Day 15

Sportsmanship is a value learned by playing sports in a fair way with out being boastful at a win or getting mad at a loss. It is a concept that would seem to be somewhat lost at times to days gone by.  While I enjoy a great win by my football team there is the flip side to that win in that there are losers.   They cannot enjoy your win at their expense.  In the non sporting world the same concept can be extended to other things that people do either in their work, social settings and politics.  There is a certain honor in being a good sport and the flipside is true of dishonor to the poor sport.  We were taught that to celebrate with your team after a win was ok but there is a line that is hard to describe to anyone when that celebration becomes poor sportsmanship.  We have all seen it in sporting events but it may be a little harder to discern in other areas.  My feelings right now about the political realm are that we have some very poor sportsmanship going on and it to me is pretty easy to see.  I feel that the GOP is acting as a child throwing a fit after losing a little league game and it is not pretty.  When President Obama first took office we had the people that were trying to claim he was not an American citizen and they still do even after the President produced a full birth certificate.  It is pure nonsense.  They also try to put him in the box as a socialist.  Like it is a dirty word.  When it is ok for the GOP to take money from the people for things that they see as being ok.  Like it is ok to take money from us to give to oil companies.  It is ok to let corporations not pay any taxes through endless deductions that the regular person does not know about or have the money to pay a high dollar accountant to find.  These things are just fine but don’t give food to the poor or healthcare.  No No No.  Why do these beggars feel that they should get something for nothing?  To me it is just a matter of do you care about people or corporations.  We also have the endless blaming of the president for every wrong in the world.  Trying to make him out as a bad person.  While I did not like President Bush and his policies I think in his own way he thought that he was doing the right thing and still deludes himself that he was doing the right thing but he was way off course but I still would show him the respect that the President should have.  Of either party.  I never saw the Democrats behaving like this and saying that they would not do anything but try to block whatever the President wants to do.  If that is where we have gotten in the political world then our country is in for a lot of trouble unless we can get just one party in charge at a time.  Cheating is not being a good sport and I feel that the GOP has tried to do just that with rigging voting and making it harder for minorities to vote.  I also feel that they have gerrymandered the district lines to make it very difficult for the Democrats to win in many cases.  That is to me another form of cheating.  They should work on making people want to see things would be better if we did things their way.  They have in my opinion a long way to go with that cause.  Bob Dole said it perfectly that they need to be “Closed for Renovations”.  With the hatred they spew towards Gay people and the way they want to force women to make health decisions that should be private matters between the Dr. and the woman they will never get my vote as long as that is what they want to do.  I wish that the GOP would be better losers and be good sports and help our country to improve.