HIRED HANDS.
OBAMA and IRAN.
PATRIOTISM.
Let's cut to the chase and call Obama exactly what he is. A HIRED HAND. Exactly what each member of Congress is, sleazy and inefficient as they may be as a group. They are nothing more, nothing less, than HIRED HANDS. Not hired by one person, or even a half-dozen folks acting as a group. Hired by the MAJORITY of the citizens of the USA who were eligible to cast their vote in complete freedom.
Like it or not, that is how it is. They all have signed on with a contract between them and us: Representatives for two years, President for four years, and Senators for six years. They are NOT elected for life. They ARE subject to controls, called checks and balances, and separation of powers. ALL of them, every one, can be fired by way of impeachment if what they do while working for us is crooked or treasonous. Yes, it happens. Think Nixon, Blagojevich, and not just a few others.
But while they ARE actually working under the contract they signed when they first went to work for us, they are obliged to do their best on behalf of our country. As we so often discover, some of them just plain ain't up to the job and are replaced when the contract comes up for renewal. Some, we soon discover, prove the wisdom of never "buying-a-pig-in-a-poke."
So now we have Obama having to live with and up to his words and deeds, as well as those that came from beneath him from folks who were doing his bidding as far as Iran (AND North Korea) are concerned. At this stage of the game, no opinion or comment from me on that topic. I will wait and see what time brings, and in the meantime I shall NOT laud him, NOR ... demean his efforts ... which simply would validate, justify, encourage, and lend support to our nation's enemies in their zeal to kill all Americans.
And right about now it is time for every sane and reasonable person to understand AND ACCEPT that the vast majority of Iranians, be they followers of their flaky president or rabid supporters of the current opposition in Iran, that the VAST MAJORITY of them love their country just as much as we love ours! Never forget... Iran once was 'Persia', and along with Iraq, Mesopotamia, they in actuality are the birthplace of civilization as we believe it to be. When the USA began as a country 233 years ago tomorrow, THEIR country was already many, many CENTURIES old, and their people, at the end of the day, are just as proud of THEIR country and as patriotic as we are of ours!
And tomorrow, July 4th, 2009, regular readers of this website (my newspaper and mag columns and articles, my books...) they know what to expect here! (See you then!)
CAP 7/3/09