What’s up with all these wars we keep getting into? Will we never learn?
We had a
leader who knew how to think and was courageous enough to tackle the mess left
by his former inept president. Barack Obama came to us with a mandate for peace,
not war, love not hate, negotiation not retaliation. He dared to think outside
of the war room box; he urged Americans to look at how we have gone wrong in
the past in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
The
people chanted, "Yes we can!" because the people needed to believe in
hope; the people needed to trust that our leaders had our backs. The people
needed to believe that he had the right stuff to lead.
This
kind of hope never sits well with the super rich or the conservatives who champion arrogant leaders and refuse to admit when they are
wrong. This kind of hope gets shot down each day by self-serving television
pundits who dare to call themselves journalists but are supported by the lemmings
in Congress who care more about re-election than the welfare of the people they represent.
The
neo-conservatives appear eager to take fated leaps into the abyss while supporting radical movements that give birth to an increasing number of extremists. It won’t
be long before the real terrorists will have no need to do us harm because our
own leaders are doing their job for them. How crazy is that?
A hefty
dose of liberalism would go a long way toward counter-balancing the overdose of
Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Beck and Coulter. Demanding more critical thinking and less
personal judgment would be a brain stretch, but isn’t it time to question the
nonsense that irresponsible talking heads continue to spout?
Conservatives
may feign indignation when accused of racism, but when Make Obama Fail
is their oft-played theme song, then what else could it be? They accuse the "liberal press" of blaming our current woes on the previous
administration. Hello? Reality check.
Racism
is a formidable enemy and each time it rears its ugly head the good people of
this country need to stand up and fight it tooth and nail. We should all loudly
and profoundly object each time Obama is condemned for having the
audacity to hope that together we can heal our broken country.
Together
means that our elected officials have to stop politicking long enough to
put Americans first instead of ambition. It means the Party of No has to put partisanship aside in order to see how much damage they have
caused. It means they might, just might, realize how badly America is hurting
now that breadwinners no longer earn the bread, teachers instruct for
little or no pay, soup kitchens have tripled and young people no longer have
the same opportunities that were available to their parents.
Why
worry about being invaded by terrorists when homegrown terror campaigns grow
stronger each day while we do little or nothing? Instead of helping the extremists
and . who preach government overthrow, why not show them up for what
they are?
Resistant movements are not be all bad, but do they incite the Timothy McVeigh’s and
Jared Loughner’s to do things that hurt so many? Disagreeing
with government policy is a right of every American, but it does not mean we
can blow up buildings and shoot innocent people. That is what
foreign terrorists did to us.
Are we
going to behave like solid citizens and stop listening to the lies told by
people who care only about themselves and not America as a whole unit, or are
we going to demand an end to the constant vitriol? Americans, it is up to us
and nobody else.
Our
country can only become strong again if we work together to make good things
happen by getting out of our comfort zone and getting ourself to a voting precinct.
Americans believe in hard work, social equality and hope. It is why we continue to chant: "Yes We Can!"
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