Barack Obama and George W. Bush Present: America’s New Civil War!

     Enemy territory.  That’s how the press described President Obama’s location for his historical speech yesterday.  But he wasn’t in Afghanistan.  Or Iraq.  No, he was speaking at West Point.  This has gone entirely too far.  We have sunk so low in our internal bipartisan war that we are starting to lose sight of anything but that battle.

     While we’re out here bickering, some rather important announcements were made… announcements that will shape the upcoming history of the United States.  As we sit and pick at each other, we have completely missed the fact that the president’s plan is essentially everything, in a bipartisan society, that it needs to be.  The right wants us to send more troops over to finish the job.  We are.  The left wants a specific plan for withdrawal, and we have that, too.  It is, upon inspection, the right plan.  It accomplishes everything we need. 

     But we simply don’t care.  The left loves it, but blames the right for wanting to send our kids to be killed. (which is obviously what they want. )  The right says that by setting a time limit, we’re sending a message that all the Afghan insurgents have to do is wait it out and they’re home free.  In less that 24 hours, the sides have obliterated this to the point where we barely remember what the hell he was talking about to begin with.

     Not that Obama is blameless in this;  this is seemingly his first attempt at running this country like a left wing dictator with no regard for the half of America with conservative beliefs.  The problems in this area that Bush started, he has more than cultivated.

     Can we please pull our heads out of our collective ass?  We are completely perverting an already corrupted system.  We are on the verge of turning what was meant to be part of the system of checks and balances into an internal political civil war.  We have all but stopped thinking about issues.  We simply check CNN or Fox News to see what the Republican or Democrat point of view is, and simply follow the leader.  Differences of opinion are turning to hate.  Democrats absolutely despised Bush; Republicans similarly seem to think that Obama is the anti- Christ.

     Right and left are meant to be perspectives, meant to generate healthy debate, in the interest of finding common ground. (Being that the right answer usually lies in that middle area.)  Perhaps we should stop listening to CNN and Rush Limbaugh for a little while, and focus on the issue at hand.  Or else we may very well destroy ourselves long before the terrorists do.