tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538477881080991285.post6914189007199888369..comments2024-03-29T00:39:09.772-04:00Comments on City Father: Happy Birthday, Mr. PresidentCity Fatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17769559147659492086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538477881080991285.post-79266767705310728252012-08-04T08:48:26.927-04:002012-08-04T08:48:26.927-04:00Thank you for this balanced post. It is important ...Thank you for this balanced post. It is important to celebrate birthdays, the days that make manifest the way that God truly loves us into being as human persons. That is a gift we all share, no matter what we end up doing with that gift. <br /><br />These are good observations, and again quite balanced. While I do have issues with his presidency, I do not hate or loathe President Obama, as so many do. Nor however, do I idolize him. That was such a prevalent point of view during his first campaign, and regrettably so. I think that it fed his already developed high self regard, as you so aptly put it. Although I did vote for him in 2008 (and yes I am Catholic and yes I did examine my conscience well and voted according to the ways that my studies of Catholic moral theology have informed me to do), I never put him on a pedestal. He is nothing but human, like the rest of us. <br /><br />Yet, your point about how post-boomers see and occupy the world offer good food for thought. And the president's POV on these matters seems very much formed in this post-boomer manner. <br /><br />So yes - Cent'anni, or as I grew up hearing, "chen-DAHN." Where is that bottle of Sambucca? :-) I pray for the president and that he may discern and grow in ways that show that God is full of surprises.<br /><br />God bless, thanks for your post. <br /><br />NB: I have no idea who to vote for in 2012, and I do spend a lot of time considering it. So far both candidates, as viewed through my eyes of faith, fail.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.com