Credit......

These "ramblings" are exactly what my little blog's name proclaims.....Personal Glimpses. Just my personal thoughts on stuff. Usually I think about small moments or memories or share something from a book or conversation with friends. Last night I was away for several hours replaying such a conversation in my brain. Yawn.

We enjoyed an almost weekly zoom game night with friends on the east coast. We've known each other for a long, long time and shared many happy visits, trips and memories. They are very well educated and much more involved in the political process than we are. They live in NH and go to as many of the town meetings that begin a presidential campaign as they can. Years ago our friend said, "I go to as many as I can prepared with a question. If I get the chance to ask it I do. And I figure, if I go to enough of the meetings, at some point I am standing in the room with a future president." (Or something to that effect!) I admire their thought process and involvement in the democratic process. I value their continued friendship.

Last night we ended our visit with just a few political comments....and they are not "Trumpers". But the comment that had me up in the night was my friend saying "You can't blame one person....." as we discussed current events in America.

So maybe I will change the slant a little. I won't blame....I will give credit where credit is due from my point of view. I will credit 45 with choosing people with little or no relevant experience to fill cabinet posts. I will credit 45 with a revolving door of advisors and staff....many of whom leave shaking their heads and later sharing just how dysfunctional the administration was while they tried to "serve". I will credit 45 with leading a disastrous response to the COVID 19 pandemic in our country. I will credit 45 with every sneer, and lie and name-calling episode that he falls back on over and over and over. I will credit 45 with being the least presidential President who has served during my lifetime. I will credit 45 with changing America's standing in the world.....damaging our relationship with other countries. I will credit 45 with fanning the flames of existing racial problems and "helping" to make them even worse. I will give 45 credit for bending the rules and breaking some laws....and appointing unqualified family members to important advisory positions. I will give 45 credit for spending hundreds of thousands of tax-payer dollars on golf games (the ones he said he'd be way too busy to play.) Well....I could go on, but you get my very personal drift.

I believe "the buck stops here" applies to America's President. Is a president personally responsible for every action by every citizen....of course not. But he leads our country and sets the tone. 

So I won't "blame" 45 today.....I give him the credit he deserves.

Again....from a personal perspective.