You must ultimately find the place where you can be most effective, and this will inevitably be in doing what you're best at. In other words, no one is 'good at' saving the world; one is good at music or painting or writing or politics or science--and any of these can put one in a position to make a contribution toward saving the world.
The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
Not that they're necessarily wrong that flies are living creatures who deserve respect, I guess... It's just... wow. I totally called it. As for the Republican response, well, that was less surprising when I got it right. I think that one was more obvious, partially because they kind of have a point. Malkin:
President Obama killed a fly! President Obama killed a fly! "The poise! The cupping!" Swoon. Drool. Faint:
But as Liz Cox Barrett at the Columbia Journalism Review points out, with all of the glee over a dead insect, media outlets, including the one that actually conducted the interview, haven't bothered to report on what the President had to say. So in case you were interested, besides displaying his "Jedi moves," Obama also discussed regulatory reform proposals, health care, Iran, and he slammed Fox News:
Pres. OBAMA: First of all, I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that's a pretty...
HARWOOD: I assume you're talking about Fox.
Pres. OBAMA: Well, that's a pretty big megaphone. And you'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front.
