We are in the middle of the Katrina of economic hurricanes. Bush/McCain and gang saw it coming, but they just let it happen. God, do we need a change. They have led our nation like it was the Titanic - straight into this financial iceberg.
Make no mistake about it: This crisis is very serious. We are on the verge of a depression - yes, I said it, a depression. Many of us already can check out our home values on Zillow (http://www.zillow.com/) to see just how far our home values have fallen in just the last month. Others of us can look at our 401(k) accounts and see the massive losses there. Others are being foreclosed upon. Others are unable to afford gas. And sadly, others can't afford food. Yes, this is the real America we are living in now. Not the land of prosperity. Instead, we see our country as the land of greed and division.
From the start we said that Obama was about uniting our country and that our opponents were about dividing us up - into the haves and the have nots. And, now we see this coming to bare. Unfortunately, many Americans, myself included, are at serious risk to their well-being. Our livelihoods may just be going down the drain.
Right now, as Obama said today, this is not about politics. This is not about partisanship (as McCain is trying to make it). This is not even just about Wall Street - and saving the asses of those wealthy bastards that ran this country into the toilet. This is about Main Street - and what we mean by Main Street is you, me. Us.
Obama was right from the very beginning. He is right today. He has not wavered from his stance. In the slog of a politics of distraction, Obama has stood tall - stood calm, fought back as needed - and today, we, all of us, see that he was right.
It's time for us to work together now, throw down politics, and make damn sure that the people who got us into this are punished and the little people, called the middle class and the working class, are not taken, once again, for granted. Because we are about to, all of us, take on possibly 1 trillion dollars in debt in order to save our country. And when we do this, we, not McCain, will be the true American heroes this time around.
-k g+s+ :: come together now :: !!
This is my submission for soundbite of the week.
Dear Fellow Bloggers: please read below. It starts out as the standard political diatribe, but then morphs into a rather colorful and, I hope, interesting proposal. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
We cannot wait until 2010, as Hillary proposes, to deal seriously with Iran and Syria (OK, Hugo Chavez can wait, but what's the point?)
Who has the moral high ground with Syria sheltering a million refugees from our war and our failed occupation?
Who needs whom? Thinking that we can get out of this war with our heads held high and our regal "POTAC" prestige intact is a naive and irresponsible pipe dream. (BTW I find all this POTAC stuff on the Hillary sites and from her supporters a little creepy and again, 1984-like - you know, the robot-like "All Hail the POTAC, All Hail the POTAC").
Well, nobody wants to hear the following, and I don't know when the correct time to say it to the broader public will be, but we are definitely going to have to eat some humble pie to get out of this disaster.
There are 5 well-known stages of major loss: shock, denial, anger, grief, and acceptance.
We're still in anger, and now is not the time to serve up the humble pie - we'll just get it thrown back in our faces in righteous, confused anger. However, those of us who are ahead of curve on this one (and have been since 2002) better get out our recipe books to figure out how to cook up various versions of old humble pie that will be tolerably palatable as we move into the stage of grieving for our lost war.
Now, humble pie is a delicacy (remember, the main ingredient is crow) that is certainly not to everyone's taste, but everyone knows in their heads that its good for them when they really need it, whether they like it or not, and consumption will speed up our transition out of that unpleasant grief stuff and into the acceptance stage, and that pleasant feeling of "I guess we're not that bad after all". But you don't get the dessert before you've eaten the pie.
Dear Fellow Bloggers: What do you think of all this? Am I way off target with my colorful musings or on the right track with this stuff? Do you think there's any hope for a humble-pie fest in 2008?
