Listen I know that we are all entitled to say just about anything we want in the many forum, pages on the street and well just about anywhere but I just read a post written by a person that alleges to be a teacher, parent, spouse and American and while claiming to be all these things still found a place to keep the fear & hatred inside safe from the light of rationality.
This particular post was commenting on the Obama presidency what this person wrote is really irrelevant... it's the motivation that I think is most interesting.
We have all heard it before, griping from the loser in some contest ( in this case a presidential election ) but what is important to remember is that this is not a ball game or some other contest this is about the direction of our country and there is not supposed to be a loser. The idea is that whoever we pick the poor bastard should be working for us.
In the interest of full disclosure you should know I do not write from within the borders of America but know also it is not lack of love that drove me from America's bosom it was more the desire to see the world.
It is a sad and ultimately disappointing fact that there has hardly been a minute of my life that I have not longed for the promise that is America, not the promise of two chickens in every pot & a car in every garage or the American dream of house holding or the like, no... the promise I'm thinking of is the promise of a union... that we, a group of people as different as flakes of snow, and despite the differences still choose to live together to promote the common good.
I guess the problem is ... just what is the common good?
I have seen, in my travels, much commonality in the people I have met the needs in desires of one group are not so different from those of another, I have seen the artificial nature of the walls we have built between us and countless others before me have remarked on the same and somehow we all still seem to cherish our walls.
Imagine what we could get done if we had clear skies?
We might even make up for thousands of years of underachieving!
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