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The new year is here 2008, just turned the corner, I look around and everything seems so familiar. The sky is the same, the hills and mountains haven’t disappeared, people still pass by on the streets, work starts and then is finished, taxes are still collected, food is bought and rent is paid.
But something I had hoped would have disappeared, in my wishful thinking, is still here with a vengeance, - Lack of Character -.
In my my wildest dreams, I know character will not be found, in one (not the most important which is family) of the most important bodies in civilized society, government. It has turned into a joke, yet the media doesn’t point it out as such. The politicians make all kinds of ridiculous and erroneous statements and when confronted with it stoop to claiming something totally different was said which doesn’t make sense in reality or even logically, yet the media will not point that out.
That, my friends, is why we have so much of it, because they are not forced to explain how they could have come up with their “new” revision of a statement that they made, which is completely opposite or far removed from what was said. I actually meant, … what I was really saying, … I was referring to, … I misspoke, … I was misunderstood or even I was misquoted. is getting really boring.
They all, and I repeat all, must be thinking we’re one sandwich short of a picnic… I think that shows lack of respect for us and worse, no confidence in themselves to be honest and truthful and being able to come through, with dignity, from the criticism they would shurley receive.
If we don’t make them tell the truth, in such minor matters, then how are we to be certain they would tell the truth at any other time… I frankly don’t think that will happen at all.
Our politicians don’t inspire confidence in the future with that mentality in charge of events.
… Good luck to all of us. The search for character continues.
~ Juris
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