Coach Art Shell
Jim Galloway of the Atlanta Journal Constitution has reported that Rep. Leonard Boswell of Iowa said that President Obama is prepared to be a one-term president to pass health care reform and his energy plan. Wait a second…that sounds familiar. I have been saying the same thing on this blog for a year. Because I am from a rural area, I have a country ability to read people that they don’t teach in MBA programs.
The president has the same look in his eye that Art Shell had when he because the first Black N.F.L. head coach. Shell got the Raiders when that great team was down and Obama became president of this great nation during a rough period. In press conferences, the media would ask Shell play-calling questions other head coaches received infrequently and he would say, “coach’s decision….coach’s decision” and we knew what he really wanted to say: “I have never seen a head coach scrutinized like this.” My friend Butch was famous for telling mall customer service people “waterboy..waterboy, bring me the bucket..if you didn’t want the job..you shouldn’t have took it.” Of course, I am not calling the American president or Coach Shell a “boy;” I am just saying they both look like “I don’t need this aggravation when I am clearly better than many of my predecessors and I am doing the job I was hired to do.”
On June 5, 2008, Senators Obama and Clinton had a private meeting at the home of Senator Feinstein and I told every political junkie I know that my gut told me that a deal was made. The deal would be that Obama would push the reforms he felt necessary to help America and if the nation was not pleased with his service, he would not run again..clearing the way for Clinton in 2012. We should remember that Senator McCain also considered running as a reform-minded one-termer. If I was president and the nation seemed unhappy with my performance, I wouldn’t give a long face speech like LBJ. I would just tell them “you can have this…I’ m out…peace.”
Of course, this topic is moot because the “change” initiatives will hopefully work.
Project Logic Ga 
President Obama has already sacrificed any hope of reelection he had by trying to force his ideas of Cap & Trade and Socialized Medicine down America’s collective throats. He woke up the Conservatives in a way that McCain never managed to, even with his choosing of Gov. Palin as his running-mate.
…And he will fail to get them passed in anything close to the forms they’re in right now – or they’ll be a party flip in the Congress as well.
It’s sad really. If Obama had moved slower and controlled the Liberals in Congress better, real reform might have happened. Instead he chose the “we won, so shut up” route and it’s blowing up in his face.
Now my greater fear is the reactionary nature of the electorate. Nixon gave us Carter; Carter gave of Reagan; GWB gave us Obama – each shift a bit more polarized than the last. What will a failed Obama give us?
Just my opinion of course
How many zeroes are there in a trillion?Also, Is there a number higher than a trillion?
What’s a trillion dollars?
A trillion dollars = $1,000,000,000,000.
That’s 12 zeroes to the left of the decimal point. A trillion is a million million dollars.
The cardinal number equal to 1012.
http://100777.com/node/455
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
NPR interview about a trillion
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18801012
What’s next?
Zillion: an indeterminately large number.