A bit of conversation...

Texas Republican:

"How can you liberals be so blind to what Clinton did while in office. (Lying to Congress), but then what President hasn't lied about something? You will have to admit some of his personal life antics aren't exactly what one would expect in a Chief Executive. It did sort of detract from other things."

California Democrat:
Bill Clinton went to work every day carrying the weight of the free world on his shoulders. He never forgot why he was elected or who put him there, and he worked for the good of the American people--all the American people. Even when the special counsel was filing enough paper to fill the Grand Canyon, Clinton put his head down and left the court battles to his legal staff while he carried on the business of the American people.

We thrived under his leadership. People had jobs, a little bit of security, a lot of hope. Not only did our government have a surplus, but so did many families, enough so that discretionary spending wasn't just something economists talked about -- we could actually go to the malls and practice it. Businesses flourished. People were going and doing and buying.

Contrast that to what we have in office now. A president who doesn't know and doesn't care how he got there -- only that he carries the title and all the power. And while economists are warning that the mounting national debt is going to throw our economy for a loop sooner rather than later, and while the working poor in America are slowly going under inch by inch, and while good men and women are dying in an uncalled for foreign occupation, our present president berates people and situations right and left, bestows belittling nicknames on friend and foe alike, and takes off to the ranch every chance he gets to bike ride, play golf and cut brush, because it's important that his life have balance.

It's very hard to compare a redwood to a tumbleweed, the one being stately and looked up to while the other rolls whichever way the wind blows and is just sort of a prickly little mound that doesn't amount to much. And while the one has made much of retirement and used the time to travel the world and help people unable to help themselves, I can't imagine that the tumbleweed will do anything more than laze about playing golf or biking and collecting his retirement dollars. Once again, not amounting to much.

Personal lives aside, just who should Americans be prouder of?
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