It Will Be Up To Us & Obama (Please God) To Get Our Country Back.

[kpete]

Saturday :: Oct 4, 2008
America Unrecognizable

by paradox

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What is important for me to say at this bailout juncture that with this final outrage my personal lifetime experience in a Democratic America has been irrevocably smashed. I will fervently work and believe in a possible Democracy for my daughter, but in my time and place on the planet, the only life given to me, alleged stewards and leaders of America held the responsibility of the Republic and Democracy and completely squandered it.

My vote in the 2000 election was disenfranchised (spare me the nauseous technicalities, reality utterly dictates it), 9/11 was allowed to happen, war for lies unleashed, utter misery implacably descending for the wounded, for those with no health care, for the ever-growing hordes of the poor and displaced in our wrecked economy.

I used to love fishing every year, but now all the steelhead, salmon and rock cod are gone. I used to love flying before it turned into a disgusting, degrading experience of fear and repression.4 I used to vote and completely know it would be counted, unquestionably, with effortless complete faith. I used to gaze around the perimeter of the Bay and not know that Cindy Sheehan and Mary Tillman were in my line of sight, my heart didn’t break for them or feel shame that whatever puny problems I had were tiny compared to the hell America delivered for their lives.

It will be up to all of us and President Obama (please God) to get what parts of the Democracy back we can, if we can, yes. Just know that for this American my country is completely gone, and I’ll do anything not to die in old age and realize I didn’t do everything in my power to get it back for my daughter’s generation. It would have been nice if the generations before me felt the same way.

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[lligrd]

1. Going To Be One Tough Job

I hope Obama and a Democratic Congress are up to it. We know Obama has the brains but does he have the grit needed? And he will need a supportive Congress with a backbone which they haven't shown to date. I hope they can do it. Hope is all we have left.