Amid the 'fests' of various separate cultural proclivities, and parties galore, in another celebration of changing of rule from one party and philosophy to another, the thin smoker who happens to be black and will have his hand on the bible in a few moments is probably too busy in the parade of set action he must play a part in to fully wonder at THAT MOMENT.
No not the oath
Sometime, in a quiet moment in few days, he is going to have a cup of coffee, and walk downstairs to his office, and sit down.
Alone.
Since he is human, and understands the events around him, here is what his mind is going to utter, I guarantee you.
No not the oath
Sometime, in a quiet moment in few days, he is going to have a cup of coffee, and walk downstairs to his office, and sit down.
Alone.
Since he is human, and understands the events around him, here is what his mind is going to utter, I guarantee you.
HOLY SHIT
Bill Kristol recounts that at the end of the dinner Mr. Obama had with varous conservative pundits one of them pulled him aside and told him "Sir, I'll be praying for you."
Barack Obama deserves his holy shit moment, because the confluence of events put him him at the center of Rudyard Kipling's poetic IF storm.
Yet, as one who vigorously opposed him for his stated policy goals from the start, I can say that all stars in the firmament have given him the opportunity to be one of the greatest 3 or 4 presidents in American history
Economically we don't know if we face a recession of severe proportions or 1932
Our european allies are having a schadenfreud party like a bunch of morons, while their economies decline faster.
Our competitors, like Russia, and their pals gather like jackals over the 'demise' of america, and pray for separation of the american dollar from dominance in the world economy.
Our enemies like Iran celebrate the end.
Al Qaeda is in an unknown state with leaders still making tapes, and has given birth to more mass murderers driven by the quran.
The Middle east is a muddle of national, and religious wars, and every day makes more clear there IS no solution, and reveals the new war will be against organizations not like Al Qaeda, but like Hizballah.
We read Mexico and Pakistan are candidates for national collapse.
We remain stuck on oil and its hideous suppliers as the hard iron of american manufacturing, GM, Ford and Chrysler follow US Steel into some kind of stupidity fog and potential permament decline.
I won't go into the weaknesses of Obama's stated policy goals before, because right now, it seems as if he made monkeys out of the left, but we are not sure at all what he really thinks about how to achieve american goals.
He is going to get wide berth from the people in terms of errors. We can see this from the minor scuffle over a Secretary of the Treasury nominee who doesn't pay his taxes, which in any other time would result in his abject removal from consideration. But yet Obama can't make many errors or the consequences for us all will be dire, perhaps extreme.
Missile defense, banks, manufacturing, consumer confidence, overstretched military, nationalization and ruination of private property and capitalism, pick your area of critical expression, and every one is up front, right down to freedom of speech (Fairness Doctrine)
So we pray for you even though we disagreed utterly with so many of your statements and personal appointments during your campaign.
We pray for you to be one of the greatest at this moment of national peril, AND national opportunity.
DO IT.
We ARE rooting for you.
Barack Obama deserves his holy shit moment, because the confluence of events put him him at the center of Rudyard Kipling's poetic IF storm.
Yet, as one who vigorously opposed him for his stated policy goals from the start, I can say that all stars in the firmament have given him the opportunity to be one of the greatest 3 or 4 presidents in American history
Economically we don't know if we face a recession of severe proportions or 1932
Our european allies are having a schadenfreud party like a bunch of morons, while their economies decline faster.
Our competitors, like Russia, and their pals gather like jackals over the 'demise' of america, and pray for separation of the american dollar from dominance in the world economy.
Our enemies like Iran celebrate the end.
Al Qaeda is in an unknown state with leaders still making tapes, and has given birth to more mass murderers driven by the quran.
The Middle east is a muddle of national, and religious wars, and every day makes more clear there IS no solution, and reveals the new war will be against organizations not like Al Qaeda, but like Hizballah.
We read Mexico and Pakistan are candidates for national collapse.
We remain stuck on oil and its hideous suppliers as the hard iron of american manufacturing, GM, Ford and Chrysler follow US Steel into some kind of stupidity fog and potential permament decline.
I won't go into the weaknesses of Obama's stated policy goals before, because right now, it seems as if he made monkeys out of the left, but we are not sure at all what he really thinks about how to achieve american goals.
He is going to get wide berth from the people in terms of errors. We can see this from the minor scuffle over a Secretary of the Treasury nominee who doesn't pay his taxes, which in any other time would result in his abject removal from consideration. But yet Obama can't make many errors or the consequences for us all will be dire, perhaps extreme.
Missile defense, banks, manufacturing, consumer confidence, overstretched military, nationalization and ruination of private property and capitalism, pick your area of critical expression, and every one is up front, right down to freedom of speech (Fairness Doctrine)
So we pray for you even though we disagreed utterly with so many of your statements and personal appointments during your campaign.
We pray for you to be one of the greatest at this moment of national peril, AND national opportunity.
DO IT.
We ARE rooting for you.
6 comments:
As you point out, with the challenges he faces, Obama has the opportunity to be among the greatest Presidents in our history. Of course, in order to become great in anything, one must overcome seemingly impossible odds, and that's where Obama finds himself.
I truly hope he does rise to the occasion and become the great President he has the opportunity to be.
We ought to be praying for him and rooting for him.
Pastorius said...
We ought to be praying for him and rooting for him.
Seems like you do not have much choice
But only if he doesn't trash the Constitution, the principles this country was founded on.
I'm willing to give him a fair chance but no wide berth. If he needed time to practice not making big mistakes he should have spent a few more seasons in the minors.
I think (as have others) he was in love with the IDEA of being President but not ready or willing for the hard work it is going to take.
The far leftists, apologists, and hippies that adore him are in for a terribly rude awakening once he gets his presidency into full gear. All presidents in the history of the United States have been followed the "Realist" school of thinking in International Relations and President Obama will be no different. I don't expect him to be a pushover as I had previously invisioned.
The only Presidents I can think of who seriously pushed the envelope of the Realist school were Roosevelt, Lincoln, Reagan, and Bush.
Obama would be hard put to try to level any truly radical agenda, because as we saw with Bush, there are plenty of people at various levels of government who are more than willing to stab a President in the back if he gets out of line.
The United States is a very big ship. Not very easy to turn around.
Am I whistling past the grave yard?
In International Relations, "Realist" does not necessarily mean radical. George W. Bush, for example was a neorealist. At the end of the day, though, all U.S. presidents have been realists. If you were to make a case, Jimmy Carter has been the president who has least subscribed to the realist viewpoint.
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