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February 20th, 2008 categories: About Us, National real estate news

Potus Pinwheel: Four Heads are better than none.Sometimes 4 Heads are Better than One… or None!

A few things stirred this one up. Presidents day was obvious, and that somewhat coincided with a recent post on our real estate social network by James Downing in Washington, DC, and the really cool trail of commentary that it spawned from numerous real estate agents all across the country.

The question was this: is it a good idea to discuss politics on a real estate site? Most think not, and most of the time we agree.

Except this time.

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After all, other than a few national real estate reports, all of which are proclaimed by the media (who are not real estate professionals) as “bad news”, all we’re seeing and hearing these days is about politics. It’s a constant 24/7 media barrage of talking heads and opinions. It would make make any head swim. And even confuse inanimate objects. Especially since all the “experts” spend all day long disagreeing with each other. It’s enough to make us want to go out and get a root canal for some relief.

And the politicians very much have their hands, and tongues, in the media melee too. To them everything is different than what we can see and think for ourselves. Here, in politician-speak, coming in third can be called “winning.” Coming in second, if it’s stronger that what was predicted, can mean that you beat the guy who actually beat you. (I want a t-shirt that reads “I Won Because I’m Here.”)

In this world a politician can say something one day, that we all heard, then say they didn’t say what they said yesterday, that we remember, but if they did say it, they meant something else by it. That the media, and therefore us presumedly, took it out of context. Therefore, when we hear “black”, it really might mean “white” tomorrow… or even something else if it’s Tuesday… after lunch.

This is the kind of thinking that allows us to declare a mission accomplished… when it’s not over. And that our latest plan, which is no plan at all but a reaction, is working because a completely lawless and totally unsafe society, is a little less completely lawless and a little less totally unsafe than it was… last month… or a few months before.

The fact that we unraveled the society out of a lack of planning was not “dumb”, if was just unfortunate bad luck, but now that less, instead of more, people are blowing themselves up in the middle of crowds, it shows that we’re being “smart.”

It’s a little more dire, but not much different than a politician having sex, who’s not having sex at the same time, or smoking pot and not smoking pot it the same time. (Both hard to do, but it would be fun trying.)

We recently had a national economy that was going great guns… despite the price of oil, the decline of the dollar, the housing market swoon and the sub-prime mess. But just recently we’re in a recession, or not (they may only occur on Tuesdays… after lunch), because of, well don’t you know… the price of oil, the decline of the dollar, the housing market swoon and the sub-prime mess.

We could of course fix it; that’s what our politicians are there to do. Elected officials are on their way; Here they are to save the day (you can sing it, it’s ok).. But they can’t… because the other guys on the other side of the aisle won’t let them. You see, we’re smart over here on our aisle, and all of them others over there are just stupid. They just don’t get it! (Bickersons, they are all.)

It’s rather astounding when one thinks about it. It’s like we elect somebody, and as soon as they’re in office, they seem to automatically think and act like we’re a public of village idiots. Like we’re all akin to a new goose on a new morning. Everyday is a mystery. And we were either not here yesterday, or it can’t be remembered at all.

It’s all spin. More spin. And even more spin than that. It makes a tornado look tame. Dizzy? Are you kidding? That’s understatement. It’s vertigo inducing, inner ear thrombosis. A drunken St. Vitus Dance troupe doing a Chinese Fire Drill.

It’s got us thinking. If the media can talk about real estate, why can’t we talk about politics? It seems like equal time for us is fair, even if it is fools folly. All it takes to be an expert, we think, is a voice and a microphone. And way too much airtime.

And if the politicians can spin us, why not pay attention to the metaphor. Lets spin them. So we came up with Potus Pinwheel. If one is going to spin, why not put it to good use?

In considering our upcoming election, rather than being negative, we can always do that looking backwards if we want, we’re optimistic, hopeful. But we don’t see everything we want in one complete package before us. There is, however, all of the pieces to the package before us. And it’s all four of them.

Therefore, Potus Pinwheel. When something comes up, we’ll just spin that wheel and the right head with the right talent will come up to take care of it… and save the day.

So, when it comes to national security, or affairs military, we’ll spin the wheel to John McCain. He’s tough as nails, proven, and not about to let us ever enter into a fray to preempt or defend our country from harm without a plan or being prepared. There is a lot to be said there.

If we need someone to talk to that we can trust, that’ll give us some of that good old time religion, while still separating church from state, then we’ll spin that wheel to Mike Huckabee. He’s a true believer who probably could fix a lot of broken stuff, taxes and our borders being a few, and besides that he can tell a good joke… and play “Louie, Louie”. This guy just makes us feel good. It doesn’t get a lot better than that.

If we need someone to deal with healthcare and education, and some of our economic issues, we could spin that wheel to Hillary. She’s also tough as nails, and truly seems to give a damn about these issues. When someone is passionate about something it usually means they might be good at it. If everybody really wanted to see improvements in our healthcare and educational services, Hillary, likeable or not, could reach the end zone here, albeit with a lot of broken field running. (She’d be second to McCain on security too. And both her and O’bama seem to have a feel for the housing market too.)

If we need vision, eloquence, and one great motivational speaker, we’re spinning for O’Bama. He’s passionate about transcending party politics as usual too. Who knows, he might find smart guys on both sides of the aisle to fix things (leaving all of the dumb ones leftout, we suppose). He seems to have extraordinary passion about helping folks less fortunate, and we could use a lot of that for all of us to feel a little better about ourselves and our country again.

If we need a modern day Teddy Roosevelt, a real trust buster again, we spinning for John Edwards, but wait! He dropped out. We don’t have to add a 5th head to Potus Pinwheel. But we’ve still got real issues with our big oil (tha awl bidness), energy, insurance, defense contracting and health care administration industries. They’ve had a bit of excess dirt build up over the years and all could use a good cleaning. This guy’s attorney general material, and anyone of Potus Pinwheel’s four heads could do well to let him loose and see if he can deliver on his passion. (We bet he could, and would. )

So there you have it. We like something about all of them. Yet only one will emerge. And after that, lets all hope that whoever it is that prevails gets the absolute best they can get out of the others going forward. And we’re not reduced to being little more than village idiots again.

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