Unfinished Business-Election of 2012

Memorial Day is still the 30th of May. The parades were a thrill to me as a youth. My country at war for the defense of freedom, ours and the “free”world, was always a theme to remember.

The caissons, warplanes, artillery and weapons of war exhibited in the parades were  tools and symbols of  what remained from the fallen brave and valiant men and women that died for this country. The many portraits of cemeteries with their endless ranks and files of crosses were reminders that freedom came at a price. A staggering price that often was coupled with horrific details of the battles and the slaughter as part of a great plan for victory to preserve our freedoms and ultimately, our american way of life.

These freedoms have been echoed many times. Freedom of speech and the freedom to choose our leaders or representatives come to my mind now .

The freedom to vote to choose our elected leaders is monumental and paramount. For many Americans it was not available . Many methods were employed to deny this freedom .The disenfranchised were minorities, women, and the economically challenged. That era is coming to a rapid end, bit by bit, election by election. My country ,the United States of America, is the leader of nations embracing and enforcing the right to these freedoms.

The last four years have passed with unusual speed and intensity. I am of the opinion both factors were rooted in the fact that the United States of America was being lead by a man committed to keeping his promises and capable of  independent thinking  while governing and getting “things” done with courage, intelligence, grace and integrity.

The Presidency itself  is  a seat birthed in pressure by definition. The occupant, Barack Obama, a African American, made every move, every word, every decision a subject of scrutiny, controversy and immediate critique because he is the first non-white to hold this office.

A man of extraordinary energy and charisma, President Obama brought sanity and a feeling of “understanding”  foreign relations to the common man. His administration has ended a criminal war in Iraq while rescuing the auto industry and financial institutions. He has  pulled the economy out of free fall and certain depression.

Now we stand on the edge of the election 2012……

My glaring disappointment in this President is for not “cleaning house”. The Republican administration, G.W.Bush/Cheney, etc  were totally criminal in many ways in their last opportunity. That administration lied to congress and the American people. That administration killed  over one million Iraq citizens with lies and manipulations.They raped and pillaged one of the most ancient and culturally rich nations of this planet. They sat while terrorists planned the deaths of thousands of Americans. They employed thieves of the Defense budget like Halliburton and other “private” profiteers.That administration was directly responsible for the deaths and casualties of over a hundred thousand American  armed forces personnel. Governing with fear as an alternative threat at every turn, they wrecked home security and travel freedom forever by not pursuing the terrorist leads and condoning the al-Qaida gang. Which, was simply that, a “gang” with  impotent leadership, that is being erased by President Obama’s military and security leadership.

These Republicans fostered racism to the maximum. Fueled by greed, elitism, and absolutely evil intent they robbed the surplus. They slept on the national threat warnings and sent the economy into a free fall, a depression  with their larcenous financial plots. They promoted  doomed institution policies and a heartless approach to labor that wrecked  the auto industry.  They continuously threatened unions with other maneuvers. This is, in fact, what the President inherited when he won the election of 2008. Equality mandates equal justice for all.

Why weren’t they prosecuted? Yes, the spineless self serving Democrats who supported these policies should be included.

This lapse has set the table for the Tea party. It has given exposure to a sordid primary process of opponent dribble with the Republican opponent, after a putrid selection of choices, finally, a clueless veteran of elite mental vacuums and detachment from reality with not one shred of integrity or ability for begiinnings. This “postponement” has allowed time to have some discussion for his and their “sick”perspectives.

Bottom line or to be blunt, this election is about Racism at the core and self impressed controlling elitists desperately trying to continue their decadent inhuman practices into the future.

Healthcare, Education and Civil Rights, specifically Gay’s right to marriage are issues that are being reset presently to the benefit of mankind and not just the United States alone.

Sadly, This has promoted conversations that contained speculation on how can the Republican party be ever again taken seriously.

Their refusal to be honest or humane is overwhelming. It has been offered that these Republicans are the dimwitted descendants of the founding fathers from Europe’s trash pile. Some distinguished “founding Fathers” were “evicted” from Europe.Their religion and their daily practices were deemed less than sensible or even tolerable as far back as the 17th century. Yes, they were told to leave the continent or face the gallows. Our luck has some them as our forefathers.

The native American was the first casualty of these charming immigrants. That this group has been mating for four hundred years with the descendants of the pile of trash that was in Oglethorpe’s Georgia colony leads to a really scary horror movie plot except this is not the movies.

In my loose imaginings,  no other option seems to lead toward such evil and stubborn resistance to progress.

As a proud American on this Memorial Day, I eagerly look forward to the freedom for the right to vote..again.

This time for confirmation of the progress we have started. This time with the hope that the unfinished business will be addressed to  honor all that has been sacrificed  and died for.This time to eliminate the current possibilities  of threats  to our peace, our liberty, and our individual pursuit of happiness forever .