People are going about their daily lives, working and shopping and playing, worshipping at churches and synagogues and mosques, going to movies and to baseball games.
Life in America is going forward, and as the fourth grader who wrote me knew, that is the ultimate repudiation of terrorism."
Contrast that sentiment with our genius Vice President Joe Biden, who seems to be urging us to curl into cocoons in the face of the flu.
I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico. It’s [that] you’re in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
If you’re in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it’s a different thing.
According to Biden, Americans should not go anywhere on planes, cars, subways, or buses. Americans, then, should not take vacations that require travel; should not go to work if it requires public transportation; and should not go to school. All of this in response to the flu.
Bush urged us to stand tall in the face of active terrorism and anthrax attacks. Biden, in the face of a nasty cold, tells us to stay home and hide.
Leadership vs. Lack thereof. Yet again.
When is the last time we had a presidential administration that has shown a total inability to lead. LBJ? Carter? Reagan was a leader, Bush I tried to lead, Clinton was a leader.
Obama and his subordinates are not.
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