Paul Ryan’s Hope

Nobody’s Opinion

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything: in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.—(Maurice de Saxe )

The nurse was yelling at the man in the wheelchair. She had placed him in front of a mirror for “therapy.” While the man looked at himself in the mirror, eyes wide open, desperation and shock on his face..she keep yelling.

“Sit UP DALE! Look at you…you’re miserable. SIT UP you look terrible! Sit up straight! Look how ugly you look.”

She kept pacing around the room…all the time yelling at the poor man in the wheelchair, who was slumped —his arm hanging over the side, he was barely sitting at all.

The man sat there, still in shock… “God damn it Dale, you’re not trying. SIT UP –you lazy man!”

She didn’t see me coming in behind her into the room. The cruelty and hatred coming out of that nurse shocked me to the core.  I wanted to smack her clear across the room…because that was my dad, and he had just suffered a major brain hemorrhage, which had left him completely paralyzed on one whole side of his body. You could tell on his face that he recognized himself, and was horrified at his appearance. The realization that he could not use half of his body to sit up was also another great shock. What kind of person would do that to someone?

I saw this kind of behavior over and over again in the years I spent in hospitals with my parents. The nurses had explained that the sooner the patient realized they were not going to get better, the better they could deal with it.

Right.

I still get mad thinking about this, because I don’t care if your 93, and just had a heart attack,  you still have a soul, and that soul needs to hope that you will get better to live even if for a few more days.  Hope is the reason humans do anything. Hope for love, hope for health, hope for money, for fame, for a country that LETS you…keep on hoping.

Which brings me to Paul Ryan.

This weekend, as the news spread that Paul Ryan had been picked by Mitt Romney for his VP, within minutes, one of Obama’s stinging rebuttals had come out along with the news that Mitt had picked the man who they thought they could defeat.

Defeat with what? Hope and change? Obama gave us a lot of audacity, but his hope has brought the nation to its knees. Obama has proven, not only to the first “black” President, but the first Marxist President in America’s history. The first part we rejoiced at…the second part, left us in horror.

American is gasping its last breathe. We have a debt that will never be repaid, and Obama is saying: I need you to sacrifice and spread the wealth around because I don’t think you can do anything by yourself, in fact you need ME to order your life. 

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Paul Ryan gives this country, which is on the brink of it’s last breath, what we are so desparate for: Hope.

Mitt Romney also gave us hope, because he showed us that by picking Ryan instead of Rubio, that he is going after the future, not the illegal immigrant future, but main street America’s future.

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August 12, 2012 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Uncategorized | American Culture, History, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Ryan, politics, Poltical races | Leave a comment