Okay, for once I go and find a comment from a younger member of my family, specifically one who is actually in Afghanistan and is coming home from a tour in September. He comments that neither of the candidates running for President is talking about a decade old war.
Well, that isn't all they are not talking about, but let it be that someone who is actually carrying out what is supposed to be the will of the people or if you like the whim of the Commander and Chief, which is actually the President, is speaking his mind and letting it be known that even though he is there doing the business of whomever, he questions that the discussion or debate on this issue is not being put in the public domain.
It is not a matter of how he feels one way or another, because I am not in any way speaking for him, I am just saying with a war weary nation who is concerned about fairness and the economy and so many other things, that the political foray centers around picking out the faults of, or misleading the public into what they want the public to feel about not only themselves but the person they are competing with. This is evidence that maybe, just maybe, the calling of public service is no longer about the general populace, but more so about two egocentric personalities afraid to speak what is truly in their hearts and minds, and give the people who make up the communities of this nation a chance at being able to decipher the message and the messenger.
Just for a moment may the masses rise up and not occupy a physical space, but occupy the concepts that this country was based on and take the time to say I'm tired of this fill in the blank and I'm not going to put up with it any more.
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