Now I don't know much about Gov. Christie of New Jersey, and from what I do know, I don't agree with him much. But about one thing he's talking about, I thoroughly agree: There is a lack of leadership in the federal government. Now, President Obama isn't the start of it, as it has been going on for over 20 years, but he is the person in the White House now. So, right now, it's his problem.
For over 50 years, America had something to fight, and it was that way almost every year. From the 30s when it was poverty and the depression, through the 40s and 50s when it was WW II and the Korean War, through the 60s and the space race, almost every year we had something to strive against. Then we went about 10 years with nothing to strive for, and look at how we as a country were lost. Then in the 80s, we fought against the USSR to destroy it, and we did. So what have we been striving for since? Since the late 80s, we haven't tried to strive for anything. Not even after 9/11 were we asked to unite and strive for something other than revenge. What are striving for now? I don't know either.
So Gov. Christie is right, and yet even he didn't go far enough. But I do know that as a country, we need to unite and strive for something. It can be education, where we've fallen so far, or transportation, where with high-speed rail for cargo we could get fresher groceries to markets faster, or upgrade utilities, so storms wouldn't always knock out power, and lines in the east are almost always at capacity, and power can be lost with a fuse going out. It can be one of those, or dozens of others, including jobs. But only the President can give the country a vision of where we need to go. Do you believe anyone in the Tea Party has that vision? Neither do I, so President Obama, I hope you do. You campaigned on hope once. Please run on a vision this time.
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