Reply #12: I have been thinking a lot about thanksgiving this year and I find it such [View All]

a confusing time this year. Yes, I am thankful for every Blessing that myself and my family have received but then i find it hard to hold my head up high in front of the world to celebrate a season for giving thanks when we, as a nation, have created so much pain in this world, and when the current administration is working so hard against our constitution, our freedom of speech, religion and the press, our freedom of choice... when the deep resentment of the bush family for whatever prescott bush did not achieve or was taken away from him by the trading with the enemy act, and the failure of poppy bush to win/earn and second term in office is being scapegoated against an entire people here in this nation and in Iraq...

I am having difficulty celebrating our Blessings and mourning the loss of so many innocent iraqi civilians, as well as the loss of our freedoms here in this country at the same time. It is a bi-polar confusing time and the likes of jerry falwell and of bush's statement
"We are grateful for our freedom, grateful for our families and friends, and grateful for the many gifts of America. "
which ignores all of the heartache he has created all across the globe just makes it more bi-polar and more difficult to digest the fact that we are supposed to be giving thanks.