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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] On certainty
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:43:00 -0800

Well, one they still keep quiet is Reagan's sexual addiction! Or his early signs of Alzheimers.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] On certainty




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."




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