The explosion on the oil rig in the gulf did not get our attention the way the horrible instant blow up of 911. September 11, 2001 was a startling wake up call that captured the world's attention. The shock gave way to a new political awareness. After the grief subsided and the mourning experienced, the city rebuilt and recovered. Though the lives lost will never be forgotten especially by the loved ones, the city is back in business.
Except for those on board, nobody heard the explosion of April 20th and the news of the disaster took many days to be fully realized. But for the future and the lives affected, this disaster may be more deadly and long term than even 911. Eleven people died instantly and their stories were lost in the reporting but for their loved ones left to mourn. Like a quiet miserable black death, the greedy oil seeps and creeps where it is cruelly destroying wild life and a way of life that may never return. The fragile Earth can handle just so much of man made disaster, but in the end, the planet will survive whether humans do or not. Will this be the planetary wake up call that will finally enlighten humans to the obvious and common sense realization that what we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves??
The answer is that it is not so obvious to most and common sense is not common but rare.
We continually give up our power to corporate and government thinking and both bumbling giants prove their incompetence in solving this looming and continuing problem. With egos as large as their ignorance, they are incapable of finding answers and at a loss as to how to get help or who to ask. If single individuals come up with innocuous ideas that seem to have some effect eg the example of the floating grain that absorbs the oil, they are dismissed while they disastrously bumble on with solutions as dark and confused as the oil itself. There are better answers from those trained outside of business, law and politics, and for this problem, that blinded tribe can only lead in darkness.
Obama says he consults with the scientific community on the problem, but why is there no action on proposed solutions? What is he waiting for and why is he spending his energy defending himself on his actions and true lack of understanding? When the disaster came to his attention, it did not catch his intelligence that this was potentially the plague of this century. He trusted the establishment on the financial crisis and we are still thrashing around in the darkness there and now he has trusted BP to give important answers and they too have come up way too shy of anything even remotely remedial. Obama cannot get a pass here. He was supposed to be the leader at the charge of "hope and change". People must be feeling hopeless because he has changed nothing but the minds of those who believed he was the great hope he claimed to be.
Leadership and corporate status quo aside, what do 'we the people' do now? When you lose your life in immediate disaster, its over and done, but what about losing your livelihood and known way of life, your environment, your family? It is certainly a deeper pain and a longer road out of sadness. Is it time now to pay attention to reality and the way the planet works? As the hurricane season approaches and the gulf stream does what it does what further misery is unfolding? Where is the killer black liquid heading?
Let the talking heads quiet down and start to listen to those who spend their lives studying our planet and its secrets and listen to what they have to tell us. Scientists have been warning for many years. And whether the planet is raging with more extreme hurricanes, tornados, damaging winds, drought, extreme temperatures has not a thing to do with man's activity we still need to pay attention. Something is happening and more misery will find its place if we do not wake up.
Knowledge is the answer and individual awareness is our only hope for finding good leaders and establishing enlightened leadership. Democracy is a dismal failure if we can only vote in the interests of our own personal needs and continue to be deficient in understanding the profound connections of earth, society and the need for a thriving cohesiveness.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Illegal immigration is finally being seriously addressed due to the new Arizona law. Anxious rant of course finds its voice pandering to false ideals for political gain. There is chatter and there are opinions. Very strong opinions in most cases. If the proper questions are asked and a real answer is sought after, we could possibly steer clear of talk of racism, ethnic profiling, oppression and abuse of power. The comments of President Calderon of Mexico are particularly interesting. The focus of the Arizona Immigration reform law, sb 1070 is targeted at the south of the border illegals, because that is Arizona's particular problem. It shares the largest border with Mexico. California built a wall and the crossings in Arizona increased.
