Posted by: John Coonen
on Feb 24, 2009
Let's suspend reality for a moment, take ourselves out of the political mêlée and economic stress. Let's gently place ourselves into the future. Imagine the year is 2020, and we're looking back at this economic debacle to figure out what caused it. Let's look at it with perfect "2020 hindsight," as it were.
Posted by: John Coonen
on Feb 21, 2009
After he was elected and before he was sworn in, I made peace with the fact that a velvet-tongued elitist who lacked the courage to vote anything but "present" on several critical bills (in order to conceal his true stripes) was going to be our Commander In Chief. I told my wife and my friends here in my home state of Illinois that I would bite my own tongue and stay open minded to the possibility that the "change" promised by "Present Obama" could actually be of value to Americans, desperately in need of a unifying leader.
