He may also be told that any unwillingness to repay their kindness could put them in a very bad mood. He may be told that they've seen horrible accidents in their lives. They may tell an unwilling president about the kinds of awful things they've seen happen to school children who just so happened to be as young as his own children.
They may ask him, "Isn't it just awful when things like that happen to little kids, especially little girls?"
It comes across as "small talk", but "small talk" with a message.
However, this is not a conspiracy theory. Hard facts proving that this happens have not come forth. It's difficult to find proof anywhere that any of this happens. It's more a conspiracy "guess" based upon how the play unfolds after each presidential election. It's not all that different, is it?
Those who supported the president during his campaign become frustrated. Whether it takes four years or whether it takes eight years, the president is eventually busted. He's busted for breaking his campaign promises or misleading his supporters. Sometimes the supporters feel abandoned. Sometimes, as maybe happened in the case of George W. Bush, they just plain feel like fools. Since Truman, for sure, presidents have never created the utopian "morning in America" that their supporters were certain that they would create; the "change you can believe in".
Even The New Frontier was as old as secret attacks on the island of Cuba and far too many members of The Great Society left their lives in Southeast Asia.
It seems that there is more hatred toward Barack Obama than there's been toward any previous president because part of his heritage is African and that part cannot be hidden. However, despite all of the hate, he proceeds as though those who hate him deserve their day in court, so to speak and he's tried to give them that day. They don't want a day in court; they want to preside over the court. They don't even show up when subpoenaed, metaphorically speaking. Their responses to his invitations have become more predictable than the seasons.
Yet he takes it, as if he has no choice; as if it's all been planned out; the necessary deals have been made and the play has begun.
I've watched Rachel Maddow of MSNBC talk about this phenomenon night after night, making the same case. The Democrats have the House, Senate and Administration. They should be able to pass wonderful progressive legislation. Why don't they? Don't they see what we see?
Now she's dwelling on the power that the Democrats have in the lame duck session of Congress and she asks, "Will they finally get the courage to act upon progressive legislation or are the Democrats, all of them, cowards?" The answer, of course, isn't "yes" or "no". The answer is there are no Democrats. There are no Republicans. There are no debates. There is no process. There is no meaningful legislation.
Wealthy members of Congress, Democrat, Republican and even Independents, are playing roles laid out for them by those who buy them.
Don't they see what we see?
They create what we see. They create the allusion of government. Government in The FUSA is, indeed, created. It may be the most realistic piece of fiction ever written.
To friendship,
Michael
"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it." - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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