President Calderon may consider the question of why his country men and women are so anxious to cross into the United States. Mexico is a country of tremendous Natural resources and a country of great disparity between those of wealth and those desperately poor . Mr. Calderon chastised the drafters of the new law and made strong remarks about racial profiling and the targeting of Mexicans. But we must question the Mexican leader and ask what is being done on his part to offer a better life to his own people who would surely not be taking large risks for economic betterment. There are many questions about the circumstances of those who come to the US without legal rights to do so. The first and fundamental question is why they need to come here. The second: does Arizona have a right to protect its border from those who would take jobs from legal residents, utilize the taxpayer funded education system and abuse emergency health care? Talk about racism, profiling and the negative repercussions that could come of the law are merely talk at the present. This could and will happen probably in rare cases because human beings are fallible and poor enforcement by poor officers has occurred. But in sticking to fact, illegal immigration has occurred and is occurring.
If we offer an amnesty program to those entering the country with out legal benefit, then it makes sense to those seeking to come to enter this way and pay the price which will eventually lead to a legal resident status. Should the rules be the same for all or not? Do those who would take up residence as new citizens, legal or not, have responsibilities as well as rights? Should they learn to be fluent in the language of the United States, which is English? Should they bring children into the world that they can not afford to provide for? It has become increasingly the responsibility of the tax payer to provide services for those who cannot provide for themselves, most of whom are here legally. So do we increase this burden with those not legal. Are we creating a welfare state by enabling those who cannot sustain their basic needs to demand more provisions?
The state California and the city of Los Angeles has chosen to boycott the state of Arizona. Both are in budget crises and cannot meet payments and are being forced to take drastic measures laying of workers and cutting benefits. Much of this is due to their own problems with illegals, so the stance is hypocritical and politically motivated. California ballots are in many different languages. How can a voter make decisions without learning the language of the country they want to participate in? Another cost of immigration without responsibility from those choosing to live here?
These questions will not be answered by grandstanding on weak issues of human rights. The United States, though imperfect on this issue has a history of evolving toward a better and more just way of addressing human rights. The question again is; if rights are accorded, is responsibility for proper citizenry to be expected? The full story includes both. The United States is thought of as the land of opportunity. But can opportunity continue with fearful claims, stretched budgets, limiting resources, political correctness rather than attempting to reveal the whole story. Everybody wants to be the "nice" guy, the upstanding humanitarian on the right side of history, but deeper personal questions must be asked by every individual who weighs in so heavily against Arizona. If increasingly human rights are a rare commodity in countries outside the United States, then this limited part of the world is destined to be either the example or on the path to destroy the American dream of prosperity for all. This is the question President Calderon of Mexico must consider along with the rest of us. A limited planet has limited resources and rights must absolutely be balanced with responsibility. Nature dictates this. If we all decide to ask the right questions and get to a more logical understanding of our collective human condition we may make some progress. Logic is not anti- human but rhetoric without higher intent will do nothing but enable our weaknesses.
President Calderon may consider the question of why his country men and women are so anxious to cross into the United States. Mexico is a country of tremendous Natural resources and a country of great disparity between those of wealth and those desperately poor . Mr. Calderon chastised the drafters of the new law and made strong remarks about racial profiling and the targeting of Mexicans. But we must question the Mexican leader and ask what is being done on his part to offer a better life to his own people who would surely not be taking large risks for economic betterment. There are many questions about the circumstances of those who come to the US without legal rights to do so. The first and fundamental question is why they need to come here. The second: does Arizona have a right to protect its border from those who would take jobs from legal residents, utilize the taxpayer funded education system and abuse emergency health care? Talk about racism, profiling and the negative repercussions that could come of the law are merely talk at the present. This could and will happen probably in rare cases because human beings are fallible and poor enforcement by poor officers has occurred. But in sticking to fact, illegal immigration has occurred and is occurring.
If we offer an amnesty program to those entering the country with out legal benefit, then it makes sense to those seeking to come to enter this way and pay the price which will eventually lead to a legal resident status. Should the rules be the same for all or not? Do those who would take up residence as new citizens, legal or not, have responsibilities as well as rights? Should they learn to be fluent in the language of the United States, which is English? Should they bring children into the world that they can not afford to provide for? It has become increasingly the responsibility of the tax payer to provide services for those who cannot provide for themselves, most of whom are here legally. So do we increase this burden with those not legal. Are we creating a welfare state by enabling those who cannot sustain their basic needs to demand more provisions?
