Remembering Today and The Politics

Honestly, when I was on the train this morning, I decided I was only going to put this one post up today. I wanted to focus on just Reflecting on the Day. I did not think it was appropriate to spend today, of all days, participating in the partisan politics and the election. Today is the day, when we should all come together as Americans.

But then I realized, that too much is at stake this year to sit idly by for even one single day. The Republicans claim they are better at protecting us than their opponents. Are we safer now than we were seven years ago? Does our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and possibly Iran in the future, make us any safer? Are our ports secure? Has Department of Homeland Security funds and grants been allocated to real future terrorist targets, or rather been used as pork for congress to send to their districts with no oversight? Does the fact that the sitting president and vice-president wash away our civil liberties seemingly daily in the name of protecting us, make us any safer? Does keeping enemy combatants locked up in Guatanamo Bay, for 5 1/2 years, change our international perception of defending freedom, habeous corpus and a speedy trial?

Also my inbox was just too full of this juicy Sarah Palin shit to sit and do nothing