The Community Made The Heavens And The Earth
Several things to warm your heart here, though! First, it's good to know we'll still be superior to, well, to somebody, I guess. It's like sacrificing your knight and two rooks, but hey, you still have that one-pawn superiority. It's like Tebow against the New England Patriots, committing turnovers in the first half... we were way ahead, but we can get by if we still have even a one-point superiority, right?
But for a while there, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the president had to contend with a bunch of "bitter clingers" in the U.S. who insist upon clinging to this romantic notion of an all-powerful being who (these rednecks claim) is the "reason for the season." Mr. Obama, though, schooled in places like Harvard University and Trinity Church in Chicago, knows better.
To hear the president tell it, we have the community (whatever that is) to thank for our very existence, not some mythical god. The whole Jesus thing makes for good commercialism, to be sure, and Obama does need a strong shopping season to bolster the perception of his economic policies. But this president is far more likely to deliver an appropriate address on the occasion of Muslim holidays than on those celebrated by the bitter clingers. I guess maybe he still needs that Middle East oil, too, while he continues to strive tirelessly to get us off the addiction with which we were hooked by George W. Bush.
In fact, wouldn't it be cool if we based our entire federal budget on what other countries do? You might vote for a candidate who said he or she would tell every federal bureaucracy that they had to get by on what the next ten nations (combined) spend on the same stuff. Think of all the money we'd still have if we used that principle on things like turtle bridges and loan-guarantees to failed solar companies.
* Red onions: Not red. That color is called purple. * Redheads: Their hair is orange or brown. Your brain thinks rhymes are fun. * Red foxes/pandas/squirrels/kangaroos/lemurs: Again, orange or brown. * Red rooster: Brown rooster makes brain sad-no alliteration. * Red robin: See above. * Red wolf: Gray. Much like the gray wolf, you might say. * Red clover/redbud tree: Purple flowers. Say it with me. Purple. * Red fescue: Grass is green. Five year olds know this. * Rednecks: Sunburns are pink. * Red-eye gravy: Both disgusting and brown. * Red clay (Georgia): It's dirt. Dirt is brown. Might have an argument for orange, but not red. * Red Indian: Your brain is a racist.
That will really transform the presidency, radically. We used to call the U.S. president "the leader of the free world." Soon this notion of a "free world" will be relegated to the ash-heap of history; and when we're basing what we do on the budgets of other countries, it's clear the notion of American leadership is already there.
Several things to warm your heart here, though! First, it's good to know we'll still be superior to, well, to somebody, I guess. It's like sacrificing your knight and two rooks, but hey, you still have that one-pawn superiority. It's like Tebow against the New England Patriots, committing turnovers in the first half... we were way ahead, but we can get by if we still have even a one-point superiority, right?
But for a while there, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the president had to contend with a bunch of "bitter clingers" in the U.S. who insist upon clinging to this romantic notion of an all-powerful being who (these rednecks claim) is the "reason for the season." Mr. Obama, though, schooled in places like Harvard University and Trinity Church in Chicago, knows better.
To hear the president tell it, we have the community (whatever that is) to thank for our very existence, not some mythical god. The whole Jesus thing makes for good commercialism, to be sure, and Obama does need a strong shopping season to bolster the perception of his economic policies. But this president is far more likely to deliver an appropriate address on the occasion of Muslim holidays than on those celebrated by the bitter clingers. I guess maybe he still needs that Middle East oil, too, while he continues to strive tirelessly to get us off the addiction with which we were hooked by George W. Bush.
In fact, wouldn't it be cool if we based our entire federal budget on what other countries do? You might vote for a candidate who said he or she would tell every federal bureaucracy that they had to get by on what the next ten nations (combined) spend on the same stuff. Think of all the money we'd still have if we used that principle on things like turtle bridges and loan-guarantees to failed solar companies.
* Red onions: Not red. That color is called purple. * Redheads: Their hair is orange or brown. Your brain thinks rhymes are fun. * Red foxes/pandas/squirrels/kangaroos/lemurs: Again, orange or brown. * Red rooster: Brown rooster makes brain sad-no alliteration. * Red robin: See above. * Red wolf: Gray. Much like the gray wolf, you might say. * Red clover/redbud tree: Purple flowers. Say it with me. Purple. * Red fescue: Grass is green. Five year olds know this. * Rednecks: Sunburns are pink. * Red-eye gravy: Both disgusting and brown. * Red clay (Georgia): It's dirt. Dirt is brown. Might have an argument for orange, but not red. * Red Indian: Your brain is a racist.
That will really transform the presidency, radically. We used to call the U.S. president "the leader of the free world." Soon this notion of a "free world" will be relegated to the ash-heap of history; and when we're basing what we do on the budgets of other countries, it's clear the notion of American leadership is already there.
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