Scott Brown

I looked at this man's background and think that he should run for president as an Independent in 2012. Here is why: He worked his way up the civil servant path from the bottom, starting as a member of the board in his hometown in 1995 to the state's House of Representatives in 1998, to the state's Senate in 2004, and now the Senate seat in Washington. As a Republican he knows how to work with opposing views given the Democrats tenure in this state of close to 40 years. He has a wide breadth of government experience that I haven't seen in any of the former presidents, in my lifetime, or our current one. Also, he has been in the state's Army National Guard for 30 years, working from the bottom up.

His path shows qualities of perseverance, self-discipline, integrity, and a clear path for us to see what he is all about. I can relate to his truck that has over 200k miles. :) He is a person who has experienced life in the trenches. I listened to his acceptance speech and liked his sense of humor and firm conviction on what he considers important for those who he serves. I see him as having humbled his ego through his upbringing and the way he has lived his life, and is ready to lead this country without a self-serving vision.

We need a radical change to how our federal government operates, and I encourage him to stay independent of the Democrats and Republicans and vote for what he knows to be the right way by listening to the citizens of this country.

On a different note, President Obama's speech today on tightening banking restrictions to limit bank size is a breath of fresh air. It sounds like he listened to Mr. Volker after all.

Also, there is a new phrase for the 1 in 4 homeowners who have negative equity. It is called 'strategic defaults'. These are the homeowners who are walking away from their home loan even though they have the income to pay it because in some cases the loan is $100k or more higher than the value of the house, especially those purchased since 2006. Here is an obvious flag that this housing market and rising foreclosures will continue as the market forces play out, regardless of the government's continued attempt at intervention. In the long run, this is a good thing.