When did it go from being about America and the problems that "We" need to resolve, to being about every other foreign country and their brother?
Perhaps it's time (actually well past time) to begin focusing on the repeal of NAFTA and CAFTA, so that the United States can once more again build it's manufacturing base back to a sustainable size in which to support our country and it's "people" again. Our people need the jobs back that NAFTA and CAFTA took away.
When George Herbert Walker Bush formed the policy on what Bill Clinton would eventually signed, our Nation was one of hope and prosperity.Our children didn't worry about having employment opportunities, because "We" still had a manufacturing base.
Now there is no hope for them, because there is no sustainable employment in which to plan a future let alone a life upon.
The leaders of our Nation sold us out long ago, to fill their own pockets in their efforts to advance the "elite"
Several pro-Israel sections of the 2008 Democratic Party platform have been removed from the 2012 platform—on Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, and Hamas. The new platform represents another shift by the Obama Democrats toward the Palestinian position on key issues in the peace process.
For Jerusalem, the new platform has been brought into line with the Obama administration’s policy of not recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and supporting its division. Jerusalem is unmentioned in the 2012 document, whereas the 2008 and 2004 Democratic Party platforms declared “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel…It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.” The Obama administration’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem has been a point of significant controversy in recent months.
On the issue of Palestinian refugees, the new document has removed language from the 2004 and 2008 platforms specifying that Palestinian “refugees” should be settled in a future Palestinian state, not in Israel.
The 2004 platform:
