"The president isn’t the Father of the Nation or even the First Citizen of the Republic — he’s just the CEO of the national government on a four-year contract."That came from Mark Krikorian, over at National Review Online. That is my favorite line of the SOTU speech and the related babblings and scribblings, because it really does get to the heart of how I've been moving in my view of governance in general. This is especially true the farther away I get from the hero worship of Presidents bequeathed to me by my parents and grandparents, who had gone through three big wars and the Depression,...
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2011/01/the_state_of_th.html
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Jan 26 2011, 04:30 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..