The Blame Game

I am regrettably resigned to the facts of life in that Senator Obama will win the Presidential election come this November and usher in a dynasty that will sound the death bell for gun rights, freedom of speech, and our 200 years of American family values and moral traditions.

I know that many people dislike the republicans for a great many legitimate reasons, and frankly I am just as miffed about many of those same issues as you. However, I will not accept that the blame belongs to just the republicans for all that has gone wrong in our world as of recently events because I know the facts and the facts say that both parties were involved up to their beedy little eyeballs in the problem.

The finger pointing and such for political gain is absolutely asinine and any who do it, Nancy Pelosi I'm speaking to you, should be frowned upon. You all, democrats and republicans, were on the train when it derailed into the American tax payers neighborhood decimating our back yards with your mess. You people, you sorry ass elected officials, are the ones to blame and we should fire every last one of you who were not pro-active in attempting to prevent the derailing of this housing market train. You people took our trust, what little we gave you, and pissed all over us with it. Your betrayal and mismanagement of our nation is utterly unacceptable and you should all be ashamed of yourselves for having taken part in it.

The Democrats have been in power over the last two years and nothing good has come from it. Bush will be judged by history, and history alone as to whether or not he was a good president. The claims against him are many, the facts are in question, and the spin is on going on both sides. But lets face it, this problem started back in the 90's on so many levels to now assign sole blame to one side or the other is as I said above, utterly unacceptable. Both parties are to blame. They had our nation in their hands for 16 years and look at the mess they have made of it. Its time to fire em all and bring in a new set of leaders. Leaders like Sarah Palin. Sure many of you dislike her solely based upon the fact that she is a conservative republican, but I say to you now, as an American, that people like her be they republican, democrat, or independent who are not a part of the last 16 years of corruption and greed in Washington DC are exactly who we need to lead our nation now and into the future.

We need new blood, people who will work with each other putting the nation first, refusing special interest bribes, saying no to big cooperations who take our jobs over seas, higher than though spending, irresponsible risk taking, deceitful and dishonest behavior, and weak in the knee's and short on brains foreign policies.

We are in not only a struggle to safe guard our very way of life in the here and now, but a struggle to keep our way of life alive for the next 200 years. There are people out their who hate us and want us all dead. We cannot cuddle or cradle these monsters nor should we. However we cannot go around picking fights and offending our allies around the world with a wild west posse mentality. We are bigger than this, our country is bigger than this. We are, as Ronald Reagan spoke so fondly, a shining beacon to others.

Since 1992, and perhaps before, we have become less than what we were. Our nation should never have stood by and let the horrors of mass genocide go unanswered for so long in Europe and Africa. When we were attacked we should have taken decisive and permanent action against Al Qaeda. When the first signs of economic troubles started to surface in October of 97, 2000, 2001, and 2005, we should have forced our leaders to take action then, but we did not. And in doing nothing, we empowered our elected officials to continue to conduct business as usual. So in 2006 we made a change, and that change has bore out the fruits for which we now find horribly unpalatable. It is not their fault, it is ours for being conned so effectively by both parties into believing that they were smarter than we. These last 16 years have been one monstrous nightmare of epic proportions and I for one am sickened by the obvious truth that more of the same, regardless of who wins come November, will continue to go on and even worsen.

In order to pay off this national debt we will have to raise taxes. That is the simple ugly truth of the matter. We will have to end our policing efforts in Iraq sooner rather than later, rap up our endeavors in Afghanistan, and cut back on our world wide aid programs. We will have to cut domestic spending, reduce our military, and sell off our assets. On top of that we will have to continue to fight the good fight against world wide terrorism, keep and even improve our national security efforts, reach an accord on global issues such as immigration, pollution, and global warming. All of this while protecting our constitutional rights and freedoms, working across party lines for the betterment of America and by extension the world, and simply trying our best to not muck things up any worse than we have already done.

This is going to be a tall order for whomever wins office come November. As I stated before, I do not agree with Senator Obama's political ideology, but if he is elected, apart from his gun grabbing efforts, I will give him my full support and be damn proud of any positive accomplishment that he and our other elected officials perform while being understanding and supportive of any failures. All I ask is that we all work together over the next many years to fix what is broken without breaking anything else. To keep us all safe while not making others unsafe. To protect our freedoms and liberties without ending others. We are Americans, we are all in this fight together and by damn it, we will all either sink or swim together or its game over for us and for our very way of life.