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OH HILLARY!
With the elections coming up, I feel obliged to comment on the insanity which is our political system, albeit maybe the best one yet devised by man. (Can woman do better? Hopefully, we'll find out! Surely it couldn't be worse...)
As if it weren't enough that we have discussions about whether Hillary wore a V-neck blouse because she needs to prove she's a woman (as opposed to that she felt like wearing that blouse that day, which would prove she's a woman), we now have a major paper discussing whether John McCain's sweater was "gay." Oh, please.
You know, there are real things happening out in the real world -- that place our news cycle seems to forget about. Real people are working, and struggling, and dying, and suffering, and triumphing over adversity, and fighting for a better life, and trying to make a difference.
Oh, sure, I know -- bo-o-o-o-oring. We'd rather spend time focused on the trivia of celebrity lives than having to compare our own relative prosperity to those in really bad shape. God forbid we actually had to be thankful for all we have. That might lead to the need to be disgusted with how much we are losing based on the folly of our leaders.
I can live for a few more months with absurdity -- although there are a lot of people, including men and women in our military, who will not. But I cannot live with constant terror. Being the victim of an Islamic terrorist act is less likely than being struck by lightening. Having Dick Cheney as the most powerful man on the planet -- that is an absolute certainty of disaster.
Whew! Absurdity wins again.
A PRESCRIPTION FOR RENEWAL
- 1. The macho posturing and belligerent attitude of this administration must stop. Only visionary leadership that inspires the world to come together for peaceful co-existence can bring the kind of cooperation that will destroy the threat of terror once and for all.
- 2. As the world's superpower, the United States must set the example of cooperation, negotiation, positive incentives, and multinational responsibility for a peaceful world. The threat of force is inherently understood; it need not continuously be used to bully others into submission. The power of our ideas, our ideals, and our leadership should be what moves the world forward.
- 3. We should be big enough to admit our mistakes, acknowledge hubris based on fear, and then enlist the support and cooperation of the world community through alignment on a common vision of what is possible. President Kennedy got us to the moon based on such a positive vision, and the benefits that flowed from that were unimaginable.
The world is hungry for the kind of leadership that can inspire all nations toward peace and prosperity. Everyone wants their children to live in such a world. But that cannot happen based on bullying, force, schoolyard rhetoric, or lies. We either model the behavior we want the world to emulate, or history will remember us as having missed the opportunity to make a difference at a crucial time in mankind's evolutionary history.
It's our choice, but time is running out.
