I have to fully admit I am disappointed in us over this past month especially. First, a little background: if I was in Obama's position and I knew that I couldn't pass healthcare reform before the August recess I would have tried to do the same thing he and Congress tried to do. Namely I would have tried to provoke civil discourse amongst our citizenry with townhall meetings or whatnot and get healthcare stories out there. Perhaps even try to provoke moments of unity or understanding between various factions.
Unfortunately what did we get? Seems we got a few True Blood maenad like conflagurations (probably less than you or I might think given the wildly skewed press coverage of any dust ups) and little healthy discourse.
You really have to think, in the larger context of things, that, wow, if we can't even civilly discuss that which must be fixed for so many reasons, well, where are we? What are our prospects?
