Politics and CHANGE?

It is another election year, and another Democratic is vying for the coveted Presidential nomination. Funny how voters, especially young, eager, ideological voters, forget the history lessons of a former Clinton, and his wife, now a candidate, struggled through Whitewater real estate wrong doing allegations, with Bill Clinton committing perjury, adultery, and throwing the United States economy into recession. Hillary Clinton must answer now how anyone can trust her with the country’s well-being, when she could not detect a deceitful husband, did not take any direct action once that husband was found to be a liar, and his presidency almost impeached. Do we want one spouse replacing the other so now she can do what she wants because, “she can”? America does not need more dalliances detracting from the business of running the country.

As I watched the Clintons and the Gores celebrate on stage to the tune of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop”, “Thinking about tomorrow, Yesterday’s Gone, Yesterday’s Gone, it’ll soon be here”, in their victory dance, I wonder what exactly they were expecting to accomplish.

Their campaign promised change, from the Reagan-Bush twelve-year era, which boasted a booming economy, a low unemployment rate, inflation rate, and stable foreign relations. Well, the Clinton years did give us change. America experienced recession, disastrous foreign relations leading up to an uncontrollable and unstable military terrorism base. A strong America was left tattered, changed, in eight years.

Now, Obama and Clinton are promising change, and I believe they think they can change some things. However, what America wants, that neither can provide, is a step backward to safety and peace of mind America once had prior to September 11, 2001. Bringing troops back cannot take away that instilled fear brought about by that day, nor can it by making them stay. It cannot change the world’s eyes or diplomatic views of America’s vulnerability on both the military and the diplomatic fronts. An eighteen year-old voter, at twelve years old, does not remember the events of that day, nor the Reagan years of prosperity, or the repugnant Bill Clinton-Lewinsky affair and the national shame and degradation of the “moral authority” Hillary Clinton claims “America” has lost in the eyes of the world. That is hypocritical to say the least.

I urge all Americans to look towards the future. I also urge them to remember the past. The peace and innocence we once enjoyed seems to be gone, at least for now, and in its place a sort of chaotic restlessness. More change is not what we need. We do need to stay the course. In this new global atmosphere, where climate conditions, terrorism threats, oil reserves, technology advances, children’s education, health care, economy, and healthcare are all at risk, we cannot change everything at once. We are working, through the President and Congress, to address the major threats to our national well-being in an order of priority for the good of the whole. Let’s stay the course, as with a new President from at least the same party, can reflect the past president’s ideals and course of actions to some extent. Let’s not jump ship for deeper, more uncertain waters filled with rip tides and other changes.