Ray
Thank you for sharing that with us, at least I appreciated it.
Sincerely Chris Tittle
At 10:45 PM 10/25/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > I Need a President - Again
> > By John Cory
> > t r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 26 October 2004 I first
> > wrote "I Need a President" during the disastrous end of the 2000
> Election. I
> > ended my piece with these words: "Yes, I need a president. But I must
> wait for
> > now." The time of waiting is over. I need a President who does not
> > believe in suppressing votes as he clings to a warped sense of his own
> > entitlement to power. I need a President who does not fear the voice of
> the people.
> > Not the President of a sanitized America-by-invitation-only, but a
> President
> > of the people, by the people, and for the people. I need a
> President who
> > recognizes that America is a member of the world community and not its
> master.
> > I need a President who faces the world with a welcoming hand, not a closed
> > fist. A man who embraces questions, and not the coercive rule of
> unchallenged
> > reign. I need a President who believes science is a tool for
> healing and
> > not just a profitable device for the creation of Smart Bombs and
> Weapons of
> > Mass Destruction. I need a President who sees that stem cell research
> benefits
> > not only the diseased but also the soldiers with spinal cord wounds and
> > brain trauma inflicted in their service to America. I need a
> President for
> > whom "liberal education" is not a partisan pejorative but rather the
> > old-fashioned definition of a balanced and well-rounded education, an
> education not of
> > political bent, but of the beauty and diversity of life's great
> treasures. I
> > need a President who sees education as a right, and not a privilege
> only for
> > those who can afford to buy knowledge. I need a President whose
> > environmental policy is not only for the wilderness, but also applies
> to the
> > workplace. I need a President who understands that family health
> should never be
> > dependent on family wealth. I need a President who knows well that
> secrecy
> > is a cancer on democracy. I want a President who has overcome the fear of
> > battle, not by sending others into combat, but by standing face-to-face
> against
> > the ravages of war and bringing honor home to the fight for peace and open
> > government. I need a President who understands that if money is
> > free-speech, the middle class and poor will never have a voice in
> today's corporate
> > politics; that the dreams of Main Street America will be smothered by
> the greed
> > of K Street lobbyists and their financial owners. I need a
> President who
> > recognizes that corporate crime should not be a reward system for crooked
> > CEOs, while punishing workers with financial ruin. I need a President
> for whom
> > accountability is not a bookkeeping technique that ensures increased stock
> > value at the cost of American jobs. I need a President who knows
> that God is
> > not spelled G-O-P. I need a President who recognizes the
> requirement for
> > checks and balances on government, not checkpoints on citizens. I
> need a
> > President for whom liberty is not a license to plunder budget surpluses
> for
> > the benefit of wealthy campaign donors. I need a President, not a
> corporate
> > puppet, or a panderer to the bigotry of puritanical zealots and
> self-righteous
> > hypocrites. America needs a President to whom freedom is not a focus
> > group slogan, tested as justification for the lethal lies of a
> manufactured war.
> > Not a President who finds humor in the deaths of soldiers in order to
> get a
> > laugh from the dining room divas of corporate Media. America needs a
> > President, not a saint without human error. America needs a President who
> > recognizes his own fallibility and rises to the need for
> change. America needs a
> > President whose compassion is without label or restriction, who lifts the
> > poor and ignored without making himself tall by standing on the dead and
> > downtrodden. A President who does not limit the colors of America to
> red, white and
> > blue, but includes each and every variation that weaves the whole
> fabric of
> > this richly textured nation. America deserves a President, not an
> owner.
> > I deserve a President, not George Bush.
> > John Cory is a Vietnam veteran. He received the Purple Heart and
> Bronze
> > Star with V device, 1969 - 1970. -------
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