I worry about my America given our current and very recent history. Back in 2009 as President Obama was about to begin his first days in office, Senator Mitch McConnell told the American People that he saw his job as one requiring him to make certain that our then President Obama would serve out his term in office with not one piece of success. And now, eight years later, we have a new president, a president who spends too much of his time attempting to smear our former President Obama and to undermine every one of his successes.
It matters nothing to President Trump that President Obama, who wanted healthcare for all in America, when he could not have his preferred plan, took the conservative plan called the Affordable Care Act, a plan that assured that insurance companies would remain in the loop and prosper from it. And what happened when the Affordable Care Act became the law of our land and provided for millions of uninsured Americans to gain such coverage? What happened was the people who created the plan suddenly hated it because President Obama had brought it to life.
And the Iran nuclear deal brought about to try and change Iran’s desire for nuclear weapons and signed on by not only America, but by many of our allies and other world powers? To hear President Trump speak, you would think that he, a man who never served a day in his life on the battlefield and for our military, now prefers to consider a preemptive war putting American lives on the line rather than working with our allies and fellow signers for the Iran deal to see if it actually will work.
My America was such a different place back in the 1940s, and thankfully so. When we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, we actually came together as a nation and overcame World War Two. Do we really believe today, that divisiveness and incivility will carry us through to a better place? I continue to hope for the best, to hope that my country will finally come back to its roots as described in our Declaration of Independence and in our American Constitution and continue to work on behalf of all America, of each and every one of us.
It matters nothing to President Trump that President Obama, who wanted healthcare for all in America, when he could not have his preferred plan, took the conservative plan called the Affordable Care Act, a plan that assured that insurance companies would remain in the loop and prosper from it. And what happened when the Affordable Care Act became the law of our land and provided for millions of uninsured Americans to gain such coverage? What happened was the people who created the plan suddenly hated it because President Obama had brought it to life.
And the Iran nuclear deal brought about to try and change Iran’s desire for nuclear weapons and signed on by not only America, but by many of our allies and other world powers? To hear President Trump speak, you would think that he, a man who never served a day in his life on the battlefield and for our military, now prefers to consider a preemptive war putting American lives on the line rather than working with our allies and fellow signers for the Iran deal to see if it actually will work.
My America was such a different place back in the 1940s, and thankfully so. When we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, we actually came together as a nation and overcame World War Two. Do we really believe today, that divisiveness and incivility will carry us through to a better place? I continue to hope for the best, to hope that my country will finally come back to its roots as described in our Declaration of Independence and in our American Constitution and continue to work on behalf of all America, of each and every one of us.
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