Thursday, January 27, 2011

Protrait of a Presidential Candidate

What will be the profile of a Presidential candidate? The person who becomes a Presidential candidate, should have the following traits.

* 2 term Governor. The person has won re-election and has had many years as executive administration.

* learned the issues well One who could study and know the issues dealing with being President.

* avoided ethical problems. The person in politics should beware of the person who is doing nice things for you. Some may have good intentions, but much more are looking for you to return favor.

* written a book. In order to introduce yourself to the American people the candidate will have written an autobiography.

* Has high approval rating in home state. If you can't win your home state how do you expect to win the Presidential election. Albert Gore was not able to win his home state of Tennessee. Forget about all the events in Florida, let Bush have Florida but Al Gore winning his home state would have given him enough electoral votes to win.


So could a non Governor win? I think people will find enough concern with President Obama to chose someone who has had more time in an executive position.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oprahs-network-plummets-ratings-two-73929

So Oprah Winfrey's new network, OWN, is struggling. One of the problems with any network, is when your programming is too narrow. To succeed a network needs greater variety and unique programming. Even "TV Land" a network first featuring reruns of classic TV, is now attempting to put on new and unique shows.

People are going get tired of watching Oprah Winfrey, she will need to consider creating a bit more variety. Some of the daily scheduled programs are reruns of shows ("mystery diagnosis" "Dr Phil" "Miracle Detectives") but it needs a two hour morning program before this "Gayle King Show". The studio could look like a home. Create a game show. Have the weekly book club show. Find some fiction book the was popular after being presented on the show, and create a tv show for it.

The new curse of the the president.

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The person elected in 2012 will face impeachment. Why I say this? It just a silly notion I have. At one time we had the person elected president in a year ending in zero, would die in office. It started with William Henry Harrison elected in 1840 and died in 1841 after only being in office one month. The last president to die in office was John F Kennedy. But Richard Nixon was the only president to leave before his term by resignation. This shifted the curse. Twenty years after later Clinton is re-elected and while in office is impeached. So the Obama will be re-elected in 2012 and will also face impeachment.

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Thank You Hawaii And a Prediction

see article entitled

Hawaii governor claims record of Obama's birth 'exists in archives' but can't produce the vital document


Well thanks to Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, its now going to be necessary to find the missing birth certificate for President Barrack Obama. Had he not brought it up it may not have been a concern. When the Archives are viewed, no birth certificate is found. Instead a note Now is the note that is put down in the archive, from 1961 or sometime later?

The Governor of Hawaii is not doing anything to silence birthers. But instead is adding fuel the fire, and is going to make tougher to put out.

----- A PREDICTION------

The person elected in 2012 will face impeachment. Why I say this? It just a silly notion I have. At one time we had the person elected president in a year ending in zero, would die in office. It started with William Henry Harrison elected in 1840 and died in 1841 after only being in office one month. The last president to die in office was John F Kennedy. But Richard Nixon was the only president to leave before his term by resignation. This shifted the curse. Twenty years after later Clinton is re-elected and while in office is impeached. So the Obama will be re-elected in 2012 and will also face impeachment.

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Hopefully it will not be due to the issue of his birth certificate.

John Stewart

It seems strange people would get their news from "The Daily Show". But his show takes the major news of the day and Stewart makes a well spoken statement about the event. He makes very good well reasoned points. Such as from his 1/12/2011 show where he says "Most of us don't really need clarification on the whole "Thou shall not kill" thing and the for ones that do clarification doesn't seem quite specific enough. . . . We end up forcing everyone to live by rules to attempt to prevent the last thing done by the least controllable among us. "

When bad things happen we demand government do something. We can't always prevent bad things from happening. Stewart's point is great. Were trying to pass laws to control the least controllable person. Considering that the only person who had a gun was the shooter, I don't think he would have entertained second thoughts about bringing a gun if a law was passed to create a 1000 ft gun free zone around a federal official. Maybe if he thought others would have a gun and would shoot him, that might bring second thoughts. I don't think was interested in being compliant with gun laws as he tries kill many people.

Gas Prices

Gas prices were increased as the stock market increases. But people also complained. Speculation increasing prices is the result of seeing what the future demand on oil will be. Signs of a growing economy indicates a need of more fuel to get product to market. People complaining indicates people are not experiencing a growing economy. So the likelihood of people demanding product won't go up. People will attempt to cut spending on items to pay for gas. A decrease in demand for products will cause economy to take another down turn. Is economic outlook rising or falling?

If you see gas prices go up and complaints about gas go up, we could see the economy and the stock market go down. My theory is based on what I observed the last time we saw gas prices going up.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Well the new congress is in session. I would predict with the House is being a majority of the Republicans and the Senate a majority of Democrats, I would suspect the need for the use of the filibuster (except for Senate only issues) will be limited. Even with Senate only issues, the Republicans could use the House in Republican hands as leverage.