November 26, 2008

• Ahhhh Thanksgiving. The night before Thanksgiving always reminds me of the time when I was about 10 and my mom was in the kitchen making some of the stuff for the next day’s meal and I was in the living room dancing to the music on the Weather Channel for hours and hours. I know it sounds weird, but I was a weird child much like I’m a weird adult.

  The other day I was talking to a Republican friend of mine who said that Obama is going to run the country into the ground. We weren’t in a big discussion about politics so I did not respond to what she said but I certainly thought about it. I mean, honestly, how can anybody say that he is going to run the country into the ground when clearly Bush has already plowed us so far into the ground that there is nowhere to go but up. Bush has dug us such a hole that if the Bush presidency were a movie it would be called “Journey to the Center of the Earth”. Now it remains to be seen if Obama will do any good but the one thing you can’t say is that he is inheriting a country that is doing great, unlike Bush who came into office after a peaceful and prosperous Clinton presidency. Although I don’t agree with some of Obama’s ideas to get the economy running again, I do recognize that he has got his work more than cut out for him and he seems to have a very good understanding on how serious of a problem this economic crisis has become. He is talking about hitting the ground running and even getting things done on his very first day in office. I’m very impressed with that thinking. He seems to be the complete opposite of Bush in that he is going to be great in a crisis. I firmly believe that if Obama had been president on September 11th, he would have not sat there frozen like a deer in headlights reading to school children when finding out that our country had been attacked. I know people who still try to defend Bush for that, but after learning more about the attacks, Bush could have prevented the third and fourth planes from crashing had he ordered all planes out of the sky after the first plane hit the tower. And let’s not forget Bush’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina, his response time was dangerously slow. Then there is the Iraq war (which was bullshit to begin with, but that’s a different story) he waited until we were 3 1/2 years into a complete and utter clusterfuck before deciding that he not only needed to get rid of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld but also to change course by implementing a surge. As for the economic crisis, he didn’t even acknowledge a problem until things has spun so far out of control that we were past the point of no return. Time and time again the man has proven to be the human equivalent of Katrina, a disaster when it comes to a crisis. If an Obama presidency is like the Obama presidential campaign (and I believe it will be) we will have a president who remains calm and cool in a crisis and has an appropriate sense of urgency to help prevent disasters or lessen the damage done by disasters. I think we should all be thankful this year that there are only 55 days left until Obama takes office. Notice I said we all SHOULD be thankful, as there are still over 50 million people who are not thankful that he will be in office. But, they should be.

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