We wouldn't trust our auto mechanic the way we trust President George Bush. Imagine how many times you'd put up with Mr. Goodwrench saying "mistakes were made" before grabbing your keys and driving away. We deserve more. We deserve a higher conversation, a think-tank of patriots from across the spectrum.
We wouldn't trust our auto mechanic the way we trust President George Bush. Imagine how many times you'd put up with Mr. Goodwrench saying "mistakes were made" before grabbing your keys and driving away. No one doubts the difficulty of managing a war. For most of us, it's hard enough to navigate between work and family, responsibilities and dreams. But we elected one President and 535 leaders to direct our nation's future, at home and abroad. We grabbed those car keys at the midterm elections but since then, we keep returning to Mr. Goodwrench.
What kind of America do we envision? What place in the world do we see? What issues are most vital for our focus, not day to day, but long range vision? Our government negates our outrage by confusing us, creating a diversion of attention, in the day to day of running the nation. By November 2008, we will have a choice, not of ideas and ideals, but of personality once again. Those personalties will be wrapped around ideas, but we need someone whose ideas are wrapped around their personality. Who has their eye on the future, well beyond 2008? Who among us is demanding more from our leaders? How many of us spend the days chewing up, debating and spitting out what mainstream media hands us each day?
Bush deceived us, trampled our trust, raped, yes raped, the American public of the truth. And now we live in a country which has lost its way. It starts at the top and is like water in the sand. It is in every nook and cranny inside this White House and across the country. The cast of characters should be on the FBIs "10 Most Wanted" poster. They ALL raped America, from Cheney to Rove, Rumsfeld to Wolfowitz, Ashcroft to Gonzales. They make Rice look respectable and make Powell look like the Pope.
But what they've truly done is break our spirit. Sure we have Pelosi, Reid and Presidential candidates from both parties showing contrast to the Bush White House. But the "gang that couldn't shoot straight" has sucked the hope out of Americans, perhaps even more than Osama Bin Laden did on 9/11. The shame of the midterms is that the 2008 Presidential campaign started the next day. We went from debating and debunking Bush, taking away his keys, and driving our cars into a Jiffy Lube for instant gratification. But you don't always get the best service for $19.95 and the Democrats find themselves in a box as they try to differentiate from their primary competittors. It all confuses Americans in just a different way.
We deserve more. We deserve a higher conversation, a think-tank of patriots from across the spectrum. A meeting of the minds, locked in a room in Richmond or Gettysburg or Springfield. Locked away without lobbyists, without policy aides, without cable news channels. Locked away to come up with a Post-Preamble. What does America stand for and how will we interact first within our borders and then outside. Those who wouldn't celebrate this are those with money to influence, power to broker and shady folks who have had the keys to our cars all too long. It's time to return to keys, drive away and never look back.