Mr. CORNEL WEST.

Cornel West's social and political liberalism border on scholarly notoriety, when it comes to the right wing of any party, including the Republican Party, of course. In reality, he views the existence of the far right of the Republican party as being detrimental to society itself, on end.

However this time around, he is picking on President Barack Obama for undermining the agenda of the left wing base of the Democratic Party, where he, Cornel West, feels more at home and finds it easy to rebuke aggressively whomever he chooses, and whenever he likes.

He is calling Obama on the carpet, because he has failed to "deliver on promises to the left-wing base.", he, West, stipulates. He has recently been more vitriolic in his rhetoric on Obama's policies, and asking, in a sense, why he (Obama) has not taken his liberal activism with him to the White House. Honestly!

Fine, but being committed as a community organizer and president are two different things; for what Obama takes for granted as a community organizer is no longer there or normally at his disposal, however inherently; and although, he may feel the dint of it, he can not go back to utilizing any of its cognitive parts to have everything going his own dogmatic way, no matter how hard he tries. Unless he wants to be stupid and attempts doing so; which he is not, and therefore he will not attempt to do as such in a million years.

He is now sitting in the Oval Office and everything in him must conform to his newly found environment. He has to change, from what he has been all his life, into a person receiving official briefings and making top decisions that will affect a whole nation, America; and using all that advice, some short, some lengthy, to arrive at the right conclusions. Why? Because of the weight those (conclusions) will carry, when they leave him. There are no two ways about that.

His critics are waiting to bite his head off, if he makes the slightest mistake, and he will end up being what they want him to be, a lousy president; and he is no fool to want or to ever allow that to happen.

Yet, West does not get the idea that Obama is doing all in his power to appeal to him and his left wing friends, who say that they have campaigned for him, Obama, in 2008, he is therefore bound to live up to their expectations. What?

Very selfish on their part. Very selfish indeed; is that not so? The president is not obligated to any special interest group, in the country or anywhere, let alone the "progressives" of the Democratic Party, and West of all people must know that for a fact; for crying out loud.

This is what he is quoted as saying in a recent interview with TruthDig, "West had scathing words for President Obama, calling him “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it." he says among others.

Those are harsh words that must come from a lunatic, and nobody will expect them to come from Mr. West, because he is an erudite African American scholar, who digs deep down into his gumption before he speaks; or so do what many Americans think. Yet, surprisingly enough, he expects President Obama to do his (West's) bidding. That is what the whole thing amounts to; is it not so?

Nevertheless, it all boils down to a single point of understanding, that nobody is perfect; including the President Of The United States, Mr. Barack Obama; and so, he will deviate from the agenda to which Mr. West is so much attached from time to time. Therefore, accusing him of being a black mascot of any kind is foolish; for he is doing the best he can to master his new line of work, to say the least; and nobody can blame him.

What he can now observe from the White House, he, West, will go to his grave before he will have the chance to observe the same things. It is a whole new different view on the world at large. Besides, the fact is, because of his new position, he must not make mistakes. He cannot afford a scandal; therefore, he must always be on his guard, and be right in whatever he does.

So, if Obama has disappointed the left wing base, which happens to be his comfort zone before, and a natural spot for Cornel West, it is because of the simple fact that his outlook has been transformed to something that is entirely different from the one of his past. He is also only human, and therefore he cannot do everything to please everybody. Putting it another way, he can only do what is humanly possible.


He, West, must bear in mind that Obama, is now responsible for a whole nation, America; and not just for a small section of Chicago, Illinois, where he has once been a community organizer many months past.

Again, he, West, with his enormous educational background, can read between the lines, of how his kind will be treated, if Obama loses his present position; and so, he being so wise, must keep on supporting Obama in his 2012 reelection bid. Anybody or anything else will definitely not be to his (West's) liking.

We all live to see it.

OBAMA'S RECORD.

