Are America’s Greatest Days Ahead or Behind?

When I saw the title of this article I had to read it. I've been looking for some 'realistic optimism' in all of this mess. Rather than pointing the finger we can look at the opportunity that lies ahead of us....

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/08/rmiller_1008/ - Entire Article by By Richard Miller.

My favorite words:

But before pointing any fingers, we would be wise to take a good long look in the mirror. After all, it was we the people who voted for any politician who promised easy jobs and credit, tax cuts regardless of the economic situation, and endless prosperity. It was we the people who converted what used to be called a “home” into the Church of Perpetual Refinancings, who used plastic to buy what we couldn’t pay for and then used more plastic to pay it off. In these and a thousand other ways, we’ve enabled the Barney Franks and the other snake oil salesmen who told us what we wanted to hear in exchange for the power and perks of their offices. The people could tumble this rotten edifice any time at the ballot box, but based on the “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately?” nature of some questions at last night’s debate, it’s not likely that we will.
However, for those Americans who believe that their country’s greatest days involved the establishment of constitutional government, the ending of slavery, surviving the Great Depression, the defeat of fascism and Soviet Communism, and the success of racial integration and gender equality, hope for America remains. After all, the generations that accomplished these Herculean tasks enjoyed a standard of living so far below our own as to represent an ongoing embarrassment to us for having so much and accomplishing so little.
So here’s my answer to the question about America’s greatest days: if the objective is to win the Global War on Terror, cure cancer, end oil dependence on decadent Middle Eastern sheiks and crazed South American caudillos, mount a Manhattan Project for alternative energy, and try to make this country an engine of production rather than consumption, our best days may lie ahead.
But if, after gazing in that mirror, you’re still obsessed with that third car garage, you might as well stick fork in your face, because you–and the country–are done. And whoever votes for McBama because of some lie that you won’t have to pay taxes or mortgage payments or that health care will be “free” then you deserve to be done.