We endured the Kennedy assasination. The Bay of Pigs and all the other misadevntures. The Vietnam War, all its lies and deaths and atrocities and TV rollcalls and pontifications and attacks against protestors. The murders of King, of RFK. The Democratic Convention of '68. The election of Nixon, and his foul governance. Watergate. Ford and Carter and anomie. Reagan and his selfish and perverse and close-minded vision of America. Grenada. Star Wars. The decimation of social programs, the attacks on the poor. GWHB and the first Iraq War. Clinton and the healthcare failure and the insane Whitewater and Monica scandals. The Rwanda genocide. The former Yugoslavia. The impeachment. The horrible recount. The coronation of St George and the misery ever since.

I am sure there are many more.

But the grief, the cynicism, the powerlessness that leads to despair, the loss of the great love of our collective lives, AMERICA, that is what we have had to endure for decades. Where is our country? Where is the place that revered equality, that rewarded hard work, that helped its helpless and gave the poor a way out of poverty, that educated its young ones and actually conserved for the future?

That America may not have always been honest about what it was doing, but it never scoffed at and spit on those values, as it does every day now.

That America is my love since childhood and the father of my children, both real and metaphorical. And now it just seems to be an abusive, alcoholic, gambler and wastrel, who stumbles through casino bars chasing hookers and getting into fistfights.

Is there any chance that it can get its soul, its sense of duty and morality and love of its family again?

This election feels like an intervention to me. America, if you reject Obama - if you turn your back on this, your last chance - I am so afraid you will end up dead in a hotel room or an alley.