Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain contribute nothing of value for the common good between the two of them. What they have are lies, distortions, distractions, divisiveness, exaggerations, and paranoid ideations ("Lipstick on a Pig" remark).
Years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and some activist before him came along and pointed out to African Americans and White Americans that there were powers who benefited from "Jim Crow" while "Jim Crow" held both poor Whites and poor African Americans down. Those at the bottom and in the middle of the economic rung began to work together in the best interest of Americans. They realized that America is the American citizenry.
Today we have a chance to go boldly forward and "Turn America Around" leaving the negatives of the Bush Administration, the fears, and the decades of paralysis from the "isms" which reek of a stench some still fear to shed.
All love to cheer the patriot but few realize themselves as such. It has been not a uniform alone, not a physical or emotional wound alone, not the loss of freedom alone, nor physical pain alone. One's ability to love one's fellowman, with all of one's soul, and do the right thing by one's fellowman is the soldier's sole purpose for putting on a uniform, bearing physical pain and deprivation, and loosing one's freedom if need be.
Once the "patriot" can no longer be loyal/truthful to the citizens at large and to "the least of them", especially, that patriot is but "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal". Let the past patriotic deeds be remembered with praise. However, a change for the people is necessary. The patriot and the needs of the patriot are not greater than those of the people he once served when in uniform.
I am an Obama supporter not because he is young and African American. I want my country to live up to the core democratic values we teach children everyday in school. Telling the truth is one of those major core values. We will not get either from McCain-Palin.   Read More »