Is the President Naive????

I have been a big fan of President Obama from the beginning. He's a brilliant, energetic, pragmatic thinker, as opposed to being a one-note politician who is held hostage by his own ideology. However, lately, I've been thinking that the President has a fatal flaw. He just fails to understand that no matter how many concessions he makes and no matter how inclusive he is, the Republican Party and right-wing will never work with him. They will never do anything that might give him the appearance of being an effective leader. They will continue to obstruct and delay every good piece of legislation that Obama introduces. The President's failure to understand this unfortunate reality does not go down well with people like me who expect the government to govern. I'm not sure how the President can best deal with the opposition party's obstructionist strategy, but thinking that he can reason with them or achieve any kind of effective compromise is just unfortunately sad and absurd.

The Bible Code???

I just spent the last two hours watching these so-called "Bible codes" on the history channel.These so called codes are just made up. There is no way you can apply the same idea to any long piece of text and find any message that you are looking for. If I was ever so inclined I could use this so called code to get the bible to tell me that the Flying Allien monster is really the lord of all and that he will come to us on the 7th day of the year to prove its existence.Why are these so called "predictions" meant to be hidden in the bible only discovered after the the "event"? .....simple, I think its because you can use the 'code' to find the information you are looking for. For example, the 9/11 horror wasn't predicted before the event, the hidden bible message was found by someone using this code specifically to find reference to 9/11.I do not see the importance of the code if it is only meant to show past event and not predict the future ones.

Really, if the bible is such an authoritative text, why would the authors have hidden any special messages in the text? Surely they would have just included it. Somehow I can't imagine that when the bible was being written, over hundreds of years and not in english, that the collective authors determined and passed on a code so that when the bible was translated to the English language, that may not have even existed at the time......I wonder if the code predicted that i was going to stop typing right abouttttttttttttt ....................now?