The slate of candidates of the Grand Old Party for the 2012 presidential election seems to be having a pulsating or gyrating fetishism relating to musical chairs surrounding it.

First, it was Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee that hopped on and off; then came Mitch Daniels who said "I could have beaten Obama if I had run", putting himself in the past tense to indicate that there was no real hope for him in the race.

There has been a slew of them, like Newt Gingrich, who has troubled philandering habits in his background; Tim Pawlenty, who has so far failed to impress the general public. He is only well dressed, and he has no philosophy of his own; he has not even made up his mind to back Paul Ryan's medicare plan, which is already in jeopardy, or not.

Others are still hanging on for dear life, like Herman Cain, who has declared his candidacy to about one thousand of his supporters and onlookers on national TV, just to try out and see if he can be considered a viable opponent in anyway; but is he serious? Most people doubt it. All he is after is name recognition; and for what, nobody knows. Anyhow, he looks too old to wait for the 2016 general election.

Those standing around to see if they will hop on or not include Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and, of course, Mitt Romney, who has been trying to win the Republican Party's nomination once or twice before.

Yet, is there an end to the list of men and women who are vying for position to run against President Barack Obama in 2012? Nay; for all of a sudden, there appear Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and of 9/11 fame; and Texas governor Rick Perry, both of whom intend to get into the mix and challenge Obama.

Now, everybody wants to be president in America, or so it seems; and most people are wondering why it is suddenly so. Are they having the notion that they can beat Obama, or is it that American voters are so gullible, they will fall for anyone who has some credentials of political experience or fortune?

Well, the picture is now clear, that Obama has been in office for less than three years, but he has been able to achieve so much to get an economy in dire straights up and running again. He has managed to get the foremost of all America's industries, of car manufacturing, back on its feet once more.

He also has conducted the kind of foreign policy that puts the U.S. equally at par and on the same forefront with other nations, and not attempting to surpass or lord over them, as previous administrations have always tried to do.

For that reason alone, America is loved, instead of it being envied. He has proved that equality is the name of the game, when dealing with other nations with respect and getting it back. He has quieten Al Qaeda by getting rid of its leader Osama Bin Laden.

In other words, he has a good record that can withstand any challenge; and besides, he has gained experience on issues that are nationally important to the American voter, because he has been able to toe the mainstream political line; thus not capitulating to the so called left, as most have been thinking he will do.

He has been very cautious of that fact; and if he continues in that mode, he will win again in 2012, no matter who will be his Republican challenger. He now has a record he can defend; and no one must put it past him that he is not ready to fight back any unnecessary onslaught, where his record is concerned.

Putting it another way, he will be able and, at the same time, tough on those that are willing to confront him on anything, come November 2012. We all live to see it.

NEW LEADERSHIP.

Lining up all the potential Republican Party candidates for next year's general election makes political forecast a science. American voters now have to sift through a host of "can be" and "cannot be" persons to figure out the one who will be a fitting challenge for President Barack Obama.

The fact being that, there must be just one person, and only one person, that will be involved in the faceoff with the present occupier of the White House; but it has become quite obvious that none of his challengers has the wherewithal to lead the country; on policies, from achieving low level unemployment numbers through to making America safe from future terrorism.

Not Newt Gingrich; not Mitt Romney; not Tim Pawlenty; or any of the president's opponents has come up with a straight forward plan that can replace Obama's foreign policy, economic solutions, legal postures to deal with the Gitmo (Guantanamo) detainees, border security and immigration reform, the strategy to overhaul Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran's quest for nukes; you name it, and it is, and will be waiting for them in the Oval Office.

Whatever remains for the nation to face still lurks in the future; but is it clear if any of these people is capable? Americans seem to be entertaining a great deal of uncertainty; if not outright doubt.

Why? Because there are too many of them; and although, it is too early to predict the shape of how the person who comes up on top will be like, in his or her campaign to oust Obama. The reason is simple, and it is that, they are fumbling over each other, and none of them seems to have time for anything else, but only for himself or herself. Is that not ridiculous?

