It is very difficult to see anything reasonable or rational in the twice monthly conducted so called debates between ambitious men and a woman claiming to be Republicans as they are aiming to become the next President of the United States of America. In fact, in September 2011, there were three such spectacles, on the fifth, the twelfth and the twenty second of the month. And there are four more scheduled between now and the end of the year. On October 11 and 18, on November 9 and December 10.

Having seen all three September debates, we are only confused about why the powers to be in the Republican Party believe this to be good for the party and the country. From past experiences, we consider it to be factual that at least five if not six of the current flock of candidates do not have a snowballs chance in hell to ever becoming President of this great country of ours. We have long held the believe that this next election is probably the most crucial ever for America. The current administration has proven to all rational thinking people that they are totally incompetent from the top to the bottom and should have never been elected in the first place. But American voters have done this type of thing several times in our history. We are old enough to remember how Jimmy Carter got elected to the highest office of the land and how this micro-managing former peanut farmer from Georgia caused more problems in a very short period of time. But in 1980, Americans recognized this mistake and corrected course for the country by electing Ronald Reagan.

We do have a much worse situation now in that we are tumbling towards financial ruin and insolvency. Instead of discussing plans to reduce our unsustainable debt, we only hear how the country can reduce the speed towards bankruptcy by modifying the vast increase of more debt in the next decade. This is serious stuff, folks and we should not take this lightly.

But back to the Republican candidates and the multiple debates. Considering the dire economic situation we find ourselves in with high unemployment, ever increasing deficits, the incompetence in the White House, what do we have to hear from the Republicans? We hear them squabble over whether or not the Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an Executive order about vaccinations for sixth graders. This is an issue that never materialized to be a problem anyway. Then we have to listen to the Congressman from Texas Ron Paul that we in a way are to blame for the 9-11 attacks in America because we have stationed troops in a number of countries around the world.

What hogwash! It is a shame that the Republicans cannot do better than that or at least device a system whereby the number of ego-driven candidates is being reduced after each debate by at least one if not two. To our way of thinking, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are the clear frontrunners and there maybe a third candidate who could surprise us but if anybody in their right mind thinks that people like Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann, former Governors Huntsman and Johnson as well as former Senator Santorum have even a minor change, they are delusional. We also cannot see Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain ever winning the nomination of the party and it does not look like that Sarah Palin will join the race. The current debates are truly ego-serving events and do not help Americans to pick the right man for the job to oppose Barack Obama in the general election next year in November 2012. We can only hope that this absurdity will soon end.

It totally fails any logic whatsoever when one hears that anybody serious about America and its future still believes or wants to believe what President Barack Obama says and does. He has been on both sides of all issues since he first announced running for the highest office in the land until now. Take any issue: Raising taxes to not raising taxes or whatever else. He has been for it and he has been against it. The beauty of living today is the fact that everything one does or says is recorded and mostly on video. While he has accused big business and rich people for being greedy and selfish, he also has been saying the opposite.

We here at Common Sense University have been listening to him from the beginning when he first made noises about becoming President of the United States. Up until he got elected, it was all hyped in sloganeering “Yes, we can”, “Hope and Change” and more. Then he became President and he showed the world that he would deliver on his promises. He just needed some money to turn this economy around. Democrat-led Congress gave him all he wanted, nearly one trillion dollars, to immediately put America back to work with “shovel-ready jobs”. We know now how that turned out, no additional comment necessary!

Now he will give another speech this week to present his job creating plan and to turn the economy around. What he will read from his teleprompter we do not know in total but we know one thing for certain. He will ask Congress to pass another major stimulus bill to create jobs. In a way, the President reminds us of the two guys, let’s call them ‘Dumb’ and ‘Stupid’ who went into business for themselves. They decided to buy produce at a wholesale market and drive it to a major street corner in downtown where they would sell the apples, oranges, plums, strawberries and so on. They argued about what size truck to buy, Dumb wanted a small truck for starters while his buddy Stupid wanted a big truck. They settled on the little one. They now bought the produce every morning and drove into downtown to sell the goods. The only mistake they made was that they sold it for the same price. After one week, they tallied the money and found out there had been no profit. Stupid told his friend Dumb “I told you, we need a bigger truck!” End of story.

What we at this time have concluded about Obama is that he is way over his head and totally incompetent being President, what we do not know for certain is if what is happening to America is by design. His pre-election rhetoric would indicate it was his plan all along to bankrupt this country and turn us into a fully socialized one. Remember his little talk with Joe the Plumber in 2008 when he told him it was a good thing to spread the wealth around? The voters of America gave him a report card and answer to his plans and performance after his first two years in office when they turned the House of Representatives over to the Republicans. But he has not learned from that and instead now resorts to name-calling and the like to make the Republicans the fall guys for America’s misery and poor economic situation. He is still blaming his predecessor George Bush and unfortunately many people in this country still believe that.

Let’s not go along with his scheme! We just have to wait him out for the next seventeen months until January 2013. It will be hard for many if not most Americans but major mistakes are painful and we are seeing this play out before our eyes. We are simply paying a price for the mistake a majority of American voters made on Election Day in November 20008.