The state California and the city of Los Angeles has chosen to boycott the state of Arizona. Both are in budget crises and cannot meet payments and are being forced to take drastic measures laying of workers and cutting benefits. Much of this is due to their own problems with illegals, so the stance is hypocritical and politically motivated. California ballots are in many different languages. How can a voter make decisions without learning the language of the country they want to participate in? Another cost of immigration without responsibility from those choosing to live here?
These questions will not be answered by grandstanding on weak issues of human rights. The United States, though imperfect on this issue has a history of evolving toward a better and more just way of addressing human rights. The question again is; if rights are accorded, is responsibility for proper citizenry to be expected? The full story includes both. The United States is thought of as the land of opportunity. But can opportunity continue with fearful claims, stretched budgets, limiting resources, political correctness rather than attempting to reveal the whole story. Everybody wants to be the "nice" guy, the upstanding humanitarian on the right side of history, but deeper personal questions must be asked by every individual who weighs in so heavily against Arizona. If increasingly human rights are a rare commodity in countries outside the United States, then this limited part of the world is destined to be either the example or on the path to destroy the American dream of prosperity for all. This is the question President Calderon of Mexico must consider along with the rest of us. A limited planet has limited resources and rights must absolutely be balanced with responsibility. Nature dictates this. If we all decide to ask the right questions and get to a more logical understanding of our collective human condition we may make some progress. Logic is not anti- human but rhetoric without higher intent will do nothing but enable our weaknesses.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
ENTREPRENEUR
The changing, not "bad" economy is calling all entrepreneurs. Seasoned self starters know this, but those considering testing their own strengths have received a great invitation, whether or not they have opened it yet. The natural course of a human life in a country that allows and even encourages it, is to be independent in thought and action. Many are called but few choose. Choice is the operative word. To jump in and do what you have always thought you could. Once the choice is made for the true entrepreneur there is no looking back. The taste of freedom and life ownership is too sweet to ever taste again for too long the "crow" dished out by conforming to a job. The journey is one of open doors and saying yes, where others continually say no.
The entrepreneur is bold, takes risk in money and self, displays initiative, is creative and moves through obstacles towards a desired goal, never considering turning back no matter the length of the journey. She learns through mistakes never encountered before the journey, but learns even more from successes gained along the way. Failure to realize the vision is not an option. Energy is high and positive adding to the human condition in real value, education and achievement. Until one has tested one's self to the highest degree possible, there is still more to learn and the true entrepreneur knows this. Business is usually associated with the term "Entrepreneur" as its route "enterprising" came before. The dream and vision becomes daily habit by testing ones' ability to make it a reality. The joy is in the journey and rewards are many for those who stay the course and realize a passion expressed. Each success brings higher confidence and self awareness and an addiction to excellence.
One cannot imagine the world without the entrepreneur, the risk taker, the visionary from whom we all benefit. This energy lifts us all because excuses and whines are not in the vocabulary.
In a changing and challenging economy, many will choose this journey; the natural way to access realization. Every challenge is an opportunity. From lemonade stands to innovations that have moved humanity to higher levels of ease, health, comfort, and enlightenment and beyond, we must thank the entrepreneur and if you are one, on any level, thank yourself.
The entrepreneur is bold, takes risk in money and self, displays initiative, is creative and moves through obstacles towards a desired goal, never considering turning back no matter the length of the journey. She learns through mistakes never encountered before the journey, but learns even more from successes gained along the way. Failure to realize the vision is not an option. Energy is high and positive adding to the human condition in real value, education and achievement. Until one has tested one's self to the highest degree possible, there is still more to learn and the true entrepreneur knows this. Business is usually associated with the term "Entrepreneur" as its route "enterprising" came before. The dream and vision becomes daily habit by testing ones' ability to make it a reality. The joy is in the journey and rewards are many for those who stay the course and realize a passion expressed. Each success brings higher confidence and self awareness and an addiction to excellence.
One cannot imagine the world without the entrepreneur, the risk taker, the visionary from whom we all benefit. This energy lifts us all because excuses and whines are not in the vocabulary.
