In this new century, let’s just say we got off to a bad start and start over.
George Bush made mistakes. He made so many that surely we are owed a barrel of mulligans, but maybe we could lump the entire eight years into a single bag, titled, “One Great Mulligan,” and start over.
To sum up the mulligan we seek: Bush weakened the American presidency with his ineptness, he weakened our economy with his profligate spending and his laissez-faire attitude toward financial markets, he undermined our Constitution with each step he took to trample our rights protected so carefully in the Constitution’s hallowed pages, and he threatened our future by creating new enemies abroad with his reckless and ill conceived foreign policies.
But I don’t want to talk about Bush 43 anymore.
I just want a mulligan.
I just want to start over.
Can’t we acknowledge that a new era does not always begin chronologically but sometimes begins metaphorically – at least as humans track time? If we are allowed “One Great Mulligan,” let’s gratefully take it, tell the world “Our long national nightmare is over,” and begin anew.
As our new President said yesterday, "The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."
Ahhhhh… thank you for the mulligan. Let the new century begin.
2 comments:
"In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. " This is a great line and if 44 is going to stand behind what he says, which he has promised to do, he must reign in that lump that is the Speaker of the House on her proposal to add a windfall tax to the 401Ks and other retirement vehicles of the working public. She is trying to help the poor by GIVING them money they did NOT EARN, thus forcing millions of people that DID EARN it to work longer into their life after all their efforts to make it to retirement. This lady's astounding lack of respect for those that have earned a living building this country, those "men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."
could threaten any plans that 44 has and his administration and party should do all they can to isolate her.
I understand your concern. It will be a full-time job of the President and the rest of our representatives to safeguard the best interest of all while minimizing the benefit to the special interest of a few.
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