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Are we getting the leadership we deserve?x09 -- October 2005
Look around at our situation in this country and think about the passage in the Bible in which Samuel warned the people about what would happen when they insisted on having a King. If you are not familiar with it, read First Samuel Chapter 8 and see how similar that situation was to ours today. We have a leader who is doing the same things that Samuel told his people would happen if they rejected God’s leadership for man’s leadership. In other words, Samuel told the people they would get the leadership they deserved. Seems we are in that predicament today with George Bush and his buddies. To begin with, when Bush was first discussed, at least in public, as a viable candidate for President, most of us thought, “What?” “Who?” Many of us wondered, “How in the world do the Republicans think this lightweight could be elected to the highest office in the land?” Talk about a long shot, at least that’s what we thought; this guy was the most unlikely person to be nominated by the GOP. Boy, were we wrong!x0Dx0A x0Dx0ADespite his shallow and shadowy reputation, his lack of management acumen, his inability to lead, and his outright demonstration of a lack of concern and “compassion” for the James Byrd family, he “won” his party’s nomination, beating out John McCain no less! Then we saw his debating skills, his communication skills, and his obvious lack of knowledge of world affairs. But still he moved up in the polls. And then the dénouement, contrary to what we always believed to be the standard procedure of the President selecting Supreme Court Justices, we saw a complete reversal when the Supreme Court Justices selected our President!x0Dx0A x0Dx0AAll of the indications leading up to Bush’s “selection” point to the fact that we get the leadership we deserve. There is no way we should have the likes of George Bush as our President, but we do. To add insult to injury, we “elected” him again, for another four years, to continue his reign of economic terror on Black people, the elderly, and poor people, Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 notwithstanding.x0Dx0A x0Dx0ATo prove my point even further, we see an intelligent person like Condoleezza Rice supporting and defending George Bush. She has to know how ignorant he is and how limited he is; she has to see the corruption in his administration, yet she stands at his side like one of Hitler’s storm troopers, knowing that what he is doing is wrong but willing, nonetheless, to “follow orders.” I wonder what she really thinks about her boss. Maybe she will write a tell-all book like George Stephanopoulos and Dick Morris did about Clinton. x0Dx0A x0Dx0AThere is more proof-positive that despite what we thought, what we did, or how much we protested, Bush would be President. Think about the mind-boggling support he has from some of our most prominent Black ministers, and not just because of his “faith-based initiative” but because they say Bush is a Christian, he has high moral values, he is against abortion and gay marriage, two sins those ministers cannot tolerate in their President; but they can tolerate lying, murder, stealing, and coveting another man’s resources. x0Dx0A x0Dx0AWhat we are seeing has to be prophecy; there is no rational way it could be happening otherwise. No way!x0Dx0A x0Dx0ANow, at a time when Bush has the lowest ratings in history, having demonstrated a total disdain for some of the laws he swore to uphold, having shown the people of this country that he is obviously not equipped to be President, having run the country from surpluses to deficits, increasing the debt exponentially, and presiding over a stupid war that virtually everyone knows should not have been started, even after all of that – and more – Bush has not been impeached nor has our vaunted Congressional Black Caucus drawn up papers calling for his impeachment. This simply has to be divine providence; we are truly getting the leadership we deserve.x0Dx0A x0Dx0AI ran across a quote attributed to Thomas Sowell; I don’t know if he said it, but it’s very appropriate when you think about the leadership we have in George Bush. “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” That is exactly what we have done and we are paying dearly for having done so. Bush says, “Bring ‘em on!” and a thousand Americans die. Bush is now saying, “The only way the terrorists can win is if ‘we’ lose ‘our’ nerve and abandon the mission.” “We”? “Our nerve”? He struts his stuff while others take the fall. x0Dx0A x0Dx0ADespite the majority of the people telling him he is wrong on the war, wrong on the economy, and wrong on leadership, despite putting his cronies into positions they have absolutely no place being (Remember him saying, “You’re doing a fine job, Brownie”?), despite his failure to come down hard on his family’s buddies, the Saudis and Kuwaitis, after American lives were lost defending their oil, and despite his total incompetence, his constant deer-in-the-headlights stare and his “What, me worry?” Alfred P. Newman caricature, George Bush is our leader. It just has to be the fulfillment of prophecy. x0Dx0A x0Dx0ATo give you some hope, I close with another quote. Also, as the following passage suggests, beware of the “hidden hand,” and in this case, that hand is firmly implanted in George Bush’s back as he sits on the knee of the puppet-master. “If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others still.” Ecclesiastes 5:8x0Dx0A
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