This Is Bigly Folks!
Listening to the reading at church this Sunday, I couldn’t help thinking about the upcoming election. This is from 1 Kings 3:7-9 and is young King Solomon talking to God about his new position:
7“Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
A servant…
A great people…
A discerning heart…
According to my study Bible this phrase “a discerning heart” indicates the ability to listen patiently to all sides of an issue in order to come to true and wise decisions.
Kim and I hadn’t planned on watching the last debate. But, in the end I couldn’t resist and there we were, popcorn in hand, expecting to be entertained.
I knew we had succeeded when my wife turned to me and said,
“Is bigly really a word?”
“I think he is trying to say Big League but he is saying it so fast it sounds like bigly,” I responded.
Big League…
Big Time…
Bigly…
We are just two weeks away from having to make a decision based on the reality TV we have enjoyed the last nine months or so. I found myself back in the same place I was before the Florida Primary. Yup, “Presidential Politics, I Am Mad As Hell and Can’t Take It Anymore” deja vu. So I thought maybe my proposal from March was worth taking another last minute look at. Just to refresh, from March 14, 2016:
I told myself when I started this website I was going to stay away from anything controversial; nothing that would offend people and especially no politics.
But I can’t take it anymore. I now think I need to weigh in on the subject. If this offends you I am truly sorry.
We are on the eve of the Florida Primary (or in our case now, the Presidential election) and this idea needs to be vetted.
I think, without a doubt if I surveyed a sampling of our younger generation, those that we will be leaving our legacy to; a sampling like my two grandsons, Cameron and Christian, I would unanimously come up with a viable candidate. And who would that candidate would be?
Mickey Mouse.
Yes, that’s right, Mickey Mouse.
He has all the qualifications we need in a President.
He doesn’t lie.
He loves ALL boys and girls.
He manages a small country otherwise known as “Mickey’s Clubhouse.”
He is an excellent problem solver.
He has fiscal experience proven by the fact that he can round up and lasso numbers 1 through 10 and place them in a corral.
He surrounds himself with a team of loyal followers that include a female mouse, male duck, a couple of dogs, a cow, and another duck who is a professor, a big cat, and a couple of chipmunks. Oh, and a Giant.
And that is just his inner circle, his cabinet; that I would speculate looking this way:
Donald Duck – Vice President
Minnie Mouse – Secretary of State
Daisy – Interior
Goofy – Secretary of the Treasury
Willie the Giant – Secretary of Defense
Clara Bell – Labor
Professor Von Drake – Health and Human Services
Pete the Cat – definitely Homeland Security
Chip – Agriculture
Dale – Education
And I am sure Mickey can find a few more to fill in the rest.
But that is not the best of it.
Most importantly, Mickey Mouse has Mouseketools!
Can you imagine how much stronger our already fine military would be with the help of a Mouseketool?
National Security? Hurricane relief? No problem!
Just think about it.
North Korean President Kim Jong-un swinging his hydrogen bomb around again?
“Oh Toodles…………..Oh Toodles………… ”
That’s it, done. Go have another cup of coffee.
And what about vacation White Houses? Who needs Camp David; we’d have Disney World and Disneyland!
And how about those State Dinners? They would be like character breakfasts at the Contemporary Resort! How fun would that be?
And can’t you just picture Vladimir Putin doing the “Hot Dog Dance?”
I am telling you, I think I am on to something here…
Who’s with me?
Well that’s it then!
It’s unanimouse…!
I mean it’s unanimous!
Thank you my fellow Americans!
Somehow this sounds more appropriate now than it did in March.
We are a great people.
In a very short time we will be tasked with choosing a servant.
“Who will be able to govern this great people of yours?”
This is bigly folks…
Unlike Solomon, our servant candidates are not children, though one might argue that they behave like children (heck, Mickey will be 88 next month!).
Solomon asked God to give him a discerning heart, to be able to distinguish between right and wrong, to give him the wisdom to carry out his duties.
We are a great people, we deserve great leaders. Could either one or both of these servants be great leaders? Anything is possible.
However also, unlike Solomon I am not expecting our candidates to ask God for the strength and the wisdom to be great leaders.
Therefore I feel I just might need to do that for them.
Yup, I think I am just going to pray about it.
“C’mon Min, how many times do I have to tell you, you have to do a nose check before you go out in public! Mom, get me tissue, quick”