An essay on truth
The date is September 10th 2046; Sarah has come home from school a little bewildered. Her history assignment due tomorrow is to write a short essay on George W. Bush and his time as president. She is only allowed to use the archive system of the net and this has her frustrated.
“Dad, can I ask you to help me?” she asks. Her father smiles and looks away from his pod paper, “Sure sweetheart, what do you need?”
She explains the situation and how the archives are filled with negative stories and awful things that just can’t be true. “We learned a little about President Bush and how his decisions made this country so much safer and prosperous, how come everyone hated him?” Her father is at a loss to explain saying he was just a young boy during those times, “Why don’t you message Grandpa? He lived through it and maybe he can give you some help.”
Sarah clicks into Grandpa’s net cam and finds him out in the garden. She explains her dilemma and she is happy when Grandpa says he is very pleased to help. “Let me clean up and I’ll click you back in a few moments.”
The two connect and Grandpa has on the table next to him a very old looking trunk. “I want to show you a few things, I think they may help.” He begins to pull out old newspapers and shows Sarah the headlines.Terrorist strike, Americans look towards Bush, Bush stands strong, Congress united with Bush. He tells his granddaughter how the whole world was behind Bush in the first few weeks after 9/11, that the country needed a leader in this the most perilous time and George Bush rose to the challenge. He explained how he had never seen the country so gripped in fear and how eerie feelings of being lost in disbelief captivated every citizen. “Those towers coming down were a wakeup call to everyone” he said with a somber voice.
“What changed?” she asked. “Nothing changed my dear”, he explained, “the same people who despised President Bush still hated him even though they pretended to be united. He had to make strong decisions to safeguard America and that went against their preconceived ideas of what America should be.”
Grandpa went on and told her how the news outlets of that day tried to discredit him at every turn almost as if they wanted him to fail. Otherwise respected journalists, with years of distinguished service actually made stories up just so he would lose the next election. “Bush never gave into those guys’s he chuckled; he just went right on making the tough calls and beat back his critics with conviction and morals. When he was proven right he could’ve been vitriolic but never was.”
Still confused Sarah asks, “That still doesn’t answer my question Grandpa, why did the people who he served so well dislike him so? I could only find a few positive things and a web site that thanked him but only a few thousand people actually did. They speak of President Bush the same way we see him today.”
Leaning back and trying to come up with an answer to the same question he’s also had these many years he replies; “People in my day were led astray, they were told to believe that words and papers signed by world leaders would be enough to keep the killers away. It is much easier to condemn some group and hope they stop plotting and killing than it is to actually do something about it. Bush knew that decisive action had to be taken and even though his poll numbers went down and everybody who briefly stood with him when they were afraid to even go shopping were now gathered together with a mob style mentality and it became so much easier to blame Bush. It got so bad that they started blaming everything on him and the news people were happy to fan the flames. It was difficult to be a Bush supporter back then because everyone formed their opinions based on a few short news bites rather than on the truth. Now days of course that has changed as time and lack of emotion have eaten away all of the falsehoods they cast on him.”
Sarah was slightly enlightened but still amazed at how short sighted people could be. Grandpa told her that “It’s easy to stand back now and know that George W. Bush was a great president who fought hard for his country. We know the truth and no one is peppering us with constant negatives. Why don’t we look at that web site you found and see if we can figure out what those people saw that apprieciated him back then. Maybe then we can get that paper done for your history class.”
Just in time
The speed of the Obama administration is something to behold. It’s only been 2 months and he’s managed to spend a whopping $2,290,000,000,000 ($2.29 trillion).That’s about 45 billion a day! It took the U.S. government 191 years from its start to rack up its first trillion dollars and Obama more than doubles it in less time than it takes a German roach to infest a kitchen. Our hats off to you ‘O’.
While each American citizen is on the hook for about $36,000.00 Obama is feverishly trying to increase our tax burden. I’m sure he’d like to just come right out and take it and so far he’s done a pretty good job of that. No, this time he’s trying the proven method of ‘stealth taxes.’ One of the chosen vehicles for now is a high tax on cigarettes,evil no good health robbing cancer sticks, no one should mind this, right? Tell that to a law abiding, taxpaying smoker. Another tax being bandied about is on ‘green house gases’ which has not been adopted yet but most believe it will result in c02 taxes on energy use not only from your car but everything you use to light up a room or travel in. This could cripple our already lame economy and something Bush turned back twice when it was called the Kyoto Protocol. Since then by the way, the United States c02 emissions have fallen by 3%. Another ‘atta boy’ to George Bush.
Obama’s sense of timing is almost laughable. It’s as if he knows what he’s saying is a lie and that most Americans don’t buy it, but why should he care? He’s got the bully pulpit and a permanent spot for his teleprompter so he’ll just throw it out there and let his media do the spin game for him.
Never before in our history has a tax cut taken effect faster or gone to so many hardworking Americans,” Obama said in his weekly video and radio address.
That said Obama knows that all the above FACTS will be overlooked or forgotten. This one sound bite will hit the papers,(what’s left of them) and all the major news outlets and that’s all most Americans will hear and believe.
This so called tax cut results in a $65.00 per month decrease in your taxes. This means you’ll have $15.00 extra dollars per week in your pay checks. Now be good little minions and get out there and stimulate that economy.
The sad irony of this supposed tax cut that will help heal the nation, becomes law on April 1st, 2009; otherwise known as April Fool’s day. Just in time ‘O’, just in time.
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