IN OUR WORLD WE ARE AS INSIGNIFICANT AS OUR WORLD IS TO THE UNIVERSE

As the world is glued to their TV sets for the next several weeks watching the Olympic games, Romney is continuing to make a fool of himself in Europe.  The man is presidential candidate who has made it this far in the race.  When the English phrase, 'Mitt the twit' is being bandied about, we should now realize that the world has admired our current President Obama for the manner in which he has run foreign affairs for the United States during his term of office.   This may come as a shock to those who have been lied to for so long.  After all, in the US we still hear the question 'So what has Obama done for us?'

It has been clear for some time that Romney expects to be elected without revealing  himself in any way. It has caused me to wonder many times what exactly he wishes to hide by concealing his tax reports.  If he was listed as the CEO of Bain from 1999 to 2002, did he draw a salary while claiming to not be involved?  If he did, can that be one of the many things he is likely hiding.  Can anyone tryst that he has the best interest of our country in his heart if he hopes to be elected without our knowing truths about him?

Watching the parade of countries with athletes representing them, it is difficult to feel so important in this world.  204 countries, many of which I have never known of their existence, show what a diverse world we live in.  If Romney had really wanted to learn something about our foreign policy he would have hung around the Olympics talking to as many representatives of countries as he could.  Then he might have realized his own insignificance.,

ROMNEY" DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB.

Mitt Romney, the candidate who believes that no one need know his secrets of the past or his plans for the presidency of the United States in the next four years, went to Europe to dazzle voters and Europeans with his foreign policy expertise.  Instead of foreign policy expertise, he is showing remarkable ability for putting his foot in in his mouth, being offensive and untrustworthy (as in speaking of his invitations to MI6.  It would seem that the Koch brothers, Grover Norquist and all were so sure they could buy the presidency for him to be their puppet, that they didn't count on the fact that he might lose the election all by himself.

On his first day in England, he managed to  get himself in BBC News with a headline:  London Mayor Hits Out at Romney. London Mayor Boris Johnson chides Republican Mitt Romney for suggesting London is not ready for the Olympics, a day before the opening ceremony.To read this article, click here

Mark Mardell, also a BBC journalist has written another article everyone should read to get a flavor of the amusement the English are feeling about Obama's competitor..Fortunately  for Romney, he is not running in England.  To read this article, click here

Unless you have been following the tour, that fell flat the first day, by being glued to cable, you might have missed a preview of how nonresidential Romney is showing himself to be.

ROMNEY MAY KNOW INTERNATIONAL FINANCE BUT HE HASN'T A CLUE ABOUT CULTURE AND PEOPLE

An article in Boston.com, from the Associated Press in London, talks about Romney's trip to Europe as an international audition. :"He also faces the tricky task of contrasting himself with Obama while staying true to his promise not to openly assail the president while on foreign soil, honoring longstanding tradition that American politicians don't criticize their government while abroad. Drawing implicit contrasts with the president also could be difficult because Romney has so far not outlined sharp foreign policy differences with his Democratic opponent." 

Evidence  of his naivete and inability to see reality comes from this Romney quote: "I don't want to be in any way critical of the president or to be fashioning foreign policy departure from the president, while I'm on foreign soil," Romney told NBC News during a Wednesday interview in London when asked about how he would help Israel as president. "But I can tell you that, that with regards to any nation that, that feels its security is at risk that they should have a firm conviction that America is securely behind them."  For the whole article, click here.


 Is Romney really so big a fool that he doesn't know that everything he says on the campaign attacks is known to all the countries of the world.  The campaign is being carefully monitored by the international community.  Obama has been quite well rated over his tenure so far in office.  Romney may think his charm will win him favors but it is doubtful he will accomplish anything but harm America's sense of unity.  Unfortunately, Romney's narcissism will not allow him to give Obama any credit for the great work he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and many others have done.He believes to have foreign policy savvy but has yet to say a word to prove that.

 

European Tour Romney's Trans-Atlantic Policy Needs a Reboot  A Commentary By Annette Heuser and Tyson Barker on Spiegel Online International (Germany). The authors suggest that Romney's Trans-Atlantic foreign policy needs a reboot. They write:  "Likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will visit the United Kingdom and Poland at a time when the GOP's policy toward Europe seems to be trapped in the days of the Cold War. It will be a chance for him to update his outdated views." 

"Apart from criticizing Obama's Russia policy, the most remarkable feature of Romney's vision is his lack of approach. His 48-page document outlining his foreign-policy strategy does not once mention the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or the European Union. That will certainly be a source of concern for his European hosts, two of the largest members of both organizations and countries with two of the largest troop contingents to the NATO mission in Afghanistan."  For the whole article, click here.

ROMNEY EVEN BREAKS HIS OWN RULES

It should be patently apparent to everyone that all Romney can do is attack Obama because he has nothing he can prove that is positive about his potential as President of the United States. Yesterday he spoke to a VFW.  He attacked President Obama,the Commander in Chief of our military forces currently.  He attacked Obama about not being a friend to Israel and, in my opinion, set himself up as a treasonous, worthless human being.  He apologized to Israel for him...though he lies and tells everyone that Obama has apologized for the United States, shamefully and that he will never apologize for our country.  To hear the whole transcript of Romney's speech, click here.

