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I started this hours ago and had to go into a meeting so take it in that context, most comments will have been posted after…

I’ll add Terrye along with Syl and Lola as examples under the headline… “Kerry doesn’t impress Security Moms”. Kudos to you knucklehead as well. There are a few others (TMJUtah) also more even keeled. To the rest of you that vacillate between wobbly knees and disappointment and point judgmental fingers at Dubya I say please get over it.

First I respect all here and I think people know that is the case. I will only say what truth I feel is pertinent and productive. It is not that I don’t agree with much that has been said and any hard rejection of comments has little to do with such. What I do reject is the intemperate negative weight being placed on the performance, the political realities and most importantly the way such ill-tempered renderings affect pertinent helpful and productive reasoning.

For example, I find comparisons to Dubya with his father as an insult, what is the point that he fades and quits? Is that a fear or a reality? Well that comment has no ring of truth to me, in fact I view such as either a pot shot out of frustration or a way out of scope intemperate comparison if one reasons through the personalities of Dubya and his Father. I am not going to go through all of them in this or the last thread as they are full of them. The real point is what the purpose is. Is there truth in the statement? There is? OK, truth is a very interesting thing because perspective has as much effect on truth as the actual fact. Temperaments much affect the realities. For example I could tell my wife that she looks better in the other dress then the one she has on, or I could tell her she looks ugly in the dress she is wearing. Hey they are both the truth right? What is the difference? The later I say if I am in a mood when I should be more introspective before I speak. Am I excusing my negativity by declaring I am only saying the truth? Is it really an airing of frustration more than a moment to teach? One thing for sure, it isn’t inspiring.

To me that is much of what I see in many comments, some are very sour and very uncalled for. That is why when someone said something akin to, “If Bush could just damn talk…” I took offense because their was nothing but a moan and a bitch slap about an obvious weakness of the President can do little about, further his support was never rooted in such a thing to begin with. If there is nothing to achieve then why say it, some enlightening truth? It is a venting? I am just saying some need to quit claiming to be speaking a truth as an excuse to put forth unproductive belly-aching. I’m sorry, I run a business and when people get like that I keep them as far away from solution solving because there is none to be achieved with that kind of thinking.

I don’t expect everyone to have my take on things, but I do find the lack of faith somewhat insulting toward a man that has overcome time after time much more difficult situations, whether self induced or not. Bush is not at all like his father, he is not a quitter and he is not looking at his watch, he knows there is more at stake now than in 2000, he said as much. He is working hard running the country and NOT COASTING as some arrogantly have implied, I mean how presumptuous. It is one thing to say the man had a bad day as that is obvious. It is another to imply things we know nothing about! Sure perhaps he “was coasting” or perhaps he as I feel was working hard running a War and being President and as a result wasn’t as ready as I would have hoped, either way he is only human. But the viewing of the personal in the worst light seems to me unproductive and undeserved by the President, certainly he has proven to be worthy of better judgment. And while I understand some of the sentiments, I’ll be damned if many aren’t in an echo-induced tailspin, and I’ll add a tailspin Bush is nowhere near part of. Regardless of why Bush “lost” the debate (which I said from the very beginning that he did lose), the lack of faith is quite frankly disappointing if not discouraging because it is out of hand and uncalled for the simple sense that I would have assumed a better reading and take of Dubya the man from most you. History requires such.

Here is where my point about using truth as a means to excuse excessive negativity is important. It is hard whilst such projection of negativity wells within the hearts of the discouraged to properly reason in productive fashions, in fact by default it is and will be destructive. There is nothing to be gained by me saying she was ugly in that dress. There are more proper ways. The biggest compliment I have ever been given here at work as a coach in sports and whatever I do is to be told that I “inspire” people, but true inspiration is always rooted in reality. Inspiring is always rooted in the positive, and even in the midst of the biggest mistake there is only one reason to not use inspiration as a means, and that is if true ill will is involved. This President and the debate certainly does not fit that category, so let it be delivered by the means to inspire. In a nut shell, the reaction by many commenting right now is not rooted in inspiration. In fact the irony is that much is less inspiring then the debate was, not even close. It is not about head in the sand with me I am a very realistic person I guarantee. But excessive negativity has improperly tainted the realities of the mind of some in my opinion.

Dubya’s own history of overcoming and achievement deserves a better judgment and rendering of where we are in the campaign and what true fortunes are in store, certainly my take from what I am reading. Let us not spill all over ourselves, for on the whole we are wrong, will be proven wrong and all the chest beating may be therapeutic to us, but it unproductive and to put it kindly way out of order. I fully expect Dubya to put the shame back on the laps of those that feel shamed or disappointed by his performance. But let us not lose perspective. This is his pattern and what he has always done.

I thank God Dubya is not of the mindset being displayed by many of us here for if he were I don’t know how he could have acted and done the brave things he has done over the last couple of years. Does he deserve such damn underestimation by those that ought to know better by now? Well Samuel thinks not that for sure. Let us call it for what it is, Dubya does a lot of things in ways that make many feel uncomfortable, but the truth is it does more to display our weaknesses then his when we allow it to effect our realities improperly. In my opinion this is becoming overblown. How many really believe Dubya is going to loose all three debates? Do you really think domestic policy is his weakness? I don’t think so as most of his legislative achievements are domestic. How many tricky Iraq issues are there? Is that wishful thinking on my part? I don’t think so.

Dubya will always vacillate in quality between his performances, we all do. Has all of Roger’s work been equally successful? Is this President less consistent then you or I? I smell fear here and I understand how it affects the mind, been there done that. But fear is the only explanation. But I say it is fear of the unknown, what if he loses the second and third debate? Well I say when you don’t know you are left with two choices, fear the unknown or play the odds. I like the odds and will have to be content. It was said that, “How do I explain this to those that are shaky in support!” If they need an orator they got the wrong man. Moses was of slow speech, Aaron gave his speeches. One can be a leader and not be the Lawyer making the case. Bush is a doer not a talker. Jesse Jackson said, “I am a tree shaker not a jelly bean maker.” This President is a jelly bean maker, he makes jelly beans out of terrorists.

Many here act as if he finally may have done it, made that one mistake too many. Yet that is what it sounds like. Also all of a sudden all the things he was never good at he needs to be good at or what? Kerry and the MSM are taking him down? Right! Oh we just knew he was finally going to make the BIG MISTAKE, this must be it. Look, I could have told you he wasn’t going to knock Kerry out, so he put him self in an unnecessary tough position… not! Here is the truth, he no more under performed at the debate then he over performed at the convention. He is no more cornered now then he was before midterms when we Democrats cornered his ass in the UN only to get our heads handed back to us at midterms. What, Dubya is living on borrowed time or something?

Lastly, I admonish a little perspective please. This is only Dubya being Dubya, so let us not unwittingly become like actors in a “Twilight Zone” episode where we fight and argue about surviving a catastrophe that never was. -JSF