Dear Mr. Beck:
You say that you want to restore America's honor?
Wonderful! Let me help you!
When exactly did Americans lose their honor?
Did they lose it when a black man was elected President? Or did they lose it when the Republicans first voted for their own self-interest rather than for the American people? Did we lose it ten years ago, when we elected a man of Bush's exemplary paragon of intellectual caliber?
Did we lose it when Obama tried to save the country from total economic collapse with a stimulus, or did we lose it when Bush the Younger destroyed an economic surplus, and gave us a deficit, compounded with two unnecessary and unaffordable wars, a housing bubble, Guantanamo, and the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression?
Did we lose our honor because we finally have a healthcare system that is a good beginning for the many poor who will be needing it in the years to come? Or did we lose it when businesses began to downsize, and outsourced jobs abroad for cheaper labor?
Did we lose our honor because some people did not like the way President Obama handled the Gulf oil spill, which incidentally started through the criminal negligence of BP and Transocean? Or did we lose it during the Bush administration's inexcusable and atrocious response given to Katrina? Or was it when FEMA became gutted and privatized by Bush?
Did we lose our honor when the Democrats saved the auto industry, or did we lose it when we stopped building things in this country, and now depend on cheap slave labor from abroad?
Mr. Beck, we need to restore our honor, it's true. But you are far wide of the mark on the cause for restoring our honor. You speak of fluffy generalities like "faith, hope and charity," But your rally was funded by men who lied, cheated, stole and killed for money.
I thought we turned the corner on January 20, 2009. We are trying to restore our nation's honor. You just don't want to see it!