(Shameless Promotion: This is cross-posted from my own blog, Nightmares For Sale, found at
http://aimlessmind.blogspot.com. I'm just getting it off the ground, so if you have a few moments, please check it out. Thanks.)
Arianna gets it right. We need hope in this country once again. I know that this constant focus on Bush is wearing me down. It tires me. He's doing horrible things to this country and reading about them day after day just helps to create despair. I do think what he is doing needs to be publicized, but we also need to counter his destruction with a hope of our own. I think the country is weary and they are looking for something to rally around. We've been driving into the ground with a blanket of fear about terrorism and all the nasty people in the world that want to get us. We've been beaten night after night by the news about all the terrible things that happen in the world, in our country, in our communities. It seems any more that we are blanketed with all the terrible things and the good things--the millions of good deeds that occur every day--fall to the side of the road, never to be heard from.
I want a leader who believes in the promise of America. I think that Americans are fundamentally good people who want to help others, who believe in lifting up the less fortunate, and would rally around a common cause for good. Not a political cause--but a moral cause toward a better future. I sincerely hope that Kerry has some plans in this regard. It's a can't-lose situation and I think the country would embrace a well-thought-out plan for bringing hope back into society amidst all the fear that has been hoisted upon us.