for everything, the rest general promises with not many details about how they plan on accomplishing their agenda. Example: We promise to fix the unemployment situation. OK, wonderful. But HOW??? Cut government spending. But WHERE??? They did promise to repeal the health care bill if they get control of Congress, but most of the stuff was sorely lacking any concrete solutions.
As usual, their real agenda is just to stay in power. No current mainstream politicians are putting forward a true plan to save America. It would cost them campaign contributions from the special interests that now pull the strings and therefore have the real power and control.

Lord, help us all,
Dumb Farmer