Take America Back 2006
It is fitting that I should launch this blog today, the sad anniversary of Jack Kennedy's murder in Dallas forty-two years ago.
That was the end of an era and our country has never been the same. It seems that little has gone right and much has gone astray in the United States in the years that followed that awful day. A lot of lesser men have walked in Kennedy's shoes -- of both parties -- and we can't help but wonder where are the leaders of his caliber in today's political world?
At the same time, we must face the reality that the current President -- and the administration he heads -- is perhaps to the most damaging to our national stature at home and abroad that our nation has endured in many a year.
Somehow -- and it seems almost unbelievable to me -- a right-wing fringe of anti-government outsiders has managed to hijack our nation's foreign policy and put us into an unnecessary war that is destabalizing international geopolitics and jeopardizing our national security. Predicated upon a tissue of lies, driven by the clever manipulation of the natural fears wrought by 9-11, marketed as a crusade against an enemy that cannot be clearly outlined, the war in Iraq has fractured our alliances, squandered global support in the wake of September 11th and put us on a dangerous course that could well lead to World War III. Yet, those who oppose it are characterized as terrorists, supporters of terrorism or simply unpatriotic. Well, if Samuel Johnson was right -- if "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -- then this administration is full of scoundrels who delight at demonizing those of us who disagree.
So we need to make a change.
Bush will be President for three more years, but it is his majority in Congress that permits "W" and his rogue right-wingers to ride roughshod over the real values that define America. In the short term, we must focus our energies resolutely upon defeating every Congressional supporter of the administration in the '06 mid-term elections a year from now. We need to plot, plan and organize in the best spirit of the American republic to effect the electoral defeat of every Republican representative and senator up for re-election in November '06 who supports the party line. It will be hard work. We are not easily united. We often view the world through complex lenses, while theirs is a raging black-and-white tug of war between good and evil and they always do a great job of marketing themselves as the good guys with an unabashed grin, like the smiling cartoon cat with the fish in his mouth professing innocence while he loudly gulps the prize.
But they can be beaten nonetheless! Let this blog celebrate our little parts in the great drama to come. We are the patriots. They are the scoundrels. Let's "Take Back America 2006"
That was the end of an era and our country has never been the same. It seems that little has gone right and much has gone astray in the United States in the years that followed that awful day. A lot of lesser men have walked in Kennedy's shoes -- of both parties -- and we can't help but wonder where are the leaders of his caliber in today's political world?
At the same time, we must face the reality that the current President -- and the administration he heads -- is perhaps to the most damaging to our national stature at home and abroad that our nation has endured in many a year.
Somehow -- and it seems almost unbelievable to me -- a right-wing fringe of anti-government outsiders has managed to hijack our nation's foreign policy and put us into an unnecessary war that is destabalizing international geopolitics and jeopardizing our national security. Predicated upon a tissue of lies, driven by the clever manipulation of the natural fears wrought by 9-11, marketed as a crusade against an enemy that cannot be clearly outlined, the war in Iraq has fractured our alliances, squandered global support in the wake of September 11th and put us on a dangerous course that could well lead to World War III. Yet, those who oppose it are characterized as terrorists, supporters of terrorism or simply unpatriotic. Well, if Samuel Johnson was right -- if "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -- then this administration is full of scoundrels who delight at demonizing those of us who disagree.
So we need to make a change.
Bush will be President for three more years, but it is his majority in Congress that permits "W" and his rogue right-wingers to ride roughshod over the real values that define America. In the short term, we must focus our energies resolutely upon defeating every Congressional supporter of the administration in the '06 mid-term elections a year from now. We need to plot, plan and organize in the best spirit of the American republic to effect the electoral defeat of every Republican representative and senator up for re-election in November '06 who supports the party line. It will be hard work. We are not easily united. We often view the world through complex lenses, while theirs is a raging black-and-white tug of war between good and evil and they always do a great job of marketing themselves as the good guys with an unabashed grin, like the smiling cartoon cat with the fish in his mouth professing innocence while he loudly gulps the prize.
But they can be beaten nonetheless! Let this blog celebrate our little parts in the great drama to come. We are the patriots. They are the scoundrels. Let's "Take Back America 2006"
posted by Garp83 at 6:47 PM
1 Comments:
re the blindmonkey comment ... I'm not sure I want to get deep into "social issues" on this blog, but I will say that if gay marriage threatens someone's marriage, then their marriage is already in deep trouble ...
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