It's the fourth-quarter. One team is standing on the sidelines beaten and battered trying to figure out if it can pull off a miracle come back. It's the fourth-quarter in America, too. Just last month 1.2 million formerly employed people disappeared into the black hole of a political unemployment equation – never to be counted again. This isn’t a game to those millions of Americans who are out of work or under employed – this is their life. But the other team doesn’t see it that way. To them it’s about winning at all costs – even if it means playing outside the rules.
GM and Chrysler know all about playing and winning that kind of game. Thanks to a corrupt league with a president that picks the winners and losers. It’s about playing in the freest economic system in the world and getting bailed with someone else’s money when they lost all of theirs.
The people of America know a hell-of-a-lot about this kind of game; and what losing this game would ultimately mean for their future and the future of this country. People began to pull together in 2010 and made their voices heard loud and clear. And the America they once knew is now on its way back.
I’ve seen our great country go through many ups and downs in my lifetime. Sometimes so far down it felt like we’d never get up. But we always did, and we came together as a free people under the leadership of men and women who were true team players. That’s what America does, and that’s what America will do again this year.
What matters most now is coming together as a team, and regardless of the stacked odds against us, pulling together and winning one more for the Gipper.
Let what happened in Detroit be more than a just a lesson; let Ford be your inspiration of who and what we are as a free people. And let GM and Chrysler be a constant reminder that the price America pays for freedom should never be in bailouts. That’s not who we are, that’s not true freedom.
So don’t let the odds in this fourth-quarter scare you, remember, is ain't over till it’s over. Come this November there’s a great chance the other team will be standing on their sideline watching in amazement as America mounts a heroic fourth-quarter comeback game-winning drive. It’ll be another one for the record books.
(In response to the Super Bowl ad: It’s Halftime in America)
