26-11-2008, 05:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-11-2008, 07:10 PM by David Guyatt.)
Steve McDonagh Wrote:Hi,
Personally I think this was a smart move and just shows you how potentially irreversible the economy problem really is.
If I was taking the job of President, I would be looking at ways to minimize other disruptions from the get go. The last thing he needs is self made defense related problems hitting him between the eyes whilst he’s trying to sort the economy problem out. Needless to say if that happened it would not only be politically but potentially economically suicidal; either way it would cause him to lose any good will currently afforded him.
He’s a smart man, give him time.
Thanks - Steve
However, if you were taking the job of President, hopefully you would have the courage and convictions to choose a bold new team uncontaminated by past illegalities and guilty of feather-bedding previous corrupt Administrations.
That is unless you were simply hired as a cute face with a nice warm voice and smiling eyes who's job specification was selling the same elite wallet-snatching activity to Americans that has been sold to them for decades past - albeit with different glittery gift paper wrapped around it.
What will happen as the years roll by, I'm afraid to say, will be be the slow and utter destruction of a nations enthusiasm that ushered Obama into office. This is spelled "b-e-t-r-a-y-a-l".
But there's no need to be alarmed.
It happens every time a new president is voted into office.
One day (but not anytime soon sadly) people will will awaken from their rock-a-bye slumber and see reality as it is - not as they want it to be.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14