The New York Times Has the Boss

from the article by Bruce Springsteen:

Like many others, in the aftermath of 9/11, I felt the country's unity. I don't
remember anything quite like it. I supported the decision to enter Afghanistan
and I hoped that the seriousness of the times would bring forth strength,
humility and wisdom in our leaders. Instead, we dived headlong into an
unnecessary war in Iraq, offering up the lives of our young men and women under
circumstances that are now discredited. We ran record deficits, while
simultaneously cutting and squeezing services like afterschool programs. We
granted tax cuts to the richest 1 percent (corporate bigwigs, well-to-do guitar
players), increasing the division of wealth that threatens to destroy our social
contract with one another and render mute the promise of "one nation
indivisible."

It is through the truthful exercising of the best of human
qualities - respect for others, honesty about ourselves, faith in our ideals -
that we come to life in God's eyes. It is how our soul, as a nation and as
individuals, is revealed. Our American government has strayed too far from
American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts
is waiting