Yesterday, I send out an email to several of my friends and associates. As it happens in our cyperspace world, a few emails got sent to some I would have not included. Some were not happy.
I’ve had interesting comments… the great majority very, very positive. One friend asked me to remove her from “my list” (and this is after I’ve been bombarded with her politcal emails). She was one of the not happy ones.
One friend called me and said, “Is it amazing that we have three major financial highs and disasters this past decade: the real estate bubble and bust; the credit bubble and bust; and now the stock market bubble and bust. Many sent back one word messages of “bravo.”
It is difficult to communicate with people who don’t want to communicate about things that you care about or deem important … oh, they will talk/say politics, as long as it’s their vent/their way … I just don’t want to be around them anymore when they are venting. It doesn’t mean that I’m closed to their ideas … I think we should listen to those who don’t agree with you … who knows, minds can change … I know mine has over the years.
Since that email of yesterday, there has been more negative financial news. It is outrageous to blame it all on one party… they are both up their eyeballs and representing themselves. But who is going to really work out getting us out of the messes we are in? We are. For fuel issues, the answer is not to drill, drill, drill. I believe it is invent, invent, invent.
Americans can be pretty amazing when we set our minds to it. This is that time. It will be rough … more financial markets will belly up before shoring up; more of us will be wiped out financially; more of us will enter into health related crises.
The next President of the United States must step up to the plate, away from the political tag lines and start laying out “his plan” and “who the team is” that will implement. We, the people, deserve nothing less.
Below is the email that I wrote that turned a few heads …
In 2000, I was a Director on a national Republican Board.. the WISH List…it stood for Women in the Senate and House… and I proudly raised many, many thousands of dollars for women candidates who were pro-women, family, health and choice. Moneys for women like Gov. Linda Lingle in Hawaii, Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe in Maine and many, many more. Terrific women, competent and qualified women.
When George W Bush appeared to be the candidate, I started researching him through my many contacts within Texas. The feed back I received wasn’t pretty; definitely not good. When he became the “official” Republican candidate, I formally tendered my resignation from WISH–the man was … per my contacts that I had great respect for…. incompetent, unqualified, not bright and that the people who were around him were downright dangerous…. Rove, Hughes, Cheney, etc. George W Bush is a failed leader… someone who should have never been allowed to be put in the chair… for those of you who are still “out”; I suggest you pick up Bob Woodward’s latest book, The War Within.
Here we are… 8 years later. My many friends and family members who voted for Bush in 2000, even saying, “We’ve studied him, we can live with him…” I put in the “ignorant and foolish” category… I can love them still. Four years later in 2004, many did the same thing, they “swift-boated themselves!”… I then put them in the “still ignorant” or “they don’t care/it’s not important” category and made a decision to spend less time with them. And, here we are again.
The same people are in la-la land. Many believe that things are good right now in this country (I wonder if they heard that Lehman Bros declared bankruptcy this am… with more to come, I’m sure). I’m tired of people saying that the financial problems that people are experiencing are made up by the media.
I told one of those friends a few days ago that both my husband and I wanted to be wrong about Bush, that we would have been glad to say that we were wrong and thank God that they weren’t. But, we weren’t. In fact, in my opinion, Bush, his doctrine and just about everything about him has been a disaster for this country. For the world.
As I transitioned from a gung ho Republican to a Recovering Republican to a Recovered Republican to Unaffiliated … I am blown away at the myopicness and the nutsyness of anyone supporting the Republican ticket.
Sarah Palin? What an insult to the women who fought for the right for us to vote. John McCain? He is part of the system, the problem, and morphed into Bush to get the nod/support from the GOP base. The next four years are going to be rough… for whoever is President. I would rather have someone who is smart, not embedded in the “system” and has the physical and mental energy/ability to take on the mess they will inherit.
It is a huge risk for me to be so blatant … to put my Blog, PitBulls with Lipstick (DrJudith.wordpress.com) on the Home page of my website. But, I feel that those of us have to share our concerns. Come out from the taboo cupboard of speaking out … really out.
You can join me and start speaking out by watching this….
and forward it on to others….
Tags: Bush, drill, financial crisis, mccain, obama, palin, politics, republican, unaffiliated
