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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (128686)	12/27/2006 7:13:30 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Carter was not a good leader. The country really lost its way and its pride under him. But he was a good person and that counts for something. Not much happened under Ford - he didn't have a lot of time - but he too was a good person. If you watched his speech on TV where he said "I'm a Ford - not a Lincoln" you saw a reaction much different than what we have today. There was a friendship among colleagues and an element of mutual respect - we've lost mutual respect in this country and it goes both ways. We've found a way to divide everyone so we're left with minority groups all over. We can divide race, gender, religion - and those are just the biggies - they've always been there. But that wasn't good enough. Now we've got smaller division like advocates for battered women with red hair and yeast infections. We had better find a way to quit making chapped, minority groups. The division bell has rung and we'd better find a way to silence it and relocate "mutual respect" or we're headed down the Kohler. I voted for Bush twice. I had to grit my teeth the second time but there was no alternative. That said - we're almost back to 1979 in terms of lack of faith in the system and American way. Bush can't fix it - he's pissed it away. The next leader (and damn the field doesn't look good) better have some charisma and ability to rally the country like Reagan did or we're going to be in a world of hurt. Nobody wants to hear that when a guy they voted for is holding office but if there's even a sliver of honesty left in people they've got to see the same things I do. If they don't they've either got their head in the sand (no pun sandintoes) or they aren't looking hard enough Let the arrows begin - I suspect I'll have a side full by tonight. And thats ok - because I know I'm right - just ask me LOL