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• Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:41 PM

  Kill The Man With The Ball? (even before he has it?)

  All these people conmplaining about what they got for their vote, when we don't really know "what we got yet", seems to me much like the school yard game we used to play in reccess. Kill the man with the ball. Thankfully, it was usually the most talented athelete who got his hands on the ball the most and would survive the longest time before we all piled on him. And he got up, with the confidence of knowing he followed his own instincts and bested most of us, every time.

  As the article quotes from his bio,to paraphrase; "people tend to project their own expectations of who Barack is onto him, and onto their vote for him. Then they are sadly dissapointed when they find out it is not so."

  I think he did a wonderful job in his campaign of NOT being swayed by the many different agendas pulling at his sleeves. I voted for him because he seemed a hsck of alot smarter than I and most people I know. He also seemed confident in his own abilities, and as such, willing to surround himself with people at the top of their game who know how to get things done in DC. And, as a business owner myself, although I have cherry-picked workers from competitors, they knew that once they came to my shop that they had to do MY JOBS, MY WAY.

  I think Obama will demand the same, regardless of who's administration they worked for prior to "joining his work crew."

  But if everyone who expended so much energy pushing this man can, so quickly, be as disuaded about his abilities than they were about his abilities when they assumed he was there to do their bidding on their agendas, I'm just glad they voted for him when they did.

  He's obviously planning to hit the ground running, whether with a centrist view or not. (I think it is the view he thinks will succeed the best with the input and statistics he has at hand, as well as the advice from his advisors, some of whom I'm HAPPY to see, have quite different views of the world than he.)

  Why don't we give the guy we all put so much faith in, (or at least those of us who seriously believed in HIS AGENDA), a little faith in his policy and people decisions before we try to "kill the man yet to have the ball."

  —papabotts Read papabotts's other letters
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