Everyone has their own peculiar notion of a decent president. Some people like presidents who lower taxes and run up the largest federal budget deficit in history. Others confide all their trust in a president who holds human beings in prison indefinitely, without charge, torturing them in order to win, or keep the peace at any cost.
There also are those who truly adore a president who bugs his or her citizens’ homes in the name of “freedom” without a warrant — until it happens to them personally, of course. Then, strangely enough, it instantly becomes an unforgivable defamation of their sacred constitutional rights. Heh, imagine that.
I have one criterion for an OK president: Can I criticize him or her without being threatened with arrest; without brutality; without having an FBI van pull up outside my house; without being called unpatriotic, a traitor or a commie worm?
Most important of all, dearest to my heart: Can I disagree with presidential policies without alienating and losing friends in this lovely little place I’ve called home since 1977, since I was a toddler?
Hallelujah! I’m not going to have any of these multitudinous problems of the past eight years during the next four.
Nathan Kirby, Augusta
What must the Republicans be thinking by not supporting President Obama’s stimulus whatsoever? A logical person might think the Republican Party would go completely extinct when the economy improves from so many people becoming employed, having their benefits extended and keeping their houses, thus stimulating business growth.
Notwithstanding, the Republicans know exactly what they’re doing. They cannot support President Obama now; instead, they swear up and down that nothing Obama does helps the economy. And when the economy inevitably improves — and a small tax surplus is created from Obama repealing Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans — the Republicans will come back into power with unshaky promises of “Now that everything’s finally fixed, let’s have the tax cuts back. Let’s see if we can possibly top the budget deficit that Bush left President Obama. And, uh, oh yeah — no more oversight of business because oversight is communist.” And then we can go through the whole horrific boom-and-bust cycle all over again.
Great. Can’t wait. Try to hold on to your 401(k) at that point!
Nathan Kirby
Augusta
This guy is just full of all kinds of gems.
If I read that right, he wants a president who will make his friends like him. That certainly what I always look for in the leader of the free world; forget all that hoity-toity economic and international relations stuff, can you make me popular?
Sounds like this.. individual's... friends think he's a tool as well.
How brave. He’s speaking truth to power.
Well .. Nathan better not look now, but “O” has chosen to REINSTATE THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS .. KEEP THE WIRE TAPPING IN PLACE (although the dems are doing MORE snooping than what took place under the repub admin), and “O” also is keeping the same mild restrictions on the polar bears.
What on earth will Nathan do when he finds this info out ..??
ROTFLOL .. is what I’ll be doing.