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Slopey, you are correct. Better is better. More often, maybe not so much, if it is meaningless. You phrased that better than I did in the post I just wrote before reading yours.
Benson, I’m sorry, but I totally don’t see it from your viewpoint and WILL NOT give this woman any ‘fairness’, regardless of the ‘lights’.
She is responsible for the safety of that child; whether her own or someone else’s. In my eyes there is NO excuse as to her running across an avenue, which btw is a highway alternate; cars are driving on it at 30, 40, 50 miles an hour. I wasn’t the only car on the road or the only one that had to break suddenly.
If she can run across while the light is red, then she can run across while the light is green. If the light changes before she makes it across at least the cars are stopped.
No, jessi, I don’t, thank goodness. I block as much of that stuff as I can.
I think he needs to get back to old fashioned presidential politicing – getting out there, especially in areas that are in great need, and pressing the flesh, going to town hall meetings, and meeting people. Of course that doesn’t give someone a job, or put food on their table, but it still is a great symbolic gesture, and good pr. Part of his “problem” is perception. He is a wonk and a workaholic. He is in the situation room working to solve these problems, but no one sees that. One of the successful things about Reagan was his personableness, he was always PERCEIVED to be one of the people. (Real or faux, all good politicians and leaders have to at least appear real folks, and then deliver on that perception, but that’s another long drawn out discussion) Obama needs to be just as cerebral, but also accessible.
The cynic in me has snarky remarks at the ready with the best of them, but the realist in me realizes that HOW you do something in politics is almost as important as WHAT you do. That’s why standing in a flight suit in front of a “mission accomplished” banner was a strong image, too bad wrong mission, wrong time, and mission not accomplished. It backfired big time. It COULD have been the defining moment of Bush’s legacy for the right reasons, not the wrong ones.
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The lights (at least near 3rd St. and 4th Ave) do not allow one enough time to cross the Ave.
yeah i’ve noticed that too… it’s green forever for the cars, but only red for like 2 seconds!!! hahahah. people just need to hustle. it’s definitely do-able. but i can see how crossing would be really hard for someone who has to cross that street doing the Snappi Hobble.
Slopey, you are correct. Better is better. More often, maybe not so much, if it is meaningless. You phrased that better than I did in the post I just wrote before reading yours.
Benson, I’m sorry, but I totally don’t see it from your viewpoint and WILL NOT give this woman any ‘fairness’, regardless of the ‘lights’.
She is responsible for the safety of that child; whether her own or someone else’s. In my eyes there is NO excuse as to her running across an avenue, which btw is a highway alternate; cars are driving on it at 30, 40, 50 miles an hour. I wasn’t the only car on the road or the only one that had to break suddenly.
If she can run across while the light is red, then she can run across while the light is green. If the light changes before she makes it across at least the cars are stopped.
No, jessi, I don’t, thank goodness. I block as much of that stuff as I can.
I think he needs to get back to old fashioned presidential politicing – getting out there, especially in areas that are in great need, and pressing the flesh, going to town hall meetings, and meeting people. Of course that doesn’t give someone a job, or put food on their table, but it still is a great symbolic gesture, and good pr. Part of his “problem” is perception. He is a wonk and a workaholic. He is in the situation room working to solve these problems, but no one sees that. One of the successful things about Reagan was his personableness, he was always PERCEIVED to be one of the people. (Real or faux, all good politicians and leaders have to at least appear real folks, and then deliver on that perception, but that’s another long drawn out discussion) Obama needs to be just as cerebral, but also accessible.
The cynic in me has snarky remarks at the ready with the best of them, but the realist in me realizes that HOW you do something in politics is almost as important as WHAT you do. That’s why standing in a flight suit in front of a “mission accomplished” banner was a strong image, too bad wrong mission, wrong time, and mission not accomplished. It backfired big time. It COULD have been the defining moment of Bush’s legacy for the right reasons, not the wrong ones.
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The lights (at least near 3rd St. and 4th Ave) do not allow one enough time to cross the Ave.
yeah i’ve noticed that too… it’s green forever for the cars, but only red for like 2 seconds!!! hahahah. people just need to hustle. it’s definitely do-able. but i can see how crossing would be really hard for someone who has to cross that street doing the Snappi Hobble.
*rob*
“Benson, I’m happy to forward all future correspondence. I get some from John Kerry, too!”
Can’t you quit these people jessi?
“I thought you’d like that one CGar ;-)”
Indeed, I did, ET. And no one manually cranks it quite as well as you do.
Benson, I’m happy to forward all future correspondence. I get some from John Kerry, too!
“Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing my fighting my friend.”
ET, those are all really great lyrics that you posted, especially the Beatles. That’s certainly my philosophy.
I thought you’d like that one CGar 😉