Soon people will not be able to blame George Bush for their problems. Who else are they blaming? Who should they be blaming? When do people 'grow up' and take responsibility for their own lack of planning and poor choices. Yes, we are always making choices, but what happens when they are not wise?
I am 38, but I do not recall a time like the past eight year where a president has been blamed for so much. As soon as George Bush was inaugurated, it seemed like the world began to unravel, or did it? No one could have imagined the 9/11 disaster, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami, the hurricanes in Florida or the financial crisis. Aside from natural disasters, people made choices or did not, which impacted these outcomes. There are some events we have learned from and some we should learn from, but if an individual buys a house that he or she cannot afford or accumulated too much debt, I can assure you that has nothing to do with George Bush. In fact, I think George Bush did a fine job, especially with regard to the global climate. Maybe some of his choices were not popular and maybe he was not a hypnotic communicator, but he did help remove a horrible dictator from absolute power, and there have been no other attacks and American soil. Thank you God--and thank you, George Bush.
Where do we get this notion that we can blame the leader of our country for our shortcomings? I think we are living in "a never-neverland" which some call the modern world. Now, we have stretched adolescence into our late twenties and some, early thirties. Thirty is the new twenty, and so on. People blame their parents for their lack of maturity and any given set of issues. Often 'psycho-therapy' even supports this idea. I have seen so many stupid television shows in the past ten years that treat the modern American dad like a buffoon, rather than a hard working man worthy of honor and respect. The moms on these shows are concerned with acting sassy and wearing tight jeans, meanwhile, the kids are the sarcastic 'know it alls'. It is repulsive. This is not a true modern American family--it is really just a pitiful farce. Most American parents are doing the very best they can for their families in a modern world where family values are constantly coming under attack. The irony is superb. Like David Bowie said in his song "Modern Love"--"modern Love gets me to the church on time."
Finally, two hundred years ago, nobody would have dared blamed George Washington or Abraham Lincoln for their own personal problems or disappointments. They were just happy to live in freedom and have a strong leader. So why is it acceptable now? And what about fathers? Only fifty years ago, people were married almost out of high school or college and they worked hard to build families and lives that produced responsible citizens. Now, we have thirty-somethings who can or cannot commit and want it all, now? Ultimately, it is not our president or our biological fathers that we contend with the most. It is our Father, God we should aspire to please and respect--maybe then things will turn around.
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