In a changing and challenging economy, many will choose this journey; the natural way to access realization. Every challenge is an opportunity. From lemonade stands to innovations that have moved humanity to higher levels of ease, health, comfort, and enlightenment and beyond, we must thank the entrepreneur and if you are one, on any level, thank yourself.
Friday, May 22, 2009
OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS
We come into life unique with our own mind: clear, fresh, open... and ready to be programmed. If no limitations were placed on a mind after birth, but encouragement, nurturing and a love of learning and method for critical observation for the purpose of knowing as journey, the human race would be fulfilling a purpose. As it is, most minds are programmed with the current belief of the parents, society and systems already in place. The few that choose to journey beyond the prescribed and limiting "knowns" truly lead the way. But few follow.
We are in a very unique and evolved time in human development. We have many answers from the past and knowing the past can lead to a better future. Early philosophers opened their minds and learned some basic truths about human nature and shared and wrote. We have that information. Pioneers in the study of Nature and our relationship to it, paved the road for today's greatest scientists and thinkers. We have information at our fingertips and confirmation on every level that this planet offers everything that we need.
How is it then that so many are still going in the wrong direction? If each individual used the mind as it was meant to be exercised, we as humans would be moving towards the paradise which is already the creation. We, at our best, are the highest form of this creation and we do have the opportunity to realize this as a collective species. Some do realize it. Only by using their own talents and connection with the Source of all is it accomplished. Others may criticize and call it luck or birthright, but no person can achieve this height without their own personal engagement.
Each individual choosing for themselves to connect, attain, be, and attract will realize a paradise within and create a paradise without. It is those who do not rely on their own resources, and contribute, that keep themselves and society as a whole in limitation.
This can be taught only to those ready to learn. Those addicted to other peoples' minds and way of thinking will never break free and will continue to denigrate themselves and society. Even if the powers that be in one's life are extraordinarily oppressive, a mind can be free to be owned by the owner if the owner chooses.
If one chooses to truly observe the magnificence of nature, it becomes obvious that poverty and lack only exist in the mind.
We are in a very unique and evolved time in human development. We have many answers from the past and knowing the past can lead to a better future. Early philosophers opened their minds and learned some basic truths about human nature and shared and wrote. We have that information. Pioneers in the study of Nature and our relationship to it, paved the road for today's greatest scientists and thinkers. We have information at our fingertips and confirmation on every level that this planet offers everything that we need.
How is it then that so many are still going in the wrong direction? If each individual used the mind as it was meant to be exercised, we as humans would be moving towards the paradise which is already the creation. We, at our best, are the highest form of this creation and we do have the opportunity to realize this as a collective species. Some do realize it. Only by using their own talents and connection with the Source of all is it accomplished. Others may criticize and call it luck or birthright, but no person can achieve this height without their own personal engagement.
Each individual choosing for themselves to connect, attain, be, and attract will realize a paradise within and create a paradise without. It is those who do not rely on their own resources, and contribute, that keep themselves and society as a whole in limitation.
This can be taught only to those ready to learn. Those addicted to other peoples' minds and way of thinking will never break free and will continue to denigrate themselves and society. Even if the powers that be in one's life are extraordinarily oppressive, a mind can be free to be owned by the owner if the owner chooses.
If one chooses to truly observe the magnificence of nature, it becomes obvious that poverty and lack only exist in the mind.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
SMART PILL
Accountability, Responsibility, Critical thinking ability, Open Mind, Love for Truth, Controlled ego, Respect for others, Listen more than talk. Gratitude. Can science invent a smart pill?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
EDUCATION: Purpose and Necessity
The foundation of real education must be love of learning and critical thinking. With these two elements in place, we can stop there. Our educational system has seen to it that these elements are obliterated. Teaching to the test in a square environment, picking and choosing the subjects that may be important for political correctness, has rendered the nation's most recent generations ill equipped to handle an emerging world. There are so many culprits to name in responsibility, but to be useful about the problem is to offer solutions. The first focus must be of course primary education.
Along with love of learning and critical thinking, discipline is necessary. But not imposed discipline, but a self-discipline that can be taught with generosity and gentleness. Every individual has something unique to offer and tends to be better at one thing than another. Early on, if those attributes are brought out and nurtured, a sense of self, and confidence in that self emerges and a foundation built in each individual begins. These are the seeds of a better society being cultivated.
