Time is of the essence

[SoCalDem]

A phrase we often hear, but rarely heed.

A few minutes ago, I watched the HRC clip where she practically giggled as she commented on how "we have been telling Mubarek for THIRTY YEARS, that he needed a vice president...and now he appointed one."

Thirty years is a very long time..

Time (a shorter amount, but still important) affected the way our new health care plan wound its way through congress and the national psyche. More time, less benefits. More time, more dissent..more time, more republicans in congress.

We see it in Iraq and in Afghanistan., just like we saw it in Viet Nam. More time..more deaths, more disgraces, more hard feelings to mend later.

Time is of the essence to people who are spending their last unemployment check, as they see no options for work anytime soon, yet our vice president says "hang in there".

Time is our enemy when we are desperate to finally be 16 (to drive), then 18 (to vote), then 21 (to drink legally).

Time is our friend when we are growing a baby (no one wants a premature baby), but becomes an enemy again as our toddlers turn into kids and then adults.

We always want more time, but most of us waste it and then look back wishing we could get it back..we just want to add the wasted years onto the precious few we have at the end of life.

Time wasted cannot be "made up".

The fact that we wasted THIRTY YEARS placating a leader who obviously had no intention of paying the least bit of attention to us, should have sent us a gigantic signal.

To continue to give him "time" to correct thirty years' worth of bad leadership, is a fool's mission.

It is time to look to the changes that have to happen, and that should have happened decades ago. The people of Egypt are the new timekeepers, and they are telling us all that time has expired..

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. k/r

for a very thoughtful post

[xchrom]

2. indeed. nt