STOP IT!!!

I was watching a show just a while ago, and I had to respond to something the commentator said because it made me angry. Here is a copy of the email I sent to him:

I was watching your response to the speeches during the inauguration, and I heard you say that you hope the President succeeds. Then why did you follow it up by a negative comment about the end of a prayer made by someone else, with the implication being that somehow Obama sanctioned the comment?

I didn't vote for the man, and I still have a great MANY reservations about the job he'll do, but can't we give him at least a week or a month before we start psycho-analyzing every comment that is made by him or those around him. Stop looking for ways to criticize! This is the very thing we got upset with the left for when they did it to George Bush. Have you decided 'if you can't lick 'em, join 'em?' STOP IT!!!

I agree with you a good deal of the time, but this whole bickering thing has to end, and we should take a cue from our gracious outgoing President and be gracious in the face of whatever comes over the next weeks and months. Whatever side wins deserves to celebrate...and if there is a few big mouths in the group that say things that are offensive, we serve this country far better by looking past the comment, and standing for solutions rather than joining the fray. If conservative people can't take it, they need to remember that our forefathers had much greater obstacles to deal with, and we have very little to complain about. This is essentially sticks-and-stones...and as I tell my husband, answering back in a snide way is only useful in soothing our vanity...and it really doesn’t make us look 'better'.

So let's all adopt the philosophy 'if you can't say something nice...don't speak....YOU'RE NOT HELPING!!!'

A viewer who has had ENOUGH of partisan politics!!!

We need to do what it right, not what 'feels good;' and it starts by being willing to ignore people who are ungracious and work to find common ground. There is a way to bend but not break, and we never look more weak than when we are in a position of lesser power but trying to act like the one with all the 'right' on our side.

I have a dream that one day we will all stop acting like spoiled children...and learn to respect each other...not out of shared views but out of a respect for the right of each man to think and act on what he/she thinks is right. And I am losing patience with anyone who thinks they know it all. We cannot afford to live so isolated in our beliefs anymore. We need to be willing to be ignored and not give up or resort to being partly responsible for the breakdown in communication.

The best piece of advice I ever got was from a person I didn't trust, but I've found it to be very true...although I don't know if the person who shared it with me practiced it herself...but it was "be willing to say I'm sorry, and accept responsibility for your mistakes, and not expect the same treatment." There are those that say this is a weak position, but I have found you get far more accomplished with graciousness than with name-calling...and I for one am over the name-calling on BOTH sides!

Don't get me wrong. We should all keep watch over what all our politicians say and do in the next months and years. After all we get what we vote for. But, when our side doesn't win lets not line up to shoot the horse out from underneath the 'other guy'. If he succeeds, we succeed, so lets act like we know that!