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Today is the day of reckoning in presidential politics for the next four years. Will it be Mitt Romney or president Obama. The people will decide and the pundits and political hucksters will find another avocation for the time being. I too must move on. What will be the focus of this blog? While others are poring over the results of today’s election that is what I will ponder.

For the good of the country I hope Mitt Romney will not be rewarded for the sleazy campaign he has run. I will continue to be a proud Texan and a proud American and wish our next president much success. We must come together for the good of us all. God bless America!

I’m just sitting, minding my own business the television watching me more than I was watching it.  On comes the BP commercial about the good times the gulf states are experiencing after the 2010 big BP oil spill. I’ve seen this commercial umpteen times. This time I said what?

Hurricane Isaac had washed oil balls to surface, they came from the BP spill, this was not a one time occurence recently. This time the commercial seemed unseemly.  The damage while out of sight continues, who knows what will be the ultimate environmental impact will be. BP denies fault,they’ll pay some money to the federal government, the affected gulf states (Louisiana, Alabama,Mississippi and Texas) will fight for their share of the bounty and all will be forgiven.  The damage to the citizens of the affected areas,the environment, the food chain and business ethics will continue unabated. So to BP and their feel good commercial  I say What?

I  sat barely listening to the television with the talking heads

pontificating in their erudite fashion,when Mitt Romney suddenly brought me to full attention. What did he say better yet what did he mean. My ears thought he said that the 47% of the people who vote for President Obama are freeloaders, looking for a  handout,damn, damn,damn. Certainly this was  some trick, some hollywood manipulation of his voice and image. Whew. There is Mitt he’s on live he’ll clear this up. The aliens have landed,Peyton Manning did not throw three interceptions in the Georgia Dome,all is right. Thanks Mitt, I knew this was  hoax.

You have my attention Mitt, I am fully awake. You said something off the cuff, it was inarticulate.  You really said what my ears heard you say, Peyton really threw those interceptions. Mitt this is not fair to me, now I must clear my head and try to find meaning in what you said. Ok 47% of people don’t pay income taxes (every body pays some  sort of tax or fee, after all I hear you like raising fees) they all vote and they vote for President Obama. Mitt, that may include you.   Mitt you are talking about the retired I thought you liked them. Mitt you are talking about the poor well you had already said they were of no import to you. Mitt some of these people paying no taxes are wealthy, those people who you praised for not paying any taxes they could legally avoid. Mitt you’re giving me a headache. Are you saying that you don’t want the vote of those republicans voters who are in the 47% . Mitt is this a concession speech. What Mitt what.

I am trying to understand, they tell me you are a smart man what Mitt what. My mind hurts Mitt, I can’t make any sense of what you said. What Mitt what. I need some rest.

• I watched the Republican Convention, with the intent to comment on it. I must admit that I was stunned. I am a black male baby boomer. I was born in the middle of the last century. I have felt for the majority of my adult life, that blacks should be active in both major political parties at  the very least. In the state of Texas , I have been  delegate to state conventions of both parties at different times. When George W. Bush was the nominee of the Republican  party in Philadelphia I felt elated. The joy was short lived. I therefore consider this my political home and I await a time when I can return and dialogue.  Enough said.
  This post is dated so let me be concise . The concepts that define Mitt Romney’s convention was that it was steeped in deception ( The president did not. denigrate those who built a business. He merely said that don’t forget those who aided you. It’s the we as opposed to the I.) Romney’s religion is of no import to me, however as a person he seems to have no aversion to lies and half truths. This was his convention and it bombed.  I was totally surprised.

I watched the Republican convention. A very interesting question was posed because of the very talented minority speakers. Why don’t more minorities choose the Republican party? As one who has traveled down both roads I found this to be an intriguing question. It points to the advantages and deficiences of both parties. The Republican party offers opportunities to minorities who are salmon to get into office. Salmon swim upstream to spawn I am told, thus those minorities that go against the prevailing thought of their fellow minorities I call salmon. The democrats have created ghettoes for minority politicians to inhabit. To wit, isolated positions that are reserved for them, however they are required not to invade other neighborhoods ( Governor, U.S. Senate, etc.). Neither of which I find satisfying. I am aware of the outliers ofGovernor Douglas Wilder and  President Barack Obama, however as in marbles slippers don’t count.

I must be on a deserted island of political thought when it comes toCondoleeza Rice’s speech at the Republican convention. I found her speech to be specious at best. She pined for the continued funding for the war in Iraq. To wit let’s continue to support them in their freedom quest because after all that’s why we went to war in the first place not WMD ‘s. She pined for more interventions of our military acknowledging that we are war weary. She subtly  called for dismantling  of our public education systems,in a sly call for vouchers, couched in language about zipcodes. I could go on and on. Condy we love you but we’re not buying what you are selling.