It’s funny how those, in the name of Republicanism, can bash the preliminary steps being taken to correct an almost complete collapse of all things American; a collapse that comes on the heels of an eight-year Republican presidency.

The uncertain conditions that we are paying for today are the consequences of many years of failed economic, energy, social and foreign policies… and not just Bush policies. Some of Bill Clinton’s, Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's policies helped us see this day.

The fact that our current administration is seeing flack from both the right and the left is true evidence that our President is trying to take our country to a centrist state. “Sometimes, in order to stop a swinging pendulum, one has to take the bar to the middle.” 

Yes, buying jets, dispensing bonuses, and other grandiose spending trysts helps the economy, but not when these things are funded directly with the tax-payer’s dollars. For someone to justify, in these dire times, the fleecing of the American treasury by the very captains of industry who caused these problems, simply to fuel their own greed, is the biggest con of all; a country club of the usual suspects and the sacrificial goat… Bernie Madoff. We will throw him completely under the bus, and rightfully so, but let the hundreds of others just like him; these calculating captains of our banks and industrial anchors, run free.

All of this and not one written word about Iraq, the catalyst that started this destructive slide into a National… make that a World economic disaster. Our trophy? A free Iraq? Saying we liberated Iraq is like saying that Peter Bogdonovitch liberated Dorothy Stratton. 

If there’s one thing I ask you take from our President it’s that we are not a country of red and blue people. We are all purple, covered with the hurtful bruises of the past and that this is our time. Time to pick up and work together as one country, undivided and capable of defeating this divisive virus that was cast upon on us all some ten years ago.

T. Rafael Cimino