"Millions of Americans are out of work. Recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more. Prices are too high, and sales are too slow. This year's federal deficit will be about $30 billion; next year's probably $45 billion. The national debt will rise to over $500 billion. Our plant capacity and productivity are not increasing fast enough. We depend on others for essential energy. Some people question their government's ability to make hard decisions and stick with them; they expect Washington politics as usual."
Well, here we are in 2013, and although inflation is not a problem, the United States is running trillion dollar annual deficits, unemployment remains sky-high, America is still dependent on some of the world's vilest authoritarian regimes for its oil, and Obama has repeatedly demonstrated that he has a tough time making any decisions whatsover. It took Obama months to foolishly escalate America's ground war in Afghanistan, and we have just learned that when Obama was told by Leon Panetta that the consulate in Benghazi was under attack, the president said, "Do whatever you need to do to be able to protect our people there," and then proceeded to ignore the matter. Indeed, ignorance, or "detachment" in the case of Obama, is bliss.
Thus, it should come as no small wonder that Maureen Dowd, in her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "The Rap on Rubio" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/opinion/dowd-the-rap-on-rubio.html?_r=0), ignores Obama's 2013 State of the Union address and instead focuses her attention on Marco Rubio's affinity for rap music. Dowd writes:
"Gangsta rap used to be a reliable issue for politicians, but they were denouncing it. Now Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is praising it — and right at the moment when Republicans are pushing the argument that guns don’t kill people; it’s a culture glorifying guns and violence that kills people.
The ubiquitous 41-year-old — who’s on the cover of Time as 'The Republican Savior' and who delivered the party’s response to the president’s State of the Union address in English and Spanish — has released a Spotify playlist featuring Tupac’s 'Changes,' as well as Flo Rida, Pitbull, The Sugar Hill Gang, Kanye, Big Sean, devoted Obama supporters Jay-Z and Will.I.Am, and a Foster the People song about 'a cowboy kid' who finds a gun in his dad’s closet and goes after 'all the other kids with the pumped up kicks.'"
I am forced to acknowledge that I have never listened to Paul Ryan's "heavy metal," and I am also ignorant of Marco Rubio's "rap." Moreover, familiarizing myself with this music is not at the top of my "to do" list given my advancing years and my less than perfect hearing.
But honestly, we still need to suffer through four more years of Obama, and it's a bit early to be picking on poor Marco. Much can still happen by 2016.
But if you insist on giving vent to speculation, Maureen, I would love to know where Bill is going to sleep if Hillary is elected in the next presidential election. Will a semi-detached White House bachelor pad be readied for him? Now that would be worth twice the price of admission in every sense of the word.
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