Monday, January 25, 2010
Job Description
President Obama once avoided an answer on abortion during the campaign, saying that decision was above his pay grade. Now in an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News he stated what his job description is. According to him it is to solve problems and help people. Sounds like he's answering a question in a beauty contest. If that's really what he thinks is his job description, it's no wonder he governs like he does.
For too long our presidents and our congressmen and our senators have been acting as if it is their job description to "help people". If I ascribe any belief to that statement at all, it is only if the meaning of "help people" is to leave us the f... alone! Please and respectfully. We don't want your help!
A president's main job description is to protect, defend and uphold the Constitution. He gives it good lip service but he truly has no respect for what it says. We the people do not need nor want to be treated as subjects or children, being told what we need government to do for us. We just need to be left to our own devices to create and do whatever we do all willy-nilly with no central planning or targeted jobs creation or special handouts. A free market, a free society does not mean it must be manipulated by some governmental entity. It should be just that, free.
I hear Obama say that he just didn't get his message out to the people about health care last year. He said he was just too busy solving other problems and dealing with inherited crises that he couldn't spend enough time telling us about his great plans for us. If only he could explain to us his plans in simpler English, then perhaps we ignorant folks could see the light and the brilliance of his ideas for central government to be the helping hand that we need and just don't know.
I get the image of Garret Morris from the original Saturday Night Live cast in a small window in the corner of the screen doing his version of helping the hearing impaired by holding his hands around his mouth and shouting out everything that was being said by the SNL Newsman.
You see, we the people do not have the vastly superior knowledge of the president and his staff of advisers. So whenever he speaks to us about his plans to "fundamentally transform America", we just can't seem to understand it. He just needs to tell us over and over and sooner or later we will get it. I wrote years before about the 42,600 repetitions in George Orwell's 1984. According to the ruling Party that's how many repetitions it took to equal one truth. So we have a lot of speeches to look forward to, it seems. haha.
What he doesn't seem to understand though, is that most of us do get what he is saying. We totally get it. We just vehemently disagree with every facet of it. And speaking for myself, I will never, ever agree with what he and his fellow progressives are trying to do to this country.
So he can speak and preach and even beg and plead until hell freezes over and he isn't going to convince me that his ideas are worthwhile. It doesn't matter if he repeats his message 426,000 times.
Your job description, Mr. President, is to uphold the Constitution, not to help people. Please try to at the very least "do no harm" for your remaining time in that office. Hell, sit back, relax, play golf, drink beer, shoot hoops, travel the world. Just leave us ordinary Americans alone! We don't need your stinking help! We need you to get out of the way.
My nickel,
OH
For too long our presidents and our congressmen and our senators have been acting as if it is their job description to "help people". If I ascribe any belief to that statement at all, it is only if the meaning of "help people" is to leave us the f... alone! Please and respectfully. We don't want your help!
A president's main job description is to protect, defend and uphold the Constitution. He gives it good lip service but he truly has no respect for what it says. We the people do not need nor want to be treated as subjects or children, being told what we need government to do for us. We just need to be left to our own devices to create and do whatever we do all willy-nilly with no central planning or targeted jobs creation or special handouts. A free market, a free society does not mean it must be manipulated by some governmental entity. It should be just that, free.
I hear Obama say that he just didn't get his message out to the people about health care last year. He said he was just too busy solving other problems and dealing with inherited crises that he couldn't spend enough time telling us about his great plans for us. If only he could explain to us his plans in simpler English, then perhaps we ignorant folks could see the light and the brilliance of his ideas for central government to be the helping hand that we need and just don't know.
I get the image of Garret Morris from the original Saturday Night Live cast in a small window in the corner of the screen doing his version of helping the hearing impaired by holding his hands around his mouth and shouting out everything that was being said by the SNL Newsman.
You see, we the people do not have the vastly superior knowledge of the president and his staff of advisers. So whenever he speaks to us about his plans to "fundamentally transform America", we just can't seem to understand it. He just needs to tell us over and over and sooner or later we will get it. I wrote years before about the 42,600 repetitions in George Orwell's 1984. According to the ruling Party that's how many repetitions it took to equal one truth. So we have a lot of speeches to look forward to, it seems. haha.
What he doesn't seem to understand though, is that most of us do get what he is saying. We totally get it. We just vehemently disagree with every facet of it. And speaking for myself, I will never, ever agree with what he and his fellow progressives are trying to do to this country.
So he can speak and preach and even beg and plead until hell freezes over and he isn't going to convince me that his ideas are worthwhile. It doesn't matter if he repeats his message 426,000 times.
Your job description, Mr. President, is to uphold the Constitution, not to help people. Please try to at the very least "do no harm" for your remaining time in that office. Hell, sit back, relax, play golf, drink beer, shoot hoops, travel the world. Just leave us ordinary Americans alone! We don't need your stinking help! We need you to get out of the way.
My nickel,
OH
# posted by OH @ 3:48 PM 
