OK, so all the in-fighting and name-calling within the Democratic Party is over. We have our nominee. So, it is time to quit playing in the sandbox and get up on the world stage. There is only one important and all-encompassing goal here - take the country back from the dictatorship party, reinstate the Constitution and rule of law, and turn the Evil Empire back into the land of the free.
It is absolutely astounding to me, and sad beyond measure, how far from true American ideals we have fallen. Is Bin Laden a genius? Was his intent on 911 to simply kill a bunch of Americans and make the rest afraid? Or did he anticipate that his attack would provide the excuse for the corrupt and greed-driven Republican Administration to turn the Land of liberty and justice into the Evil Empire?
Terrorism has been used by the Bush Administration to do far more damage to America than the terrorists ever could by themselves. By what logic or truth do we think we can punish our enemies by becoming more like them? In what alternate reality is it part of the American credo to imprison and torture people on suspicion alone? When did the American people willingly give up their right to privacy? At what point did Congress and the Justice Department agree to only having a single branch of government in the United States?
At what point in the last 10 years did the pendulum of justification for impeachment swing from the ridiculousness of private sexual indiscretions to something worse than invading a sovereign country based on lies, exposing the identity of our intelligence agents for political reasons, hiring and firing judges and other members of the Justice Department, again for political reasons, eavesdropping of the private conversations of American citizens, and a hundred similarly despicable actions taken by this Administration?
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the entire Administration are guilty of many, many impeachable offenses. It is not even close! If Bill Clinton had even expressed an intention to think about doing any of these actions, he would have been impeached and removed from office quicker than you can say water-boarding!
And through all of this, the Democrats have been nothing but puppets, with all the strings being pulled by George Bush. Do not positions in the House of Representatives and the Senate come with some kind of oath of office? Does that oath not mention things like the Constitution and the rule of law? Or, is the main job of a Congressman or Congresswoman not looking bad and to stay in office at any cost? Even if it means the total destruction of America as she was conceived and as she has been for 200 years? What the Hell are we afraid of? Are we so terrified of the man pointing a gun at us that we just shoot ourselves instead to get it over?
When did cowardice and being a blustering bully become the American way?
I am a true and loyal American, but I am disgusted with America at this point. Aren’t you?
BB