Brenda for President!

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Wouldn’t it be a surprise to have an adult human being of sound mind and body working for YOU AND ME and not for himself?

How many times, enjoying your morning coffee or tea, have you wondered, “WTF is going on in Washington?”

I didn’t vote for that fake gold grifter! I wanted a person who actually gives a damn about this former Wonderful Country that gave a damn about EVERYONE, not just helping millionaires become trillionaires.

I promise to perform the duties of the Office effectively, even though I have such a low bar to clear.

Here is my platform:

  1. I am really easy to get along with, as long as you do exactly what I tell you to do.
  2. I am a post-menopausal former redhead who happens to be a left-handed Gemini, which, if you are smart, should tell you: “Mess with me at your own risk.”
  3. Many of my appointments will be of the feminine persuasion, who believe in equality regarding sex, education, origin of birth, and religion.
  4. My one and only first Gentleman will be my husband of 65 years. No worries about dalliances; our time and energy will be spent on straightening out the mess that will land in our laps!
  5. I promise to get up to speed faster than the lazy money-grubbers currently lounging, stuffing your tax dollars in their back pockets.
  6. There will be no LOBBYISTS allowed!
  7. I will need to read from a BIG FONT teleprompter! People expect the leaders they voted for to conduct themselves with intelligence and wit. Unless you have been living under a rock, you know who the current witless fools are.
  8. Let’s talk about age! I admit I am not a spring chicken, but I can still walk and chew gum.
  9. I have no desire to create a dictatorship! My children are Senior Citizens and will only follow me if I am making Pizza.
  10. I don’t come from a long-standing political family
  11. 1 don’t have any worms in any part of my body. Hey, isn’t there Worm Medicine for worms in dogs?
  12. I won’t redecorate or dismantle any part of the White House, if anything is still standing. And all the fake gold will disappear, like magic!
  13. We won’t need to redecorate the presidential living quarters; they used to look pretty damned good compared to the homes of most of us Senior Citizens.
  14. We won’t need new China: what is in the cupboards hasn’t been used much. Most of the dinners were served from cardboard boxes.
  15. Anyone who contributes huge donations can pick any of the bedrooms for a one-night sleepover, if the whole thing hasn’t been turned into a Motel 6.
  16. I will accept ALL of the PAC money, as long as they sign the little pre-bribe agreement that basically says “Sorry, sucker, I am the screwer, and you are the screwee!
  17. I expect to be a one-term President! I am old, but not stupid.
  18.  The tax levied on the Millionaires, Billionaires, and Trillionaires will be enough revenue to raise the minimum wage to $25.00 an hour, not that sissy $15.00.
  19. No worries, they will pay the same percentage that middle-class Americans have paid for years. Medicare and Social Security will be safe forever.
  20. Sorry, college graduates! You will have to pay for college. But the interest will be low and applied ONCE to the balance, AND the amount you pay each year will be a deduction on your taxes. No more amortization like a home loan!
  21. All the laws designed to protect the environment that have been reversed under “you know who” will be reinstated. Yay! Clean water, air, and undisturbed land.
  22. Thousands of steel beams will be for sale! Or we could build many new schools! Compassion for those who flee injustice, AND if we mind our own business, we will have fewer people clamoring or sneaking into our country illegally. And the path to becoming a citizen will be fair and not cost a fortune.
  23. There will be NO bailouts for Corporations or Banks that get into trouble due to risky speculation. You are on your own! Just like your depositors have been in the past, who made you rich. No more Golden Parachutes from the taxpayers’ dime!
  24. If I missed anything, feel free to express it on my website, www/brendacolbathbooks.com
  25. All my books are waiting for avid readers. Be nice, and when you read a book, give a review; it means more to the author than you know.

Published by Time Traveler of Life

Biography Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die. I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect? Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing. My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda. Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated. I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.” I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class. After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome. I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.

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