Just issue the executive order de-criminalizing marijuana on a federal level.
Just de-criminalize marijuana on a federal level.
The government in DC should de-criminalize marijuana.
What the hell is the holdup, a huge majority want marijuana de-criminalized?!
My yard signs worked in 2008 and 2012. As confident as I was with my bar-pounding speeches at the SEB and all, I could have won some large Republican sucker bets.
But this old white dude will still be calling for no federal penalties on weed and statehood for Mexico, for the next four years.
Perhaps I've found my target audience via this blog. The post that gets the most attention is OLD DUDE STUFF. So my next post will be THE BOOK ON OLD.
The United States needs more dirt! In Obama's second term, we should push for offering Mexico statehood. Fifty-one, change the flag again. Take down the fence, build a freeway from Canada to Oaxaca, half-way from the present coastlines. A new frontier to drive to with miles of sandy beaches closer and closer to the equator.
Consider all the wars we've fought in every corner of the gobe and never gained an inch of new soil for America. We don't have to attack and occupy, just have the POTUS e-mail the head of state of Mexico and propose the possibility. We could act like we attacked it and give the economy a boost like we have everywhere else we "conquered." Basically, the United States of America is full. We will increase in population, so we need more space, more land, attached to what we have now.
I'm the old white dude for Obama. The fact was documented, in '08, with a 7x2 ft. sign in my yard. Soon, another will be up, with his logo.
Old white dudes are no block of voters which can turn a campaign. We are usually registered and eligible to cast a ballot. We know when a POTUS is the real thing because we've seen more than a few. We know youth has to be served and has to stumble for it's own generation to struggle forward. We're more likely to be patient with politicians if they stay goal oriented.
Once we've acquired any kind of old, we usually have extra bucks we don't spend. For myself, Barrack Obama is the first candidate I ever kicked down to a campaign for. Credit card, three times, I think. I have pictures of the First Man and his family on three different walls.
Of course, once you are in with the bucks, the begging for more will be steadily in your emails. I'll enjoy increasing the amount this round.
Many old white dudes still have wives and if they keep the upper hand enough to engage in political discussions, they can have an influence on her choice. Of course, with Obama, it is is difficult to understand any hip woman who would choose the Republican opposition.
The secure want to stay secure, all the way to subjugation of the not-so-secure. The not so secure choose to follow leads to change the entire structure with revolutionary ideas. Politics. Social mores. Science. Capitalism. Conservatives are secure and want to stay that way. Liberals are not so secure and push for changes for more security. Simplified, management and labor. Decades of no voice, Arab spring. Republicans, Democrats.
Old white dude for Obama may hint of racism but I have a half-white grandson and a half-white granddaughter who haven't commented. Jump Shot has my ears, so he looks like Barack Obama. Which brings me to a discussion I had at the SEB, in 2007. I slammed my hand on the bar and shouted, "Well, he's half white, Danny Lad, maybe that's the part you don't like." He said, "Maybe so."
A response I never expected from someone who still uses the n-word. For any of you old white dudes who dislike the POTUS because he is half white, that's you, fool, except you are all white. Forget the black part and support him half-way, at least. Then vote for that part. Be an OWDFO.
A lot of old white dudes do not register to vote because they do not want to be called for jury duty. So, if an elderly cat needs a jury of his peers in a court case, there won't be a pool of his peers to draw from. Which means he comes under the scrutiny of a younger person who is registered to vote, and he loses, automatically. Old, unregistered, no interest person, you guilty.
If you live in America, you should register to vote so you can be chosen for jury duty. Rights to be cherished and practiced.
This country can not continue to stay on pace with the world until we are the fittest. Health care for everyone, cradle to grave. No free rides because you are so rich you can demand the best care anywhere or because you are so poor you can't possibly pay for intensive hospitalization, so someone else picks up or is stuck with the tab.
With total coverages comes some control. People distressed about their weight will not be treated with amphetamines, anti-depression chemicals and diets in a box, with tax money funding. When complete physical examinations are available on an annual basis, health care will request them. At that time, the entire country will know how really bad shape we are in. And the purpose of the system will be to improve on our conditioning.
Of course, there will be stricter limits on how long we should be plugged in to costly apparatus in order to be "alive." And everybody will have a better idea of how it will be when it might be time for them to make a decision ahead of their time.
Obama has done a super job by getting a universal health care law passed and passed muster by the Supreme Court. For anyone in this country to speak of repealing it is an attitude that is strictly racially motivated. Most of these people do not want a black man responsible for improving their health, no more than they would go to a black doctor. The argument about employees being covered by employers, or paying not to, has already been figured into the price of a pizza. Seven to sixteen cents per pie. You are going to be healthier and you are going to be responsible for getting there. The cost will not cripple anyone or any one group.
Old dudes, who have been trying to live longer lives, will have regular physicals and check-ups, and not be concerned about the skyrockets costs since their younger days. Health records will be accessed in seconds from any location. Drugs will be controlled more closely, automatically, via computer records. Prescription addicts will disappear at a huge savings to the government.