The Basics: reading, writing, math and natural science must be emphasized throughout the first twelve grades. These are the foundations by which the study of history, geography, government, the arts and other subjects pertinent to the changing world of today must be built upon. A curriculum must include these basics along with and expectation of discipline in the classroom.
What is missing in the structured state determined education is a broader classroom. In order to appreciate the natural world, young people must be exposed to it. Nature study trips should be planned once per month for exposure and excitement about interest and learning. The information can then be taken back to the classroom for discussion and further learning. This fosters the first necessary element, love of learning. Open discussions about the adventure will advance the natural ability and tendency of the human mind to be curious. This is a step toward an open classroom structured in a round table format, as our planet indicates. Natural artists, writers, analysts, teachers and budding scientists will emerge in this format style. An instructor qualified to teach in this way, must be open minded and curious herself in order to assist and instruct the students with their love of learning. The study of natural science brings out wonder and curiosity in all of us and is so vital to the growth and intellect as our natural world is the home we live in, but can be ignored or often romanticized through ignorant teachers. it is a world to be studied and savored with scientific inquiry. Young minds are perfectly equipped to study our natural world with correct guidance and natural curiosity. Respect and understanding are the usual outcome with this type of learning promoted.
The early instruction in natural inquiry fosters the mind and brings out the essence of the young and budding individual. Love of learning creates a life time learner ready to indulge in life's banquet of offerings and renders a student limitless in any pursuit that she has a passion to dive into. Individuals are just that. Unique and equipped with gifts and talents that benefit the world in various ways. Not all are meant to head for higher academic learning. Some are trades people, a few inventors who need greater outlet for their curiosity, artists, entrepreneurs, service workers, health care specialists and on and on. A child is born with a particular temperment and attributes and finding out early what they are and encouraging their love of doing a particular thing is a win[win situation for individuals and society as a whole. Practicing this way of education will surely lead to an advanced society rather than one that has stagnated over centuries.
At last, in a world that has advanced so dramatically with technological and scientific knowledge, this area must continued to be advanced also starting in the lower grades. Instructors must be more capable of transferring this knowledge and therefore it must be required of all in the teaching profession to be conversant and trained in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics through calculus. Without this basic teacher training and education, the society is doomed to mediocrity or less in a world that will advance. Those societies that recognize this will seize the prize, but only to have it constantly threatened by an impoverished world. Deep, ongoing learning, fostered by an advanced educational system is the only key to creation of a better world. Critical thinking being present as a norm rather than an anomaly will elevate the human family to the level it needs to be if the world is to survive. Poverty and overpopulation are advancing and real eduction with a foundation in using the critical mind will eliminate the hypnotic march toward a destiny that will find mankind and her planet doomed to extinction. Real education is that important.
Along with love of learning and critical thinking, discipline is necessary. But not imposed discipline, but a self-discipline that can be taught with generosity and gentleness. Every individual has something unique to offer and tends to be better at one thing than another. Early on, if those attributes are brought out and nurtured, a sense of self, and confidence in that self emerges and a foundation built in each individual begins. These are the seeds of a better society being cultivated.
The Basics: reading, writing, math and natural science must be emphasized throughout the first twelve grades. These are the foundations by which the study of history, geography, government, the arts and other subjects pertinent to the changing world of today must be built upon. A curriculum must include these basics along with and expectation of discipline in the classroom.
What is missing in the structured state determined education is a broader classroom. In order to appreciate the natural world, young people must be exposed to it. Nature study trips should be planned once per month for exposure and excitement about interest and learning. The information can then be taken back to the classroom for discussion and further learning. This fosters the first necessary element, love of learning. Open discussions about the adventure will advance the natural ability and tendency of the human mind to be curious. This is a step toward an open classroom structured in a round table format, as our planet indicates. Natural artists, writers, analysts, teachers and budding scientists will emerge in this format style. An instructor qualified to teach in this way, must be open minded and curious herself in order to assist and instruct the students with their love of learning. The study of natural science brings out wonder and curiosity in all of us and is so vital to the growth and intellect as our natural world is the home we live in, but can be ignored or often romanticized through ignorant teachers. it is a world to be studied and savored with scientific inquiry. Young minds are perfectly equipped to study our natural world with correct guidance and natural curiosity. Respect and understanding are the usual outcome with this type of learning promoted.
