Our leaders are failing us

I have been watching and waiting lately to see what is to become of these United States. I am both hopeful and discouraged. I am also outraged. We live in a world based on elections, opinions and public scrutiny. We our in a presidential election year, and are bearing witness to their folly. We are supposed to pick a new leader of the free world in November. Except we are no longer the leaders of the free world. By decisions and hand-shakes we have giving our greatness to everyone around us and saved little to nourish ourselves. Our government is spending billions of dollars every day in far away lands, while the entire nation pulls their belts tighter. We watch as Generals and Heroes fall because they no longer believe in honor.

This weekend I watched mouth agape as General Wesley Clark demeaned John McCain's service to the US during the Vietnam war. There is visual evidence of what he went through, and to try and discount that calls into account the general's ethics for what he considers military service. This was a man who at one point was in consideration for the office of president! Then I watch as the Obama campaign apologized yesterday. Why? What would you have to apologize for unless you somehow requested the General to say something? I am trying to resolve all this in my head because I can't understand the undermining behaviours of our political leaders.

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Then there is the whole scandal of Barack Obama's funding of his campaign. He is quite right that he doesn't need the federal funds to provide for his propaganda, but he should have accepted it. It is similar to a horrible wedding gift. You don't need it and don't want it, but you accept it as a token of appreciation and expectation. We provide these funds to the delegates with the expectation that they will accept our gift and listen to our voice. If a man does not accept a gift then who is to say that he will take the time to listen to our voice? 

We want a great man to become our president, but what great man is there? We are watching as these men our tearing themselves down, not by the comments and objections of others, but by there reactions and inactions. We need to get a handle on what is to become of our nation. We need to act in unison to provide for the common good. We need to bring back our innocents, our decency and our honor. We need to become the leaders that we dream.