Hi
I was dormant for a while but now I'm back. I waited to blog because I was biding time while congress went over the medical insurance bill. I should have realized that it would take too long to pass.
My subject is the complete lack of leadership shown by the president. Some one pointed out that Obama is afraid of making a decision about troop levels in Afghanistan. This from the guy who was very critical of every Bush move. What a hypocrite. Obama has proven that both Hillary and Biden were correct when they said he is not prepared to be president. They are singing a different tune these days,and we have to pay the musicians. When are we going to learn to elect statesmen and not politicians? Soon, I hope.
Obama rushed to get the stimulus bill through because he wanted to catch the American people off balance, he did the same with the other bailouts and even the supreme court nomination. This guy is a loser. The only hope for the American people is to vote out congress next year and restore balance to the government.
Mr Obama, where is the leadership? Please reply.
Keep the faith and continue to pray for our troops.
GOD Bless
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Nobel Prize - huh
Hi
I have not written for a while because I was waiting for the debate about medical insurance coverage to conclude with some kind of law, but the awarding of the Nobel prize got me peaked.
I have mixed feelings about the award. I like the idea of a sitting American president getting the award, however, I cannot understand why.
The award committee has just lowered itself to being a self serving political hack commission, not a grand and noble judging panel. The president was awarded the prize not for what he did, but rather what he said. How can the awards panel do this and claim to be an honest judge of a peace prize? Beats me.
In our pop culture there are already too many such unreliable panels. Here are a couple for you to consider.
Anyone who has any inkling about major league baseball has heard of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Aaron. Yet the panel that elects the members of the Baseball Hall of Fame has not seen fit to name these individuals without dissenting votes. How creditable is any one who does not see these above named athletes as deserving to be named? Not very much, in fact, they call their own credibility into question.
Now we can look at the Academy Awards, another incapable awards panel. Today the awards are the result of lobbying efforts and political friendships. Mel Gibson made a movie which grossed more than any movie before and yet it was not considered, not even for a nomination. It had nothing to do with artistic content but with the fact that Gibson was not one of the "in" crowd. Over the past years there is an evolving culture that dictates the voters (members) to vote not on artistic merit but rather on too many extraneous matters. Too bad, the academy awards once meant something.
This speaks badly for the pop culture of the country. We need to turn it around and we need to do it quickly before it chokes us. Please do your part to stop these kinds of misgivings.
Start by praying for the safety of our brave service people.
GOD Bless
I have not written for a while because I was waiting for the debate about medical insurance coverage to conclude with some kind of law, but the awarding of the Nobel prize got me peaked.
I have mixed feelings about the award. I like the idea of a sitting American president getting the award, however, I cannot understand why.
The award committee has just lowered itself to being a self serving political hack commission, not a grand and noble judging panel. The president was awarded the prize not for what he did, but rather what he said. How can the awards panel do this and claim to be an honest judge of a peace prize? Beats me.
In our pop culture there are already too many such unreliable panels. Here are a couple for you to consider.
Anyone who has any inkling about major league baseball has heard of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Aaron. Yet the panel that elects the members of the Baseball Hall of Fame has not seen fit to name these individuals without dissenting votes. How creditable is any one who does not see these above named athletes as deserving to be named? Not very much, in fact, they call their own credibility into question.
Now we can look at the Academy Awards, another incapable awards panel. Today the awards are the result of lobbying efforts and political friendships. Mel Gibson made a movie which grossed more than any movie before and yet it was not considered, not even for a nomination. It had nothing to do with artistic content but with the fact that Gibson was not one of the "in" crowd. Over the past years there is an evolving culture that dictates the voters (members) to vote not on artistic merit but rather on too many extraneous matters. Too bad, the academy awards once meant something.
This speaks badly for the pop culture of the country. We need to turn it around and we need to do it quickly before it chokes us. Please do your part to stop these kinds of misgivings.
Start by praying for the safety of our brave service people.
GOD Bless
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