Is the world a better place?

We face this new year with optimism. Many, throughout the world, are relieved that the reign of the Bush administration is over. But is it?

We got into our current situation through passive non-involvement. We sat by allowing our rights to be compromised. At the same time we attempted to smother dissent by claiming that those who disagreed with the administration were cowards, or unpatriotic, or socialists, or liberals, or some other term intended to demean the position.

In this new world of the Obama administration we still hear Fox pundits, most notably the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Shaun Hannity, as well as others such as Rush Limbaugh and Karen Hughes, deride the desire of the American people and the world community for change from the constrictive, exclusionary policies of the past.

We hear these same luminaries claim they are keeping watch on this administration. That is sad. After all they did not keep watch on the last administration and assisted in perpetuating the lies and lack of ethical conduct that is the historical legacy of the Bush administration.

If Karen Hughes, Rush Limbaugh and Shaun Hannity are upset that 1.9 million people present for the Obama inauguration spontaneously booed President Bush they need to recognize this is an outcome of his administration. The same administration they supported by misrepresenting truth. The same administration they supported by spouting talking points. The same administration they supported by suppressing dissent. The same administration they supported by claiming they had the only right answers and all others were wrong.

What do the boos represent? They represent the people speaking out. They represent the end of suppression of differences. They represent the end of constrictive U.S. national and international policies. They represent the people taking back their government.

As we go forward I hope the people will make a list of the TRUE legacy of the Bush administration so that we can stop the pundit pedantry that sells lies to the American people. The 9/11 attack that came nine months into the current administration after being warned for months by intelligence reports;, the spending of the complete government surplus they inherited BEFORE the 9/11 attacks; the cherry picking and manufacture of intelligence to attack Iraq for connection to 9/11 when no connection existed; the government incompetence and intention that lead to the destruction of New Orleans; the de-regulations of the financial markets that lead to the current economic crisis; the failure to accept responsibility for any of the actions that morally, ethically and financially bankrupted this country; the use of restrictive religious beliefs to create government policy or to staff critical federal positions.

As we move forward over the next 8 years it is time to accept, to tolerate, to love, to honor, and if at the same time we disagree that is fine but let us disagree on positions or points and not hold to political or religious positions that restrict dialogue.

America is not a center right nation as conservative pundits like to claim. America is a nation of people who have views on different issues. Each issue presents a different view, a different issue. I hope in the future I will no longer hear some one believing they have the only opinion on a point claim that the facts are revisionist, and a non-restrictive view is a liberal view, as an implication the view is of no value.

The current age calls for us to be the highest and best of who we can be, not the close minded, exclusionary failures of our immediate past and current Fox network.

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