Obama-care. He didn't name it. But it fits.
Got a Republican chick I'm wishing to spend more time with and I went over the OWDFO with her and three or four other dudes, at the American Legion. I reminded her of those years when we couldn't take a day off from work or routine to go see and doctor because of the cost, and how that will change. She was hip to what I was saying and a dude at the end of the table said, "I'm an old white dude for Obama." She broke into laughter and said, "Oh, no." You may be surrounded, darling.
There's a lot of old dudes for Obama who smoke marijuana. Some go way back to times when pot was hot and not taught to be a mind rot. Back before it hit the top of the cop chop pop. Before crotches were clutched to see if a bag was in there with nut sacks and appendages. They know it should be decriminalized on a federal level and allowed let the states vote it in or out.
The old dudes who don't smoke the weed, are more than aware that anything and everything takes time and when a plan is being diligently pursued, they will vote to continue it, as opposed to scrapping and re-constructing in the same general direction.
I believe politics is as much a part of the evolutionary process as the beak on a bird. Except the beak on a bird is evolved to perform a particular job. A politician evolves to compromise and presentation to suit those opposed, while continuing to attain larger goals. Evolutionary politicians will draw from all opposition to further the process. Barack Obama is an evolutionary politician and the chance to recognize it with a vote of support is a rare opportunity, thus pulling other politicians into the energy of the voters. Evolutions have periods where major strides are made. 2012 will prove to be a continuance of one of those eras, a time when time advances swiftly and succinctly into the future.
A time when war is recognized as fruitless, when financial greed is recognized as bitter fruit for a few. When the wealth of our country is counted one citizen at a time.
Old white dudes are full of "war stories," even though most of us never were in battle. We know most of the heroes were white, at least those who are still in the books. We also have seen young warriors in each generation wasted on some war that didn't end until they were sacrificed.
Old white dudes can count few presidents who said they would stop one and did. Obama said he'd stop the slaughter in Iraq by bringing those still alive back home, and he did. Given until 2014, he'll do the same in Afghanistan, as he's planned.
Old white dudes for Obama know this alone is reason enough to re-elect Barack. The rest of you registered voters know it, too. When Barack Obama winds down this country's war machine, we can only grow richer. A billion dollars a month kept on this side of the earth should keep us competitive with the billion souls we share it with.
Old white dudes have seen unemployment figures up and down. We know under 5% is "full" employment and 10% is troublesome. For many, employment is never full. Instead it is "between jobs," a matter of earning enough to stay even - no savings, no time clock - just turning time into money, lots of it under the table, cash, no deductions; couples doubling up to provide some semblance of a comfortable existence for one.
Waging war keeps unemployment low for a few and profits high for the top 1%. But it breaks the wealth of a nation. Barack Obama knows this and is attempting to prove we can crank it up without killing other citizens of the world.
This old dude would rather not have a young soldier sacrificed on the other side of the world to protect my old ass in Wellstone. To me, this is the safest place on earth. Any attacker gets this close, I'll borrow a gun. I ain't afraid of any enemy. From anywhere.
Neither is my president. He'll play a pickup game with any leader. But if it gets serious, he'll go to the hoop with elbows and knees and a bad-ass team behind him.
Barack Obama is right on time for four more with home court advantage.
Old white dudes grew up with a Supreme Court that was old white dudes and we were comfortable with that. Today, if we are old white dudes who are still thinking, we are just as comfortable with the fresh air President Obama has added to the Supreme Court, namely, younger, brilliant women.
Old white dudes grew up with one dream of driving a car, then buying one. We believed an automobile was an American privilege. Their were cars to fit every function and cars to fit every fantasy. Automobile ownership meant reaching adulthood; freedom from fences, to do as you please, to go where you want.
Old white dudes watched the industry feast on our love of fins and faster engines, then go famine behind the Asian work ethic, which brought smaller and cheaper and well built into the industry.
It took a buyout of the burdensome overloaded unions, and a bailout offer to the auto factory owners. Ford declined the bailout and American buyers rewarded them. GM and Chrysler are back in the hunt after the unions were absorbed into the worker/management teams.
Barack Obama knows what the automobile and pickup truck market means to America. He has been instrumental in providing America with a choice of "made in this country" vehicles.
I have this election sign in my yard. It is a larger color version of the one I had in 2008. Even then, when Obama visited a city close by, I half-feared he would drive by to check it out. The one, now, is on buried posts. Last year's was hung on a tree-border fence.
I have a pic on my facebook (MAXX PHILLIPS) page.
OPWDFO could be old white dames for Obama.
But, seriously, how can any American not appreciate a true blue sports fan who could have been good enough to play as a career. All of us are fans to some degree and wonder about what we might have done in some sport or other...and we have a President who understands all of that on a level we could talk to him about. President Obama is one of us, no matter what color we are. He won't bale on his mates. If forces beyond control push us to the brink, I want a President that is still steering the ship of state. The closest Mitt gets to that is considering buying a ball team. Might already own BYU.
