I want to say Thank You to Richard Chappell for saying something that needs to be said. In his blog, he posted a short comment about Obama’s selection of Rick Warren to speak. I’ve seen so much comment on this selection by people who I thought understood, but obviously didn’t.
The problem with politics and in fact any discussion in this country is that we’ve lost the ability to disagree without getting nasty about it. We need to be about OPEN discussion and not polarization. With so many commentators talking about how bad polarization is, then getting upset with Obama over this choice, I think we’ll have a still harder time getting people to talk.
Unfortunately, politics isn’t about doing the right thing for the country, it’s become about winning. So much time and money is spent winning that everything else gets lost. If we don’t get over it, then in a few hundred more years, we’ll be written up in the history books as the ‘failed experiment’ and written off in history’s backwaters as one of the shorter lived civilizations.