2012 - If We Make It Through December

Many of you who are of my age and older (some younger too) will remember a sort of depressing song that was nonetheless popular on the country radio in the mid-70s, making it to Number Two in 1974. Yes, it was a depressing song, and it certainly appropriate for December 2012. Why? Well, we have all heard the dire predictions about the Mayan Calendar coming to a dead stop on December 21, 2012 People, including scientists and crackpots, are predicting dire events, possibly the end of the world (as we know it(?)) or at least some very drastic change, some disaster of Biblical proportions, as it were.

A very dire situation WILL occur in NOVEMBER 2012 (maybe Merle should revised his song), and if we make it through December, we will have a new President. And just like the disaster poised to overtake the planet on 12/21/12, a disaster is most certainly poised to overtake America. The disaster of which I speak is the grim and dire fact that there is no good candidate for the office of President of the United States of America. From Mr. Obama all the way Newt Gingrich (at least Trump had the decency to remove himself - oh, the polls may have had something to do with it) there is definitely a void, a dirth, if you will, of viable choices for that most high office. If we (the world) do survive 12/21/12, what kind of political storm will we (US - the U.S.) face as voters who are so NOT represented by those we elect?

Obama, the "transparent" President is anything but.   Newt Gingrich?  Really??  Sarah Palin...ummm...not so much.  Gary Johnson, former New Mexico governor...lacks clout.  But really, who is there that could heal this country, that would stop the wars now, that would be willing to attack the national debt no matter the political cost, that would stop the Nuclear Wasting of Texas?  I can almost hear Mighty Merle singing now... "If we make it through December..."   Yes, if we make it through December, as the 12/21/12  hysteria dies down, and the Presidential elections come and go, someone WILL be elected to our nation's highest office.  So far it appears as if there will be no real choice once again for the American people.  Obama, whether you like his idealism or not, is not an effective President.  None of the other democratic or republican candidates offer much better as far as choice.  And yes, even if Pres. Bush the Second were available I would not vote for him either.  Can you say PATRIOT Act?  I hate to abstain from the election, but there are no clear choices this time around.  Yes, the world may well come to an end on 12/21/12, but if it doesn't, "if we make it through December" there will still be that horrible world disaster waiting.  You know, the swearing in of the new President of the United States.