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Larry Burge
Issue date: 3/28/08 Section: Opinion
In the Lemke School of Journalism at the UA, we are taught to view all things from an objective perspective.
However, in this time of uncertainty the very question rises as to who is actually running our country politically, economically and socially. Therefore, I reserve my right as an American citizen to weigh in by taking a quick look at our country's past and present domestic and foreign positions and the importance of who takes residence in the White House in January 2009.
If you have watched the HBO mini-series "John Adams," you might have noticed the film chronicles the Second Continental Congress held July 4, 1776. That was the time when our founding fathers declared the United States of America free and independent from British rule, and separated us from the English crown's unfair government practices.
Thinking about this film's historical perspective, it occurred to me that "We the people" have today become subject to the same sort of "repeated Injuries and Usurpations," described in the Declaration of Independence.
However, unlike the tyranny experienced by the 13 colonies in 1776, today the states have been let down by our president and U.S. Congress, in which we have placed our trust to uphold our nation's solvency. The wealthy and most powerful have used the same types of tactics the British monarchy used to take more than its rightful share from the colonies.
An honest investigation of our present domestic and foreign positions shows the blame not only rests upon President Bush, his cabinet members, his advisors and members of Congress, but squarely upon the Washington bureaucracy, lobbyists and corporate officials who fastened a tight hold on the American economy.
These men and women come from the groups of political insiders, worldwide stock marketers and corporate presidents who have put American citizens in a similar situation as the majority of people who lived in the original 13 colonies, the revolutionaries who felt the necessity to fight for freedom from their oppressors and a bureaucracy that, if left in place, would most surely have destroyed the hope in the American Dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
However, in this time of uncertainty the very question rises as to who is actually running our country politically, economically and socially. Therefore, I reserve my right as an American citizen to weigh in by taking a quick look at our country's past and present domestic and foreign positions and the importance of who takes residence in the White House in January 2009.
If you have watched the HBO mini-series "John Adams," you might have noticed the film chronicles the Second Continental Congress held July 4, 1776. That was the time when our founding fathers declared the United States of America free and independent from British rule, and separated us from the English crown's unfair government practices.
Thinking about this film's historical perspective, it occurred to me that "We the people" have today become subject to the same sort of "repeated Injuries and Usurpations," described in the Declaration of Independence.
However, unlike the tyranny experienced by the 13 colonies in 1776, today the states have been let down by our president and U.S. Congress, in which we have placed our trust to uphold our nation's solvency. The wealthy and most powerful have used the same types of tactics the British monarchy used to take more than its rightful share from the colonies.
An honest investigation of our present domestic and foreign positions shows the blame not only rests upon President Bush, his cabinet members, his advisors and members of Congress, but squarely upon the Washington bureaucracy, lobbyists and corporate officials who fastened a tight hold on the American economy.
These men and women come from the groups of political insiders, worldwide stock marketers and corporate presidents who have put American citizens in a similar situation as the majority of people who lived in the original 13 colonies, the revolutionaries who felt the necessity to fight for freedom from their oppressors and a bureaucracy that, if left in place, would most surely have destroyed the hope in the American Dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Eswitch
posted 3/28/08 @ 12:56 AM CST
I don't think the founding fathers had in mind socialism either like Obama does. Obama's rhetoric is only feel good but totally empty. His vision of change is extremely dangerous to our country. (Continued…)
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