Will He Go Down In History As Being A Great President?

By James Fowler
www.mywebsource1.com

My father used to tell me two things all the time. Number One was, “Jimm, if you want to avoid controversy, don’t talk about religion or politics.” The second one was, “Son, you don’t listen to half of what I tell you.” Well, as you can tell by the name of this blog, my father is almost always correct.

But this blog is indirectly about the President. It is a means to an end. What this is about is two very important things to remember. This is really what I am writing about. They are:

1. History is Fickle. What you “think” is true today, may be completely different tomorrow.
2. The Media can change the paradigm on how you view your environment. What I mean by this is no matter what your news source; Fox News, NPR, Newsweek, CNN, the Daily Show – whatever…they are not in the business of telling you the truth. They are in the BUSINESS of selling you news and selling advertising.

That being said, how does the media picture our President? Well, they like to lampoon him. They will draw cartoons of him with big ears and a dopey look on his face. Sometimes they will put him in a big hat and put a gun in his hands. They will tell you “He can’t run a war. He’s never been IN a war.”

…and what a war it is! It has been going on for years and there is no end in sight. Thousands of our soldiers killed and the President and his boys are getting richer off the blood our boys. Our soldiers are under-equipped and if they are wounded, they get put into hospitals with rats and cockroaches to share their room. The democrats keep screaming their battle cry, “Impeach him! Impeach him!”

But I ask you, “Will he go down in history as a great president?”

On the homefront, we are told our First Amendment rights are being leaned upon. If you say the wrong thing, you stand the chance of going to jail. Worse still, maybe your spouse, child, or other loved one will reap the rewards of your words against the administration. You don’t want to be an enemy of the state. As Americans, we read the “truth” – we torture our enemies. Be it physical, mental or emotional – and our President obviously approves of these actions.

Let’s not forget the immigrants, either! They are coming here by the thousands in endless waves, offering to work for less and taking away YOUR jobs! Who do you blame? The president, of course! And still the cry of the democrats resound: “Impeach! Impeach!”

But I ask you, “Will he go down in history as a great president?”

The Press also likes to attack the personal life of our President, no? They rumor and whisper that he is having an illicit affair. An affair surely to destroy the lives of his wife and children. And let’s not forget, it is a bit taboo, too. Nothing that the Republicans who voted him into office would support. This isn’t very becoming of a man of God.

And he is a man of God! He has God on his side! He prays to God asking for support in his decisions. Praying to do the right thing and to not let him falter.

I often picture him sitting there – behind the big desk – and asking God,

“God, five years from now, will they look back on my presidency and say I did the right thing?”

“Ten years – no fifty years from now, God – will the country be in a better place because of how I led our nation under my command?”

“ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS from now will school children recite my legacy and wand to be just like me?”

Remember what I said? History is fickle and the media can change the paradigm on how we see our environment.

The Republican I am writing about is not George W. Bush.

It is our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.

“Honest Abe” had all of these problems and more during his presidency. He led us through a Civil War where over 620,000 Americans lost their lives. He was a hated man during his time. Hated so much he met his end with an assassin’s bullet. As for the affair, it was rumored to be between him and a friend named, Joshua Fry Speed. But with all of this hatred and controversy, you can ask any person walking down the street who are the greatest American Presidents, and you will find Abraham Lincoln will be near or at the top of the list.

I don’t know how George Bush will fair a hundred years from now. Will he go down in history as being a great President? The media (and presumably most of the country – if you believe the media) hates him today. I do know that History is fickle and the Media can change the paradigm of how we view our environment.

Just don’t ask my dad…he doesn’t like the controversy.