Are there any real answers out there?

Last night I stayed up WAY too late to watch the movie Bobby (2006) with my beloved. It was an interesting movie. I liked the way it followed the various charecters, and the variety of their lives and stories. But that is not the point of my post today. :) Somewhere in the middle it struck me. When exactly did our trust in politicians and the political process really start to wain? I am not really sure a finger could be pointed at JFK or his brother - I mean not at them personally, but at what happened to them. When did it become ok to wink at indiscretions of our political leaders (and I don't really care which side of the aisle your on) and just let them go on with a smack to the back of their hands? It's not just the morals of the leaders that we now doubt (I say this in an overly generalized way), but it is the system as well. Cover ups, scandals, misrepresentation, and just a general sense of distrust between her citizens and her government seems to be simmering. The tools of the enemy of our soul is distrust, etc. and he seems to be at work within the United States. And lately the endless bicering between those who are supposed to be working together for the greater good of the people they are supposed to represent. I don't have the answers, and I still believe that President Bush really has the best interest of the United States. I believe he makes good decisions in very difficult circumstances. Even when those decisions are not the most popular. I'm sure the decision by Moses to not enter the promised land, despite the reports from Joshua and Caleb, was the popular one. But in the end they people of Isreal did not get to see the promised land. I have no idea how all this will play out in the years to come. There is a long road ahead of us as a Nation. I just pray that those who are called according to the Lord's name get on their knees to march. Because, unless the Lord is Lord of this land... I don't want to think about it. I want this country to be a proud and strong place to be for my children, and their great-grandchildren. Verse for today: 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, ESV Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished. Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’ “But if you [2] turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you [3] up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”