President Barack Obama

Please know that the below letter is NOT written by me nor advocated by me. It was sent to me by a relative via email. I want to say this to the below letter. These are my words, my thoughts, the red below are not. Maybe scroll down and read the letter first to get the gist.

Guess in my mind we need to give him more than four months to see how he does. I'm pretty open. Voted for George W. Bush both times myself. I'm not only a Democratic voter... decided this time that John McCain was going to be a basic extension of GWB and knew that wasn't working...

I read the letter below, agreed with a few things, disagreed with a few things but overall feel in true fairness, don't the American people, now that he's President, need to give him a fair shake to see how he does? Maybe not. Maybe its best to bash the hell out of him and his administration and create the most negative atmosphere possible. I remember when GWB was not doing so well, particularly in his 2nd term and towards the end, no one was really allowed (in comparison to what I'm seeing now towards Barack Obama) to speak out in such ways towards the President. I never got emails like this and our country back then was well on this track of going to Hell in a handbasket. GWB is the one who drove us right to the door we're at now. And Barack Obama has been in office all of four months and HE'S the problem? I don't get it. But then again maybe I'm sheltered and ignorant. It's probably that.

I say give him a real chance. It seems only fair. He signed up for this big job, we didn't. I know I could never do it. Could you? Kudos to him for trying different things and not subscribing to the same ways that got us here. Certainly Barack Obama did not get us in this mess. I'm sure we could all agree on that. I have things that I haven't agreed with him on but what is the point of bashing or continually dredging it up? If we can get our country back in a generally positive direction at some point in the near future, that will be a good thing. We won't all agree on everything and that's human nature. That's what makes the world go round I believe. I'm probably wrong on that too.




Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America. You are responsible to the citizens of the United States. You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You don't show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What's the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members - on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million - not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Every real American


Again disclaimer that this was NOT written by me. The letter in red was sent to me from a relative.

Today

It's always a meaningful day isn't it? I have it all burned forever into my mind.

Six years ago today, we handed Lucas over to that ill fated OR Nurse. Hate that. Hate that Lucas' Doctor, his Surgeon, was the one he was. Hate that he didn't fall and break his ankle that day so another Surgeon could have filled in for him. Hate that the Nurse told me he'd be fine as she took him from me, she lied, and she didn't even know she was lying. Hate that she didn't bang her toe and drop the baby, a broken arm on Lucas would have maybe been better than what he was about to live through for the next four months.

Earth Day. For me, it's Heaven Day. Every time I hear someone say Earth Day like it should be celebrated, I don't knock that it should, I simply have other thoughts in my head to counter it.

So much. Lots and lots. But nothing.

Now, as I hear the boys playing Hulabaloo and laughing and being silly, I know this is the way it was supposed to be. This IS life. This IS the way it was supposed to be, simply because this is the way that it IS. For all the zillions of dollars in the world, the set of circumstances we were handed back then could not be changed. They were our fate. That Earth Day I sat in the big OR Waiting Room making hand made Baptism Invitations for the official baptism we'd have after Lucas recovered. Thank God we had him baptized in our church, just Ivan, John, Grace and myself present with the Deacon. Thank God for that. Little did we know in the same room he was baptized, he'd be laid to rest and left for others to come pay their respects just about five months later. Funny how life works isn't it?

Life is life. Let life be life. Just let it be. Don't fight it. Don't have to make it perfect. Don't need to make others be a certain way, the right way you think is right, just live it. If you spend all of your time trying to make it just so, you end up missing the show. You end up missing life. Missing lots of boats. I have learned that even though I'm anal and have to have my just so things, I also have bent. I also have laid back. I have tried like hell not to pack my plate full. Leave it empty a little. Let life be life. Because we lost Lucas, anything else would be just sad. Sadder. It's time to cherish what is here.

Happy Earth Day.

Happy Heaven Day.

--Jenn

Thoughts; Random and Not So

It's been a month since I've been here and written. Sometimes it's just like that. Too many things that take up my time have taken priority. And so it goes....

I like my life. I have arranged it just so. We have arranged it just so. We have enough. We have enough love, we have enough things, and we are busy enough. Could always have more, but why...when we have enough?

I do not overload my plate anymore. Sure, I'm as busy as that woman up there, but what mom isn't? I have learned how to say no. I might want to do something and be in charge of that thing---- but I hear the voice that says, "you have enough, maybe next time". I know my limits and they just are what they are. Each day brings a new realization and sometimes I think to myself, "well my God, why didn't I think of that before?" but on the whole, my plate is full enough. I feel I'm living life and enjoying it as it was meant to be. Well...but for one small thing which I'm making my way towards this year, but other than that, my plate is nicely filled. When I feel things start hanging off and the stress level rise, I pull back. Not worth it. Not at all. I see some running the rat race and sometimes negatively so, and I watch and listen, trying to learn, always.

For someone who has lost a child, it all has been put in perspective. I'm fully aware of my neighbor who has lost a child and I'm keenly intuitive to her moods (as I see her in the yard or driving away or a quick hello) and I know. I know. And so it goes. Life does move on and we have a choice.....mine is not to pack my time with things all at once.

I am beginning to like my life and all the things in it. I really am.