Coyote Versus Roadrunner
I saw an old photo yesterday of Bill Clinton laughing while sharing something with George H. Bush.
Didn't they team up for a couple of rescue missions?
In any regard, the photo looked weird.
Like Superman and Lex Luther having tea.
Like a dog and a cat giving each other butterfly kisses.
Like the coyote and the roadrunner meeting at the time clock to laugh about the show they'd put on.
And it's weird to me.
Every single issue, no matter what it is, seems to draw hatred on one side or the other.
A madman tears up a movie and the end result is a group of Conservatives calling a group of Liberals cowards?
And vice-versa. It definitely goes both ways.
How is a mass murder a polarizing event?
How is fixing the healthcare system, that both sides agree is broken, a decade long argument?
How did we turn the 09/11 conflict into Rush and his gang against Bill Maher and the dancing liberals?
As Bob Dylan once said:
"We always did feel the same way, we just saw it from a different point-of-view."
The shooting in Denver isn't a conservative versus liberal argument. It turns that way because everyone involved is really pissed off at the loss of life, the pain, the screams of terror, the funerals, the shock and sadness.
So we turn it back at the one place we know we can vent:
At one another.
They say the people you really hurt are the ones closest to you.
Like a fight within a family...passions run high...but you still love the other person.
At least that's how I hope it goes.
The mindset should be one of a rescue mission. What can we do to make sure this doesn't happen again?
I'm sure that as those two men - Clinton and Bush - set out, they had to wonder what the hell they were doing together. You can bet your ass they didn't talk politics. But they had a grand plan in mind.
One where sides aren't chosen and lines aren't drawn.
America needs to follow that plan on this discussion.
No one really is for senseless violence, are they?
Didn't they team up for a couple of rescue missions?
In any regard, the photo looked weird.
Like Superman and Lex Luther having tea.
Like a dog and a cat giving each other butterfly kisses.
Like the coyote and the roadrunner meeting at the time clock to laugh about the show they'd put on.
And it's weird to me.
Every single issue, no matter what it is, seems to draw hatred on one side or the other.
A madman tears up a movie and the end result is a group of Conservatives calling a group of Liberals cowards?
And vice-versa. It definitely goes both ways.
How is a mass murder a polarizing event?
How is fixing the healthcare system, that both sides agree is broken, a decade long argument?
How did we turn the 09/11 conflict into Rush and his gang against Bill Maher and the dancing liberals?
As Bob Dylan once said:
"We always did feel the same way, we just saw it from a different point-of-view."
The shooting in Denver isn't a conservative versus liberal argument. It turns that way because everyone involved is really pissed off at the loss of life, the pain, the screams of terror, the funerals, the shock and sadness.
So we turn it back at the one place we know we can vent:
At one another.
They say the people you really hurt are the ones closest to you.
Like a fight within a family...passions run high...but you still love the other person.
At least that's how I hope it goes.
The mindset should be one of a rescue mission. What can we do to make sure this doesn't happen again?
I'm sure that as those two men - Clinton and Bush - set out, they had to wonder what the hell they were doing together. You can bet your ass they didn't talk politics. But they had a grand plan in mind.
One where sides aren't chosen and lines aren't drawn.
America needs to follow that plan on this discussion.
No one really is for senseless violence, are they?
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