Why Is The Nation Divided

On a local forum the question, "why is the nation so bitterly divided" was put to us. I thought about and came up with a brief response; do you agree?

I believe that the FAR LEFT is bitter about the Florida Vote from 2000; and their "no holds barred" run at the White House caused much of this. I believe these, in many cases unjustified, attacks on our President has rallied Bush supporters.

Attacking Bush because of his faith is unjustified. Interestingly enough people, with nothing else to do apparently, counted the word God in Bush speeches and Clinton speeches. Clinton mentions God 20 times more than Bush; no outrage – this and other like incidents for others and me signaled growing double standards that raised our blood pressure. Clinton, Kerry, Jackson, other can make a campaign speech in any church – if my pastor even mention a candidate it would be on the front page calling for our “tax exempt status” to be revoked.

Then you move on to George Soros; no problem with him spending multi million dollars to unseat Bush, but damn those Swiftees that got a $200,000 donation from a Bush supporter. DNC and Kerry lawyers work for Soros but again damn those Bush lawyers working for Swiftees and forget the fact he voluntarily resigned from the Bush campaign; he was already damned. Again, double standards.

Do not get me wrong. I know democrats that disagree with this and admit these double standards and yes, they are still voting for Kerry; but they are respectable and should demonstrate the majority of the Democratic Party. However, the media that fills my day does a lousy job of hiding their bias or introducing America to individuals like this; individuals that can tell me what they believe in without one cross word against Bush.

Then you have the bitter Al Gore calling our President a traitor. If Democrats can honestly compare traitor to liar (terms used against Clinton) as quid pro quo then we have nothing to discuss. Speaking of lying to the American people; was not a problem during the Clinton years, no Democrat had an issue with that; now we accuse a man (a Republican) of lying about information that was corroborated by the majority of congress/senate and the UN.

The Democrats through a candidate at us that touts his Vietnam record but does not want anyone to dispute it (with full support of the MSM), question it, or heaven forbid we talk about the traitorous comments about his comrades in arms. The NYT can question every single move the President makes and regurgitate stories when they see fit but anyone that questions Kerry is attacked by the MSM (mainstream media); their answer to allegations is to call them liars or zealots.

I believe the stanch liberals of the Democratic Party purposely created the Two Americas, the decisive division. It was easy you already had a growing divide between the For Iraq/Against Iraq population all they needed was a little push!