The Country that was!

The Country that was!
11-3-2008

On the eve of the biggest political event of our adult lifetime, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little worried. I’m worried that there are far too many un-informed people out there who will cast their vote on emotion and not facts. Worried that they didn’t take the time to really grasp what is at stake and how their lives will be affected in a negative way by making the wrong choice. I’m worried that either way the vote turns out; there will be issues to deal with in our day to day lives the likes of which our generation has not had to deal with.

I believe that the American people are a strong and resilient group that in time will deal with adversity and find ways to prosper. But in the short run, I don’t think that we deal with adversity as well as we should given the fact that for the most part the majority of us have not had to!

If the mini-gas crisis we just had is any indication then I think we failed. I know we all have issues with kids and money and other things that life throws at us but in reality those issues pale in comparison to other cultures that have to deal with gas issues and food issues and clean water and housing each and every day. Or closer to home those poor folks on the Texas coast who lost everything and still are living without.

You know it’s been said before how fortunate we are in America and how we take so much for granted for what we have access to on demand in every aspect of our lives. It’s only until those things are taken away or we have to go through more paces to get them that we realize the inconvenience and yet we still complain!


I am fortunate to still have my 86 year old father who lived through and endured 2 of the largest socially-impactful events in US history. The great depression and World War II. He has shared with me the issues this country faced during those times but until recently, did I really grasp the magnitude of hardship and uncertainty the American people faced.

Many on the other side of my views (and you know who you are) clamor about how in 2000 the government had a surplus and now 8 years later we have a deficit double in size. They make it seem that the Bush administration just arbitrarily spent the money. What they fail to factor in are the effects of that fateful day in Sept. 2001 when our world as we knew it changed forever. The cost of war both financially and in man power. The cost of rebuilding 2 nations so that those citizens can experience some of what we are privileged to; Schools, hospitals, utilities, food & freedoms. And yet life here in America has gone on with very little interruption to these individuals lives.

I know we are all Americans and should come together for the greater good but it still galls me a little that for the last 8 years the other side couldn’t do that. In fact they spewed more hatred than can be humanly imaginable and now on the eve of a possible win for their “savior” we are being asked to stand behind him and give him a free-pass! Where was this mutual respect over the last 8 years? Love or hate George Bush, nobody deserves the BS he has endured as a person from the leftist wackos. These people have absolutely no respect for anything or anybody who doesn’t share their views.

Somehow getting behind an Obama administration will be like Lemmings to the ocean!