Dolphan7
09-14-2008, 01:40 AM
I find myself struggling to breath sometimes in this battleground called the American Presidential Election. The air is so thick it is as if my visibility is limited by thick clouds of smoke. Just like on a real battlefield, I find myself involved in hand to hand combat from time to time, taking out my sabre and loping off a head or an arm occasionally. The attacks coming from many directions it seems. The left, the right, the middle. It seems there is no end to the battle, nor victory in sight for either side. My guy is this, your guy is that. He's a muslim, She's a book burner. He's a racist, He's too old. He said this, no he said that. I was for something before I was against something. The body count is rising. The funeral pires are burning. Nobody can see the bigger picture, having been too involved in the trenches. Meanwhile.....
I find a way to escape to the top of a hill, a good vantage point to see the battle raging below me. I see body parts occasionally hurtling upward above the smoke and haze, just momentarily until gravity brings them back to the earth. Yet the battle rages on, unstoppable it seems. It's soldiers oblivious to anything else. War, this kind of war, is just as horrible as real war. I find it refreshing to be on top of this hill. Away from the battle. But ocasionally I will venture down to the battle again to lope off a few more heads and arms I am sure. But for what?
In the end an ultimate winner will be determined, but at what price? A winner will suddenly emerge from the battle field, come out of the smoke and haze, wounded, limping, bleeding, barely able to stand, carrying what is left of a torn and tattered American Flag. A Flag that although once had 50 stars on it, sadly only represents half of them. What did he win? And what did it cost?
This is the sad state of American Politics. Every election cycle I wonder if it could ever get any worse, and it never let's me down. What used to pass for honest statesmanship seems to be a lost art. What used to pass for honest journalism, seems to be a thing of the past we well.
We tend to over-analize things. With the advent of CNN, enter the era of 24 hours a day news. Where once we would reveiw the news of the day from a local newpaper, and once a day in the evening after supper we would listen to our favorite news anchor tell us the important news of the day, just as if it were just news, not opinions, and questions, and doubts, and accusations and innuendo. Today we are constantly barraged with new, news, and more news. So much news that now the news people have to create news to fill in the 24 hours time slots. That is way too much news. We have the internet, and internet bloggers, we have network TV, we have cable news.....we have news on our iphones and cellphones. How much news does one person need in a day? We just don't seem to have enough time these days to do our own news gathering, it is already provided for us, and wala it comes with a built in opinion of the news as well....what a deal!
No I think we really need to step back a little, let the battle rage on the battleground down in front of us, get up on a hill, take a breather, let the dust settle a bit. Gather our wits. See the bigger picture. Stop fighting each other.
America is a divided country. United we have stood for over two centuries. Divided we will fall in less than one.
What the United States of America needs is to be The United States of America, not the United States sometimes of America and sometimes for only half of America.
No matter who you vote for this year, I don't think the country will fall apart. If we lived through Jimmy Carter, we can live though anything.
May God continue to Bless the USA!
I find a way to escape to the top of a hill, a good vantage point to see the battle raging below me. I see body parts occasionally hurtling upward above the smoke and haze, just momentarily until gravity brings them back to the earth. Yet the battle rages on, unstoppable it seems. It's soldiers oblivious to anything else. War, this kind of war, is just as horrible as real war. I find it refreshing to be on top of this hill. Away from the battle. But ocasionally I will venture down to the battle again to lope off a few more heads and arms I am sure. But for what?
In the end an ultimate winner will be determined, but at what price? A winner will suddenly emerge from the battle field, come out of the smoke and haze, wounded, limping, bleeding, barely able to stand, carrying what is left of a torn and tattered American Flag. A Flag that although once had 50 stars on it, sadly only represents half of them. What did he win? And what did it cost?
This is the sad state of American Politics. Every election cycle I wonder if it could ever get any worse, and it never let's me down. What used to pass for honest statesmanship seems to be a lost art. What used to pass for honest journalism, seems to be a thing of the past we well.
We tend to over-analize things. With the advent of CNN, enter the era of 24 hours a day news. Where once we would reveiw the news of the day from a local newpaper, and once a day in the evening after supper we would listen to our favorite news anchor tell us the important news of the day, just as if it were just news, not opinions, and questions, and doubts, and accusations and innuendo. Today we are constantly barraged with new, news, and more news. So much news that now the news people have to create news to fill in the 24 hours time slots. That is way too much news. We have the internet, and internet bloggers, we have network TV, we have cable news.....we have news on our iphones and cellphones. How much news does one person need in a day? We just don't seem to have enough time these days to do our own news gathering, it is already provided for us, and wala it comes with a built in opinion of the news as well....what a deal!
No I think we really need to step back a little, let the battle rage on the battleground down in front of us, get up on a hill, take a breather, let the dust settle a bit. Gather our wits. See the bigger picture. Stop fighting each other.
America is a divided country. United we have stood for over two centuries. Divided we will fall in less than one.
What the United States of America needs is to be The United States of America, not the United States sometimes of America and sometimes for only half of America.
No matter who you vote for this year, I don't think the country will fall apart. If we lived through Jimmy Carter, we can live though anything.
May God continue to Bless the USA!