Besides, on the one hand, they are vilifying Obama; yet, on the other hand, no constructive criticism has been put forth by any of them, so far.

One is bound to think that the RNC (Republican National Committee) is in disarray, and whether it will eventually be able to choose between any of these candidates to carry their party to any semblance of winning the 2012 general election has become a monumental task.

One thing they all have in common is what they are saying, that the country needs new leadership; and that it (country) is moving in the wrong direction. However, the question still remains if any of them is cut for that role or has the knack to steer the country's affairs in any other way. Can any of them turn this country around?

Well, that is not for one person who is sitting in his livingroom and typing away to speculate on. That will be the job for American voters to judge them individually, and be able to single out one that will live up to their expectation, come November, 2012. We all live to see it.

These candidates are having their say, as the country's democratic system permits; and they can be as vociferous as they wish in whatever they say; but to most people, America is presently doing its best to compete vigorously with all other nations.

UNNECESSARY CRITICISM.

We all love America, including members of the media, of course; however, one network seems to have packed its personnel with dinosaur type of people, who do not know that the world is changing, socially, economically and politically all around.

They can see what is happening in the world, but they cannot analyze events by conforming to a simple ideological sense, that as history unfolds itself, so do moods or emotions of all the people involved in its (history's) sway; as there must be what is usually referred to as "change", and that nothing can remain the same forever.

The United States only recently voted for the first time an African-American as its president; a phenomenon that has taken the world by surprise. A new day has dawned on a nation that has thrived on slavery, for without it, there might have been a different nation or country or no nation or country at all.

In other words the United States has been born on the backs of slaves; but after its own revolution and civil war, it has developed into the most powerful nation on earth through agriculture, industry and technology.

However, its black population never seems to have evolved or "metamorphosed" as its other groups of people solely because of their color; though they have borne their share of the burden to make America what it is today.

Now, one has to surmise that there has been a spiritual change to make the election of an African-American possible; an experiment that shows a change of heart in the children of those that are responsible for bringing Africans to the Americas as slaves, and therefore he must be given a chance to prove himself worthy; and by doing so, to bring his down trodden people along with him into the new atmosphere of political change and social acceptance in America.

Yet, nay! One channel or network has set aside programs to rail against him everywhere he turns. Its workers have maligned him in his efforts to bring America out of an abysmal economic downturn, since the Great Depression in the 1930s; and there seems to be no end of their plans to remove him from office; thus upsetting the great experiment going on before the eyes of the world; even as we speak (or type).

However, America is a free country, and everyone has the right to do or say what is on his or her mind. Therefore, to be critical of the nation's leader within the boundaries of the country itself will be considered as politically correct; but not when he is outside on a foreign land doing his nation's work.

It must be realized that he is a volunteer and has sacrificed himself to be on the forefront of the nation's affairs; to fight and even die, just as a military man, for his country; therefore, he must be allowed to do the best he humanly can for all the people who really love America; and to criticize him on every single turn, as it is being done by a TV network, is rather not fair at all.

He is the epitome of what America stands for; the land of opportunity for all; with African Americans in tow, inspite of all those who want to reverse America's political, social and economic trends and advancement back into the Jim Crow laws era.

P.S. Shame on you, channel...., for unnecessary criticism.

AMERICA'S TROJAN HORSE.

The Trojan horse of America's fiscal problems is Medicare; and so long as it remains so, it will be difficult to reduce the U.S. National Debt, because it, Medicare, is an important part of the National Debt.

For many years, Congress has done close to nothing, but continued to look it in the mouth, saying, "Oh! what a strange horse; what a strange horse,".

The same thing has happened from one administration to another, thinking that it was a "gift", passed down to help, particularly, the sick, the old and the poor, who formed a great majority of the population. It was to alleviate a burden, and now it has become a burden in itself, with no way of finding a solution of resolving it.