The early instruction in natural inquiry fosters the mind and brings out the essence of the young and budding individual. Love of learning creates a life time learner ready to indulge in life's banquet of offerings and renders a student limitless in any pursuit that she has a passion to dive into. Individuals are just that. Unique and equipped with gifts and talents that benefit the world in various ways. Not all are meant to head for higher academic learning. Some are trades people, a few inventors who need greater outlet for their curiosity, artists, entrepreneurs, service workers, health care specialists and on and on. A child is born with a particular temperment and attributes and finding out early what they are and encouraging their love of doing a particular thing is a win[win situation for individuals and society as a whole. Practicing this way of education will surely lead to an advanced society rather than one that has stagnated over centuries.
At last, in a world that has advanced so dramatically with technological and scientific knowledge, this area must continued to be advanced also starting in the lower grades. Instructors must be more capable of transferring this knowledge and therefore it must be required of all in the teaching profession to be conversant and trained in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics through calculus. Without this basic teacher training and education, the society is doomed to mediocrity or less in a world that will advance. Those societies that recognize this will seize the prize, but only to have it constantly threatened by an impoverished world. Deep, ongoing learning, fostered by an advanced educational system is the only key to creation of a better world. Critical thinking being present as a norm rather than an anomaly will elevate the human family to the level it needs to be if the world is to survive. Poverty and overpopulation are advancing and real eduction with a foundation in using the critical mind will eliminate the hypnotic march toward a destiny that will find mankind and her planet doomed to extinction. Real education is that important.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
OBAMA: DEMONSTRATION OF LEADERSHIP?
Barack Obama has created the buzz, adulation and adoration of a rock star. He is smart, good looking, personable, dedicated to family and country and delivers a speech with charisma worthy of a King.. or a Kennedy. Thus far he has proved himself a leader: he convinced the majority of the American people, most especially the newer and younger voters he was the right man for the job. He did this with a minimum of the useless rants and raving so common, yes so COMMON, in political campaigns.
His inaugural speech hit all the bullet points and concerns on the minds of Americans and many world citizens and was delivered with brilliant passion and sincerity. Many had tears in their eyes including me. He is convincing us further of his ability and vision and that we are entering a new 'revolution" in our country. The most basic definition of a leader is "one who gets others to follow". In this sense, Jim Jones was a leader. President Obama is offering us so much, and in order to realize his true leadership, we have to drink his kool-aid, a much sweeter drink. Its seems to me his speech and intent brought to life again the wise words of JFK, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The president and his wife, Michelle took the time to demonstrate their leadership on this by volunteering and sending a strong message with a commercial advertising the opportunity to serve. If we are all in this "change" together, then we must support and do what is needed as much as we can to realize the "United' States of America once again. But this time, on a much more attentive and higher level. The whole works the way it should when all of the parts are working in unison the way they were meant to. Look to Nature for the finest example and how effortlessly it attains balance. There is no person breathing who cannot assist another, even with just a kind word.
President Obama demonstrates this again in his actions. He was quick to repair any damage done during the election, set his ego aside and chose his leadership partners wisely with the intention to heal the national wounds with the candidates he felt most qualified. He spent time at his inaugural balls and had a serious undertone beneath the charming smile, letting us know he understands his great responsibility.
I did not vote for Barack Obama. I wrote in Ron Paul for President and Dennis Kucinich for VP. Ron Paul made sense to me about the need for a third party, as the two we have are in gridlock and self serving most of the time. And Dennis Kucinich wants to create a department of Peace. Why not? In this day of change and revolution of thought should we not have a Peace Department to counter the extraordinary spending in the Department of Defense. A little country called Bhutan could advise our great one about this.
