IT AIN'T HORSHOES - AND IT AIN'T A CROQUET EITHER - Just a Minute Radio for Tuesday 110816

Whew! We had a cool (er) day yesterday. ‘Twas downright pleasant ‘round here. In fact in air conditioning… I needed a long-sleeved shirt – it was more than imagination that fall is in the air.

 

Well, actually the large K-12 Christian school at our church has been doing faculty & staff ‘in-service’ training for some time now. And you can just feel the intellectual gears starting to turn.  (How come I never noticed that happening to me?)

 

Anyway – there are lessons to be learned – and this past weekend is a good example.

 

You just can’t go out there and stand on a stump and convince people ‘you know best.’  Actually that’s the line that was swallowed – hook line and sinker – just a little more than four years ago. To pick up on one of President Obama’s lines from that era – time for change – I sort of feel that way myself… and I hoping and praying – we’re in the beginning of causing it to happen.

 

What’s difficult is in seeing just how and when it’s going to happen. [Here comes an ‘old codger’s’ tale.] I was in the middle of my 16^th year when President Harry S. Truman ran for President against Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York – a dapper Republican. I was not as deeply interested in politics as I guess is the case now. I did not see how Mr. Truman, who was an erstwhile ‘haberdasher’ in Missouri, who had by one fluke after another been selected as the running mate to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Even though he was a Democrat Senator running with a Democrat President, when FDR was suddenly stricken and died in his summer retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, Vice President Truman hardly knew where the front door of the White House was.

 

So…when he became President and later had to run for re-election – well you should read David McCullough’s book on Mr. Truman for a fascinating story. The most famous newspaper headline in my time was the one printed by the Chicago Tribune -- On the morning after the ‘48 presidential election, the Chicago  Tribune's headline read "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."  The Republicans, polls, newspapers, political writers, and a bunch of Democrats had expected it. But it was the largest political upset in U.S. history, When President Truman surprised everyone by winning the 1948 election. He traveled 32,000 miles by train and made 355 speeches from the rear platform over six weeks.  

 

So don’t put too much credence in predictions – even mine. (J) We have a LOT of lessons awaiting us in the coming 15 months. Stick with us.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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IT AIN’T HORSHOES – AND IT AIN’T CROQUET EITHER

            Just a Minute:  Everybody agrees Ms. Bachmann pulled a coup in the Iowa straw poll – but no Oscars or blue ribbons yet. 

          Problem #1 Ron Paul… nobody thinks he CAN win… but he came within 152 votes of Meeting Mrs. Bachmann’s high hurdle. Predictions are: Mr. Paul will be a major GOP migraine. I see it likely.

          Gov. Perry isn’t universally liked. He’s already demonstrated “Texas Swagger” making Charleston kick-off poor style. The resulting speculation is Perry and Bachmann will beat each other into Texas dirt -- leaving the largely untouched but unelectable Romney – who’ll likely get the nomination but lose the election to a labor-backed President rolling out a ‘media mop-up’ on Romney using buckets of money -- Air Force One, and leaving Mr. & Mrs. America slogging through a worsening fiscal swamp while economic bombs fall all around.

          Not a pretty prospect – but gaining traction. Sorry to be the bearer of bad prospects. What can be done? As always my first choice is prayer! God still works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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