Saturday, January 23, 2010
Respect for the President
Many pundits sound like they have better ideas about how to run this country with the plethora of problems President Obama inherited. I used to say that anyone who wants to be President after Bush, was an idiot. I said that Kerry willingly lost because he came to his senses and saw how difficult the job would be. I still think you have to be crazy to take the job, but very smart and loving really... I do not have the courage, love or conviction to do it. I think I would rather run away. If the pundits think the job is easy then they are blind. That job, after Bush, is the worst thing I can imagine. Hat's off to President Obama, he is a better man than I am. At least I am not going to bad mouth the man who is trying to give my children a future. I'm old enough, maybe I'll die of old age soon, but he is giving my kids what I can't...a better future and for that I understand and respect him...more than I do Bush and the Republicans... who took it all away. I don't hate Republicans, I never met one...they only exist in the TV, in the House and in the Senate, the rest of us are just ordinary loving folks right?...I just hate that they took away our future. Why should we re-elect them again, so they can do it to my kids one more time? I'm not that stupid.
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Thanks for the recent visit, Teeluck. Like I said over there, I'm just getting over a little surgey and, yes, because of that, I'm not feeling all that ambitious. I will say, though, that I also like and respect the President. I don't always agree with him (healthcare, the war, gays in the military, etc.) but I'm definitely rooting for him. If he does well, the country does well, too.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I think, we are all invested in the wellbeing of this country regardless of who is running it. Hope your surgery went well and you have a speedy recovery bro.
ReplyDeleteI'm having some fun with Rusty over at your site. It's all good and done in fun and love.
ReplyDeleteRusty's definitely a rabble rouser. He's been fair with Uncle Will, though. And, yes, that sense of humor of his (over at Lydia's, in particular) is outlandish/cool.
ReplyDeleteYou're so funny. You've never met any Republicans? Where do you live? NYC? The town I grew up in was full of them. But I swear I'm a Republican magnet, even in NYC Republican strangers approach me at the super market and tell me they love Fox News and I tell them I'm a liberal progressive (implying "So do you hate me?". Maybe they think I'm like them or something.
ReplyDeleteHi Urban Pink, welcome. NYC does have it's share of funnies/weirdos doesn't it? "Republican" is just a battle-cry for those who like to be selfish, tomorrow they will call themselves something else. Some now hide behind the term "Conservative" like Hannity. Lou Dobbs and Senator Brown still hint that they are independent, but we know that is not true. They cannot admit that they need a community of Democrats/Liberals/Progressives running things, which gives them the freedoms they enjoy. If Republicans got all that they wished for, then the Corporations would eventually run things and those who were not slave to them on the Companies' terms would just die slowly, because you know they hate public assistance/welfare programs. Hell, one of them Andre Bauer last night/Monday said on The Daily Show that we should stop school feeding programs, because it will help poor people to breed/multiply. That is what Republicans turn into if they are given the freedoms without intelligence, that they crave.
ReplyDeleteWill, you sound better already, keep up the fast recovery.
Yes, Teeluck, you're entirely right to point out that in one month last year we went from being governed by a preznit who was dumber and than either one of us to a President who's smarter than both of us put together. What's wrong then? The path is piled high with difficulties. Yes. Maybe, he didn't gather the right team around him? I don't know. I want, desperately, for Mr. O. to succeed. But I got up out of bed this morning to hit my keyboard. Without ranting, I could not have slept until 0700.
ReplyDeleteReassure me, Hombre. I am not a potted plant. Help me sleep.....
Welcome, Vigilante, there is no end to the task of trying to improve on one's circumstances, and as long as the opposition thinks brains is something God gives you, then we have to pull our own weight and theirs as well. It is only after you have found inner peace that you can see past the disappointment that they don't learn too well, and I guarantee you will sleep comfortably.
ReplyDeleteWhile I share your opinion that the Republican party of today is extreme/mean-spirited (unduly influenced by that dreaded 2 headed monster, the religious right and neoconservatism), I also feel compelled to remind you folks that wasn't ALWAYS that way. The Republican party of the 50s, 60, and 70s was a party in which many great men resided; Ike, Rockefeller, Chuck Percy, Ed Brooke, Jacob Javits, Lowell Weicker (granted, a pompous ass, at times), Henry Cabot Lodge, John Heinz, Dick Schweiker, John Chaffee, Stew McKinney, etc.. And they weren't just men of integrity. They were men of compassion, too. Weicker was a tireless worker for special needs children. McKinney spent a large part of his later years advocating for the homeless. Man, oh man, how times have changed.
ReplyDeleteTeeluck, I really like your posts. Thank you for your advice too. You are so right; it resonates with my deepest beliefs.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your point, Will? Are good times coming back, right around the corner?
ReplyDeleteI suspect not, Vig. I suspect not. I was just pointing out that it (Republicanism) wasn't always the nasty brand that it is today.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great site. I am glad I found it and am going to add it to my blog rolls.
ReplyDeleteAs I have maintained I am not one of those who take great joy in slamming the president for everything he does. As mentioned here he took over a job that was held by the worst possible fool. He had a lot of work facing him, in a country that was divided.
One half, the Right, hated him, and the other half, the Left, expected him to cure cancer, stop all wars, declare New Jersey a national park, shut down all coal powered plants, and of course, stop global warming by ordering the sun to cool down.
The fact is, as the "progressives" were astonished to learn, the president was not Harry Potter and he was not omniscient. He was a man who has to work within the constraints of an antiquated constitution and a self-serving congress, with an arrogant conservative Supreme Court thrown in for good measure. I think I will give the guy a little time.....
I was just thinking the same thing, Mike. The poor guy just can't catch a break these days. I give him a lot of credit for hanging in there/taking the heat. The economy will eventually turn around and hopefully then the rhetoric will cool down a tad, too. HOPEFULLY!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Mike, man your blog is Krazy...keep up the great work.
ReplyDeleteWill, I think he just caught a break...at the Republican meeting.