Everyone has a different opinion on the events in the United States yesterday, January 20th, 2009. There are a lot of expectations. Many are supportive, some are already on the attack. That freedom alone makes it a great country. There are clearly many important issues that need attention.
One hope of mine for change wasn’t in any agenda or campaign promise. It’s for increased funding and attention to battle the #1 killer of our kids. I hope the lives of our kids deserve the same kind of change in policy that other issues will receive, and a chunk of the pie, too.
Kat, that’s true, but I’ve thought about that a lot and I wonder if it’s some sort of policy that passengers ride unrestrained. Seems like the secret service agents would be able to push the person (President Obama, his girls, whomever) out of the way a whole lot easier if they weren’t wearing a seatbelt.
Not saying I agree with it, just saying that it may be the rule in the president’s limo.
unfortunately, I doubt the Obamas will help… on the Today show, we saw Sasha riding unrestrained in the back of the motercade car.
Scatterbunny, we SHOULD start a letter-writing campaign! Maybe Mrs. Obama would take up the cause – you don’t know if you don’t ask, right? 🙂
Joan Claybrook (Carter’s NHTSA Administrator) recently stepped down as administrator of Public Citizen. I wonder if she’s in the picture?
Maybe we should start a letter-writing campaign. 🙂 Obama seems to support ending the apathy affecting so much of society, he wants us to speak up and voice our opinions, based on his MLK Day speech:
“But if changing our hearts and minds is the first critical step, we cannot stop there. It is not enough to bemoan the plight of poor children in this country and remain unwilling to push our elected officials to provide the resources to fix our schools. It is not enough to decry the disparities of health care and yet allow the insurance companies and the drug companies to block much-needed reforms. It is not enough for us to abhor the costs of a misguided war, and yet allow ourselves to be driven by a politics of fear that sees the threat of attack as way to scare up votes instead of a call to come together around a common effort.”
Hear, hear!
And if the First Lady doesn’t take up the cause can we at least beg Nicole Nason to come back as NHTSA Administrator?
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.e2e0678ee999e1cbf62a63101891ef9a/
Wouldn’t it be lovely if Michelle Obama took this up as her pet cause? 🙂 (Unlikely, I suppose, but she still has young kids, including one of booster age – perhaps we could reach her!)