EDITORIAL NOTE: This epistle is being posted, not as an attack on Barack Obama, but as a WORD OF CAUTION to be very suspicious of any media effort to stampede us into doing anything without thinking.
Thomas D. Segel
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Can America Afford Another Failed Marriage?
500 words
Harlingen, Texas, July 8, 2008: When I view what is happening to
America during this presidential election campaign, I can’t help but
feel our country is headed toward one of those failed marriages we all
know occur all too frequently.
Men and women, the world over, have become the wreckage of such
relationships. Most of you know what happens. One person tries to
woo another person. He or she says all the right things, makes all
the right moves, and has a song to sing that is filled with all the
right lyrics. This person presents a wonderful appearance and the
sweetest sounding of voices. The other party is deeply smitten.
Now for the individual who is so deeply charmed by this courtship, all
who voice opposition or concern become harsh and unbelievable. It is
only after the marriage vows and a short honeymoon have taken place
that reality starts to rear its ugly head.
Soon that innocent partner starts to look at things below the surface
in the character and conduct of this new mate. The right things are
no longer spoken. The right moves have become distorted. That sweet
song now resounds flatly and that long admired appearance and
wonderful voice have disappeared forever.
Barrak Obama’s courtship of America strikes me as one of those
relationships many of us used to warn our friends and loved ones to
turn away from before they were severely burned.
It also brings back to mind that most of those warnings went
unheeded. The wooed party embraced with affection the one initiating
the courtship. For all too many who entered into such dangerous
relationships the end result was extreme pain, financial ruin,
emotional scars, lost faith, and tattered lives that would take
decades to repair. It was only after everything had crashed and
burned that they turned back to you with the words, “I should have
listened to what you were telling me.”
By now all of America knows Obama is courting it. The things any
country or any person in a new relationship do not know about him now
become an important, if not the supreme issue. Is everything he says
the truth, or is he presenting those right words and right moves just
to woo the country? Is his song really sweet, or is it the same old
lies coated in a gloss to capture our hearts? Will accepting him and
what he says result in all of us being faced with a fraud and a
charlatan dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit?
Failed marriages are filled with the pain of cheating, falsehoods,
frauds and philandering. Some even experience the trauma of multiple
crimes. Many of these relationships have reeked such havoc on the
other partner that recovery was next to impossible. At this
precarious time in our country, can America really afford another
failed marriage?
Semper Fidelis
Tom Segel
tomsegel@sbcglobal.net
2 comments:
This is outstanding. It's about time someone comes out and tells it like it is. Thanks to Tom Segel and Col. Harry Riley. America better wake up and fast.
My spider sense tells me that this is the writing style of Leo.:-) When I was in grade school and learned how to read newspapers, I got my first lesson in not trusting the news media's ability to judge character. When Castro took over Cuba, they made him sound like a great liberator. But it didn't take long before he showed he was even worse than Batista. Maybe it was those firing squads, or the fact that people were leaving the island by the thousands.
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