So I am in a mall, somewhere USA and I enter a large elevator. It's one of those elevators that open from the front and from the back. It's huge with glass windows all around so you can see out as you ride it up and down.
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| My inner voice kept saying, "Maverick" so I looked up some pictures and found the dude in my dream, James Garner. |
When I get on the elevator, I hear a familiar voice of the POTUS and I clearly see him standing in the elevator talking to this guy whom I remember as being an old cowboy movie star from back in the day but I can't remember his name right now, it will come to me. (My inner voice kept saying, "Maverick", so I looked up some pictures and found the dude in my dream, James Garner).
I know it's the President because he is tall, slender, his sideburns are really gray, and who could not recognize those ears, especially from behind?
He is having a very casual conversation with this dude. I overhear him tell the President that he will go and get this other dude and come back in a few minutes. The President nods in approval and they get off the elevator. As the door opens to let them out, it is to the other side of the elevator so they simply exit. The man who was with the President goes off to the left and the President stands there at the top of what appears to be escalators, but he doesn't get on them before the door of the elevator closes and obstructs my vision.
I am appalled, "What's up with his security? Why isn't there someone with him? He can't just casually walk around this huge Mall without Security!"
I speak out to everyone in the elevator and as I turn to address folks behind me, I see a African American Man who clearly could have been Obama's security, but he was standing behind me and he let the President walk off the
I am talking to everyone in the elevator with me, mostly European women.
Someone says, "Well, you know his approval ratings have dropped considerably from last month and then again this month."
"So, what does that mean?" I retorted. "Just because his approval ratings are lowering, that means he doesn't need security?"
It was as if they were saying the better his ratings the better his protection.
"Wouldn't you think they would give him more security?"
A small attractive blond hair European woman is sitting on the floor of the elevator. (I understand sitting on the floor of the elevator, when I was younger, the elevator scared me, I would sit down if I could or hold on for dear life, so it didn't appear strange to me. What was strange was what she said.)
"Well, his approval ratings are down and a lot of people don't like him anymore."
"We all know how people can be. Just because they don't like you they treat you poorly. Is that correct? I don't like you so therefore I am gonna treat you poorly!"
I have three DVD's in my hand and I raise my hand in a gesture of hitting the young woman.
"See, I can hit you because I don't like you, right? I can harm you in some way, because I don't like you? Right? Because Obama is no longer "liked" like he used to be then that means he can just walk around this big 'ole Mall with barely any protection? To me that would mean that he would need more protection, because that's how people are, they want to hurt you because they don't like you. But is that correct, should people hurt you simply because they don't like you? Or they don't approve of you? What if I said, I don't like you, does that give me the right to hit you with these because I don't like you? No, it doesn't and it shouldn't but we all know that people will do that, and that's all the more reason why he should have more security. Somebody decides to hurt the President because they don't like him anymore. They would jump up and hurt the President sending the entire country into a tailspin because they decided to do something about the fact that they "don't like the President." What kind of sense does that make?"
It was as if I was the only one in the elevator who could see my rationale. It was unbelievable.
