Who can best lead at ‘This Time In History?’

Take a look at the bill recently passed and ask yourself, how much more will Obama ask for if he is elected. There will be ‘more’, and you can be sure Congress is at work on another bill now.

As Senator Bob Dole said in his last speech to Congress:

“And I repeat frequently the statement — I don’t know whether Sen. Dirksen made it on the floor, but he made the statement, ‘A billion here and a billion there soon add up to real money.’ If only he’d come back today, it would be, ‘A trillion here and a trillion there soon add up to real money.’”

Back when Sen. Dirksen first made the statement no one could have conceived the debt the U.S. taxpayers owe today.

If Sen. Barack Obama is elected, he and Biden will make a ‘Trillion’ look small. They will fulfill the prophecy foretold in Sen. Dole’s speech.

Just listen to the promises in each speech they make.

Sen. Dole ended his political career with this last passage in his farewell speech:

‘As we peer into society’s future — we, you and I and our government must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.’

And I think those words are just as good today as they were 35 years ago when President Eisenhower spoke them. We can lead or we can mislead, as the people’s representatives, but whatever we do, we will be held responsible. We’re going to be held responsible and accountable. I’m not talking about 1996; I’m talking about any time, or the next century.

So the Bible tells us to everything there is a season, and I think my season in the Senate is about to come to an end. But the new season before me makes this moment far less the closing of one chapter than the opening of another. And we all take pride in the past, but we all live for the future. And I agree with the prairie poet Carl Sandburg, who told us, ‘Yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the West. I tell you that there is nothing in the world, only an ocean of tomorrows, a sky of tomorrow.’ And like everybody here, I’m an optimist. I believe our best tomorrows are yet to be lived. So again, thank you. God bless America, and God bless the United States Senate.

Who do you think really is best able to lead us out of this time of world crisis?

Think about it!

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