Mr. President

American Idol is now down to four remaining entertainers…Lauren Alaina, Scotty McCreery, James Durbin and Haley Reinhart as Jacob Lusk got the boot last night.

Lusk was a likeable guy. He’ll have a nice career in the entertainment industry.

If I am the producers of this show or, more importantly, the parents of Lauren Alaina, I’d get her some help real quick though. This 16-year old is cracking under the pressure. Of course everyone is tense and nervous, but she is clearly overwhelmed with the attention and the criticism on top of the expected nervousness.

Durbin was ticking like a time bomb this week too so it’s getting to him a bit more as well while Scotty and the Hottie seem to be much more composed.

It can be a little scary standing up in front of small crowds to perform a show of any sort. At least I can speak about that from experience. I know that I had butterflies in my stomach for my first bunch of shows and then they returned for appearances in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. All of these were small shows numbering anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred people in attendance. But I can’t imagine walking out in front of all of those cameras and knowing there are millions of people watching every little detail about you on stage and criticizing every note of your performance. Then to read and hear what people say online, for example, can make one wonder how much it’s all worth.

I know I get flustered when I get ANY negative feedback and that’s despite knowing that there is going to be some in EVERY show that I do. This is without exception. When I think about that I then have to multiply it by thousands.

If someone’s self confidence is low, watch out. As bubby and personable as Lauren Alaina is, I am going to take a shot in the dark that she lacks the confidence of the other three who are left.


I watched the first presidential political debate last night. While I won’t get into any of my thoughts about that because this would then be a 9 page commentary, I will mention that there was a big surprise winner of the debate, according to a Frank Luntz focus group.
That winner was businessman Herman Cain. Of the 29 people in Luntz’ group, perhaps 6 of them knew much about him before the debate. 25 of them believed that he was the hands down winner and perhaps over half of them now believed they might change their allegiance to Cain based on his performance.
Cain, if you are someone who has not heard of him, is of African descent. He is black; however you want to categorize him or describe him saying is a successful American multi-millionaire businessman.
If he were to be the Republican nominee, the leftist press and all of you leftists out there would be in a real quandary. Those who disagree with Obama’s policies are labeled racists in this country because Obama is black. It’s the typical leftist attack plan pulled from the old play book that those of us who know better keep trying to inform those who don’t know better about. Anyone who is Republican hates black people, according to chapter 1 of their book about how to try to win an election by character assassination.
The other common attack plan is to label anyone who is Republican candidate as stupid. 

Herman Cain

 

So if Cain is the nominee, will they dare call him stupid? What would he single-handedly do to the leftist playbook? Could the leftist media call him dumb and get away with not being labeled racist? What would the 90% of black people who are Democrats now do when they heard another black man getting attacked like that, if so?
If Cain were the nominee next November it would be interesting to see how the black vote splits. Would it go 50-50? What would the white democrat vote look like then? I would imagine that it would pretty much stay the same. That would make Herman Cain the next President with that split in the black vote and probably make him President even if he only took 40% of it, which is entirely possible. Cain is a common sense, successful man who clearly swayed a remarkable 86% of that focus group last night.

Ok, see, I’m keeping this short and am running long…
Take gas prices alone last night. In one minute he gave the plan and the solution to the current mess which dealt with supply, distribution AND speculation issues in that span. Coincidentally in the news yesterday morning was a piece about the Obama administration now studying the possibility of applying a tax for every mile that we drive. This is on TOP of what we are paying now in state and federal taxes on every gallon of gas.
Even if I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again…the car represents freedom, to at least me. A tax on every mile that I drive (beyond how I am taxed already on it with gas taxes and tolls) is a tax on my freedom and a SPECIFIC attempt to control where I go and how.
Let me be even clearer, one of the facts that we are paying so much for gas now is precisely because there are people in our country and in our government who absolutely want to determine how we live our lives.

This process has just begun. There is so much that will happen from now until next November that will affect people’s decision making process. There are also still many candidates yet to join the fray but if I were to vote today I would vote for Herman Cain for President of the USA.

Flash - 9.0% unemployment figure now. The WH will point to 244,000 jobs created in April but will seem to forget to mention all of the jobs that were UN-created in April as well.

Done.