Soap Box

The modern day process for electing a president, seems to me, to be more of media circus and a personality pageant than the serious, issue oriented, truth seeking operation it should be.

Basically, media coverage and the debates are the only ways we have of finding out the character and the mettle of the candidates, and unfortunately, much of the media is biased and the debate questions are aimed more at stirring up an argument among the participants than getting to the root of the myriad of vital questions that need to be answered for a voter to make a well informed decision.

With the many and diverse ultra serious problems, the next president will have to deal with, wasting time on personal conflicts and criticisms does an injustice to the citizens trying to make up their minds.

We have so many situations that border on emergencies, domestic and foreign issues that are being sidestepped by a president who is treading water and marking time in hopes that nothing catastrophic will happen so he can pass the problems he has created and the ones he has ignored on to the next president.

Whoever moves in to the White House in 2017 will have an overflowing full plate of vital problems that will not allow for an orientation period but will require immediate and decisive action, with decisions on priority and method decided before time as much as is possible.

And we the people, as the ultimate voice in this nation, deserve to know how the candidates would go about it, at least the philosophical approach and as many details as could be considered at this time.

We need to know what, how and to what degree the candidate would deal with the destruction of ISIS.

To what lengths they would go to root out domestic terrorists.

Would they call Islamic terrorism Islamic terrorism?

A realistic assessment of how they would deal, once and for all, with our immigration debacle.

What they would do, about bringing our lost industries back to our shores.

Their stand on Obamacare and the freeing up of interstate medical insurance sales to create the competition that would help stabilize the cost of health care. 

Their course of action for dealing with the people who game the entitlement system and the bums who father children and leave them to be supported by taxpayers.

Their stand on the second amendment and sensible gun laws and cleaning up the gang violence and thugs in the inner cities.

A coherent and doable foreign policy that would, over time, restore lost American prestige and respect and let it be known that when they draw a line it is not to be crossed and that they don't fear Vladimir not taking it easy on them?

How they would restore Israel's trust and let it be known that they are our allies and we will guarantee their sovereignty by whatever means necessary.

What about our ailing educational system, do they have the guts to go up against the teachers union if that's what it takes?

How will they address America's mountainous debt?

I know that this is only a very small tip of a very large iceberg but these and many other questions need to be answered by the candidates for American voters to cast a well informed
vote.

Enough personality clashes, enough juvenile sniping, back biting and gotchas.

The media and the candidates owe America answers, straight talk in layman's language.

Enough bluff, bluster and side-stepping.

There's a lot of talk about low-information voters, the way our elections are handled it's no wonder there are so many of them.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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