Time will tell
I like 46% of the Country am disappointed in the election results; however, despite my many doubts and misgivings, I sincerely hope I've got it all wrong and that Barack Obama turns out to be our greatest president -- time will tell. Most importantly, thank God the election season is finally over, the barrage of unrealistic campaign promises is over, and we can now focus on solving some real issues. To John Fishel & Company, two famous quotes seem quite appropriate:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
You Sir are living proof that we in the USA do not allow the clueless to starve and a man who "...has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself!"
Gregory W. Lewis, Colonel, USAF (ret)
Manchester
Colonel,
I read your first quote (by Teddy Roosevelt) from the Naval Academy Plebe handbook. I later used it when I taught leadership to Marine recruits. Thanks for the reminder and timely advice! I too want Senator Obama to be a great president, but have many doubts. Real leaders are hard to find.