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Why have we lost this spirit in America?

Well, the National American Spirit is used by politicians and the media when ever the situation deem fit. They take you up and take you down all of the time.

However, the American Spirit I miss is running down to the local Mom and Pop store for penny candy with my friends as a kid. Mom and Pop were nice to me as a kid and I was able to get to know them.

Today it's a 7-11 on every corner and the help behind the counter can't smile or say thank you. These shop keepers have dead souls and could care less about you as a customer and forget about being a neighbor.

I don't know maybe it's just me but people were nicer back when Americans were DEBT FREE.

The last time I felt people neighborly is when I was in Naples, Italy or in small town USA.

But I do understand your concern...something has changed.

Will we ever see a real American President again?

We have one.

America needs to stop listening to what was once called "the nattering nabobs of negativity," find the real news, and support our president.

President Reagan was a great man, and a product of his life and his times and an opportunity he was large enough -- and "American" enough -- to seize.

President George W. Bush has shown us, since 9/11, that he, too, can grow to meet the challenges. He's a patriot, and a champion of the right causes, and he has the character and substance to be "a real American President." He's risen to the occasion, and -- while the political climate has forced him into some domestic and fiscal policies I abhor -- many of us are quite proud of him.

He will be a great President, if we let him.

Someone posted, on this thread, that he was "starting to look presidential" (I could have a word or two wrong there, but you get the gist). President Bush has been looking, and acting, "Presidential" since 9/11, (many of us would argue that the date should be 01/20/01) and will make us proud if we let him.

We live in a republic, after all, and he's limited by those elected to other branches of government (from both parties!) and "public opinion" (shaped in large part by a lying liberal media elite), and don't forget that he couldn't have accomplished a damned thing if he hadn't been elected in the first place!

I'm not saying he'll match President Reagan; maybe he will, maybe he won't, maybe he can, maybe he can't. Taken as a whole, though, his contributions have been great, he's lifted America's spirit, he's restored honor and dignity to the White House, he's brought about a sharp turn in our handling of "foreign affairs" and the terrorists who want to kill us all, and he's given me some of my hard-earned money back from the IRS.

Are we just watching and gloomily wishing for the resurrection of Ronald Wilson Reagan, or are we willing to step up and help George W. Bush become another great American president?

Sorry. I don't rant much (online ;-), but today has gotten to me. I'm so proud of President Reagan, of my country, of the flag flying on my porch, and, yes, of President Bush, that I'm just not myself this week...

God bless America.

God bless President Bush.

I thank God that He's blessed us with both.