Since absolutely nothing interesting has happened in the last few days except for me getting a headache (I'm looking at you, Madre. You and your genes.) I'm going to complain about people again!
I get about 4 emails a week from one of my relatives in Spokane, who is really into the forwarding of chain letters. This is kind of annoying of itself, but all of the emails are super-conservative anti-Obama stuff that occasionally is bad enough to make me ANGRY RAWR. So here is William's Top Pet Peeves with Anti-Obama People.
1) "OH MY GOD OBAMA'S A MUSLIM WHAT'S HE DOING TO THIS COUNTRY"
These bug me mainly because the email will invoke such entities as the Constitution and how Obama is destroying the Christian ideals that the country was founded upon. This would make more sense if THE COUNTRY WASN'T FOUNDED ON CHRISTIANITY. Sure, it was founded BY Christians but do these people just kind of ignore the First Amendment? Last I checked, it didn't say "Everyone has freedom to choose whatever religion they want OH YEAH EXCEPT THE PRESIDENT WHO HAS TO BE CHRISTIAN." Article two of the Constitution provides the requirements for presidency: born in the US, at least 35, NOTHING about religion!
A related complaint is that with Obama being a member of such a "radical extremist religion" he'll just let the terrorists come in and bomb the pants off of us. To this I reply: SHUT UP AND LEARN SOMETHING! It's amusing to note that despite the hem-hawing and loud noises that the Iranian government makes, if you go up to the citizenry and ask them about the U.S. the overwhelming majority will support/not hate America/Americans (this piece of info was stolen from a documentary from that travel dude). There have been TONS of articles, books, etc. that explain VERY CLEARLY that radical Muslims are by no means the majority! So calm down!
2) "OMG THE HEALTH CARE BILL IS LIEK GOING TO MAKE US LIEK SOCIALIST AND STUFF!!1!!FOUR!!"
These emails kind of make me wonder what horrible protests would be going on if FDR was elected today. Franklin D Roosevelt is consistently ranked in the top three presidents of all time (along with Washington and Lincoln) and is personally my favorite. He created social security and other things that all PROFOUNDLY increased the power of the executive branch. The dude even tried to add another justice to the Supreme Court in order to get his bills to be passed faster (he didn't succeed, obviously). This while also dealing with World War II and the beginnings of what would become the Cold War. Many of his policies were VERY socialist-leaning. And now we revere him as the president who single-handedly (well, along with the help of a Congress that would bark like a dog if he told them to) ended the Depression.
Obama, on the other hand, supports a bill that would limit some of the powers of private-sector health insurance and provide for a federally-run healthcare system, the likes of which Canada has had for quite a while. And I haven't noticed any big wars with Canada recently.
3) "THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DON'T SUPPORT OBAMA'S PLANS SO HE SUCKS!"
Oh, I hadn't realized that we elected him a year ago and already the entire country is foaming at the mouth. Must have missed that.
I don't really know what majority they're talking about (Eastern Washington?) because the main complaint I've seen with the Obama administration is that he hasn't yet done all of the stuff he promised he would (...he's only a year into his first term!) which indicates that, if anything, people think that he hasn't yet done enough!
4) "OMG HE BOWED TO THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA!!"
...because one leader isn't allowed to show respect to another one? Bowing isn't an act of submission anymore. At this point I think people are just looking for reasons to criticize him.
We elected him a year ago. I would assume that he still has majority support. The Declaration of Independence, which our country was founded upon, says that if government gets too abysmally horrible the people have a right to rebel against it; this has not yet happened, so I assume that you can all just live with what the rest of us (i.e. the majority) decided for now.
Oh yeah, and shut up about the Muslim thing.
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I love you. At 18 years old, you have more common sense, more open mindedness than people
ReplyDelete(**cough*relatives**) three times your age. It just makes me sad that these people have so much time on their hands to spread dissent and insecurity rather than TRYING TO CHANGE THINGS. It was exactly the same during Clinton's terms, of which I was then privvy to the emails. Now I'm happy to be OUT of that email chain. Oh Lordy am I glad. (But if you'll remember--I didn't like Clinton AT ALL. However, he was our president and I didn't try to sway people into the belief that because he slid cigars up a twit's hoo-hoo we needed to kiss our asses goodbye because obviously he was a radical Muslim.) (I just threw up a little.)
Anyhoo...sorry you're now part of that email anger and ignorance. I would buy tickets to Thanksgiving at your dad's house if you told your ignorant elderly relatives exactly what you think of their political views. I'd even sit on Aunt Cindy's lap for that.
He needs to find something more fulfilling to do with all his retired time. It makes me sad that this is how he spends it. He could be feeding starving people, or rocking babies at the hospital insead of this shit. Maybe that will help him to realize how damn lucky we are to be a part of this country no matter who is the president. And, incidentally, no matter who is the president....he (or SHE!!) requires RESPECT. If you don't like it, go live in some other country and leave this amazing, free one that is still the greatest on earth.
You just got me all up in feathers, dammit. Plus I pictured the whole cigar thing and need to call my therapist. Thanks.
WOW, are you sure you don't want to go into political science? Love your blog, love your thinking. Deb
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