As the nation sat and waited on the 3rd of Nov. to see where Ohio's electoral votes were going to land, we found out a lot
about our nation's leaders and their staffs. We found out that even losers can be gracious - unlike their party and their followers who would rather chastise the winner than graciously bow out and plan for next year.
We found out that the American people would rather have as President a man who has never really fought for the country and is a little on the simple side, than a decorated Veteran of a another war that was not "our" fight,
who came back and fought for his fellow soldiers who were dying a unfortunate death in a country that America didn't care for, and left them to fend for themselves ( not to mention this man sounds like a diplomat not a bumpkin).
We also found out that just because people sign up to vote doesn't mean that they will get off their lazy bums and actually do it.
We also found out that the moral right will turn out if legislation is put on the
ballot: to control "immorality," namely propositions to deny the legalization of homosexual marriages. It's sad that even in this day we can't get past a man or woman's decision to get married to the same sex.
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guess this shouldn't surprise me because I still get ridiculed about my religion, and my southern accent makes people think I have the IQ of mayonnaise. I'm married to a Baptist; so I get ridicule from the pagan community. In
the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield, "I don't get no respect." So why should I be surprised that my fellow citizens accept that a Muslim is a terrorist and a Christian is not. This is a country that accepts
everybody but don't expect to be treated fairly here - we hate everyone who isn't like us, anyone who thinks different; this is true for pagans, gays, and everyone guilty of trying to change the world to the way they think it
should be. This is the same as we have been since our conception in 1776 and I don't see this changing in the foreseeable future.
Where do we go from here?
We keep trying to get our views out in legal, non-violent
ways.We should support the President as much as our individual morals will allow us to. We should support our troops till they can come home from this mess in the Middle East, no matter what your viewis on the war or your view on
the President.
We keep trying to get everyone equal rights and yes I do mean everyone should be equal, including allowing foreign born citizens who have been here 20 or more years to become President of our and their
country; I'm not saying Arnold should be President, but there are many foreign-born people in this country who have the ability not allowed to occupy the office, by a law made to protect us from English rule in the formative
years of our country.Our Forefathers could not foresee that our country would become as it is now a melting pot of all races and religions. They could not foresee an Israeli in the President's cabinet or an Austrian as Governor of
a state. So why not allow them to hold the highest office? It just might shake up the political process that is now run by rich white liberals and conservatives who are only worried about themselves and how to benefit their
friends and family - and it just might help the middle class and the people who are struggling to get by everyday because these people have been in debt and/or poor themselves.
We need to recognize that we have our own
problems internally and fix them before we try to fix the world. If all the money spent on wars and helping out other countries was spent on those without health insurance and the homeless - just to name two problems -we wouldn't
have these problems to deal with. If the government were to legalize and control drugs and prostitution like they do with gambling and alcohol - like they do in Amsterdam- we would not have a National Debt with in 10 - 15 years.
But that's just one theory by a few people who the government thinks are crackpots. If you have ever visited Amsterdam, you know that country has very strict rules on these things but they also have very little debt or
homelessness, and they do have national healthcare. But what do they know? They only have the least-stressed population in the world, while the U.S. has one of the highest in the world according to a study published a few
years back in the New England Medical Journal.
This is where we need to head now: fix the internals and not worry about everyone else unless it effects our daily lives or the lives of our people abroad, and even then it
should be an extraction, not a war. If we fix our problems then the world will once trust us and want to follow our example instead of trying to stay away and not anger us - the big bully or police force of the world. We need to be
the shining diamond that we once were, instead of the dullshell that we have become.