The latest case is Representative Paul Ryan's plan to attempt to remake or refurbish it; however, many see such plan as one that is going to destroy the Medicare program as they have come to know it; and therefore there is a revolt against his plan, both in Congress and among American voters. (Tuesday's stunning Republican defeat in New York special Congressional election).

The general public views Medicare as a necessity; and although its cost is sky rocketing, it has to have a place in the National budget for the sake of the needy, in one respect; and for America to retain its social status among the civilized countries in the world which have similar programs, in another respect.

Yet, Medicare is sick and its "symptoms" are many, including overcharging by spurious medical practitioners. It is overspent, due to corruption in the health care industry by sleazy Healthcare insurance companies. It is being run lackadaisically by semi-trained personnel. It is coming apart by a bulging number of people it is designed to handle.

If there must be cuts to bring down its spiraling cost, those are some of the many aspects of the industry that must be looked into. They (cuts) must be carefully done as a surgeon uses his or her scalpel to remove excess; or, in this case, waste.

However, his (Ryan's) plan is so drastic. It is so uppish if not radical in such a way that it will totally demolish Medicare. It will change it beyond recognition. 6.2 trillion dollars in savings over the next ten years will reduce the cost alright, but it will be catastrophic.

Seniors will have to delve deep down into their meagre social security benefit checks to pay their medical bills. Also, a voucher program will be very confusing to them. They think that Mr. Ryan, who happens to be a Republican, is using a sledge hammer to kill a fly, considering that Medicare makes only 12% of America's National budget, and therefore they will have no choice, but to vote against it.

A commercial that is circulating the media with a man pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair over a cliff depicts that person pushing her to her death as Mr. Ryan. The commercial has no known source, but people are not putting it past the Democrats as its originators.

Mr. Ryan's plan has been voted down in the Senate by 57 to 40 votes only yesterday, but he continues to say to ABC's Jonathan Carl that he will even take his "fight" to the White House, as part of raising the debt ceiling issue. Is he looking a gift horse in the mouth or what? We all live to see it.

Nevertheless, should not politicians be serious about what must be done to solidify Medicare, by putting politics aside and finding a realistic way to resolve the matter, as it is part of national pride, to take care of people in their old age, when they have served the country all their lives, as in so many instances? Instead of that, they are looking at Medicare just as a Trojan horse.

PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU 2.

The impertinence was gone from Prime Minister Netanyahu's attitude on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011, when he addressed a joint session of the Congress of the United States.

Seemingly, he had put behind him the debacle of last Friday's meeting in the White House with President Barack Obama; and also, his advisers have gone to work on him, this time around, to show more civility in his speech to the august body.

He was going to speak before some of the great minds in the country; like Senator Orrin Hatch, whose oratory prowess was unbeatable, and Senator Barbara Boxer "Don't call me Ma'am", whose investigative qualities made her to stand out in many debates.

Netanyahu's approach was different; and he started by thanking America and stressing the bonds between Israel and the United States as unbreakable, which awarded him several rounds of applause.

He also made it clear to the world Israel's intentions toward its neighbors, especially toward the Palestinian Arabs, with whom have been so much political tension and animosity, which have made the Middle East to be unstable for many, many years.

He wished them well of what they could achieve, if there was peace between the two factions; comparing their existence of having all the amenities of civilization, even in crisis, to when the Jews and the Arabs would decide to live peaceably with each other. There would be enormous progress and advancement for both sides, in terms of having all of their needs met, socially and politically, of course.

"Israel was not against an independent Palestinian State," he stated emphatically.

The most smattering of applause came, when he mentioned the "borders of 1967", and insisted that Israel was never going back to assume that boundary. That seemed to be the bone of contention between himself and the White House last Friday.

Yet, Americans heard plainly from President Obama that it would be a starting point for serious negotiations to begin to resolve a long standing controversy. It has also been an idea held in private by two other presidents; and all he (Obama) did was to speak it out in public.

