"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency." - Barack Obama
Please be patient. My point will rise eventually. Everything that comes before it is just a build up.
George W. Bush was known for being the kind of guy you as an average citizen might know and hang out with and, I think, Barack Obama is that kind of guy too. The only two differences, 1) Barack knows what the fuck he is doing and 2) everyone thinks he is doing worse than Bush. Barack is not given enough credit. I mean seriously what is wrong with people. Here is a man whose origin is and has been cited as the very definition of the American success story. Here is a man who was the offspring of an Kenyan man and an American woman in Hawaii. Here is a man who built a beautiful family that worked together and were strong together. Here is a man who became a successful attorney and made his way to the US senate. Here is a man who began a presidential campaign being the son of a muslim, being mixed race, and still maintaining complete control over his situation. Here is man who in this campaign graced the vast crowds that gathered in the corners of our nation to listen to his moving and hope inspiring speeches (speeches that were said to resemble those of Martin Luther King or Jack Kennedy). Here is a man who won the election because he was golden and he was true blue. Here is a man who did what people 50 years ago would have called a fantasy. And now a few months later, here is a man who, due to the ignorance of the little guys he sought to lead and protect, has been outcast.
Let's have a brief trip down memory lane. Shall we start at the 2000 election, when the votes were clearly in the favor of Democratic nominee Al Gore to be the election winner and then suddenly there was a MIRACULOUS mistake that led to George Bush being the winner. Conveinent. Everyone was convinced he stole the election but justice was never enforced. And in doing so, we were dazzled by too many years of retard moments, bad decisions, confused grammer and yet another bad/manipulated election. God bless America.
Let's cut one year later. It's a beautiful September morning, then suddenly our country shakes and the world changes as two hijacked planes give the tallest American buildings a kiss. George Bush heard about this tragedy while reading to preschoolers and in a brave move he...Continued to read the children while the streets were still flaming. Okay then, I guess the situation wasn't as pressing. Maybe it would take a nuked city before he decides that the poor kids will just have to go through life not knowing what happens to the little story book hero. Even though our own President took his sweet time to sort his shit, our people wanted primitive, blood drenched retribution faster than you can say Kill Bill. I was horrified after finding out it wasn't an accident, but I was too young to be demanding blood and murder. I think though if I could be there as mature as I am now, I would want every single one who was responsible dead.
When our president finally did decide to act what did he do? Did he get a crack team of the government's most advanced investigators together and find out where they were hiding, what countries were involved, who specifically should be punished? Did he rally all of America's finest warriors and lay down justice on them? Oh no, he threw us way off with an even more gung ho plan! He invaded a country that was not involved whatsoever and milked a war for eight years so that they could extract oil from their ground while the man responsible for the murders we thought we were avenging gets away to an unknown location and has done so to this very fucking day! God bless America.
The whole 9/11 scenario obviously had some pyschological impact on many god fearing Americans who up until that point were convinced wthat we were impenetrable and invincible. When this turned out to be wrong, they were scared, looking for the first person who lies and assures them that they are not in the slightest bit of trouble and we're gonna come back and show those bastards what our country music and Budweiser and Chuck Norris and red blooded culture is all about. That was Darth Bush, I mean, President Bush and Emperor Cheney, I mean, Vice President Cheney and people are still convinced that that idea was the last logical thing. They forced us into war with a less fortunate country and killed hundreds of women, children, and whole families with a cause that was anything but probable. They excused their way into a fight and what we did is the equivalent of a frat kid setting a homeless guy on fire in some alley. Honestly, the world trade center bombings, though tragic, has paled in comparison to the number of buildings we've blown to dust since 2001. There are still people who believe that Iraq, an aquaintance and partner we cheerfully stabbed in the back, is the guilty one. 9/11 also opened up a woodwork that unleashed a whirlwind of right wing fanatics who did nothing but accuse, ridicule and contradict and a flurry of left wing pussies who did nothing but complain, fall over, and let themselves get fucked. We've got Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck and all the other sociapaths doing nothing but rocking the boat and crowning themselves gods, all the while trying to escape the fact that they were once the people no one wanted to talk to as children. With all this, our country has been made misguided and progressively more stupid.
I remember those eight years and how miserable I was. My mom morosely complaining about the Bush doctrine and all the pain and lies that have come with it and her lack of hope for the future left me very depressed when all I wanted was to live life carefree. Those were the days when I tried to deny politics, but it wasn't long before I was at least a little bit savvy in my arguments and I was more prone to get into them. In contrast to a lot of other peoples' opinions, it's good to know what you're talking about these days.
We were begging for hope, begging for restoration of some honor in this country. A fail safe to rescue us from a nose dive into infamy. In 2004, our only hope was John Kerry. He is smart charismatic, and a war hero (which some people had the audacity to deny) all things Bush was not. Bush still won though, due to his strangle hold over the sheeple and some trusty road blocks.
My mom was in tears. Four more years of this shit. I bottled up my anger and looked to the bright side. I told my mom myself, "At least he won't be there forever. It's just four more years." This helped her sleep a little better, but, mark my words people, nothing is ever "Just" anything, especially not four years.
Hope again arose with the latest election, okay these are not elections anymore they are only whose dick is bigger contests. Our four main spectacles were without a doubt John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. These are the kind of people who can bring out the true colors of the little people. I saw glimmers of relief and overwhelming joy in the eyes of people out at Obama and Clinton rallies. They cared about them and understood that they were cared for. But at McCain and Palin's rallies, all I saw was an overzealous, almost violent need to win at any cost. In the end, Obama won to my utter most joy.
Since then, he has been the subject to unbelievable criticism. He has been called a socialist (despite the fact that aspects of our country has been very socialist for years), a Nazi, a racist (even though he was raised in a white family), and numerous other things that are all too illogical. I won't press the whole logic thing too much, I watch Lost for christ's sake, but it is an important factor as well as a given. The conservative party is making it a duty for all conservative citizens to totally demolish any liberal or non conservative action. God bless America. Yeah, damn that Obama for trying to get us universal healthcare. Damn him? Damn you. No, fuck you. Since when did all conservative's become the all righteous defenders of all things 20th century. It's not just stupid people, it's stupid racists. Get with the goddamn times. Your klan lost, and your nazis lost, and your confederation lost. I'm meeting people who are actually blaming Obama for the economy. Yeah, Obama is forced to clean up the last president's twin wars, sky rocketing gas prices, a recession, terrible healthcare, global warming, and a growing economic depression. Yeah this is ALL Obama's fault, even if we were in this shit before he was president. If anything, Obama's presidential ventures have shown me how fucking crazy people are and it's fuckin ridiculous. And now, people are actually trying to block a video message Obama is preparing to release to the American kids returning to school. All he wants to do, as he and his transcript have stated, is pretty much tell kids to stick to their books, and to make the right moves in school and in life. Many presidents have done this recently. But no, there must be some sort of socialist hidden message somewhere in the SEEMINGLY harmless text. Why let Obama speak when we had a great mind like George Bush telling college kids "We live in a great country where even a C student can become president." So, the point of this long ass post, my school has decided not to show students the president's message due to the requests of several right wing parents. So now my brother and I might be staying home on the day of the message so we can watch it. Suck on that, conservative action.
But for serious, WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?
This has been a short thesis on the latest pitfalls of our country from Your Modest Guru. Thanks for reading.
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