Unreal politics!

Gosh, there are so many unreal, and unacceptable, events occurring these days that it’s impossible to focus on any one item to the exclusion of others! 

On the one hand, we have some Republicans complaining about how the governor selected John Walsh to replace Max Baucus. Will Deschamps, for example, has disqualified himself (in my book) from holding any leadership position. It’s fair game to criticize the selectee, but one should be a big boy and recognize that the choice was Bullock’s to make without consulting with the opposition. I doubt if I’d hear any such crying from him if a Republican or conservative governor made a choice without looking to his/her opposition!

As I sit at my computer today (Feb. 28) I hear Obama and John Kerry issuing “stern warnings” (???) to Russia with regard to the developing Ukranian situation. Sorrowfully, I find myself bemused by our government’s moaning. Who, in today’s world, believes that Putin is going to worry about what our “leaders” say? This administration has spent five years wasting the credibility we owned pre-Obama (see Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc.) to the point, now, that we aren’t respected by our foes and are suspected by our “friends.” It’s probably fair to say that the U.S. is close to being a laughing stock (behind closed doors). As a prime example, Defense Secretary Hagel’s announcement paring back on the military should end any doubts that we have no wish to maintain our posture as an example of freedom and principle to the world. 

Let us hope only that we can turn this around when the likes of Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. are voted out of their positions of power! —Bob Hanson, Dayton