I hope I’m not just being naïve here, but when are we going to see an election for President where once the final blows are dealt and a winner is declared that the entire nation pulls together behind the winner? Has that ever been the case? I seem to remember a founding father saying something like “In America we may be right or wrong but abroad may we be always right”. To me that says that we can fight like cats and dogs here at home but when we show a face to the world it needs to be one united front. I agree. George Washington said that the two party system would be the doom of America. I agree with that too. I think the partisan bickering that we see today could not exist without the two party system setting half the country against the other. To me they are like the corporate bosses and the union bosses always at each others throats. All they can agree on is to disagree. It’s as if once they agree on anything that their constituents won’t need them anymore. My goodness, we can’t have that now, can we? The politicians need the people to NEED them.
I think what the people really need is to not need the politicians. Why can’t the busybodies in Congress leave us alone? Why can’t they get together for a little while each year, discuss the state of the nation, make crucial adjustments (as laid out in that forgotten document, the Constitution) and then go home to their real lives? I feel like I’m sitting in a wheelchair being “helped” into traffic by a well-meaning homicidal maniac.
Now I am not crazy about the idea of Barack Obama being elected President of these United States, but at the same time I am sick of the constant bickering between the Republicans and Democrats. I would really like to see everyone sit down with the best interests of the American people in mind, get the work done that needs to be done and go home. Even if what they end up doing is a mistake (which I expect it would be), at least our leaders would have been leaders and done their jobs. If it ending up being a mistake then we could clearly look back and say it was a mistake and move on and fix it. This endless bickering does nothing to help our nation. All it does is extend the blame game for another four years. Believe me, after Bush the Younger, there is plenty of blame to go around. Can we stop playing games now? Can our leaders really step up and be leaders again?
