Skip to main content

Get In the Game, Coach



Although I have been an Obama fan since 2008, there are a few things happening, or not happening, in his administration that leave me wondering if I have been backing the wrong horse. Not that I wish I had voted for John McCain or Mitt Romney, but I wonder if some other liberal might have been a better choice, although I have no idea who that would be.
Today’s headlines indicate that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has been chosen to fall on her sword for the problems facing the 2010 Affordable Care Act web site. Although she says she gave the President regular reports on the progress of the program, she is ultimately responsible for the problems.
This is true to some extent, but whatever happened to Harry Truman’s sign, “The Buck Stops Here?” Apparently it has been replaced by one that says, “It’s not my responsibility.”
The second thing that has me concerned is the NSA’s insistence that the President was not informed about the bugging of government communications of Germany, the U.K. and other U.S. allies. If this is true, it begs the question, “If the leader didn’t know about it, then why do it?” It seems to me that the reason for having such information is to help him lead.
If it’s not true, then the transparency we were promised in 2008 has become very cloudy indeed.
The circling sharks smell blood, although it is diluted with their own.
The President reminds me of a football coach who is busy playing with his Xbox instead of watching the game. Look up, Barack, and pay attention.
******
 My books, “There Are Only Seven Jokes” and “The Spirit Runs Through It” are available in paperback or Kindle at Amazon.

 

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

There Are Only Seven Jokes - Introduction

      The statement “There are only seven jokes – all the rest are variations,” has been around for a long time, but no one ever seems to know what the original seven are. I think I have found the solution to the mystery.       The answer is to be found in an article published in the New York Times on May 2, 1909. Entitled “New Jokes? There Are No New Jokes, There Is Only One Joke,” it goes on to say that all jokes are a distortion, and lists seven categories of distortion. Supposedly every joke will fit into one of the categories. I believe that repetition changed the seven categories into the seven jokes.       Each of my next seven blogs will be devoted to exploring one of the categories. In addition, I shall attempt to give an example or two of jokes which I think fit the category.       You must realize that this article appeared over one hundred years ago, so most of the jokes a...
Post a Comment
Read more

By Today’s Standards Many of my Teachers Would be in Jail

I started school in a two-room building: grades 1 to 4 in one room; grades 5 to 8 in the other. One teacher in each room taught all four grades. I don’t remember first grade very well – the teacher left at the end of the year. I am pretty sure it was not my fault. Now keep in mind that reading the Bible every morning was the standard for all grades at that time. But my teacher in grades two to four went a little above and beyond the normal practice. As a member of a “plain” sect, she considered it her duty to lead the little heathens to Christianity. She offered a free Bible to all students who managed to memorize 20 verses. I memorized my verses – “Jesus saves” was my favorite because it was the shortest – and got my Bible with my twenty underlined in red. That would be illegal today (not the underlining), and rightly so. Teachers may not teach religion, although contrary to what many folks seem to think, students may bring their Bibles to school, read them, and pray their...
Post a Comment
Read more

Capitalism And Socialism

      Capitalism: An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.*       The basic idea underlying a capitalistic system is that of individual ownership and control of the assets of commerce. Using one’s innate abilities, energy, ideas, etc. to better oneself is the driving force, and success or failure is measured by the bottom line. The “rugged individual” and the “small entrepreneur” are the natural heroes. Individual freedom is paramount.       Unfortunately, unbridled incentive can lead to unbridled greed, which if followed far enough, can bring down the system. Let me give you an example:       When you buy a life insurance policy, you are buying a contract under which t...
Post a Comment
Read more