Not a Memory - Just a Reminder

I'm starting to feel like Americans are waking up. I feel like we are starting to stretch our atrophied political muscles, take the media filled cotton out of our ears. We're clearing our throat from all the rhetoric that has been shoved down there. We are a giant getting ready to speak.

I don't want McCain and Obama to spout each other's voting records - why are they spending time memorizing useless facts from the past ... I thought they were both about change. Do you think I don't know how legislature likes to slip the pork in the bills, so we may have a nice energy bill, but it's full of back scratches. So when you tell me your opponent voted against energy or insuring children or supporting troops ... I'm willing to bet there was a good and noble reason. Don't tell me what you DID, clearly CLEARLY things were done wrong in the past. Don't tell me what he did - its not like you're presenting an unbiased informative spin. Tell me what you will do, what you really believe. You're trying to win me over emotionally, but you don't seem to realize there is much more to my emotional response than just your words.

When McCain is talking I feel like he's speaking WAY DOWN to me ("my friends" -- you're not my friend John, you don't know me - you are a rich old guy, you've never been a young mom worried that her sons will get sent off to fight your hundred year war, started by lies your cronies spewed before my kids were born. You have a house for every day of the week -I think 7 pairs of shoes is extravagant). I feel like everything he says is memorized rhetoric (Maverick). I feel like he hears the topic of a question and jumps in with his memorized answer to that topic, ignoring the question. I hate the smile he gets on his face when Obama makes a good point (I don't understand you either, John). You, in your shiny black suit, you are not being honest, you are not being yourself, do you not trust that I will like the real you?

Obama seems to speak with an inner strength, calm, and honesty. His answers don't feel so rote, maybe it's easier for him to memorize the answers and voting records, maybe he has more time practicing his "cool" look. I may not agree with Obama on every issue, but I don't either man has the power to make the changes they are suggesting anyway.

America is NOT broken. Americans need to stop thinking government is something outside of us. It is us. We, the people, have fallen asleep, drunk at the wheel. US. You and me. We tell them what to do, they are puppets, WE hold the strings.

The American people should be sending letters to our elected officials every month, every week. We have forgotten that we have the power, we can direct them, they have to listen. If they realize that we realize that we have the power, not them, they will realize their cushy, cushy jobs are at stake and American Government will work again. Don't sit and watch the news and criticize the bums, go to your computer and TELL them what to do. We the people are the bosses. We know health care is a right and a responsibility, no one's gramma or child should suffer. We know we should help in places like Darfur, Rwanda, Nazi Germany. We may not be privileged to their TOP SECRET information showing WMD, but if they expect to use our money, they better prove the need FIRST.

We CAN say NO.

This is all fixable. We, collectively, are smart enough to do this. We are a powerful, brilliant force. Get to work. Tivo the good TV for later, we have work to do now.