If you could say anything to Obama....

DeWayneTN · Postby **DeWayneTN** » January 21st, 2009, 4:31 am

If he were seeking your personal advice, what would it be?

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » January 21st, 2009, 4:36 am

Get new friends.

Postby **Shellie** » January 21st, 2009, 5:16 am

"There's no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog."

KBevangelist · Postby **KBevangelist** » January 21st, 2009, 5:26 am

That is funny Macuser

KB

one love · Postby **one love** » January 21st, 2009, 5:37 am

who will clean up this mess?????? I cant download the pic here at work sorry, if someone else can go to drudge... :lol:

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » January 21st, 2009, 6:21 am

Resign now ....while they still love you.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » January 21st, 2009, 6:37 am

1. Keep Rick Warren on your speed dial
2. Fix the BCS mess - we want a play off

Honestly, I wish him the best. I hope his time in office is successful.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » January 21st, 2009, 7:37 am

It really is about the size of government.

Tim Elston · Postby **Tim Elston** » January 21st, 2009, 5:46 pm

I'd ask him for an hour to sit down together and discuss abortion. I'd like to hear his rationale in light of the questions I would have for him and see if I could express my concerns in a way that would resonate with his heart and mind.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » January 22nd, 2009, 8:05 am

Tim,

Not to diminish your intelligence, and especially not to extole his, but I dare say that if Dr. Rick Warren could only get him to say, "it's above my paygrade" you would not likely "resonate" with him either.

He is soooooooo in debt to that far left crowd, he can't see it any other way.....except for maybe two times.....

How can he look at his two beautiful little girls and think that other children have no right to life?

I would like to hear your questions that you would ask. I am always ready to learn ....especially about this subject. I am passionate about abortion.
This time ....no sarcasm....I am sincerely interested in what your thoughts are.

Tim Elston · Postby **Tim Elston** » January 22nd, 2009, 11:26 am

Dr. Ron wrote:I would like to hear your questions that you would ask. I am always ready to learn ....especially about this subject. I am passionate about abortion.
This time ....no sarcasm....I am sincerely interested in what your thoughts are.

Ron, to answer this I'm bringing over a couple of your comments from the "got no Gitmo" thread:

Ron wrote:However, he did state in his book that in the event of a major decision, he would side with the Muslims.

Ron wrote:I didn't read what I wrote on the internet.....I took my position from the same passage of the book.....you and I just interpret it differently. I think it means exactly what I think it does.

Your exchange with Gary here about Obama's excerpt points up a response I was mulling about how to respond to your question about abortion in the "what would you tell Obama" thread. If the above is how you honestly interpret the Obama passage that Gary quoted, it's an example of how you and I process information nearly entirely incompatibly and how it would be somewhat pointless to attempt to convey to you what tack I might take on abortion in a one-on-one with Obama.

In Obama I sense a mind that processes information and considers ideas similarly to how I do. He is much smarter than I am, but we approach the processing of information similarly. I would not enter a meeting with him with a pre-packaged spiel about my views of abortion. My desire would be actually to listen to his ideas on the subject and then interact with them in a way that showed an understanding of and sympathy with the logic of his ideas but that brought extended logic and pathos to bear on his position.

I wouldn't even want to try to convey to you how such a conversation might go. You are a completely different audience, with a completely different style of information processing. I find your reactions to information I give to be rather frustrating and unproductive. You have expressed some consternation (or whatever you need to call it, if you even can acknowledge it) at my mental processes, so you and I do well even to keep on the same planet with each other. I think that Obama and I could have a more insightful and productive conversation about something even that we strongly disagree on than you and I can have on something we strongly agree on.

That's just the nature of idiosyncratic communication and disparate psychology in the real world we live in.

Jude 2