Are You Lucky?

I listen to conservative radio at night. I do it to see what type of craziness is being spewed.

Not really too amazing that after three days of Obama being President of the United States of America they are predicting the end of the World. This is to be expected.

But there was an interesting fact that one of the female conservative hate talkers was touting that caught my attention. She said that the amazing landing of the US Airways jet into the Hudson River trumped everything else for ratings on TV. The point was to diminish the hype around the pre-inauguration prep.

This got me thinking about that pilot. His history and how he was able to do what he did. I asked myself, "Was he just lucky?"

I have been accused of being lucky in the past and I always answer the same way. I say, "You put yourself in a position to be lucky. It is never pure luck."

It turns out that for Captain "Sully" this is a real truth as well. This guy's entire life seems to be leading up to this moment where he so incredibly lands that plane in the water. He was not your average pilot. He was a safety expert, studied the stuff, served as an investigator of crashes and trained others on safety.

Basically, if you had to pick a pilot to guide you through this crash landing, this was your guy.

And here is my point. We are not going to get through this economic mess, the foreign policy disaster that was left by Bush and the terrible distrust of government that the Republicans have created by being lucky.

We need someone who is smart enough, honest enough and tough enough to confront the issues we face head on. Our President is that man. The perfect person at the perfect time. Someone that tells us to quit acting like children (like the conservation talk show hosts on late night radio), someone that is tough (like telling the Republican leaders that "he won") and someone that is open and honest (a la, regular YouTube videos telling us what is going on and recovery.gov).

So to all those people that are trying to drive their dying talk show ratings by saying ever more ridiculous and sensational things... suck it up and try to act like a grownup. We have real issues and all your venom is not helping anything.