The Mad Sailor

President Obama just took the oath of office and gave his speech. Lets take a moment to reflect on history.
George, what can I say? I’m glad to see the back of you. I don’t think ill of you. I don’t think you were evil, just inept.

Barack, I wish you well. I doubt that God could live up to the hype the news media has saddled you with. We all know you have a difficult task ahead. We all know you are just the president. You don’t really have the power to fix things without the help of congress. That’s kinda’ like having the inmates run the asylum.

During these precedings Tom Brokaw just had to make a dumb remark. He said the Woodstock generation, my generation, failed to change the world as promised. Well bonehead, as Barack himself put it 60 years ago his father couldn’t get served in a restaurant, now Barack is president. Is that a change? Who do you think did that? I was drafted in 1968, but that doesn’t happen anymore, does it? Young men no longer have to worry about military service unless that is what they want. Should we talk about women in the military? Is that change? Who did that?

There’s more bonehead, 60’s years ago a young girl’s future was measured by the husband she landed. Her best “job” prospect was to be a secretary. Today we are witnessing the second female Secretary of State and a female speaker of the house. If Obama didn’t win the democratic primary the 44′th president might well have been a woman. Is that a change? Who did that?

And hey Brokaw, in science, did you forget the digital revolution, the personal computer, the Internet. Is that a change? Who?? When I was born TV was black and white and about 9 inches in diameter. Today it’s color, digital and as big as you can afford.  Change? Then there’s the space station, Mars expeditions and so much more.  Change!? Who did that?? Medicine now has treatments and cures for diseases my father’s doctor didn’t even know existed. Change!!Hell Yes!! And we did it, bonehead!

Leave it to a reporter to live through the greatest Renaissance in the history of mankind and totally miss it!