Please Don't Put Words Into My Mouth

At least a dozen times this past week, I have read articles stating that all the Republicans want is to "get that black man out of the White House."

Really? I haven't once heard a Republican, or anyone else indicate any such thing. Since I am a Republican and spend a lot of time with other Republicans, you would think I would have heard about such a plot at least once or twice if it were such an all-consuming desire among Republicans.

The truth is that I, and most other Republicans, do not think of President Obama as black. After all, wasn't his mother white, which would make him as much a white man as a black man, wouldn't it?

Republicans, as well as members of other parties have far more important and obvious reasons to want a replacement in the White House than the color of a candidate's skin after the next election.

It is commonly believed that if you repeat something often enough, people will believe it, whether or not it is true. I see this constantly repeated phrase--repeated over and over by democrats--is nothing more than an attempt to paint Republicans as racists.

Is it succeeding? Only time will tell. Let's hope that thinking Americans respect themselves and our political system too much to fall for a lie, no matter how many times it is repeated.

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah......and you, too, Barak

In a speech yesterday, Sarah Palin used "gonna," meaning going to, twice in one sentence and and "likin," meaning liking,all in the same paragraph.

"We're gonna take back our country and we're gonna turn things around! ...
"They're not likin this..."

What's going on with our leaders? I don't mind a little slang now and then, but President Obama uses the word, "gonna," so often we might as well forget trying to teach school children to speak properly.

Newscasters, especially those who are hostile to Sarah Palin and all she stands for, have picked up on this habit she has of dropping the endings to words like "liking" or phrases like "going to," and mock her by using the same kind of slang in a derogatory way.

Today, on a newscast, I even noticed some of Sarah Palin's fans carrying signs that read, "We're gonna take our country back."

In all fairness to the President, I noticed Sarah dropping the endings to her words way back when she was running for Vice President. "I'm always gonna be Sarah from Alaska...." she said as she returned to her hometown to cast her vote. Maybe Mr. Obama picked up his habit from listening to her.

Either way, I wish both of them would start acting like real leaders, because I don't look forward to listening to a whole new generation following the ridiculous examples being set for them.

This is Presidential?

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was taught that only rude, crude and ignorant people used the type of language I have heard coming out of the mouths of some of our political leaders lately. (Or maybe I should refer to them as politicians. They don't seem much like "leaders" to me.)

The President, even though he often drops the "ings" from the endings of his words, a habit that would have sent my English teacher into shock, has managed to use fairly clean language in his public speeches---until today.

"President Obama, who was briefed by Allen on Monday, later warned that "even if we are successful in containing some or much" of the oil, the problem of the leak will not be solved until a relief well is completed -- a process that will take "several months."

The president also expressed concern for the health of workers now trying to clean up the spill. Scientists are "not seeing huge elevations of toxins in the air or on the water" near shore, he said. "But that may not be the case out where people are actually doing the work."

He later bluntly defended his administration's response to the spill, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."

I'm just as sad, depressed, and unhappy as President Obama is over the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico, but I don't think that talking like a deckhand, (my apologies to deckhands who don't use profanity), is going to solve anything. In fact, it may make things worse as people begin to realize that the man they have put on a pedestal has clay feet, just like a lot of other people do. I certainly would never encourage my children to follow an example like the one above.

Considering how much our government costs us in taxes, I would expect some more presidential behavior from the White House.