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2009
Soap Box Archives Fourth Quarter Imagine that you're a college football player, a quarterback at a small college in the Midwest and suppose you went to sleep one night and suddenly woke up to find yourself quarterbacking in the Super Bowl, with your team down by fourteen points in the last ten minutes of the fourth quarter. Your team holds the opposing team to a three and out, but the ball is on the 30-yard line, 70 yards from pay dirt and all of a sudden you're running on the field with your offense never having played in the big leagues, never having faced the awesome power of an NFL defense. And suppose you look around you and see that you're behind the second team offensive line, mostly rookies who are in just as bigger quandary as yourself. Suppose you try a couple of plays and the defensive players come across the line and cream you for a ten-yard loss every time the ball is snapped. Suppose that by a penalty you get a fresh set of downs and run more plays which all fail miserably. The line can't protect you, they don't know what they're doing, and you have never seen such a fierce defense. You start to panic. It's fourth down and twenty, the crowd is calling for you to go for it, the clock has five minutes left on it and your offensive line looks as if they'd been run over by a steam roller. Do you shoot all your bullets at once and try another super risky trick play and maybe lose another ten yards and possession of the ball, or do you punt and save a chance, no matter how slim, to come back and win the game? If you haven't guessed yet, this is an analogy comparing President Obama and his team of rookies to a bewildered football team of newcomers thrust into the biggest game of all and totally bewildered by what actually goes on in the big leagues. Obama rushes from one bit of socialism to another, never quite finishing anything, losing ten yards a play and never willing to admit it. I have serious doubts about an administration that sends terrorists on paid vacations in Bermuda and a government that hasn't been able to learn how to run the post office in two hundred and thirty-three years, and now they are trying to run automobile companies and banks. I have a problem with a president who wants to take the world's greatest healthcare system and turn it into a bureaucratic nightmare with people who know nothing about medicine deciding what treatment Americans can have and when they are going to get it, a system that has never worked and never will. I simply can't trust a president who has broken his promises time after time and who is spending America into a financial third world scenario, who continues to blame all the bad plays he makes on those who played the game before him. So, he inherited a deficit score. It's his responsibility to turn the game around, to look forward, not backward, to stop whining and accept the responsibility he has assumed. It's also time to change the play calling, the ones he's tried so far have only lost ground and will continue to do so for generations to come. It's time to cut your losses and punt, Mr. Obama. To save a chance for somebody else to win the game, or the first thing we know, they're going to be sweeping out the stadium and the United States of America right along with the rest of the stuff the world has discarded. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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