Caring For My Country
Those were the comments of a reader of this site. The comment was left recently. I’ve been thinking a lot about that comment, and I thought that it warranted a response. I should make it clear that this is not a response directly to that comment, and that in no way is this entry an attack against that person.
The very reason I do tear my country down so much is because of what is happening to it. I am not the problem with America. There are people in power now who do not love America. They are using different techniques to achieve their purposes. They lie. They tell you one thing, then turn around and behind the scenes, do another. There was a reason that we went to war with Iraq. “Weapons of mass destruction” was never the reason. We were lied to.
Senator Frist has decided to push ahead, once again, for a national constitutional amendment against gay marriage. He stated that he knows he does not have the votes to pull this off, but it’s not about that. He is simply doing this for his own political gain. He has no concern of how divisive this issue is. He is using it to be able to say that, at least he tried to stop gay marriage. That will be very convenient for him when he runs for president.
There will be a day of reckoning for those who do these deeds. There will be a day where the Constitution will speak again to all of us. Until that happens, I will do everything in my power to bring America back to the great country it used to be, in so many ways.
People need to start caring. People need to take their country back. How do you do that? You vote. That is your power. In other countries, people risk their lives just to get to the voting places. In America, only a fraction of our total population votes. The point I’m trying to make here is that the person who made that quote above, didn’t vote in the last presidential election because she was too busy... didn’t have time.
You know, if you don’t take the time to vote, you really have no room to bitch about where the country is at. And, you certainly give up your right, on this website, to bitch about what I am saying!
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Respect is a two way street. When gay Americans are no longer just pawns used by hate mongers to get out the votes of the uneducated, the respect will return. In the mean time, President Bush represents what America is today. Can't say I care much for either.
Very true Will. I believe that First, at this point in time, has only one ambition; to run for President. I don't believe he has a chance in hell of winning, and he has no wishes to stay in Congress. So, he's basically out. It's interesting for me to watch the Republicans these days. On any given issue in the news, they are all over the place. Then, I wonder how long is it going to take the White House to pull them together and unite them.
That is getting more difficult for the White House to do by the day because Bush's approval ratings are at an all time low. Congress is scared. Lately, it's just been one bad thing for them after another.
The person who is an oddity for me is Rick Santorum. This extremely conservative Senator has never bucked the status quo on anything - not so publicly as Dubai. This at a time when there's a real possibility that Santorum may lose his Senate seat in PA to his Democratic challenger. If there was ever a time to look for support, it's now. Yet, more and more I see him distancing himself from far-right Republicans. Strange.
Frist was briefly in fairly strong opposition to the Dubai ports management deal, but they must have gotten to him and twisted his arms pretty hard because now he's all for it. Some Republicans, including some very influential ones, are actually showing some integrity and forming an opposition. I'm hoping it may do some good.