Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Compare Them Now

We have a great nation.
We are rich beyond measure. We not only have most of the wealth in the world - we make it. I mean actually manufacture it - printing money on a press or stamping coins when we want to. We could end poverty in the world but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We have all the food we need and more. We could feed the world if we cared to but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We are strong beyond belief. We could actually kill everyone in the world nearly all at the same time if we wanted to but we don’t because there is no reason to - right at this moment.
Recently a gunman in Arizona killed 6 people including a Federal Judge, a 9 year old girl, a 79 year old woman, a 76 year old man, a 30 year old man and a 76 year old woman.
Are their names important?
To those who loved them.
To politicians they are very important as well.
The lanky man from Kenya, I mean Hawaii, I mean Indonesia, I mean Illinois - Barack Husein Obama - has been compared to President Lincoln.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that encouraged a nation.
It was 267 words long.
Barack Husein Obama gave a speech tonight that was about 2,606 words long. In it were the words, “If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today.”
Compare them now.

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