So we all can not only support our new and potentially very great leader, but follow him where he demonstrates true ability to benefit all. Is it right to sacrifice a bit so that others in greater distress can progress? Yes, we will all have to contribute for a better America. It is that simple and my great hope is that the Congress gets that message and realizes that they are the employees of the American people and we pay them to get the job done for "we" as a whole people, not as representatives of special interests and the dollar sign. This has been our demise. They too can demonstrate leadership by following a higher purpose and cooperating with our new President who is demonstrating great potential leadership.
****I am reading my post 6 years into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama and my view has changed and turned 180 degrees; maybe a double 180 if that were possible. I was dewey eyed like the rest in 2009 and forgave myself for not voting for Obama, thinking I was wrong about my sense of him developed from the time he had that "hand in the cookie jar" look when Hillary (180 degrees away from her too) discovered his dirty tricks accusing her and her husband of racism. I didn' t take to him like so many others, felt he was jumping on board with little to offer. After his first foray into his community organizing approach with a "beer summit" to correct the Cambridge policeman's actions calling it "acting stupidly", I started to watch and wonder again. Does he not have other pressing issues to attend to rather than meddling on a local matter? So it began, the divisive approach to race, opposing opinions and parties, the focus on contrivance rather than the constitution, scandals aplenty, an uncompromising stance on every issue while never accepting blame and constantly blaming the opposition. Positioning himself as healer and preacher while taking every opportunity for political gain, I came to despise this poor excuse for what I had once described as leader.
First came the "beer summit", then Travon, Michael, IRS scandals all the while courting Reverand Al whose back unpaid taxes are in the millions as he visits the White House on so many numerous occasions. Benghazi, Bergdahl, NSA, lack of transparency, though he preached the exact opposite, corporate and media preening, a wife who like her husband goes abroad dissing America and telling graduating students to be aware that because of their race people will look at them "funny". A woman who was heard saying, "for the first time, I am proud to be an American" on inauguration
day; a woman who uses affirmative action and tax payer funds to attend Princeton and Harvard, who never actually practiced law, but worked for a number of years with a 300K salary as a hospital administrator in a Chicago hospital with no apparent experience, only to have the position not replaced when she left.
I began to see the mind set of these people and wonder how after so many years of failure and unpresidential behavior what we had allowed in the highest office in the world. Avoiding the press to interview with comedians, Glosell (bath tub Glosell), on WTF in a garage podcast using the N word. No excuses please! I am counting the days, even more so than with Bush. Obama's predecessor made serious mistakes, but he loved his country. The current leader disrespects the Constitution and then panders to the crowd knowing full well they eat his lies like candy. I am wondering what will be left of American Pride and the Truth, yes the truth that our Founders pondered and worked so miraculously to uncover and debate so as to set a foundation for future Americans. John Adams was so right and so wise when he stated that "Our Constitution was conceived for a moral and virtuous people. It is wholly unsuited to the governance of any other." Good bye to morality and reason. Another way of viewing the world has been contrived in America under the "leadership" of a confused and simple-minded narcissist. We will recover in some space and time when society honors these values once again, but the damage is done and minds are poisoned and programmed and that takes an undoing of massive proportion and the cooperation of the majority to get back to the gifts that were so generously and intelligently deeded to all who would call themselves Americans.*****
His inaugural speech hit all the bullet points and concerns on the minds of Americans and many world citizens and was delivered with brilliant passion and sincerity. Many had tears in their eyes including me. He is convincing us further of his ability and vision and that we are entering a new 'revolution" in our country. The most basic definition of a leader is "one who gets others to follow". In this sense, Jim Jones was a leader. President Obama is offering us so much, and in order to realize his true leadership, we have to drink his kool-aid, a much sweeter drink. Its seems to me his speech and intent brought to life again the wise words of JFK, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The president and his wife, Michelle took the time to demonstrate their leadership on this by volunteering and sending a strong message with a commercial advertising the opportunity to serve. If we are all in this "change" together, then we must support and do what is needed as much as we can to realize the "United' States of America once again. But this time, on a much more attentive and higher level. The whole works the way it should when all of the parts are working in unison the way they were meant to. Look to Nature for the finest example and how effortlessly it attains balance. There is no person breathing who cannot assist another, even with just a kind word.
