8 Years ago right now, America changed.

[Roland99]

Whether we want to admit it or not, America changed on 9/11/2001.

It might have been more the way many Americans viewed the world, attacks having come to our shore.

It might have been an awakening to others how America's intervention in political, economic, and social matters around the world finally came back with a vengeance.

It might have been a grand opportunity for some to exert America's power even more.

No matter the viewpoint, the world changed.

But how has it responded since?

America went right back to Ayn Rand-ish greed and self-centeredness under a hard-charging (foreign policy) and a negligent and overbearing (domestic policy) Republican administration that doubled the national deficit and drove many Americans into poverty with turning a blind eye to egregious investment practices (encouraging them even) while building up the military even more (a matter that only exacerbated and inflamed worldwide tensions).

Now we have a centrist President looked upon by Progressives as one who might save us all in one fell swoop but has let that part of the Democratic Party down repeatedly with corporate welfare and glad-handing industry lobbyists over domestic policies and turning a blind eye to the crimes committed by the previoius administration.

It takes time to heal a nation and its standing in the world. I just wish things would hurry up in that department (negotiating with a GOP that has made a hard right-hand turn is an exercise in futility and is not helping this country).

Obama has a majority in both Houses. It's time to use that to our advantage and get some things done and get this nation on the road to recovery and rejoin the world as a fellow citizen!

[Dennis Donovan]

1. I think it changed more on 12/12/00...

All one has to ask themselves is, "what if Al Gore had prevailed in FL?" Pondering...

[Roland99]

2. Can't argue with that really.

No telling where we'd be now.

[undeterred]

3. When we asked our dear leader what we could do after Sept.11

his answer was "go shopping". Profound.

[alarimer]

4. For the worse

We became a nation of scaredy-cats. The terrorists WON. We lost civil liberties and became the worst kind of jingoistic assholes.

[Roland99]

5. And too many Dems still cower in fear.

Afraid to exert their majority power.