I got an email from a trusted conservative friend who was ticked off that the President was releasing a Children's book. He said this:
Again is it me..or does Obama really have time to write children's books while in office?
Mhhh let's see...
Recorded unemployment
Financial ruin
Record bankruptcies
Record foreclosures
Record length of unemployment
Iran gets nuclei bomb
The WAR on our southern border
The WHOLE middle east
Falling test scores in our schools
Over swelling prison populations
Increasing drug use
Africa
South America
I'm sure each of you could add to the list. Each one of these items could use his FULL TIME attention.
The truth is he wrote it before he took office in January 2009. The proceeds are going to a scholarship fund for children of soldiers who are killed or injured.
Now the only thing I find skeptical about it, is the timing. Election time, need to get the good word out...blah blah blah. A bit of marketing genius no less. Not an issue to me at all.
The main thing is this; I'm not calling out my friend for passing along this misinformation or his 2 cents, yet alone his anger, because I understand. I get it. If you didn't know the entire story, you'd be pretty upset. Especially from the right side of the aisle. Anything that comes from the Obama camp is usually bad news or lame..so it's kind of expected. Routine?
I do have an issue with what he wants the president to pay attention to. The last thing I want him doing is "creating his jobs" again. They don't work. I don't want him bailing out Wall Street. I don't want him messing with Iran. I don't want him tangling in the Mid-East. I want the drug war to end, which will end the prison problem. Perhaps I'm blind but I see no problem with the southern border. Let the states handle it, not the Feds.
I want the President to push for lowers taxes, eliminate government waste, spending, get our troops home,
and preserve our constitutional rights. If he attacks the points on the list my friend posted, then government will get bigger, taxes raised, and we'll get less and less freedom.
As a matter of fact, I want him to write children's books all freakin day please. At least he'll be productive, because that's one thing he has not been. Even the leftist wackos know that.
P.S. Hey...help Ethan when you can. A little boy who's trying to beat cancer.
Enos Slaughter
