You know, I was moved to tears as I listened to the President speak to the people of Tucson. His eloquence and poignancy struck home to the tragedy of those events. I felt that he spoke for all of us with his words of healing and resolve. It made me proud to be lead by such a man.
But once the flowers were cast, and the world of real politics reappeared in the news of the day, the sodden emotions of oneness subsided, and a sense of "Same Old... Same Old" emerged. Yes, we grieved for the dead and wounded of Tucson, but had anything really changed? Were we any more attuned to civility? Had we experienced a reversal of the vitriol that seemed to permeate our leaders actions and words?
How does a nation heal itself from such cruelty, if it's leader can't find the gumption to stand up for what's right and just? Are we still the nation that everyone likes to hate? God knows we're making it easy to do it. Have we learned anything from the last two years,... or, the last ten, for that matter? Apparently not! How did we come to this? The seeds of greed sprout evil fruit.
It's time for the President to "man up", and speak out against the injustices that we are wreaking in the name of democracy. We put our hope and trust in Mr. Obama, and although he's shown us literacy (a quality easily forgotten during the last Presidency), what he hasn't shown us was a truth of conviction. Instead he has continued the policies of the Bush/Cheney dictatorship. Sure he's got a couple of good guy points, but generally speaking, we're still acting like the "Evil Empire". We want more than that! We want you stay on line with the principles you said you stood for!
Where's the justice for the war criminals, Dick and "W"? Where's the end of Guantanamo Bay? Where's the end of torture by the United States? Bradley Manning could tell us a bit about that, if he were allowed out of his solitary confinement. Where's the new technologies that will bring us jobs? Where's the investment in those jobs? Where's the man we voted for? What happened to those ideals he so eloquently spoke of when he was wooing us to elect him?
It's time, Mr. President........ It's time for you to step up and be the man you promised. Not the man who only seems to be able to step to the right. Not the conservative puppet of the "Corporatocracy".
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