Opinion

(Extended variation on a post seen elsewhere.)

“Should” and “could” and “ought to”, or “owes” and “I’ve earned” are fruitless. If you follow them, you won’t thrive, you won’t be able to “do,” you won’t survive.

We are a country of individuals with individual rights. So too are the members of our higher courts.

But I will be watching the debate – it’s the best entertainment we’ve seen in years!

As a former debater, I love a good word-scrap. Last night’s Vice Presidential debate was, from that perspective, thrilling. Each side landed several good punches but the recipient always shook off the effects and charged back in.

Did you get yours?

The US Constitution replaced the earlier and by then clearly failing Articles of Confederation from a decade earlier. Among many criticisms of those Articles was the inability of the states to succeed at paying their collective debts, primarily loans from foreign governments that had funded our independence. In the absence of any strong common (federal) government, the confederated states had failed to make proper payments on their loans. Foreign governments were threatening the equivalent of foreclosure.

We’re counting on you to beat the incumbent who seems hell-bent on destroying our way of life, but your candidate appears to need more hand-holding and coaching than he’s receiving. According to the various polls, this election isn’t gonna be a slam dunk and if you don’t make sure your candidate walks the walk and talks the talk, you’re gonna lose it.