One thought ran through my mind when I read the recent quote from Obama about the challenges facing this country and why things haven't gone his way. First, read what he said:
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again," Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. "But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck." Obama listed three events overseas -- the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises -- which set the economy back.
"All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
At Boone High School I had a teacher/coach named Laurence Paar. He was tough. I respected him but I'll be honest when I say I feared him, too. He told me one thing that has stuck with me these forty-seven years and it applies to the Obama quote. "MJ", he'd say, "excuses only satisfy the ones who give them" R.I.P. Coach Paar.
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