It's above politics. Get energized, it's Save the World time !!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Imagine for a second, the other path at the fork in the road on September 12, 2001.

Imagine a president who used the global goodwill to gather leaders everywhere (good and bad) to talk about peace.

Imagine a president who understood that we needed to learn more about the cultural differences among all people and seek out ways to bridge these differences.

Imagine a president who consulted with the brighest anti-terrorist experts in the world to develop a multi-lateral plan to capture Bin Laden and his followers and bring them to justice in front of the whole world.

Imagine a president who truly put our safety first and recognized how woefully inadequate and deteriorated our infrastructure and disaster preparedness was, here at home.

Imagine a president who gathered urban, security, and emergency planning experts and created a comprehensive plan for our country's renewal.

Imagine a president who took that plan and lobbied Congress to appropriate $191 billion (current cost of Iraqi War) to:
1 - Improve the domestic security.
2 - Fund state of the art urban evacuation plans and disaster refuge accommodations. Plans that could have been tested today with Katrina.
3 - Fund research and implementation of our country's most pressing infrastructure vulnerabilities, such as innovative solutions to New Orleans flooding.

Imagine a president who recognized what almost all scientists are concurring with - the dangers of global warming and took immediate executive action. Action that one day might reduce the severity of storms like Katrina.

What could have been, can still be. It is not too late. The events of the last week can energize us. We must work harder than we ever thought possible to elect CARING AND THINKING people to lead us. It is more than politics, it is SAVE THE WORLD time.