So in my erratic and unChristian way I end up at Sunday School today (perhaps reading these two late last night would impel some need for prayer). And our class was working its way through the wisdom literature – just beginning Proverbs. And here, we see admonitions that arise from an understanding of human nature that hasn’t changed all that much in all that time. Have we ever thrown out those traditions with such abandon as those of Obama’s persuasion have in the last century?

I find it deeply ironic that when you read leftists’ criticism of American foreign policy in period from 1945-1976 the three key players where the Democrats Truman, Kennedy and LBJ. Truman created containment. Kennedy carried out many aggressive anti-communist actions (although he did so ineptly compared to the smooth Eisenhower) and substantially raised defense spending. LBJ followed through. Most of the supposedly sinister covert actions and support for non-communist authoritarians that leftist claim so damn us as a moral authority were carried out under those social democrat presidents.

Obama will never give a speech about freedom as did Kennedy. His words will never reverberate through the ages. No one will be free and secure because of his policies. Obama will be thought of as another Carter at best.

Oh, I dunno. Good post for discussion, Ginny.

I dunno, this is his first real executive responsibility! Please, please, please get it right, sir!

(I, too, have a love for those great flat plains, although Iowa is never as flat as people think, but the area I grew up in sure was flat, ‘cornfielded up’, and quiet. Quietly lovely.)

As for what we should be, as a country and as Americans, I sort of like the pushy, messy, driving, striving America! I hope (ha!), I mean, let’s work toward keeping us that way! Out of all the pushy, messy, driving and striving comes so much – Norman Borlaug, jazz, golden era Hollywood films, Nobels in Science and Medicine, McDonalds, Wal-mart and google…..wonderful. Just wonderful.