Re: Bush\'s State of the Union Address
Though I can understand and appreciate that this might be humorous, (it is, in a sick, twisted way) and that the editing is professional, I find it deeply disturbing that it would be done by anybody in todays deeply charged environment.
While I do not always agree with our President, and I am usually among the first to poke fun at the foibles of American politics, for some reason pointing at our national symbol, the Flag, and saying it stands for terror, rape, torture, etc. deeply offends me.
Our Flag stands for Freedom, Equality of opportunity, the protection of individual rights and many more things too numerous to mention.
The medias attack on our integrity is beginning to drive me a little bonkers!! If you say its not OUR integrity, you're wrong, because the President is OUR face to the world.
Today I spent nearly 2 hours sewing back together the forehead of a Taiwanese national visiting the United States. He had been injured by a partner during a cheerleading routine. The entire time I was working on him, he enthusiastically recounted how exciting America was to him and his countrymen, while his partner agreed and filled in the details he had forgotten. He has just completed a 3 year tour of duty in his Navy, the 3 years of service required of every healthy Taiwanese male.
He and his partner had spent those 3 years saving everything they could to make the trip here. When I asked if they would like to live here, their eyes got huge and their grins got bigger. They both unhesitantly and joyfully answered yes, it was what they dreamed about.
Unfortunately, the quota is filled on Jan 1 every year and there is little chance it will happen for them. However, their enthusiasm reminded me of why so many have risked so much to come here. More, it reminded me why so many have GIVEN so much to protect what we have.
As our Nation fights a war against its most difficult enemy, I am reminded of a saying I heard once and saw recently again, this is a paraphrase but the idea is here, "My people once thought that war was the opposite of peace, but we came to realize that too often the opposite of peace is not war, but slavery."
I am sick to death of the mean spirited criticism of my Country, my Flag, my President, and every American should feel the same way about Our Country, Our Flag, and Our President.
It is possible to disagree without the meanness of this type of satire. I hope that we can do so.
I'm tired, this probably makes little sense, and I should probably have left it alone, but I could not leave it unsaid.
Bill