President Obama demonstrates this again in his actions. He was quick to repair any damage done during the election, set his ego aside and chose his leadership partners wisely with the intention to heal the national wounds with the candidates he felt most qualified. He spent time at his inaugural balls and had a serious undertone beneath the charming smile, letting us know he understands his great responsibility.
I did not vote for Barack Obama. I wrote in Ron Paul for President and Dennis Kucinich for VP. Ron Paul made sense to me about the need for a third party, as the two we have are in gridlock and self serving most of the time. And Dennis Kucinich wants to create a department of Peace. Why not? In this day of change and revolution of thought should we not have a Peace Department to counter the extraordinary spending in the Department of Defense. A little country called Bhutan could advise our great one about this.
So we all can not only support our new and potentially very great leader, but follow him where he demonstrates true ability to benefit all. Is it right to sacrifice a bit so that others in greater distress can progress? Yes, we will all have to contribute for a better America. It is that simple and my great hope is that the Congress gets that message and realizes that they are the employees of the American people and we pay them to get the job done for "we" as a whole people, not as representatives of special interests and the dollar sign. This has been our demise. They too can demonstrate leadership by following a higher purpose and cooperating with our new President who is demonstrating great potential leadership.
****I am reading my post 6 years into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama and my view has changed and turned 180 degrees; maybe a double 180 if that were possible. I was dewey eyed like the rest in 2009 and forgave myself for not voting for Obama, thinking I was wrong about my sense of him developed from the time he had that "hand in the cookie jar" look when Hillary (180 degrees away from her too) discovered his dirty tricks accusing her and her husband of racism. I didn' t take to him like so many others, felt he was jumping on board with little to offer. After his first foray into his community organizing approach with a "beer summit" to correct the Cambridge policeman's actions calling it "acting stupidly", I started to watch and wonder again. Does he not have other pressing issues to attend to rather than meddling on a local matter? So it began, the divisive approach to race, opposing opinions and parties, the focus on contrivance rather than the constitution, scandals aplenty, an uncompromising stance on every issue while never accepting blame and constantly blaming the opposition. Positioning himself as healer and preacher while taking every opportunity for political gain, I came to despise this poor excuse for what I had once described as leader.
First came the "beer summit", then Travon, Michael, IRS scandals all the while courting Reverand Al whose back unpaid taxes are in the millions as he visits the White House on so many numerous occasions. Benghazi, Bergdahl, NSA, lack of transparency, though he preached the exact opposite, corporate and media preening, a wife who like her husband goes abroad dissing America and telling graduating students to be aware that because of their race people will look at them "funny". A woman who was heard saying, "for the first time, I am proud to be an American" on inauguration
day; a woman who uses affirmative action and tax payer funds to attend Princeton and Harvard, who never actually practiced law, but worked for a number of years with a 300K salary as a hospital administrator in a Chicago hospital with no apparent experience, only to have the position not replaced when she left.
I began to see the mind set of these people and wonder how after so many years of failure and unpresidential behavior what we had allowed in the highest office in the world. Avoiding the press to interview with comedians, Glosell (bath tub Glosell), on WTF in a garage podcast using the N word. No excuses please! I am counting the days, even more so than with Bush. Obama's predecessor made serious mistakes, but he loved his country. The current leader disrespects the Constitution and then panders to the crowd knowing full well they eat his lies like candy. I am wondering what will be left of American Pride and the Truth, yes the truth that our Founders pondered and worked so miraculously to uncover and debate so as to set a foundation for future Americans. John Adams was so right and so wise when he stated that "Our Constitution was conceived for a moral and virtuous people. It is wholly unsuited to the governance of any other." Good bye to morality and reason. Another way of viewing the world has been contrived in America under the "leadership" of a confused and simple-minded narcissist. We will recover in some space and time when society honors these values once again, but the damage is done and minds are poisoned and programmed and that takes an undoing of massive proportion and the cooperation of the majority to get back to the gifts that were so generously and intelligently deeded to all who would call themselves Americans.*****
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