I would like a speech from the oval office. I would like the news media to refuse to allow the "other" party to give a rebuttal. Maybe some of you don't know this, but this bullshit piece of political correctness is new. The rebuttals were given during the campaign and the winner won. He's the president. He gives the State of the Union address. He addresses the American citizens. The president, not the presidential candidate, speaks after the politics is over and the governing begins. No rebuttal. No Democratic rebuttal to a Republican president and no Republican rebuttal to a Democratic president. That little move, whenever it started, was one of the silliest and most divisive contrivances to ever be allowed to see the light of day and it's merely one of the divisive contrivances that makes us formerly united.
In his speech, I want to hear Obama say that he will work solely on election reform during the remaining two years of his term.
I want him to say that he won't work on health care reform because there will be no health care reform without election reform.
I want him to say that he won't work on financial reform because there will be no financial reform without election reform.
I want him to say that he, along with Bush, Clinton, HW, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and Truman all committed the impeachable offense of going to war without a Congressional declaration.
I want him to say that The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and The Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq were not even in the same zip code as a Declaration of War. I want him to say that any "OK" from Congress to a president to sort of kind of think about when it may sort of be OK to attack a nation that did nothing to America is not a Declaration of War, but a Congressional abdication of its responsibilities. I want him to admit to guilt, but I don't want him to be impeached or to step down unless HW, Clinton and Dubya promise to go before The Hague for committing war crimes. I want him to say he'll pursue all of the above who are still alive for unconstitutionally going to war.
I want him then to say that he will go before Congress and ask if it's OK by them to end any and all wars that are in progress because he cannot constitutionally do it himself. If they choose not to end the war in Afghanistan and bring the troops home from Iraq and, basically, everywhere they don't belong, I want him to resign because I want him to say he will no longer execute illegal wars.
I want him to bring before Congress legislation by which money will play no role in whether or not a candidate can even be a candidate, let alone be elected.
When debate begins, I want him to use the presidential bully pulpit to out, in no uncertain terms, anyone who wants our elections to remain commodities to be purchased by the wealthiest people. I want him to demand from that pulpit that anyone who wants elections to continue to be bought by the highest bidder debate that point of view in front of the entirety of the American public.
In fact, if his bill is voted down, I want him to use a signing statement to push it through anyway. This will show that maybe he's grown a pair. We like presidents who use signing statements? Then he should use one to get money out of elections.
I want him to hammer home that elections are opportunities for those who wish to serve, to do the right thing, whatever they think it is, by the American people. I want him to ask whoever wants elections to remain commodities to explain to the American people how this helps them.
I want him to include that there will be a fine in his bill for Americans who refuse to exercise their right to vote. I want him to tell the American people that a democracy, republican or otherwise, cannot be sustained by a citizenry which bitches and moans, but doesn't vote.
Then, possibly, when he steps down after his only term is up, the candidates that run for that office will actually be candidates who want to govern.
If he doesn't work on election reform, I want him to step down and hand his position over to somebody who will.
But, I dream. There's no incentive for anyone, from Jim DeMint to Dennis Kucinich, to work hard for election reform. Where they are and how they got there, along with what they do, is nothing more and nothing less than a racket. It's theater, ladies and gentlemen.
The previous corporate front man couldn't put a sentence together if it was made out of Legos. When he spoke, bullshit vomited from his mouth.
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