What He Said

[bzdchris]

We generally watch CBS Sunday Morning because it's interesting, and sometimes Face the Nation, because I'm deeply in love with Bob Schieffer. Great newsman, courageous enough to ask real questions and demand real answers. This is what he had to say this past Sunday:

"Seeing the television pictures of that crowd in Grant Park that had come to

Comments

[wyld_dandelyon]

I also think Obama knows that the people he needs to win over now are the people who were made afraid of him by the Republican's outrageous rhetoric, and the commercials we saw over and over showing him as a pop superstar, not a working leader. I think he deliberately chose to do a speech that would be comforting, that would show him as a level-headed leader and down-to-earth and ready to get to work.

I suspect showing hard work and family values (kids, you get your dog) and being reliable and conscientious instead of rousing and inspirational may help keep people from getting fired-up enough to try to kill him.

I would have loved a rousing speech, but I'd rather have him in office for his whole term, and trusted enough by enough Americans to get elected to a second term.

[gardenpriestess]

I also have that fear of the second shoe dropping . . .

There's a simple magical transformation for those thoughts. Whenever they come into your mind, whenever the images that come with them appear, immediately superimpose the international "no" sign (the red circle with the diagonal bar through it) over them. Visualize the action you fear as forbidden, as not happening.

There's power in shared thought - so let's give the power to the outcome we want and not the outcome we fear!