What's Wrong with America?

Bill Clinton once said "There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America." Never more true than right now. This country needs an initiative like that again. We need to recognize that there is a lot wrong with America. We have been led astray by people with their very close-vested agenda and there needs to be a reckoning. Someone needs to stand up and say this again (obviously H. Clinton can pull this one out of the bag even if she is now trying to distance herself from her husband.) While the time when people who criticized anything at all about the administration were called un-patriotic, there is still a lingering sense out there that "if you are not with me you are my enemy."

I had a conversation with someone recently who said to me that the terrorists were waiting for the next attack until after the election. If a democrat was elected he said to expect an attack so the Democratic president would withdraw from Iraq, leaving, of course, Iraq to the terrorists to plot even greater, deadlier attacks. Seems far-fetched to me. Also, it's a four-year-old argument. I distinctly remember the same exact argument in 2004.

Not to offend anyone's position but my politics and election decisions are based on my own, not terrorists opinions and strategies. Also, the American people decide when, where and how we go to war, not the enemy. So for someone to say (threaten?) that if the Dems get elected, we get attacked is ridiculous and, dare I say, un-American. Since when do we elect officials based on what one of our enemies thinks is best for their country?

Also, I'd like to point out that the Democrats swept a good part of the Senate in 2006 and there were no attacks. So past history has proven that statement wrong.

I'd also like to point out that Democrats are not by their very nature Doves. The American people will decide what is right and wrong for America themselves, thank you, regardless of enemy politics. What we need in this country is major change. Let's move away from King George and his warmongers and to a country that knows how to hunt down its enemies on all fronts, not with some glorious idealistic crusade to spread Democracy.

It is hard to believe that this guy's (Bush's) father was the one who once said he wanted a "kinder, gentler nation." He should have wished for a smarter son.