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The World Remembers

12 Monday Sep 2011

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The world is watching, but it also remembers.

It remembers, for instance, that American soldiers died to liberate France.  Sainte-Mère-Église remembers.

I once lived in Normandy, just across from the Isle of Jersey.  At Christmas, a green Normandy Christmas, we had as guest a gentleman who was among the American soldiers who survived D-Day.  We owned a car, so he guided us to all the sights.

Among the places we visited, one was extremely moving.  We saw a vast field filled with little white crosses.  There was a cross for each American soldier who died in or near Caen.  And there was no end of crosses.

Our guest’s life had been saved by a French family, at Sainte-Mère-Église.  He therefore visited with them.  Members of that family had risked their lives to save one American life, and the American whose life they saved had risked his life to save the French.  In the meantime, our friend had learned French.  In fact, this former soldier had become a scholar in the area of French seventeenth-century literature.

Europe will never forget the US soldiers who came to their rescue.  It will never forget Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President who met with Churchill in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and also met with him at the Château Frontenac, in Quebec City, so they could discuss how to put an end to the sorry state of Europe, dominated by Hitler. Freedom is dear, so Franklin Delano Roosevelt answered Churchill’s plea for help.

When Americans are united by a “common purpose” (Lt Gen [ret] Russel L Honoré), they rise to excellence.  Therefore, there can be no doubt that Americans can have their nation if, once again, they are united by a “common purpose,” and if there is bread on every table now.

Turn you back on Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and Arianna Huffington and the laughing-stock of the world.  Also turn your back on people who are self- serving and might deny the planet is melting in order to sell expensive sun-blockers. They are the enemy within.

Do not fear the debt and, particularly, do not fear investing in a stimulus package proposed by President Obama.  The US must remain operative.  Consider instead, that you have a remarkable leader, a leader you have elected, and rally behind his administration, not to mention America’s finest minds (your President listens), and return America to its former self.  In fact, make it better.

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President Obama as Scapegoat

10 Wednesday Aug 2011

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Barack Obama, confidence, credit rating, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Scapegoat, the last days of July

From time immemorial, humans have blamed others to excuse their own misdeeds and the misdeeds of family and friends.

History repeats itself.  I am now hearing the clamour and reading the commentaries. President Obama is being turned into a scapegoat.  Yet, President Obama and his administration are not to blame for America’s current economic predicament.  Nor are the President and his administration to blame for the downgrading of the United States’s credit rating.

If you wish to assign blame, please target the real culprit.  Target the previous administration who acted as though there was no bottom to the national purse and gave tax cuts to the rich.  Target also those Congressional leaders who waited until the eleventh hour before raising the debt ceiling.

I very much dislike pointing a guilty finger at anyone, but, with all due respect, as soon as Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, he had to request  Congress to act responsibly and therefore borrow a huge amount of money so the United States could finance Bush’s wars and other financial commitments, such as his Prescription Drug Plan.  This huge amount of money was not borrowed so the Democrats could pay a debt they had incurred.  The debt that had to be paid was incurred by a former administration that mortgaged away future administrations.

Remember the months that preceded November 4th, 2008, the day Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.  Ordinary Americans were losing their homes, the elderly feared they would not be able to retire.   What little Social Security Americans had counted on since Franklyn Delano Roosevelt was in jeopardy and my pension fund was melting away more quickly than the confidence of investors.

And, it happened again during the last days of July.  Confidence dropped again.  It may be that the US will recover even if President Obama is not at the helm, but consider that if a dysfunctional America made him its scapegoat, it could trigger armageddon.  That might be too strong a word, but…

“Volatility” is very upsetting, but it is better than bankruptcy.  It could be matters are improving.  The fact remains, however, that when the world banks on the US, it banks on good and reasoned stewardship of the economy of the United States. The world does not bank on the Tea Party and hardline Republicans.

Consequently, it would be my view, and perhaps the rest of the world’s view, that America cannot afford to make the Democrats and, particularly, their leader, a scapegoat.  There are, of course, perfectly sensible Republicans, but where Republicans are concerned, facts point to a house divided.

Do not throw stones.  Rebuild.  It’s more constructive and stones will be needed.

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