Reading to children
You won't find me criticizing this president or the former president for reading to children. This is one important aspect of the Obama presidency no one can quibble with--he's a role model for young men who know nothing about husbands or fathers, and one more--when he was an Illinois senator he posed for a reading poster to encourage children.But I do wonder about Obama's PR people. Have they never seen how Bush was reviled and ridiculed for being caught in a classroom with children when 9/11 happened? And he was caught out of the White House when Katrina happened? And the Obamas have only been there 2 weeks and are already escaping from the pressure! No, my criticism is for his managers. This is not good. It sets him up for comparison with Bush, who did it first and ignored the criticism--which I doubt that Obama does as well.
Also, some of us even remember how librarians, who vote 223 to 1 Democrat to Republican and choose the books, DVDs and e-sources that are placed on the shelves of your public library and in the minds of your children, dissed the First Lady. They tried to keep Laura Bush, a former librarian, from appearing at the American Library Association. Yes, President Obama, books are dangerous things. Or, at least photos of presidents reading to children are dangerous.
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For a guy who ran on the theme HOPE, he sure is negative. All he has to say is gloom and doom. Where is the hope? Where is the soaring rhetoric that got people excited. You woul'd think it was the 1930s with unemployment at 25%.
Murray sez:
Hey Anom, wake up. Obama is spewing doom and gloom because he knows that his stimulas package won't solve a thing and as a result, we'll probably need him and HIS cohorts for another term. He good at campaigning and promising but lousy at performance. I know, I know! I should just wait and give him more time. It's just that my children and grand children can't afford them to continue on the path of financial suicide.
I thought that too, Mur, at first--that it was just going to be an FDR thing, creating a dependency. Now I'm not so sure. I think it's probably to get much more $$ right up front and scare everyone into not complaining or writing their congressman because he's convinced them all is lost and hopeless. Not that that would do anything, but people feel "involved" when they do that.
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