Saturday Morning

Well, it's Saturday morning, and it's almost 2 weeks since the 2004 election, in which George W. Bush was re-elected POTUS (President Of The United States). As his supporters were often heard chanting "Four More Years!". I am glad that George was re-elected, but not because I think he is a great president, but because I think Senator John F. Kerry would have been wrong for our country. What I wish is that we had a person who really caputures the hearts of the American people like some earlier presidents... (Regan and Clinton). Even though both of those presidents had staunch opposition, they had the ability to rally the country around them, each in their own ways. Both men had the ability to come across to the country as "one of us". Regan with his ability to express himself and laugh, and Clinton in his foibles and daliances. I heard a radio talk show host say that George W. Bush was a "boring" president. Which of course he is. He isn't all over the tabloids, he isn't on the TV every other second, and he isn't a great speaker. He is however doing a good job of being president. (Oh no... I think I just said something that could get me in trouble!) So which person makes a better president? A person with whom the populace can relate because he puts himself directly in front of the public eye, and trys not to "rock the boat"? Or a person who shys from the public eye, and is shaking things up? Well, as I sit here in the waiting room of my car dealer, waiting for a free oil change, I can't help but wonder why we can't have an endearing President that also "shakes things up"? Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I want a president who makes me proud to say I support him, rather than a president that I have to see who's in the room first before I declare my support for fear that I may be "verbally lynched." Maybe these next 4 years will be different now that Bush has received a clear majority of the vote. I hope so.