Life in the real world is a stone-cold bitch, sometimes.
Just ask President Obama, who got played in public the other day by the
leader of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bibi knows a little bit about what it takes to navigate the
reality of a tough, dishonest and sometimes brutal world. So standing
up at a press conference with a not so friendly U.S. President and the
world watching, he just smiles and thanks his counterpart for agreeing
with him on how to do battle going forward. Even though he doesn’t.
I had to chuckle while Mr. Netanyahu put words into Barack
Obama’s mouth, and President Obama could only cringe through a phony
smile while he’s getting owned by a veteran. Mr. Netanyahu is in charge
of making his people safe and my guess is he spends every waking hour
working to that end. President Obama? Not so much… The spectacle of
watching our incompetent “leader” stand there with his arrogant words
and posture made me think of how difficult this world must be, with so
many points of view and so many people out there that want what we have.
They’ll kill us to get it. Bibi knows that, but I wonder if our kids will?
Then along comes this story out of Boston: The principle at
Ipswich Middle School has taken it upon himself to cancel honors night,
because it might hurt the feeling of kids who didn’t make the cut. Are
you nuts? Principal David Fabrizio (sounds like some sort of laundry
softener) says that although it may be devastating to the kids who
worked their asses off to become honor students, the little kittens who
tried and failed could be further humiliated at the horror of seeing the
winners being acknowledged for their achievement.
You know why this is double stupid? Because the very kids
that Mr. Fabreeze is trying to save from having nightmares are learning
that trying is enough, and succeeding warrants no further accolade. This
is a small microcosm of the new America in general where if you work
hard, you can succeed, just don’t ask to be noticed. Not anymore. What
are we teaching our kids – or better yet – what are we not teaching our
kids? The answer: Reality.
I call it the “pussification” of America.
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