Waiting, and Hoping, For Truth, From Rubio and Cruz

ITS HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN, sorting through the lies and stupid statements emerging from conservative republican presidential campaign circles, right wing radio talk shows, and the right wing of the American general public. Marco Rubio, for instance, piped up the other day with the incredible statment that of all the republicans running for president, nary a single one of them is a socialist. This remark is dead wrong, stupid, dishonest, or a lie, take your pick. Or perhaps El Marco del Rubio plain don't know what in the ever lovin' hell "socialism" is. Most likely not, since he's a conservative. Would Marco Rubio want America's police departments to be owned and operated by private business? What about fire departmensts? Streets and highways? Public libraries? Does he want to end medicare, medacaid, and social security? Let him say so, and see what happens to his career! Can we say: "owned and operated by the public = socialism"? Marco is a socialist, pure and simple, even though he lacks either the education or the honesty to say so. Probably both, since he is a right wing nut case. All of us are socialists, my American brothers and sisters, to one degree or another. Ted Cruz, another young punk running for president, wants to make the sand in Iraq and Syria glow with American heat. Isn't he aware of the fact that Russia, Great Britian, France, and the United States, among others, are already doing precisely that? They're lightin' it up, baby. Candidate Cruz wants to pretend that Obama is doing nothing, when in fact the Big "O" is making Syrian sand glow; it makes Teddy look tough to talk tough. Obama wants to downplay the threat posed by the Islamic State, to reduce its cridibility, and to emphasize our alliance with the Islamic faith in defeating terrorism, and folks like Rubio and Cruz, with their histrionic, fatuous rhetoric, aren't helping. If only these people would start throwing in a little truth now and then, just a little bit, to augment their freak show with a sprinkling of integrity. We can only wait, and hope.