Has anyone else noticed that the presidential campaign of the aspirants representing both parties has developed into a school yard brawl if it ever was much above that in the beginning of the run for the White House?  Like kids arguing, it has become a, you said that, I did not, did too and here’s the tape to prove it. You heard wrong, I didn’t mean that.  This is the gotcha season. Right, and I gotcha. And on it goes with nothing of substance to help the less informed to decide who should be president. But one fact is sure; daily, they serve us a good supply of waffles with intended doses of syrup. If anyone thinks that certain Republicans have been left out, they haven’t been. Just substitute names, events, and subjects to receive a double order of syrup and waffles.

Those who lead have followers and one is never sure who is a leader or a follower. For the moment, it will be assumed that John Kerry is a leader and that he has a follower, among the candidates, who is learning from him. Kerry voted for the war before he voted against it and wouldn’t have been for it if he had known enough to be against it if … It was confusing to say the least about his daily waffles. Croissants and exotic spreads might have been better suited for him than waffles. Waffles are for common folks and we know waffles when we see them.

Back to Kerry’s followers and the lessons they have learned so well. Hillary applied the waffle lesson with the illegal alien drivers license issue. She denied saying she was for it by saying whatever it was she said that was intended to make people believe she wasn’t for it. But wait, later she said she was for it after it became clear she was for it after all. Then after Eliot Spitzer (Is he related to Idiot, a policitian with the same last name?) decided that licenses for illegals wasn’t good, so he nixed the whole deal. Shazaam as Gomer Pyle would say. Faster than she said, “I support him and I’m for it,” Hillary let fly with “I’m against the license and support him in whatever he does or he did. What did he do?” There must be something in that waffle syrup.

There are things that Hillary is sure she will do and she doesn’t hesitate to tell us. She has the government declared rich in her sights and is going to make sure they aren’t rich anymore. No waffles there. She wants to institute government mandated health insurance using the phony name of affordable health care. When was the last time the government made anything affordable? Here a fee, there a fee, here Fifi. oh, never mind. Must be all that syrup sticking to the keyboard.

A few Republicans and all the Democrats want to help everyone with someone else’s money. That they are for and most of us sure wish they weren’t for that idea. No waffles there, but the problem is the huge quantities of the big government syrup they want to pour on the nation. If anyone thinks things are sticky now, wait until the “rich” and the rest of us get stuck in the syrup they are trying to pour onto us.

Then we have John Edwards, the phony who lives in his own America and is trying to make ours worse. He proposes education for everyone; forced health check-ups whether you want them or not; tax increases on the “rich” to pay for his doses of syrup. Does that mean the other America man will pay his fair share?  Don’t bet your daily waffle on it … uh … better make that pancakes. The waffles are getting stale.

Barrack Obama hasn’t found any good waffles, yet. Give him time though. Right now he may be looking for the right syrup he can sell to the voters. If anyone cares to notice, his plate is empty and so is his head except for more of the same type syrup the others are peddling. He waffles too, but he isn’t sure what he is waffling about the last that was heard.

The nation would be better served if the Democrats and the liberal Republicans would open a pancake house and serve up waffles and syrup. It wouldn’t cost the taxpayers anything unless Congress decided to subsidize their business. Come to think of it, they are in business already, serving us stale waffles and government syrup, all paid for by their customers, the taxpayers of the nation.

It would be far better if the taxpayers bought their own waffles and syrup. At least they would know what they are buying. Too, they can always toss them out if the products aren’t good. In Sorting It Out, it’s too bad that getting rid of political waffles and syrup isn’t as easy.

© 11-25-2007 DEC