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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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