As Bilbo Baggins and the other residents of the Shire vote, there have been mighty strange occurrences in the Shire. At the big debate Saturday night, it emerged that Marielle Rubio believed he was running against Barack Obama in the 2016 election. His complaint about Obama, which he reiterated time after time, was that Obama "knew exactly what he was doing ". There is unanimous agreement among the Republican candidates that everything that Obama did was wrong, if not despicable. Apparently these candidates are against saving jobs in the US by giving government help to General Motors, giving more Americans access to healthcare, not starting another war in Syria, providing cleaner air and and providing stimulus to the US economy by a three-pronged program of tax cuts, providing federal funds to the states and federal construction programs. This seems somewhat odd as the economic proposals by all the republican candidates consist primarily of tax cuts and increased distribution of federal funds to the states. Rubio is also apparently dead set against a president knowing what he is doing.
Those of us who are older, can remember Mohammad Ali claiming" I am the greatest".He had nothing on this group of candidates, particularly Donald Trump. The who is the greatest debate appears primarily to center on the question of the meaning of the term " conservative ". Each of the candidates tends to look at the others and say "Ha, look who thinks he's a conservative".
Meanwhile, the two Democratic candidates argue about who is the most "progressive".
God help us, there are 48 states to go.
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