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Thinking Out of the Box
August 14, 2008
This past weekend I noticed that our President was slumped down in his chair, seemingly bored...
... while watching the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. Here he is, doing something mildly inappropriate with the US Volleyball Team.
Almost all of the world leaders were in attendance, many of them looking quite engaged. But not George. He was sitting there like a seventh grader at a science fair assembly, looking at his watch hoping to get back to the hotel and go to bed.
And there was Laura, peering at him with a feigned amusement. But inside, you know she was disgusted. She opened up some kind of fan and began to busy herself by pretending to fan herself, trying to take her mind off the man she stays married to.
Now, what if there was one of those big screen televisions perched up high in the stadium, like at one of the NBA games. You know the ones where they hone in on the fans waving their big foam "Number One" fingers or on some crazy kid painted the team's home colors. Now, what if that screen was as big as the Beijing stadium and the camera focused in on the leader of the modern world, with the most powerful position on Earth, slumped down in his seat with his legs crossed. And, this image was plastered up on a huge tv screen for the world to watch.
What would George do if he caught himself, looking at himself, 100 feet tall, in front of the world... slumped down in his seat looking at his watch during the Olympics? Probably grin, unfortunately.
