Give Him a Chance

Yesterday I was chatting with an old friend online and I said something pessimistic about our president.

She told me to 'give the guy a chance. He has a big mess to clean up.'

Well, I'm thinking, 'Give the guy a chance to do what? Destroy even MORE of our economy and ruin our global infuence?' But she is a good friend and I didn't want to distress her, especially since she is suffering from a lot of physical and family problems.

But I've heard this before. My brother and his wife said the same thing.

In my mind, this means that they just want me to politely turn my head, ignore all the huge flashing lights and red flags of President Obama, forget that he has Socialists and Marxists for best friends and is spending our country into oblivion. If you give someone like this a blank check, because you agree to 'give him a chance' by the time you figure out you've been had and he's a disaster, it is too late to do anything about it.

If you publicly criticize his policies, you become a target. He is willing to throw anyone under the bus who gets in his way. He has villified, Fox News, the insurance companies, and the list goes on. People who protest are labeled as extremists. Now that a non-Republican is in charge, questioning the authority is no longer patriotic. It is only patriotic to dissent when a Republican is the target.

What I think I will do is exactly what I've been asked to do. I will give him a chance. I will give him just as much a chance as the liberals, the main media outlets, and the Democrats gave George Bush when he was elected. This is what I should have told my friend yesterday, but I chickened out. So I'm saying it today.

I am SO GLAD I'm NOT in the AARP

For a long time I have resisted membership in this organization which seems to think that senior citizens deserve more and more social security handouts no matter how badly this affects our children and grand-children's taxes.

Now today, November 4, 2009 I see that the AARP has endorsed the government's insane health reform bill. I stand vindicated. They will never get a dime of my money.