"A Strong Sense Of Grievance"

In the wake of a Housecalls post that seems to have rattled some local cages (let me pause one more time to thank my favorite "right person", Buzz Armfield, for the opportunity to tell his story of coming home to Asheboro - and intertwine it with my own), I followed reports of the Tea Party rally in Washington D.C. today with a sense of shock and awe. 

I've long believed/despaired that America has lost her way . . . that her moral underpinnings have become distorted and warped . . . that our checks no longer balance (all puns intended) . . . and that this nation is on a very dangerous socioeconomic course too far gone to be held in check or reversed.

But today gave me some small hope.  A CBS commentator opined tonight that the hundreds-of-thousands on the National Mall today (it's AMAZING to me how hard the mainstream media is working to downplay the event) embodied a "strong sense of grievance".  As a resident of Asheboro, North Carolina . . . as a doctor and former public servant in Bill & Hill's "village", I totally get that.

And I have news for Al Sharpton (whose remarks I found divisive and revolting on so many levels).  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy and dream belongs to ALL Americans. 

Today is not just your day, Al.  Civil rights and equality - real equality - are not just your issues.  Rights come with responsibilities.  Freedom is not free.

I had a dream too.  I came back home to live it.  But it was shattered by people-charged-with-the-public-good who have no honor, and who have yet to be held accountable by anyone charged-to-do-so . . . particularly not anyone in Al Sharpton's party of accountability, transparency, hope, change and reform.  

You could say I have a "strong sense of grievance".  And it's nice to know that if I am "crazy" or "stupid", I am not alone.

God Bless America.  And pass the tea.

Sunday Morning Addendum:  Thanks Joe, for the link to my post on Buzz.

Monday Morning Addendum:  Just back from yet another vacation in Martha's Vineyard, and grandstanding in New Orleans (an area of the country where his own failures-in-leadership shine so brightly), the President Obama told NBC's Brian Williams that he ignored the rally on the Mall.  Par for the course.

The thing is, Mr. President, I think our "silly season" will end when all those people you've been ignoring as you pursue your left-of-left/socialist agenda ignore you next time at the polls.