Should we unite with them?

[claypool4prez]

Should we unite with them?

That is the grave question that shall dominate the better part of what is truly going to be a historic year.

Should we be so quick to forgive the right-wing, should we dare forgive them at all?

Should we even forgive in the first place?

What we must ask ourselves now, is are we ready to forgive the wicked and the warmonger.

It has been the mistake of the Left, for decades now, to speak of hope and look towards the future while letting criminal neo-conservatives, bigots, corporate thugs, and closet fascists sneak by with a get out of jail free card.

It has been the mistake of the Left to be to nice to those that have played the role of oppressor.

Perhaps it is the nature of the "liberal" to want to unite rather than to succumb to vengeance and fight back.

Perhaps that is why they promote peace and condemn conflict.

But time and time again the Left has failed, by failing to punish whom they ought to perceive as their enemies.

Those guilty of war crimes such as Richard Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Andrew Card, James Baker III, and Donald Rumsfeld deserve a future behind bars, not libraries named in their honor.

There were some movements that did fight for justice, that did go after them, not just protesting outside the doors of government, but acting inside them as well.

Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Lucifer himself, none other than one Dick Cheney. And he wasn't alone with over 25 other Congressmen co-sponsoring that bill.

So that was something, it didn't go far, but at least the man was trying.

And then he ran for president again, and should have earned the backing of all those progressives out there who are so vocally opposed to the war now.

And if the short guy with big ears had ever obtained a foothold in the Democratic Primary, maybe we would have one day gotten to turn on the television and see Condolezza Rice being dragged out of a courtroom in chains, kicking and screaming.

But too many of us, who had been kicking and screaming for the last seven years about just how corrupt the current administration was being, made a colossal mistake and became mesmerized by the celebrity candidate.

Instead of paying real attention to Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich, the only two candidates who stood for massive change and any actual serving of justice, we focused on the inevitability of a Clinton or the aura of an Obama.

We were too caught up in the symbolism of getting to elect a woman or a black guy, and never got around to reading platforms and making educated decisions.

The soon to be anointed candidate of the Democratic Party – the anointed next JFK- a combination of MLK, RFK, Gandhi, Morgan Freeman, Tupac Shakur, Howard Dean, Henry Fonda, and Jesus Christ himself, is running on a platform of change through unity.



If we take him up on the words of his inspirational speeches, that means he wishes to truly build a coalition of Left and Right, conservative and liberal, in order to move forward. And he's even willing to let the insurance salesmen, the Limbaugh listeners, the current country club members, and former fraternity members into his fold.

And that is why this is about more than whether or not we should forgive any republican politician who has wronged us; this is about whether we should forgive our friends and our neighbors, our mothers, our sisters, our fathers, and even our brothers.

The ones who voted for "W" in 2004, the ones who enabled an illegal war, and the ones who never realized it was abnormal to not be outraged when you learned that your country condones torture.

Those who voted for that "show-puppet" boy wonder, Oval Office desk monkey, son of a Bush, named George, ought to first apologize to anyone who currently lives without healthcare, or to any family that has lost a loved one overseas, before we can ever grasp their hand and march forward for progress, and together for change.

And we ought to force anyone who wants to join hand in hand with us, to at least wash the blood stains off of theirs first.

But there is no time for that.

There is no time.

Soon, we here in North Carolina, shall have the chance to vote in the Democratic Primary, and for the first time in ages our vote in North Carolina is going to make a difference.

Our vote will finally affect the outcome, but there will be no Kucinich on the ballot. Or even an Edwards or a Biden.

It will be between Obama and Clinton, and we should choose wisely, and I hope we will.

Then, after that, our primary question will begin to haunt us.

To take back the White House, and definite control of the country, it looks as though we'll have to forgive and forget, and actually recruit those shirt-tucking, back-slapping, and keg-tapping childhood friends of ours, to join us and back Obama or Clinton come November.

Lest, we shun them - and they'd deserve that – and they vote Republican again.

We can't afford a McCain/Huckabee administration and a fast track towards the dawning of the Biblical Revelation.

And we must prevent any future conflict with Iran, and push to end the Iraq War, someway, somehow, as quickly as possible.

It will remain to be seen whether the conservatives who hop on our bandwagon, the "Obamacans," can be fully trusted.

Will they ditch our cause when we start making personal sacrifices in order to save the environment?

But there is no time to worry about that for now, for we need them.

We won't get impeachment, so we must look towards the future.

But let us remember that by pardoning Nixon, this country allowed his minions such as Libby and Rumsfeld to continue to advance their careers, without proper punishment, in the shadows as they waited until we had forgotten about them.

Forget we did, and they came back.

Since it looks like we won't get them again, this time around, we must at least remember them, remember their faces and their names, and remember their crimes, and never allow them to ever again get their foot in the door of any of the halls of government.

We must answer that question of whether we're going to forgive our friends, and help Obama or Clinton build their coalition, because it is that coalition that offers us our best chance of righting the recent wrongs.

And right them we must.

And unity could be good, but not if we unite and move towards the center.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. "Should we be so quick to forgive the right-wing, should we dare forgive them at all?"

No, we shouldn't forgive them. That will just give them license to re-group and do it again!

[gaspee]

2. Charlie Brown

and Lucy. I'm just sayin'

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R