Chanted Notre Dame
to drown out the "baby killer" insane shouting from a heckler at Obama's commencement address who was escorted out by what looked like Notre Dame's Defensive Tackle. Peace. Well, not exactly but isn't that the aspiration? This is why Obama is in office and the Democrats are overwhelmingly representing us all in every branch but the Judiciary.
While the Republicans peddle themselves as the national security protectors the rest of the country doesn't trust them. They made too much money off it. War Profiteers and defense contractors turned a blind eye to known abuses of human rights called everywhere else in the civilized world "Torture" and we only know the half of it. Unacceptable. Military Mis-steps, strategic diversions, and millions of people dead in countries that never attacked us or invited in to "liberate" them. Disgusting.
Obama now faces the precarious fence walk of maintaining wars that might never have been waged, trying not to look more like Bush- light than the Change we can believe in. The consensus of the thoughtful is that when we attack those who never attacked us, in an unforgiving culture this breeds more contemptuous revenge and makes us less safe. Because the rest of the world saw through our justifications long before the Congress caught on.
Obama needs to signal a clear break from the Bush administration and demonstrate to the American people that he isn't going to just sweep everything under the rug like nothing happened. Because that isn't Justice. Too much back-peddling isn't moving us forward.
"But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.”
James 3:17-18
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