OCTOBER SURPRISE????

During Presidential elections in years past, people looked to a surprise revelation in mid to late October about one candidate that would swing the election one way or another.

Actually, today is the day that "WIKI-LEAKS" promised one such "campaign ending" revelation about Hillary Clinton. That may or may not happen. However, like the Vice-Presidential debate, and Bill Clinton's gaffe about the Affordable Health Care Act, it may well be lost in the real October surprise that is churning off the SE coast of Florida! We have yet to hear what the damage to Haiti & Cuba has been and won't until our crisis passes. and our crisis is strengthening and moving inexorably north and more westerly.

No, the real surprise will be how the current Government and the candidates react to what could, with just a slight shift west and 25 more MPH, become the largest disaster yet to strike the Nation in these man-made climate disruption times.

While I join the rest of the world in hoping for the best, the reality may well be a Katrina/Sandy type disaster that taxes our Nation. There have been 15 years with "M" storms in the Atlantic. TEN OF THESE have occurred since 2000! Once the danger has passed and injuries treated, we need to assess which potential Presidential candidate will best address this 99% proven "theory" that has already run the alphabet once since 2000.

We also need to look at how the party in power deals with the aftermath and how those asking to BE the party in power move to help the clean up and rebuilding that we all hope will not be necessary! Will our candidates bring comfort, medical aid, buy water & supplies.......... or will they bring rhetoric and buy damaged properties for pennies on the dollar?

It is one thing to be the outsider pointing out all the problems. It is another to be the one responsible for dealing with the problems. I, like so many Americans am frustrated by the "system", particularly by Senators that vowed in December of 2008 to block EVERYTHING America's first Black President tried to do. We must consider that the way things run are the "best" way things can run and still maintain the Country. That what we have, as flawed as it is, may be the best available.

We must wonder what may happen if an "outsider" were to upset the "status quo" of politics that has been millennia in its evolution and whether we really want to try something that could make our lives worse........... or eviscerate the ability to react after a Category 4-5 hurricane runs it's eye-wall along the east coast of America! The besieged children, devastated buildings and dead bodies we see next week on the news, may not be in Aleppo, they could be in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Savanna, or Norfolk. Cleaning up after Matthew and the NEXT Matthew, Katrina, or Sandy won't be a time to test out a new way to respond and it won't be a time for "on-the-job" training or chants. It will be a time for action and America will look to our Government to use its resources to protect her!