An article in the Examiner, gives a complete transcription of his speech,, His words demonstrate, not only that he will say anything false to get a point in his favor and against his opponent but he dares to intrude into foreign policy currently ongoing in someone else's administration when he cannot know all that has gone to reach the current status.  It should show everyone that this man has no judgement and is certainly not ready for prime time, with tact and ability to wing sensitively with people.

Oh. if only people could see his faults and not dislike Obama so much for not making our world perfect in only less than four years with Republicans obstructing him at almost every turn and lying about him constantly.  If only people could see the difference in these two men!

ROMNEY: AN ALL-AROUND GUY...AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND HE GOES.

Will Romney stop going around?  No one has seen it yet.  It is amusing as his stupidity in not realizing that his many positions are being played over and over out of the archives of the times he has spoken on a particular subject.  When he said he didn't remember what he had said but stand by it, he is speaking a truth, partly.  That he doesn't remember what he says is a truth.  That he stand by what he says is an untruth...his speeches are full of his contradictions.  Can you imagine a president for whom his staff has to constantly explain the changers?  Perhaps they won't, though, because they certainly aren't f doing it now.

apparently Romney not only 'misquotes himself' but he has taken to misquoting foreign dignitaries as well.  For the example which appeared on the Ed Show on 7/23, click here.

For the many faces of Romney, go here.

WHY DO PEOPLE PRAY?

Most people find helplessness difficult to accept. They need to impulsively spring into action. Secondly, to be alone is frightening to most of humankind.  We are social beings..  Thus, two aids were brought froth by man.  A God to whom you can pray for help (then rationalize the response or, the lack of it, to your prayers.  The most effective  seems to be the coming together of people who have feelings of desperation, rage, loss, fear, or more  for a reason to hope. who can come together because houses of worship provide that facility.  Group therapy is more personally focused and accomplishes as much or more if well conducted properly..

By lending the sense of helplessness a task through gifts, we can ask why people leave flowers, toys, or stuffed animals at the place where people have died. The purpose is obviously vague since the deceased will never know about it; the living are left to clean it up.  On the one hand, we all pay for the public street cleaners as we do after 'ticker-tape' parades or the city Commons celebrations of holidays where trash is left in droves.  I always wanted to hang the sign that touched me fifty years ago when I saw, on the wall of the registration counter of the local hospital, which read: "Clean up after yourself; your mother doesn't work here."

Rather than meeting to pray for souls, rationalize the pain of loss away by telling people their loved ones are now in Heaven where they will eventually meet them again for eternity, it would be more effective to meet to plan how to support the living, help those injured (as in Aurora, CO) to survive their injuries both physically and financially.  Of those 46 or so injured, I wonder how many will have medical insurance to pay for their treatment, sick leave from jobs to cover them until they can return,.if they can return, or sufficient funds for whatever death (cremation or burial) handling they will require.  We all know there is no free lunch but I know of no cost analysis ever done after one of these tragedies.  At a time when our politicians are bleeding the poor, one individual has added a great burden to our already overstressed municipal budgets.  Not only do the injured require much medical and rehabilitative service, but we must also house the perpetrator, pay the judicial bills for  court needs, and then either house him for life if found guilty (I do not know whether Colorado is a death penalty state), treatment if he claims insanity,  or the many other requirements that accompany all these cases.

We do not need a minister or priest bellowing to God for us, we simply need to share ourselves to offer whatever ever support for which we are capable whether that is: financial, emotional, or physical.

THE NRA MUST BE STOPPED; IT IS TOO DESTRUCTIVE AND UNREGULATING OF WHAT IT SUPPORTSD

Isn't it time that someone in government with a sense of responsibility rather than fear of the NRA spearheads action against the unregulated and documented guns regarding sales of guns to citizens with no real way of tracing the guns or ammunition used in them.  Despite the squawking of the NRA that there is nothing wrong with out system, the world wide statistics suggest otherwise.    Throughout the world, the only countries with more deaths due to guns are Guatemala, Swaziland, Brazil, Estonia, Panama and Mexico.  he more civilized societies don't appear until much later on the list.  To see for yourself, click here., 

The Guardian in the UK writes what American sources fail to cover adequately.  The article describes it as 'America's deadly to devotion to guns;. Fir that article, click here.

Additionally, they add to the story with this:  "NRA fired up to campaign against Obama as annual meeting kicks off."  Being prepared to kill people (in self defense, of course, as Zimmerman claims to have done to the boy he chased down when ordered by the police to leave him alone; the unarmed boy fighting for his life and screaming for help,)   Read this one here.

Should the theater goers in Aurora been carrying handguns to protect themselves?  The NRA must be stopped from running the country.  They are self-serving and as dangerous to the safety of citizens as Grover Norquist is/was to the economy.