If
this year is to be a change election, then let’s truly really make it
one.
Barack Obama cannot do that.
Despite his flourishing rhetoric, despite the fact that the color of his
skin makes him a change in the way our candidates look, in what
significant way is Barack Obama any different than any other candidate
who has run for president?
As
far as I can tell, the only change that Barack Obama has suggested in
his platform that is new is his willingness to engage in direct talks
with rogue leaders. And yes, that may be a change, but a dumb
change. Why empower leaders whose whole reason for being is to be
empowered?
The American electorate has bought into the Obama hype. “Yes We Can,”
and “Change We Can Believe In” are but slogans and slogans as we have
learned even recently thanks to George W. Bush “I’m a Uniter Not a Divider”
are simply words. Haven’t we learned that words cannot solve our
governments’ problems?
At
the core of these problems is not a simple struggle of ideas or totally inept
governance. The problem with Washington is that the two parties’, the
Democrats and the Republicans, have become so entrenched in their own
dogma, they have forgotten what government is all about: bettering
America and American’s lives.
So that what we have today, and have had for too long in Washington, is
a government vested solely in party politic. The party has become more
important than the people.
If you doubt this assertion just take a look
at the primary process the Democratic Party has just put us through as
core evidence of this truth. Hillary Clinton was manipulated out of the
nomination, not by votes, but for inter-party politics.
This country doesn’t need a unity ticket which combines politicians of
like minds. What this country needs is a unity government. And the only
way to get it is for those in power to realize that unless we meet in
the center where we can work to a common goal, and that our common goal
is to unite to make America the powerful - not the parties – than
nothing will change in America.
The only way, therefore, for us to achieve true change is to offer the
American people a truly change ticket uniting a Democrat and a
Republican.
John McCain and Hillary Clinton should run on the same
ticket.
But the Republicans and Democrats have wildly different opinions on
healthcare, abortion, taxes, Iraq you say. It could never work.
But it can work and it must work, or all those dreams of
a better tomorrow will fritter away into more politics as usual.
Can America afford this? Are we destined to become like a banana
republic…every new broom sweeps clean? Year after year more of the same until our
dreams crumble under the weight of political gamesmanship?
But should we dare to be truly different, to take a chance on a dream,
maybe America can rise above the partisanship that has nearly destroyed
her. Only then can we and will we have a chance to honestly, truthfully
and positively be able to realize the promise of that better tomorrow we
all so long for in our dreams.
It was the daring dream of a few that made this country a great land.
But we have lost our way. It will be a daring dream ticket that can
return this country
to the promise that our best days truly lie ahead.