Surely, there must be specific boundaries or demarcation lines to tell between a sovereign Israel and an independent Palestinian State. Also, in every case, boundaries were indefensible until they were made defensible; and therefore, Israel's position, with regard to the core issue, did not hold water.

It (Israel) must start from somewhere in any dialog with the Palestinians; but where its starting point was, the Prime Minister did not say. Now, if he failed to do so, then President Obama's position was right; and Israel "has no friend like America", and therefore it must not reject an advise coming from a true and reliable friend.

More applause came, when he said that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons was a threat not only to Israel, but to the whole world; and that all nations should join in opposition to Iran's ambition to acquire a nuclear bomb.

There, he saw the United States and Israel standing shoulder to shoulder to fight against Iran to make the world a safer place; showing how important Israel held its relationship with the United States.

Therefore, to be impertinent, toward each other, no matter who did it, would be wrong. In fact, he indicated that the two countries were not just good friends; they were great friends. Together, they owed a long awaited peace to that region and to the world.

He has made it quite clear that the Middle East deserved better, with Jews and Arabs living side by side without friction of any kind; and that would contribute to world peace at large.

It was now the turn of the Palestinians to respond to a glowing offer of genuine peace, without the influence of Hamas; the diabolical, radical group, which has been fomenting so much rage between Jews and Arabs over a long period of time.

More applause to you, Mr. Prime Minister.

TORNADOES; THEIR CONNECTION.

I do not write about anything else, but about normal events and personalities; however, I am forced by present circumstances to choose to comment on the severe weather changes that the U.S. has been experiencing this year.

Generally speaking, the weather seen everywhere seems to be in revolt, and not just that, but the deaths in the areas most affected happen to be too high, if not abnormal. Like in Alabama, where over 300 hundred people have suddenly died through stormy weather.

The Mid-West has always had tornadoes; but they (tornadoes) have now physically expanded their reach outside the traditional boundaries of what has always been referred to as "Tornado Alley". They are also being more forceful, collecting winds of up to more than 60 m.p.h. in most places, and even wider in length and breadth, in scope and size, in devastation and in loss of lives. Pretty unusual; is that not so?

The storms in the South and the Mississippi River overflowing its banks and causing death to the population and damage to farmlands and other properties that people need to live, are all overly unusual. These tornadoes that do not seem to stop, and are creating havoc to life and limb, are a series of unusual and one ever occurring giant mishappenstance.

The latest case is Joplin, Missouri, where the whole town is completely wiped out within a matter of minutes; and with 1500 hundred people unaccounted for, plus several deaths; and also with the death toll numbering over 115 individuals and still climbing, the town itself is almost dead, empty and lifeless, but for a few survivors.

In physics, there is something called "cause and effect", and usually most people will relate these storms to seasonal atmospheric ups and downs that are natural to allow farmers to grow and harvest crops for food. They (storms) sometimes pass without much notice; yet, the storms that are manifesting themselves presently all over the country cannot go unnoticed. They are unusual, and therefore they must have an entirely different source.

"Source", singular; because these storms are happening so rapidly and more repeatedly, making them to have a rather one or single connection or starting point, if you may.

At this time of the year; and although there will be storms as surmised before; the sun will not be at its peak, but it will be showing here and there, mild and lukewarm; something it has failed to do. Why? That must be for scientists to determine the reason why that is so; and so, let us leave that to them.

Moreover, this year's storms tend to be more catastrophic; and many will agree that the nuclear disaster in Japan recently must have something to do with them. In a nutshell, the winds that are blowing east of that country must be filled with some type of nuclear fallout. America, sitting in its (winds') path, seems to be feeling the effects of that nuclear calamity currently going on in Japan.

That must be causing all this unusual severe and violent weather trend. Therefore, and again, scientists here and around the world must have another round of issue to look into; and it must be done now; even as we speak (or type); as any delay in doing so will be considered intolerable.