Will Bush Torture Or Bitterness Motivate You?

Mother Davis searches for some Sweet and Low to stir into her late afternoon tea, and asks,

What are you going to allow to be your motivation in the 2008 presidential election? Bitterness or betterment?

You could allow bitterness to motivate you, and follow along with the crowd that gasps in shock at the idea, proposed by Barack Obama, that small town Pennsylvanians who grab onto racism, bigotry against non-Christians, obsession with guns, and other such extremisms, do so in part because of a misdirected economic insecurity.

Alternatively, you might join the much smaller group of people who notes in alarm that George W. Bush now admits that he approved of plans to create cruel, painful and humiliating techniques (torture) to be used by American interrogators against prisoners.

Don’t blame media for your where your attention is focused. Don’t blame political consultants. Don’t blame anybody else. You have sole responsibility over where you direct your concentration.

You have the power to decide: Is it more important to you that America remain free, or is it more important to you that politicians continue to pander to the pride of extremists who live in small town Pennsylvania?

People make these decisions as individuals. Their individual decisions have a collective power, however, to determine whether the United States of America takes over the next four years will be moved by serious considerations of high purpose, or by confused mutterings over superficial slights.

Deciding to take her tea without sweetener,
Mother Davis