Must We Continue This Humiliation?

Previous presidents have built up this country to be the greatest power the world has ever seen. The level of respect for the U.S. by world leaders was at unprecedented levels. Our financial market was unequaled by all others. And then along came the thieving, lying, bumbling George Walker Bush and his manipulating, constitution hating, puppet master VP Dick Cheney.

Since taking office these clueless fools have sabotaged every governmental policy and economic advance that made this nation a world leader. They have rewritten policy and subverted constitutional law for the purpose of centralizing presidential power and taken irresponsible actions in foreign matters that have only weakened the military, crippled the economy, instilled distrust and fear in the American public toward the federal government, and placed this country in ever greater danger of terrorist attack. They, along with their neo conservative cohorts, represent the very worst to ever happen to this country.

I implore this nation’s voting public to please do not let the George Bush/Dick Cheney clones John McCain/Sarah Palin continue this downward spiral. We are in desperate need of any change that will lead to a reversal from what this current court of fools has done to us.

This war on terrorism was nothing more than a ruse, a vehicle through which more power could be shifted from congress to the presidential office. It is undermining the constitution and what our forefathers intended for “We the People…” And it is destroying everything that has made this country what it was before these self-serving, egocentric clowns took office.

World view of the U.S. has been badly battered, we are no longer viewed as a bastion of democracy. Our credibility for following ethical business practices has devolved into a “street vendor level” market scheme. We can no longer chastise any country for their use of torture or kidnapping or civil rights violations or nation building because this American government has participated in these same atrocities. The U.S. is no longer a moral beacon to which immigrants flock to settle here.

Our streets are no longer ‘lined with gold’ they have been paved over with broken promises and are now lined with tent cities of the victims of unethical corporate practices, inattentive regulators and distracted politicians whose favors are being bought by corporate lobbyists. And it took Bush/Cheney and their gang less than six years to do it.

The next president will be faced with having to restore a sense of confidence in the United States of America, both here at home and abroad. We have to foster cooperation with other countries to rebuild once powerful alliances. Doing these things will not likely happen if McBush is elected.

G W’s arrogance, unilateralism, insensitivity, and long-time denial of the need for urgent action on climate change have all fed directly into the plummeting credit of the U.S. around the world. It would have been a different story with a different president. But it will certainly continue if John McCain/Sarah Palin is allowed to slither into the presidential seat.

God help us all.