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Thank you, Jerry.  You give me pause to think.

Bev

Jerry W. Shepperd wrote:
> I didn't hear Obama in the same way that either James or Bev heard 
> him.  I heard his message as, When people are frustrated, they hold 
> to the familiar.  Guns are familiar.  However, the problems we are 
> facing can't be eliminated by shooting them.  They are economic and 
> life-style problems.  We are spending more than we make, we are 
> involved in a war that costs us more money than we have to spend -- 
> not to mention lives.  We must learn to live by spending less money, 
> by using less fossil fuels, by restoring more of the environment than 
> we destroy.  (I know.  This is paraphrase, so one can make the claim 
> that I, too, am hearing what I want to hear.  I will say that I am 
> not in Obama's camp, although my daughters are putting pressure on me.)
>
> These are my sentiments, not Obama's, and I expressed them when they 
> "dragged" me off to patch the wounded and dying in Viet Nam: It is 
> hard to fight ideologies with bullets, especially in other people's 
> home territories, so one must, of necessity find another method of 
> engagement - if we feel the need to engage.  That requires changing 
> the way we think, plan, talk, all of which is hard, sometimes impossible.
>
> The bottom line is we all must start talking seriously about 
> change.  We may get the words wrong on occasion, because change is a 
> work in progress, and we are still trying to figure out what it 
> entails.  We seldom know until it has already happened, but it will happen.
>
> Jerry
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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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