What a Mess!

After eight years of a Republican administration and a divided congress (controlled most of that time by Republicans and Presidential vetoes), our country is in one hell of a mess! We are spending $10 billion a month to fight wars on two fronts halfway around the world. Homes are going into foreclosure at an alarming rate. Large investment firms are falling from bad loans and now a $700 billion Wall Street bail out bill is being foisted on the American taxpayers at the point of a “gun.” America is on the verge of bankruptcy and depression in more ways than one. Our values and our way of life are standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking a very deep hole.

The last eight years has seen the building of “Gitmo,” and the use of the terms like “extraordinary rendition” and “enemy combatants” to excuse human rights abuses as this administration ignored international conventions and treaties with impunity. This administration denied torture allegations even as the world viewed pictures of our abuse of prisoners at Abu Grebe in Iraq. Our own Supreme Court told this administration they could not sidestep due process in their treatment of prisoners (being held for years without charges in Cuba).

Our constitutional rights and freedoms at home have come under assault during this republican administration. Not even our libraries and our e-mails are exempt. With the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the TSA and unauthorized wiretapping this administration has created enough fear and mistrust in this country to destroy our very foundation and this nation’s founding values and protections. We were told these encroachments were necessary to keep us safe from the bad guys. We were told many things by this administration. With Dick Cheney and others, our government has become one of secrecy and hidden agendas. Little by little, the America we once knew changed under this administration, the Republican Party and this divided congress.

This country has been drained, sucked dry of its wealth and its worldwide respect. The past eight years has been a disaster. This administration has burned our bridges of good will around the world and now… destroyed our economy with deregulation and mounting debt. It has come to this all in the name of greed, special interests and political partisanship!

Enough is enough, my fellow Americans! It is time to take our country back. Elect a new party, a new leader and a new administration. VOTE. Please vote in November while we still have a country left.

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