Friday, January 16, 2009
My kingdom for a shoe!
I find it very pathetic that some people in Salt Lake City are throwing a block party next week to say goodbye to our President. At this party will be a caricature of President Bush at which individuals are invited to throw a shoe. I considered attending with the sincere desire to pick up a shoe and throw it at the organizers! Just goes to show how deeply obsessed some people are. Perhaps what they should do is take a good hard look at themselves to discover why they harbor such animosity. They just might discover that it is them, not President Bush who should be blamed for the troubles in their respective lives. If only I had a shoe!
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Utah sucks.
When Episode I of the prequel Star Wars Trilogy came out, everybody loved Jar-Jar Binks. He was a funny, charming, loyal, albeit an awkward character. Yet when Episode II was released, I remember radio stations holding "Beat Up Jar-Jar" booths at the premieres. We were beyond hyped about Jango Fett, the new supporting character, and blindly hoped that George Lucas would not mess up him up. And thankfully he didn't, making Jango one of the most loved side characters in the Star Wars Universe.
So what does this have to do with the upcoming inauguration? I distinctly remember revelers in the streets when Bush was elected president but after 8 years of some rather Jar-Jar like terminology and some poor decisions that even he admits to, people are ready for a new character to be introduced in the hopes that they will do better at filling the shoes they were assigned. Whether the shoes will go airborn in the end is yet to be seen.
Although we won't know until we're in for the long haul, we can at least HOPE that Obama will be what we need and do what needs to be done. Unless he's given that honest chance, how can we ever unbiasedly judge his aptitude and the overall success of his presidency? We may be throwing shoes or some other projectile (may I suggest rubber chickens?) in the next four years, but for now isn't it enough to hope and pray for a Jango Fett instead of automatically assuming we're being lead by "another" Jar-Jar?
Hope is a fleeting thing. The evidence is already quite clear on the direction the country is turning. It can only be 'hoped' that we survive the next four years of Barack, Nancy and Harry. It should be interesting.
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