tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349612003858236552.post2639160632549638667..comments2023-10-09T01:58:05.522-07:00Comments on ad astra: So Far, I’m Disappointed with All of Them!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235558348477097598noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349612003858236552.post-80980103673136164822009-02-20T08:27:00.000-08:002009-02-20T08:27:00.000-08:00Charlie, it's like you are reading my mind! I real...Charlie, it's like you are reading my mind! I really have not wanted to say out loud that I have been disappointed in all of Washington including Pres. Obama for fear my major Republican family would hear and starts the "I told you so's". <BR/><BR/>But I have been shocked at the divisive actions by the republicans and I feel some democrats also...think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. <BR/><BR/>I was taught when you are brought in to manage a team or department who is already dead set against you, that you have to at least "act" like your carrying your hat in your hand for the first couple of meetings, letting them know that you don't want things to be a fight from the start and that you will show them respect as a person, then you get down to the real business at hand, and if that means playing hardball respectfully fine. <BR/><BR/>I think Pelosi and Reid went in with the same "Hillary Clinton as a candidate" attitude like okay we are so done with anything remotely close to "gw's" policies and you guys didn't win so now your GOING to do what we say. I think some high ranking Dems shot the Pres. in the foot before he could court the Rep's to the Superbowl, etc. and I don't think he even really knew how badly they set him up...maybe not deliberately but set him up all the same.<BR/><BR/>I also totally agree with this vetting process! I mean I want to know who the hell is responsible for all the people they've put up and is that person working under the table for the Rep's? <BR/><BR/>Seriously, the Pres. couldn't have had a worse time for so many nominees to come up with so many issues (lest we forget they are almost all unpaid tax issues) and end up looking like and idiot! Even though I was surprised he went on national tv, to say he "screwed up" but that just made him look weak in the Rush Limbaugh followers eyes. However I will say you would NEVER see "gw" or Chaney ever admit to wrong doing on their part or on the part of their team...they don't have the charachter strength for that!<BR/><BR/>As for the Stimulus package, I was also surprised to hear some of the things that were in there. I was hoping if they came from the Pres. or the Dems that they were bargaining chips...throw in some small superficial things that you know you can throw out as bargaining with the fight mentality of the Reps. But in the end it sounded like Mr. Pres. may have listen a little to much to the old inside Washington advisors and ended up looking like a no-reform for Washington guy now.<BR/><BR/>One last thing...the grammar! I thought surely after "gw" we would have someone who had at least good grammar since as you pointed out our children and the rest of us are listening and taking cues from this Pres. but my pet peeve is the way he says "a" historic moment, etc. Am I losing my mind or did they not teach us in school certain grammatical exceptions, like using "an" before a word starting with an "H"...as in "an honor"....the thing that bugs me the worst is that NO ONE seems to have caught this and mentioned it to Pres. Obama, because he continues to say it...so why do you have advisors, speech writers, <BR/>(even though he writes many of his own) but someone PLEASE have the nerve to tell him he is butchering a couple of phrases of the English language. He is smart guy. I don't think he'd mind it, and I think he'd prefer to look more polished than "gw" so someone please tell him, before I lose my mind!!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Now after saying all this, I still want to say, I still have hope that Pres. Obama will realize he's being handled by his own non-Yes men before it is too late. <BR/><BR/>But I do still have hope!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for letting me vent, and thanks for the great blog.<BR/><BR/>Martha Brown (an Independent)<BR/>Dallas TexasMartha Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11923121527916053383noreply@blogger.com