Sedona AZ (September 17, 2015) – I don’t usually write a political commentary in the first person but in this case I am making an exception. 
Below is a Facebook Page prediction I made yesterday morning on how the evening’s debate would go. Let’s see just how accurate I was. Here it is.
Yup. Eat them alive he did those that dared tangle with him but he made a gastronomic error trying to swallow a little fish called Carly Fiorina that turned out to be a porcupine in disguise. Oh well. For sure she will grab onto Trump’s comment like a pit bull on a kitty and shake it for all its worth.
Yet, there was this ho-humness about the three hour semi-spectacle. Christy blew it big with his anti-pot stance. Bush showed he still had some vital signs showing. Rubio got way too much camera time. Carson faded. Cruz had a dumb look on his face. Hucklabee appeased. Walker walked when he should have run. Kasich was bewildered. Paul’s hair was a distraction. And every one, including Trump, blew the last question of the night.
“If you were elected president, how would the world look different after you leave office,” they were asked.
No one nailed it. It was a great missed opportunity. Had anyone of those candidates answered — “No more wars. No more ISIS. No more pollution. No more cancer. Everyone has a job. We landed a man on Mars. Hunger in the world has been wiped out. Social Security is alive and kicking. America is no longer in debt. America is healed,” they would have been elected our next president.
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Professionally, I come from an international banking and Wall Street commercial lending background. On Wall Street there's an old saying which is "If you've ever heard their name, they're not in control." What that really means is that the powers-that-be don't run for President or Congress. I learned along time ago the the Democrat/Republican paradigm, or dichotomy, is a fraud. The world's international investment bankers decide who will run for President and who will be allowed to win. The parties argue over cosmetic issues so that the voters will think they've made a difference. The investment bankers, meanwhile, decide which wars will be fought and when and where, which companies will own the government, what the state of the economy will be, who controls the media and what message it will convey to the unwitting and unwary public, what public sector will flourish or be put to death, while the last thing they will ever care about is liberty and justice and the principles of our Founding Fathers. Whether Trump or Hillary wins, or the Democrats or the Republicans, our fate is already determined and the voters, as usual, will just be bystanders watching an approaching hurricane.
J. Rick Normand