Change On The Way? Part 2 (Hey Texas and Ohio listen up!) (standard:Editorials, 2008 words) [2/2] show all parts
Author: Lori	Added: Feb 23 2008	Views/Reads: 2584/1900	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Continuing my opinion on the election. Thanks to the person who sent me an email on this. You may be right, but let me delusional a while ;o).

Thanks to everyone who commented on the first installment of this piece.
The best thing, to me, about politics is the discussions you COULD have 
if you talked about the freely. Here's the second part where I discuss 
the war and religion. 

Change On The Way Part 2 

By: Lori D. L. 

Like every American, this war concerns me. I don't support it, have been
against it from the beginning. If Bush had gone after the person 
responsible I would have stood behind him 100 percent. Instead he chose 
to defend his family name and big oil companies. 

My mother has told me since I was a small child something that has stuck
in my head these last eight years. For once, I can prove my mother 
wrong. “Democrats stand for war. Republicans are for money.” Okay, so 
she was half right. By the way, my mother is an Independent. Momma 
thought Democrats were the fighters, but she's half wrong and history 
can prove it. JFK was Democrat wasn't he? Cuba Missile Crisis. Okay, 
Nixon was Republican, I think. Vietnam. Who was President during the 
Korea War? Started with Truman. Democrat. Ended with Eisenhower. 
Republican. WW II? FDR. Democrat. Persian Gulf. Bush I. Republican. 

In the last 20 years a Democrat was the one who got the country back on
its feet finically. I can't remember the debt when Clinton came into 
office. I think it was around 18 trillion dollars. He got off his butt 
and wiped the slate clean. What is he going to be remembered for? 
Getting a blow job in the Oval Office. Big whoop! 

Bush came into office with a balanced budget. Within two years he
started a war. After eight we have a deficient of 450 trillion dollars. 
Can we ever recover from a debt that high? Sure we can. You know how 
it's going to happen? No matter who becomes President they're going to 
have to raise taxes. Remember the first Bush's campaign slogan? “Read 
my lips. No new taxes!” Well Bush II has now made that impossible. 

Before someone calls me out on this. No one said they are going to raise
taxes. Common sense tells you this. It also tells you they are going to 
have a hard time pushing for education, government, and health care 
funding without having to raise them. We can't recover without having 
the money to do it with. You know what though? I would support any new 
tax bill Barack comes up with if he could get us out of this hole! 

Both candidates are against the war, of course. Barack has fought since
he was elected to his office. He has voted, repeatedly, to not fund the 
war, not put any more people in the line of fire, and has voted to 
bring our troops home. 

Hillary has done some of that too. I think it's because she knows she
screwed up by voting for the war. She stands on her soap box now, but 
things were different when the votes were being cast. She has only 
herself to blame because she voted to send our troops into harm's way. 
So, I hope, everything she says about this war falls on deaf ears. 

I cannot support someone who was for this war in the beginning. I'm
sorry. I just can't do it. Yes, Saddam Hussein was a threat. He 
could've been a major threat if the WMDs had been inside the country. 
He could have tried to destroy us. But you know something? Only 
Americans are going to destroy America. We are too strong, militarily, 
to be knocked down. But! Mentally, emotional, spiritually, and 
finically we are weak. We will attack ourselves, as a nation, on these 
issue and do more harm than any WMD could ever do! Look at how these 
issues have played in this election alone? 

“After 9/11, instead of the politics of unity, we got a political
strategy of division with the war in Iraq as its centerpiece. The only 
thing we were asked to do for our country was support a misguided war. 
We lost that sense of common purpose as Americans. And we're not going 
to be a truly united and resolute America until we can stop holding our 
breath, until we can come together to reclaim our foreign policy and 
our politics and end this war that has cost us so much.”-Barack Obama 
speaking in Clinton, IA Sept. 12, 2007 

“The catalogue of miscalculations, misjudgments, and mistakes in Iraq


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