"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson, Author and Lecturer
April 3, 2013
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Let’s face it, there are people in our lives that drive us crazy. It could be your boss, someone in your family or, heaven help us, a president.
We compile facts and figures, dates and places. Our arguments are air-tight. We get good at it. But when we are done, what do we have?
We footnote it, we’re judge and jury, but when we are done, what do we have? Indeed, what do we do?
We make lemonade.
We put the past where it belongs. In the past. And we put ourselves where we always should have been. At the front of the line. We focus on being our very best and forget about the other guy.
What difference does it make that President Obama had another glitzy party at the White House; that Ken Ehrlich, the producer of the White House show said he was "proud of all white people. I think we really proved something,” when he led a synchronized clapping to "Respect.”
What difference does it make that the president sat there and said nothing.
Fill in the blanks where Obama (or your boss or someone in your family) has done it before, when we‘ve seen it before: Benghazi, listening to former Mexican President Calderon trash America, people in our lives disappointing us. Yada, yada, yada. Name your poison.
Instead, remember that lemonade.
Your nemesis is in reality an allegory in your life. He’s there to point out what you need to do, to make you get off your duff and be your better self.
The fact is you and I are being called upon to step up to the plate. Forget about the other guy. Hone your skills and get out there and start doing what you are clearly being called upon to do. Because in the final analysis, being right gets you nowhere if you allow the other’s guy’s flaws to distract you from your life task.
Seven hundred retired Military Special Operations professionals got out there and asked the hard questions. They submitted a letter to the U.S. Congress supporting H.Res. 36 to create a Congressional investigation into Benghazi.
They asked why Americans were left behind to die there.
Seth Smith’s mother got out there and made it clear she will not stop asking "Why is my son dead?”
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made the journey from grocer’s daughter, acquired an Oxford education in chemistry, a London law degree, a seat in Parliament, and then went on to 10 Downing Street.
Once there, she was a major force in bringing down the Iron Curtain. Key? She never compromised her principles and don’t you, either.
And Annette Funicello. Well, she just showed us what a lady of courage does for a very long time when faced with a desperate disease.
It’s time to get out there and defend America. It isn’t that they are wrong and your side is right. The question is what are you doing about it?
That’s what Dr. Ben Carson and his much-maligned fellow black conservatives are doing.
Do something about vet’s benefits being held up. Ask why vets’ college benefits are being curtailed while illegal immigrants are getting tuition breaks. Tackle
Congress’ reluctance to do their job and then work on securing term limits.
And use all the politically incorrect words and phrases.
We can righteously quote our Founding Fathers, but now is the time to put the pedal to the metal. Without action at a certain point, there wouldn’t be an America to defend and that time has come once again.
Be your best. You deserve it.
Hold the line, America.