Editorial, by Blogonaut
All persons who care about this country, whether they supported Barack Obama for president or not (and I did not), should realize that the only “hope” of success for the treacherous trek out of the current morass—including two wars, security concerns, a financial crises, an auto industry crisis, a domestic, consumer driven recession, and a global slow-down—is for the entire country, including the president-elect, the congress, the press, and the voters, to focus exclusively on developing the required bi-partisan policy solutions.
The last thing this country needs right now is another “Whitewater” style investigation of our new president as a result of the situation in Chicago, distracting the attention of the congress and the president. The issues and problems we have right now do not allow for any such partisan foolishness.
Whatever minor bit role any future West Wing inhabitants may have had in this sordid affair, it is all a side show.
This is the last thing in the world right now that the country needs to be focusing on. We literally cannot afford another 3 to 4 years of “what did President Obama know and when did he know it.”
Any Americans (including members of congress) who truly care about this country and its citizens, of voting age or not, will eschew the Blagojevich debacle as a means of gaining GOP political power at the expense of the president-elect, and patriotically aid the president-elect and the incoming congress in fashioning solutions to the desperate economic and international crisis in which we find ourselves in.
Any Americans who are members of the 4th Estate should likewise balance the need to find solutions against the temptation to sell news.
Our dire circumstances as Americans outweigh partisan politics and press 'ratings' at this point, and any of our elected representatives who nevertheless chose to put party and self-interest over country need to be turned out at the earliest opportunity to do so.
All persons who care about this country, whether they supported Barack Obama for president or not (and I did not), should realize that the only “hope” of success for the treacherous trek out of the current morass—including two wars, security concerns, a financial crises, an auto industry crisis, a domestic, consumer driven recession, and a global slow-down—is for the entire country, including the president-elect, the congress, the press, and the voters, to focus exclusively on developing the required bi-partisan policy solutions.
The last thing this country needs right now is another “Whitewater” style investigation of our new president as a result of the situation in Chicago, distracting the attention of the congress and the president. The issues and problems we have right now do not allow for any such partisan foolishness.
Whatever minor bit role any future West Wing inhabitants may have had in this sordid affair, it is all a side show.
This is the last thing in the world right now that the country needs to be focusing on. We literally cannot afford another 3 to 4 years of “what did President Obama know and when did he know it.”
Any Americans (including members of congress) who truly care about this country and its citizens, of voting age or not, will eschew the Blagojevich debacle as a means of gaining GOP political power at the expense of the president-elect, and patriotically aid the president-elect and the incoming congress in fashioning solutions to the desperate economic and international crisis in which we find ourselves in.
Any Americans who are members of the 4th Estate should likewise balance the need to find solutions against the temptation to sell news.
Our dire circumstances as Americans outweigh partisan politics and press 'ratings' at this point, and any of our elected representatives who nevertheless chose to put party and self-interest over country need to be turned out at the earliest opportunity to do so.
