If I had been debating on the stage in Cleveland tonight, here is what I would have said in my closing statement:
Well over six years ago this country elected a President who promised "Hope and Change." Since then we have had a series of sad disappointments.
First, we have learned that hope is not a strategy. President Obama has allowed himself to be buffeted by inaction ... watching from the sidelines as our enemies have taken advantage of his timidity and our allies have wrung their hands in dismay.
Secondly, we have sadly discovered that the changes that this community organizer had in mind have ran counter to most of this nation's fundamental values and commitments. He has done his best to dilute our comity, our morality, our fiscal strength, our hegemony, our unity, and our destiny.
This political disaster cannot be repeated in 2016 with the next Democrat candidate who believes that, because she is a woman, she deserves to continue the puerile policies of her former boss. This country, born of individual liberty and sacrifice, may not survive four more years of such misguided ineptitude and moral corruption.
Thank you ... and I ask for your support to help me fix the morass in which we now find ourselves.
Afterward: Admittedly I am playing Walter Mitty here ... pocketa, pocketa!
In closing, now my dear friend you say we will not survive another four years if blah blah blah. I recall someone saying six years ago that we would not survive the present administration. As I look around, I think we have survived, n’est pas. Maybe not your liking, but we have survived.
ReplyDeleteYes, we have survived ... but is this country better off in the world now than then? Clearly we are going in the wrong direction. And yes, it might take Hillary eight years to undo us, but that is clearly where we are headed.
ReplyDeleteWhat does "better off in the world" mean? If you are sullen because the neoconservative dream of dominating the financial, social, political, and military fabric of everyone through decisive unilateral unapolegitic American exceptionalism is not panning out, then we have certainly failed, possibly doomed to improving our infrastructure, climate, and society. Too bad!
ReplyDeleteI think you just answered my question.Stepping back from the world is certainly the current Democrats' objective ... but have we taken this opportunity to improve our infrastructure, climate or society one iota? Saying you are doing this doesn't make it so.
ReplyDeleteAll we need to do now is reassign the military to public works projects so that all that treasure of ours going to foreign soil comes right back home.
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