A thirst for promise

These last few weeks the phenom of Obama has swept across this land like a wild fire. The press is ga ga over this man and the excitement he creates. It is not the man but the country that is thirsty for the absence of fear and the hope of promise. America is a forward looking country. As much as cowboys and bravado form our self image so does promise in the future. We have reached our breaking point of dread. It is unnatural for us and therefore unsustainable.

For longer than one might have suspected and longer than should have been endured, we succumbed to Rove's and Cheney's and W's notion of paranoia. Because we are a naturally open country we struggled and retched our way, stumbling unsuccessfully to a state of seige. Because this was so unnatural and foreign to us we could and would not sustain it. Now their time has just about run out. I think we have finally, because of time alone realized that the price of the boggy man is too great and doesn't make us feel good.

It would be nice to think that the mesmerized fog of unquestioned acceptance of fear as the overriding pyridine has finally lifted. We have been bamboozled into going way overboard and unbelievably too far. It is true we suffered a major shock. Still, it now seems that our reaction was an over reaction. True, at the time it would have been heresy to say as much so we kept our heads down and bided our time. Now is that time. With a clear head and conscience we can speak up and come forward and say stop this madness now.

We don't need to spend unimaginable quantities of treasure and blood to battle the forces of evil. Funny how all the jerks who got us into this, as soon as they leave office, have a coming to Jesus sort of speak. I heard General Powell this weekend and listening to him. I wanted to bitch slap him and say, "You are a sniffling coward. To come out with statements now that you should have made 2 and 3 years ago makes me think you are no better than the worst imaginable opportunist. Your ego must be so fragile and large that only you could say the things you have in the past and what you are saying now with a straight face and not duck for fear of things being thrown at you in rage and disgust."

We have looked under every rock. We have demanded every grandma show us her corns. We have made any trip to the airport an ordeal to be put through instead of an event to be looked forward to, and now its time to stop the "new normal," and get to a normal normal and get along with our lives. So much damage has been perpetrated on us by our own. We have much to do to right what must be righted and rejoin the rest of the world. Lets role up our sleeves and get on with it!