by Duane Kuehn

Created on: July 30, 2008

Before I get into the "Change" thing, about a man who speaks from the heart to the heart of America, about a man who can actually speak the English language, I should start from the beginning.

A young man stepped up to the podium at the 2004 Democrat's National Convention to give a speech. A riveting speech it was. He touched the heart, the mind and the soul as he spoke of the civil rights of all Americans. About the need to take back our government, to change the way government operates and make it transparent to the people once more.

That we ARE one nation and should refuse those who would tear us apart for their own political gain. That we are a diverse nation, Latin's, Blacks, Whites and every shade in between. Members of various religious creeds, races, and individuals along the vast spectrum of sexuality financial capability. That we are God's diversity and in our diversity is our true strength. That we are a house divided by political mudslinging and lies. That we must come together as a house united. Not mentioning what we all know, that a house divided can only fall.

A "Keynote Address" he was giving too, unheard of in politics and unnecessary for him to do at that time! If the speech had not contained that word, I would have been glued to my seat listening.

His speech was in favor of John Kerry and we watched as a group, now indicted for their actions, called the "Swift-boat Veterans" slung heaps of lies and mud upon one honored veteran; and in doing so slung mud upon every veteran in the grand military history of this country. The people we swayed by the mud, untruth and spread of fear which would never come to be. He advocated John Kerry and John Kerry lost the election.

Giving us four more years of economic decline, military bumbling, an oil consortium growing rich as the rest grew poorer. But for the rich, like Warren Buffet who, upon receiving his $395 million dollar tax break said he didn't ask for it, he certainly didn't need it. The other wealthy were not so forthcoming as another four years of feeding the rich at the expense of every hard working American.

But, the average American was also rewarded with tax breaks. Little did they suspect that they would pay dearly much more than they received. The Bush administration stood tall and proudly demanded that the dollar was strong, the economy on the upswing, as they had for four years prior. No one seemed to pay much attention that the dollar, for seven straight years, had been continually

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