“History is scattered with the stories of those who held fast to rigid ideologies and refused to listen to those who disagreed. But those are not the Americans we remember.” –Obama (as a round about way of blaming Republicans and the Tea Party for our debt problems).
Really we don’t remember people who stick to their guns? Let me see how many I get off the top of my head in 5 minutes.
John and Abigail Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Medger Evers
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gen. George Patton
Alexander Graham Bell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Walt Whitman
William Faulkner
Milton Friedman
Walt Disney
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Rosa Parks
The Wright Brothers
John Quincy Adams
Mark Twain
Frederick Douglas
Thomas Paine
Amelia Earhart
Helen Keller
All Americans who did hold fast to the rigid belief that they were right. All Americans who refused to listen to those who disagree. All great American who we not only remember but remember fondly. None perfect but all helped to make the world a better place. Why? Because they stood their ground, they ignored dissent and effectively gave the finger to anyone who got in their way.
It’s the people who don’t have values, who don’t hold to their values and always seek compromise over what is right that we don’t remember…So in a 100 years expect to list Obama there with Arthur, Cleveland, and Taft.
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