A co-worker sent me a clip from President Obama’s recent town hall meeting. This clip shows Obama writing an absentee note for a child who was missing school to come to this meeting. While he’s doing that, he’s listening to the father of this kid and then starts to answer his question about health care reform.
And here is a clip of Obama shaking hands with a guard outside of 10 Downing St. Gordon Brown didn’t even follow his lead.
My point is that one of the (many) reasons we like Obama is that he treats the average person like a human being! He can write and listen at the same time! He can pronounce the word “nuclear”!
He’s battling his fair share of the global recession, health care reform (he wants a working bill by October), wars not started by him in Iraq and Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan? We kinda forgot about it over the years), the Taliban in Pakistan, the nuclear problem that is Iran and tensions between Israel & Palestine, all while having time for his wife and children every day.
Naysayers talk about needing all these problems solved RIGHT NOW! Why isn’t our world a paradise yet? He’s going about everything the WRONG WAY!
OK, what did the previous president do? He took a record surplus and turned it into a record deficit. He started a war in one place (even I thought it was a necessary evil, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one) and when he got bored with that one, started looking for another place to obliterate. His daughters didn’t respect their position or they would have had a little more decorum and wouldn’t have been easy headline targets.
We’re just ecstatic that the president now acts like a president. He’s not perfect, and some of the things he’s doing probably aren’t the right things to do. He knows this, and knows when to say he was wrong and when to fight for his ideas. Instead of yelling at him, give him another solution to problems (and no, bombing the hell out of them is NOT an option.) When Obama had a detailed federal budget, Republicans not only said that it was ridiculous, but offered a budget with no numbers!
“How does this budget make you feel?”
“Groovy man! I’m diggin’ no numbers!”
*ahem* Sorry.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am
GREAT views of our present politics in the USA! Obama is RIGHT ON when we need someone like that!