Jamming by Charlie Daniels

After being in the music business for 52 years it's just
about all I know; anything at all about--and in keeping with
my admittedly narrow knowledge--I would like to draw an
analogy concerning the Obama administration, viewing things
from my vantage point.

Ok, let's say you pick out the finest symphony conductor in
the world, add the greatest singer and seven or so of the
finest classical musicians on the planet.

You get them together backstage and say, "Alright, there are
twenty thousand fans out front, standing room only,
expectations are off the charts, they are looking for the
best show they've ever seen.

Now the curtain goes up in five minutes, the sound has been
checked out, the lights set and everything is perfect, the
stage is set for the greatest show the world has ever seen.

Now get there and knock 'em out guys! They're all with you;
you're all superstars in their eyes. Go show 'em how it's
done.

Oh, there's only been one change Tonight you have to do your
show playing songs you've never played and you'll have to
improvise. There's no sheet music. You'll just have to jam."


Can you imagine the panic backstage?

You see, some of the very finest musicians on earth can't
jam a lick. I remember a few years ago when I had a couple
of young fiddle players come on stage with me and play "The
South's Gonna Do It Again."

They had learned the parts I'd played on the record,
arrangement, lead lines and all and played it perfectly note
for note.

Everything was going swimmingly until I decided to leave the
arrangement and jam for a while. When I turned to one of
them and told them to take a solo the kid was as lost as a
baby sheep in a hale storm.

They had no more idea about improvising than they did about
how to build a spaceship.

"The South's Gonna Do It Again" is a simple twelve bar blues
song that any musician from any garage band would be able to
take a solo on, but even though these kids were extremely
talented and played what they knew perfectly, when it came
to jammin, they were totally lost. They had just never
learned to do it.

To me the presidency is kind of like jammin'. You have to
roll with the flow, improvise, adapt to the moment, pick up
on what's going on and deal with it.

Our president has never had to jam, he's always had the
sheet music in front of him and he's never had to play a
note somebody else had not written for him.

One of the biggest mistakes President Obama made when he
came in office was to surround himself with a bunch of
players who had never jammed either. None of them have ever
had any practical experience in the real world.

In essence, they are a bunch of paper tigers, they do an
incredible job of spending other people's money and sneaking
legislation through the back door, but out in the real
world, where there are no scripts, down where the rubber
meets the road there is probably not a person in the bunch
who could change a flat tire, much less deal with the
complex problems America faces.

The only thing Obama has done with any problem that has
arisen is to throw money at it, and in truth, that's sadly
all he knows how to do.
When it comes to dealing with things that money alone won't
fix like busted oil pipes at the bottom of the ocean or
solving the problems on our southern borders he's lost and
all those around him are lost.

The Obama cabinet is the most inept bunch imaginable. When
people have only viewed the world from the top of an ivory
tower they don't react very well when it's time to get their
hands dirty.

Obama's people can't even accept real world concepts of the
dangerous situations we're dealing with. Eric Holder wanting
to try terrorists in civilian courts, in New York City of
all places is nothing less than nave arrogance.

Janet Napolitano's gross inexperience in dealing with
security matters is going to end up costing this country
dearly.

Putting an unqualified person who has never even been a
judge on the bench of the highest court in the land, for
nothing more than her political leanings is insanity.

Everywhere you look you see eggheads with nothing more than
a college degree to qualify them for the sensitive jobs they
hold.

I'm just wondering how long it will take for a majority of
the people in this country to realize that the wheel that
steers the direction of this nation is in the hands of
people who have no idea how to get from point a to point b
without a roadmap and that roadmap just doesn't exist. Every
trip is different.

I see disaster looming on the not too distant horizon,
financial disaster, increasing danger from terrorist attack,
unabated violence in the streets and an arrogant and
unmanageable illegal alien population.

It's coming folks and Obama and the band are still in the
dressing room looking for the sheet music.

They just can't jam.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels