The Presidency

I offer today a few facts and a few comments on yesterday's presidential election, the presidency and the president. . .

First, several people have commented today that Barrack Obama is now the President of the United States; he is not. Until he takes the oath of office in January 2009, George W. Bush is the President-like it or not. 

 Secondly, it is true that Senator Obama will in fact, after taking the oath of office, be the President of the United States-like it or not. 

 It should matter not whether or not you were an Obama supporter, a McCain supporter, a Clinton supporter, a Barr supporter, or a supporter of any other presidential candidate during the election cycle. What matters now is that every U.S. citizen should embrace Barrack Obama as our president once he begins his term in office. 

It would be asinine to agree or expect to agree with every decision he makes as president. People will always have differences of opinion regardless the venue or the nature of their relationship. Although, you may not agree with all of the new president's actions, decisions, or ideology, all Americans should embrace him and the office he represents to the fullest extent. He will be our president and he and our country deserves our support and help. Unless a president violates the principles of the Constitution he swears to uphold or the laws he is charged to enforce, he should be respected and supported if not personally as the symbol of the office and that for which it stands both in the country and around the world. 

 The election is over; until January, George Bush is the president. In January, there will be a peaceful, civil, and seamless transition between the outgoing and incoming presidential administration. The United States will move forward-

 

Why do people-. . .?

Why do people say yes-

when they mean no?

Why do people say 'I'm coming'-

and never show?

Why do people ask-

if they didn't want to know?

Why if people don't mean 'it'-

don't they just say so?

Why don't people realize-

  how they can make others feel so 

Low?

Is honest even a policy any more?

The greatest problem for me to comprehend is the fact that people simply lie; the majority of people seem to constantly lie regarding matters both great and small. As easily as most lie, most lied to-see through. . . 

Why just not just be honest. Tell the truth. It does much more harm to temper the truth under the guise of being 'nice'. Do not say anything if you cannot tell the truth. That is how I see it, truthfully-

Recesses of the mind

It often seems that I live my life only in my mind, isolated inside my head. I sit in silence writing, musing, and smoking an excellent CAO. Some days, I think I experience more days fraught with thoughts than with action, with living. 

I have a dull, nagging, relentless feeling that I am missing reality existing only in thought and theory. 

I am either a child or an old man at times being both; I always have been both regardless chronological age. I love the wonder of things simple; I love the wonder of things complex. At times, I want to from somewhere inside me extract propensities yet to have been employed. I want to revive others stagnant far too long. .

Thoughts, ideas, ambitions, loves, energies, knowledge and beliefs, and the deeper self concealed, resurrect! Were these only flights of imagination, mere whimsy transferred from some novel read long ago, some past fact of philosophy deliberated, or some phenomenon or some obscure event observed?

With clarity, decisiveness, I respond in hast during any crisis, however minor daily ordeals, I resist. I cannot tolerate slight injustices or infractions that deviate from accepted standards, violate civil law, or general civility.

 Uneventful routine days pass; others with angst are saturated –is they of my own making?

One event can unleash contradictions of musings within the no-man’s-land of my mind, the place that lies beyond the professional, the visible, the assumed, the reconciled, and the released filled with trip-wires, shell shock, and screaming meemies; I labor to reconcile and unite life with the pervasive thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, often without resolve- just more mental mayhem.

 

 

Quiz - United States Presidents

All questions refer to presidents of the United States only. Other countries need not apply

1. Who was the first president of the common man? He was the first president to be elected who was not from an old or wealthy family.

2. What was the contradiction related to Jefferson initiating the Louisiana Purchase?

3. Who was the first First Lady to hold a great deal of direct political power and virtually became her husband’s top advisor? She was referred to as Madam President.

4. Why did she ‘assume’ such a role?

5. Who was the president during The Great War?

6. Who was the youngest man to be sworn in as the United States President?

7. Which President held a Ph.D?

8. Who served as president but was never elected president or vice president?

9. To what political party did the first president to die in office belong?

10. Who is commonly considered by the majority of presidential historians to be the worst and most corrupt president?

 

Apathy in America

 M y Uncle Bill served in the 501^st regiment of the 101^st Airborne Division throughout World War II.  For many years, I accompanied him to his Army reunions.

At one reunion, the word apathy was used by Brigadier General and Chief of U. S. Army Chaplains (retired) Monsignor Francis Sampson, who had been attached to the 501^st regiment during World War II, describing it as the greatest threat to the stability and longevity of the United States as a representative democracy as he addressed the former paratroopers.

Concerned about declining patriotism and involvement in the democratic process, he predicted the United States’ or any democratic country’s demise would be the result of apathy among its citizens.

Unlike during the World War II era when Americans united for a common cause, overwhelming apathy has infiltrated the country and as less and less Americans participate in the democratic process, less and less will the country be one of and for the people he continued.

 Apathetic Americans will cause the decline and demise of the United States as a sovereign nation unless the U. S. citizens rise and reclaim control of the government and the nation reinstituting the democratic beliefs on which the county was founded.

Father Sampson warned that Americans had to once again embrace the country and its long-standing values by put them in to action in their homes, in their communities, and in their country.

By fostering love of country and the need for active involvement in the governmental process by younger generations of Americans was his one hope for American to remain strong and free. He concluded by re-emphasizing that the country’s greatest enemy was not a foreign foe; apathetic citizens were the greatest threat to the American way of life. I agree.

Take a stand-more on this subject forth coming. . .