Obama: Balloon Full of Air

Obama: Balloon Full of Air

Now the president is on the crusade, demanding Aung San Suu Kyi, be released in Burma, or else! What can he do with his demand, nothing, just like North Korea, when is he going to learn, they don’t care about sanctions, when it comes to trying to control their movements. So what’s he do, after they have fired missiles, nothing? And Iran, what’s he doing? They now got nuclear capability—nothing? Is the world safer today than when he took office? No. How about Cuba and our little prison over there, that has all the public opinion against us, and all those countries saying shut the doors, but when it comes to taking the killers, they shut their mouths. He wants to put them on the streets of America. And he gave everyone $250-dollars, that was nice, but Bush gave $600, he seems to run short at ever corner. And where are the troops, should they not be home as he promised? Nope. They are taking from Peter and giving to Paul. Nothing has changed. He’s given so much free money away to the rich corporations, that the executives can live like kings around the world. And the dollar isn’t much better than when Bush was in office, and employment is not better, getting worse, as it is in China, Europe, and Japan and we can add Russia. Hang in there he says, he’s on his way. He’s for abortion and all these other things Christians are against, and he wants us to think he is a Christian, when he’s against Christian concepts. I want to like this guy, but I find he is nothing but a balloon full of air that would have done anything to get into office.
And he wants the Israel to live in peace with the Arabs, and the Arabs want to destroy Israel, as indicated in their code, or credo; but yet, he wants to shove it down their throats, the only person that wants peace there is the Western Empires, for the oil, nobody else does.
Well, he learned one thing, it is not so easy to run a country, as he told everyone he was going to do, and in the process cut president Bush down, and now ends up doing the same thing, and eliminates the freedom to of checks and balances in the government. (5-26-2009)

About Writing War Stories (an upfront article)

About Writing War Stories


I have written many war stories, to include the Korean War, having a close friend in that war. Also World War One, the one my grandfather was in, and World War Two, the one my Uncle Frank died in, and Uncle Wally was a POW in. I even wrote a few things about the civil war, but mostly the Vietnam War, the one I participated in, in 1971. My son Cody was involved with the Bosnia war in the early 1990s; I have yet to write about that. War participation, seems to run in the family, as much as it runs in the blood of the United States, always sticking their nose in to someone else’s business. It would do well if we stop fighting for everyone else, and just for our own country; in that case, our youth would have time to blossom.
Anyhow, I thought about this article for a very long while, if indeed I should write it, and never got around to it, wasn’t sure how to write it, and then I figured, do it the way you usually do, be up front, it is just your opinion, and we all have them, right?
Here is what I got to say about writing war stories: a writer who has the experience of war under his belt has one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write about. Sincerely those writers who have not seen it are jealous, and have tried to make it seem unimportant to others, if not abnormal or a negative as a subject, while in reality it is part of our global history, a fabric of the human race (like it or not, right or wrong), and perhaps irreplaceable and something they have missed.
You don’t forget war, if you’re in it. You remember near everything, even the songs being played, and replayed, and the smells, and the heaviness of the rain, and the championship boxing matches going on back home, the heat and the big bull mosquitoes, and the incoming rockets, their sounds and so forth and so on.
Writes are often times made by being sent to wars: such as Hemingway, Manning, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, and so on.
There are no real great writers today, worth quoting, and surely no war writers worth their salt, I’ve read.

5-9-2009