CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME?

Riddle: Where can you get a job for $160,000 a year that will let you leave to look for another job and just tell your coworkers “Call me if you need me?”  Answer, THE UNITED STATES SENATE!

With the potential economic collapse of our country hanging overhead there is more than enough blame to go around to both the Democratic and Republican parties.  But, I think Senator Obama’s sad statement “Call me if you need me” while I interview for my next big job speaks volumes about the self-serving mentality of many of our politicians today.

Doesn’t the buck stop with all the politicians of our country?  Greed, corruption and special interests have unfortunately been accepted as common practices in politicians today.  Since we are now being told that this “bailout” is going to cost every American family $10,000 shouldn’t all the politicians be forced to cough up all of the campaign monies that they took from these same companies that are bankrupting our nation?  After all, as Senator Biden has noted, it’s time to pay up and be patriotic!

Whether you like Senator McCain or not you must admit he took the initiative to show his leadership style and take the bull by the horns while Senator Obama and his staff is busy multitasking and stumping on the campaign trail.  Yoo-hoo, Senator Obama!  Would you have returned to Washington if our country were attacked by terrorists again or keep looking for your new job?  Well guess what… we are now under a dire financial attack and you are MIA.  Only after being called by President Bush and hearing that you would receive equal credit for the passage of this financial “bailout” were you willing to go to Washington…definitely a bipartisan mentality.

The notion of the “critical importance” of the debate being held on Friday in Mississippi makes me chuckle.  Does any sane person really think they are going to hear anything of substance or anything different than they have heard a thousand times in the past six months?  I think the American people are smart enough to know that fixing the economy now is much more critical and necessary than listening to a debate on lowering or raising taxes and programs that will probably never come to fruition.  President Bill Clinton’s supporters have said that he always puts the American people first and politics second well today he supported Senator McCain’s action to return to Washington and make things right for the American people.  Senator Obama once again is MIA and sits on the sidelines as a debater and observer.  America does not need a superstar as President...they need a LEADER.

So, Senator Obama I am one American who is not going to call you and ask you to please come in to work today because we have a crisis; it  annoys me that I have to pay your salary while your MIA...you are still a Senator, aren’t you?

This message is approved by The Savvy Old Lady, an American Citizen and mother of five who never left her job at home for nine months and said “Call me if you need me.”