It's inauguration day. I'm not treating it as a holiday, and I'm not even go into the millions of dollars being spent of the festivities. I'm not going to talk about "change" or any other catch phrases that are so ubiquitous today. Today, I'm going to take a moment to do something that not nearly enough people have done...
Thank you, President Bush. You may go out unpopular, but there are still some people who remain patriotic enough to recognize that your job is not easy. You took risks. You made decisions that you may have questioned later, but at least you made one. So thank you. For everything.
Talk your trash "America." Call yourselves patriotic while you badmouth the man who ran the country for eight years. Do you think he enjoyed every minute of it? Probably not. But it was HIS job to do. And he tried his best.
Think carefully about everyone you know personally. Your parents, coworkers, friends... now imagine they are put in the position of running a country. Imagine they are facing daily reports of crime, immigration, possible terrorism, poverty, and other problems facing the people that they have been chosen to lead.
Would your mom have been able to make a split decision about a bailout? Would she have been comfortable doing it? Could you have been faced with 9/11? And been the face that people look to for assurance? Could your best friend have had an easy time running an entire country?
Be grateful for the man that was willing to make these decisions.
1 comment:
I'll definitely concede that point. Whatever else you can say about the guy, the job does require all kinds of guts and stuff.
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