Our Drunk Driver President
By Richard Oxenburg
What is the appropriate way to feel about a serial drunk driver who has plowed his car into others on the highway, killing and maiming many, but who is now in the hospital himself,...
being treated for the damage his own car crash has caused him?
Is sympathy appropriate, given all the suffering he is experiencing? Is rage appropriate, given all the suffering he has caused? Might one feel some glee that "karma" has caught up with him?...
Shall we hope that this will be for him a learning moment? Shall we wish that he reap all the misery he has sown?
Perhaps there is no simple, single, answer. Perhaps all these feelings are appropriate to some degree, and in their own ways.
Last night, on CNN, Bob Woodward...
seemed almost to be lecturing the nation that now is a time to put rancor aside and come together in good wishes for the president. Joe Biden, out of respect, has pulled all his negative ads from the airways....
Even Michael Moore spoke of how our hearts must go out to the president in his struggles, even when so many have been his victims.
For my part, I cannot forget that as he sits in the presidential suite at Walter Reed hospital, receiving the best medical care the world...
has to offer, his lawyers are busy preparing a Supreme Court case that will take health insurance away from thousands.
I cannot forget his mockery of Joe Biden's mask wearing, not because of the disrespect it showed for Biden,..
but because of the lethal example it set for the country.
I cannot forget his efforts to bully the CDC into modifying its reports to minimize the dangers of the virus.
And so much more.
So I'm not exactly sure how to feel about the president's hospitalization...
I'm not sure I can altogether put rancor aside. Rancor has its place. At the same time, I can feel with Woodward, and Biden, and Moore, that we should wish the president, and any sick person, well.
Perhaps it is appropriate to feel a little bit of both.....
One thing we can be sure of, though: We'll want to take his car keys away from him.
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