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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] On certainty
  • Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:35:34 -0400



Gene GeRue wrote:


I hold a president to a higher standard for two reasons:

1) A president holds enormous power and influence and his decisions affect millions of lives even unto death;

Well, that's true of Ben Bernanke, Colin Powell, and Michael Chertoff, too.
I think it is rather naive to think that the person who acts as the president is any different from the rest of humanity. That is why character is so important in an election. It is a subjective issue because your truth may be different from mine. I might see stretching the truth as a lie, but you might see it as the truth. I see Obama as just another slick politician, but you see him as a something truly different.


2) A president has access to a huge amount of information that citizens do not, and he has the power to demand yet more.

And yet, with all this power and knowledge, we still look to the president and expect him to act at face value-we don't trust that perhaps there is a bigger picture in play...sometimes, in a big game, you make a sacrifice to win in the end...that's true in baseball, in chess, and in a bunch of other games.



This president's actions are a disgrace to the office. He deserves the shame that history will heap upon him.

Maybe, maybe not. In 100 years we may be looking at Bush as the guy who tried, but failed, to wipe out Islam...the evil Islam that has changed the constitution and eliminated our freedoms...that's twisted from this time frame and perspective, but who knows how history will be written and then rewritten.
If millions of folks can grow up thinking that slavery only existed in the South, or that the Civil War was fought over slavery, then anything is possible. The media has the ability to keep key facts and information from surfacing until they want it to surface-that's the case today, and that has always been the case...think about JFK's affairs, FDR's handicap, and Obama's smoking habit...just to be fair, let's add Reagan's close call from the assassins bullet, Bush's drug addiction, and Clinton's sexual addiction. The press controlled what the public learned, how much of the truth(by spinning the story), and when things become public knowledge.
In 100 years, we may learn that things that put the events of the last few years in a different light, and in a different light, we might not come to the same conclusions.

Bev

ps. at work the other day someone made a comment that I had not thought about. They were talking politics, and one guy, my chemist co-worker, who grew up in Chicago, said something to the effect of "Obama will turn the country around because we have never had a leader who is a man of color-he'll bring a new perspective and a new way of playing the game" to which the other guy, a mechanical engineer, says "well, I grew up here in Georgia...we've had 'men of color' holding positions of power-playing the game..we've been there and done that, to no different end...perhaps we have learned better than most that color doesn't matter."




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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky





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