Chin up, Mr. President
When I just heard on the news Pres. Obama is going on the road to promote his Stimulus Recovery Bill, I just got an urge to write. People who write know what I mean.
Something gets into your head, you scrounge around for the longevity of your thoughts, you experience some linking abstract ideas and some spot on ones and the anxiety pushes itself to fever pitch levels and before you know it, you are polishing the keys of your computer keyboard with a great big private smile of satisfaction. You know at least you have a beginning and a some-what middle “something” to say. You may not know how your concept will end up due to the fact just like ironing an article of clothing, you do not know how your writing will end up until you finish ironing it out, placing it on a hanger, standing back and looking at it. At that point, you may realize you have missed a wrinkle or two or perhaps you should have used more spray starch on one of the sleeves and if possible, make the necessary adjustments.
I am mindful of hearing the other day that a poet stands in the middle of a thunderstorm wishing for lightning to strike him. Metaphorically speaking, of course. At least I hope it was metaphorically speaking. I am not a poet so my writing process is a bit different. Thank God! The way of the poet, although admirable, is not for me. I seek pleasure, not pain regardless the metaphor.
I can fully understand why our President wants to go on the road to promote his Stimulus Program. It’s his baby. His first opus. The results of his blood, sweat and tears to date and he wants it to be successful. Personally, I was never one to go seeking approvals for any parts of my creative abilities. I take the opinion that people will see your little light shining and if you have to always direct them into seeing it by coaxing them and by using other means, they will turn on you. People do not like that! They feel you are trying to convince yourself more of its worth than they do and will grow suspicious of your motives and rightly so. Some may even have the feeling of efforts to manipulate them.
But, alas, the President is young and these are things you do when you are young and the most egregious of mistakes is thinking others share your goals. All bright eyed and bushy tail on your first job it is hard for one to think otherwise. After all, don’t the others working there also work for the same person or corporation? There is so much to learn on your first job and one thing you quickly learn is where the land mines are in order for you to keep your job. You learn wherein your own stimulus recovery package lies. You may also learn if you want something done and you want it done right, you HAVE to do it yourself. If Pres. Obama has to be the first President in history to write his own bills to present to Congress, so be it. He would have to learn how to do it and if so motivated, do it. It would be interesting to note how the President would have written his Stimulus Recovery Bill had he been so motivated. As President, Mr. Obama should never again be placed in the position he finds himself regarding his Stimulus Bill.
As an example or two, a teacher is taking a big chance letting the teacher’s aid teach the class or an architect letting an underling design the second Twin Towers or another opera house in Australia. As another example and as negative as it is, there is/was the devastating war in Iraq so successfully executed due to the fact its architect, Dick Cheney, was there and on top of events every step of the way.
Here is hoping our new President in years to come will look at this, his novice first experience as President of the United States of America, as the learning experience it is. More things will come to nail it down. He has yet to have the joys of his fiftieth birthday party, teaching his daughters how to drive a car and keeping his wife’s love for him as strong as the love he has for her. The experiences of the ups and downs of the learning curves of life go on and on. Most of us older Blacks love our President more than he could ever know and we wish him well.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Something gets into your head, you scrounge around for the longevity of your thoughts, you experience some linking abstract ideas and some spot on ones and the anxiety pushes itself to fever pitch levels and before you know it, you are polishing the keys of your computer keyboard with a great big private smile of satisfaction. You know at least you have a beginning and a some-what middle “something” to say. You may not know how your concept will end up due to the fact just like ironing an article of clothing, you do not know how your writing will end up until you finish ironing it out, placing it on a hanger, standing back and looking at it. At that point, you may realize you have missed a wrinkle or two or perhaps you should have used more spray starch on one of the sleeves and if possible, make the necessary adjustments.
I am mindful of hearing the other day that a poet stands in the middle of a thunderstorm wishing for lightning to strike him. Metaphorically speaking, of course. At least I hope it was metaphorically speaking. I am not a poet so my writing process is a bit different. Thank God! The way of the poet, although admirable, is not for me. I seek pleasure, not pain regardless the metaphor.
I can fully understand why our President wants to go on the road to promote his Stimulus Program. It’s his baby. His first opus. The results of his blood, sweat and tears to date and he wants it to be successful. Personally, I was never one to go seeking approvals for any parts of my creative abilities. I take the opinion that people will see your little light shining and if you have to always direct them into seeing it by coaxing them and by using other means, they will turn on you. People do not like that! They feel you are trying to convince yourself more of its worth than they do and will grow suspicious of your motives and rightly so. Some may even have the feeling of efforts to manipulate them.
But, alas, the President is young and these are things you do when you are young and the most egregious of mistakes is thinking others share your goals. All bright eyed and bushy tail on your first job it is hard for one to think otherwise. After all, don’t the others working there also work for the same person or corporation? There is so much to learn on your first job and one thing you quickly learn is where the land mines are in order for you to keep your job. You learn wherein your own stimulus recovery package lies. You may also learn if you want something done and you want it done right, you HAVE to do it yourself. If Pres. Obama has to be the first President in history to write his own bills to present to Congress, so be it. He would have to learn how to do it and if so motivated, do it. It would be interesting to note how the President would have written his Stimulus Recovery Bill had he been so motivated. As President, Mr. Obama should never again be placed in the position he finds himself regarding his Stimulus Bill.
As an example or two, a teacher is taking a big chance letting the teacher’s aid teach the class or an architect letting an underling design the second Twin Towers or another opera house in Australia. As another example and as negative as it is, there is/was the devastating war in Iraq so successfully executed due to the fact its architect, Dick Cheney, was there and on top of events every step of the way.
Here is hoping our new President in years to come will look at this, his novice first experience as President of the United States of America, as the learning experience it is. More things will come to nail it down. He has yet to have the joys of his fiftieth birthday party, teaching his daughters how to drive a car and keeping his wife’s love for him as strong as the love he has for her. The experiences of the ups and downs of the learning curves of life go on and on. Most of us older Blacks love our President more than he could ever know and we wish him well.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
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