One of my favorite shows as a kid was Married…with Children. Protagonist and shoe salesman, Al Bundy, often would say, “Let’s Rock!” just before facing a challenge. I adopted the phrase, using it most prominently when I was a sixteen year old dishwasher for a local Holiday Inn right before large stacks of dishes from a recent wedding reception came my way.
Well, my Philadelphia Flyers are facing a similar (LOL) challenge in the Stanley Cup Finals. Having come back from a 0-3 hole against Boston, fighting back from an 0-2 hole against Chicago, they face their 5th elimination game of these playoffs. They’ve gone 4-0 so far but this BlackHawks team isn’t your mom’s Boston Bruins, sorry Bruins fan. Now down 3 games to 2, I feel like the Flyers are much like the Rhode Island citizen – lose and there is no tomorrow.
As we enter into this election cycle, will we – citizens of Rhode Island – man/woman up and take a stand for ourselves and our children? Will we say no to the politics of the past? And to de-cliche this post just a bit, the question facing us this election cycle is whether or not we have the cajones to try something different and demand accountability from elected officials.
If we don’t then all we can expect and deserve is more of the same crap we’ve gotten for so many years. So Rhode Island,
