Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:20 pm
gio wrote:Just look how the general attitude and condition of the nation has gone to shit over the last 8 years... and then tell me the president doesn't have the power to affect things.
Gio, if I didn't have hope that words and thoughts mean things and change things, I wouldn't be on this forum and others seven days a week. My hope can coexist with my opinion that America will eventually be destroyed, from within and from without, but when that will happen is yet to be determined, and how ugly it gets is yet to be determined. There is value in time. I'm fighting for time. Empires don't turn as rancid and as hypocritical as ours has and then rejuvenate themselves. The rats will sink the ship and then leave it. I'm not going to fake optimism, but I'm going to try to tell people that we can still step on the brakes a little.
If someone wants to tell me that we will ever live in a country again that will sacrifice miltary budgets to promote peace, I will argue with them. If someone wants to tell me that we will ever again have an economy that favors the middle class over the parasitic wealthy, I will argue with them.
Barack Obama cannot stop these trends. America has decided that what it wants to be is the most feared and militarized nation on Earth. This is a make or break proposition for a country. You either become that, or you perish. The Romans thought they could do it, the Nazis thought they could do it. We have had our country hijacked by megalomaniacs who are operating on a plan that is outlined for the next 100 years; they do not stop this plan because people vote in a decent man from Chicago.