America Comes First

This country is fractured and bleeding. We need to stop electing parties and start electing true American's, those who know that without our liberties we have nothing to fight for. That's the only thing that makes us America! Not our homes, our cars, our mountains or our cities, but our Bill of Rights, our Constitution, our families and our civic participation.

This isn't about party affiliation anymore, though they want you to believe it is. It isn't about the 'War on Terror' though that's how they scare us into giving away the liberties we are supposedly fighting for.

When the President acts contrary to established law, he is breaking the law no matter how much justification there seems to be. When Congress writes a law saying that his actions are now legal, it doesn't change the fact that he broke the law.

When our President wants to gut the Geneva Conventions in the name of 'clarification', you know he cares little for the welfare of our soldiers who fight relentlessly to protect our country.

When the President can casually count off 30,000 Iraqi civilians killed to achieve his objectives in the 'War on Terror' and then stare us down and claim

It’s unacceptable to think there’s any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.

You can stare him right back in the eyes and say there is no difference. Does it matter the reason or moral authority on which those innocent women and children are killed? Does one reason make it right and the other reason make it wrong when the outcome is the same?

When the President and Congress sit idly by as the rest of the world struggles to find solutions to Global Warming, you know their pockets are lined by Big Business and their souls have been bought. The ice caps are melting faster than ever before, the summers are hotter than they have ever been and our elected officials hem and haw to protect the economy, an economy that won't be able to withstand the onslaught of more hurricanes like Katrina, inundated coast lines and new and ever virulent diseases.

What are we going to do? Are we going to be complacent and lazy? Are we waiting for the call to action? Have we become so confused and tired of the political rhetoric that we don't know which way to move or even how to proceed if we did know the way? Its time for new leadership. Its time to put our families and our country first.

We need leadership, we need a road map, we need moral direction. Most of all, we need to act as a united front. We shop at the same stores, we put our kids through the same schools, we drive on the same roads and watch the same TV shows. Its time to play to our strengths and ignore our differences. Our country depends on us depending on each other.