Okay....I've sat here long enough listening to the howls of folks who are, in the words of a very good friend of mine, "sitting around the house in a fucking tin foil hat". Time to set some shit straight.
I don't plan to get political in this blog very often. Simply put, I know you've got your opinions, and regardless of what I say, you're probably still going to feel the way you do at the end of the day. In this case, however, I feel the need to point out some shit I think you're missing.
Let's start by getting one very basic point straight:
Blaming the President for every single fucking thing wrong with this country is like blaming the A-B Clydesdales for the fact that you drink too much beer.
Last time I checked, this country's laws aren't made by the fellow living in the White House. They're made by the 400+ tools...I mean ELECTED OFFICIALS working out of the Capital building. They're the ones who present the legislation, debate on it, accept the bribes to drop certain things or add others, then vote on the whole fucking shooting match.
Sure, the President has the right to veto everything, but understand that he does NOT have a line-item veto. That little benefit was rejected by the Supreme Court during the Clinton administration as being unConstitutional.
So, that means that if the President REALLY wants/needs to pass that emergency spending bill, he's stuck approving all the other bullshit that's been attached to it. And Congress knows it. That's why you get all the pork-nonsense on those really important bills.
And, when the President reaches down, finds a pair, and vetoes it? It's never mentioned that he turned it down because of all the other shit attached to it. Instead, we hear about what an asshole he is for rejecting a very much needed spending bill.
Talk about being damned either way.
Let's move on to foreign policy and understand another fact:
Most of the foreign policy being utilized currently isn't new. It wasn't designed by the Obama administration, and, in most cases, wasn't even designed by the administration of W.
In a lot of cases, our country is following plans of diplomacy that are 20 years old, at least. That goes back to the Clinton administration, and in some cases, back to H.W. Bush and Reagan.
Hell, the policies regarding sending supplies to foreign nations that need it goes back at least as far as the Truman administration, when supplies were airlifted to West Berlin after World War 2 (see The Marshall Plan). You could go back even farther and list all of the times during the FDR administration when we sent bukoo supplies to our Allies to help them while the Nazis were plowing their way across Europe.
Sure, it'd be easy to say we did that because of war, but at its core, it's the same basic policy we use today, 70 years later.
Oh, yeah, and you folks getting pissy with Obama about the IRS thing? I'd like to point out that the head of the IRS responsible for all of this shit isn't an Obama appointee. The Republican's pal W put him on his post, so put the blame for that shit where it belongs.
Besides, whose best interest did the whole IRS targeting Tea Baggers...I mean TEA PARTY MEMBERS serve? It wasn't the Democrats. They were doing just fine with the Tea Party splitting the Republican party like an old log for the fireplace.
That would mean, logically, that the REPUBLICANS would be the one's to benefit if the Tea Party was discredited. Hmmmmm.....didn't hear CNN, CNBC, or Fox News throw that opinion out there. Wonder why?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you have a problem with the way our government operates, get out there and VOTE!!!!! Beyond that, get out there and GET KNOWLEDGE. Don't just watch the talking heads on the propaganda stations spew their venom. Read the stuff written by foreign writers. Read stuff written by people on both sides of the issue. Figure out for yourself what's what. DON'T just accept what you're told at face value, and DON'T be afraid to speak with the one weapon you have in the fight: your right to vote the lying fuckers out of office.
It beats the hell out of putting on the tin foil hat, and looks a whole lot smarter in the long run.
Oh....one more thing.
To those who think Obama needs to be impeached:
You are so tremendously full of SHIT that your opinion is worthless.
If Democrats couldn't/wouldn't impeach W, and the Republicans couldn't successfully impeach Clinton (and I think we can all point to things they both did that are FAR worse than anything Obama's done), then Obama should be left the hell alone.
Impeachment was intended for the slime-balls of all slime-balls. Nixon would have been impeached, and frankly would have deserved it. He broke the law by intentionally interfering with a government investigation, among a laundry list of other things. Whether or not Clinton deserved it or not is open to debate. Yeah, he had sex with an intern and lied about it, but does that hold to the same level as Watergate? And W? If you try to sit there and tell me that lying to Congress and the nation about the reasons for the second Gulf War wouldn't have been enough to at least CONSIDER impeachment, you seriously need to read your Constitution. Of course, he wasn't, so it's a moot point.
Get off the impeachment bullshit and focus on the important things: we've got an economy that's still in the shitter and an unemployment issue that needs fixing. Social Security will run out before many of our parents can draw it, and the system's broken. We can't feed many of our own citizens, and our infrastructure's broken as well.
Let's get off the petty, childish, playground bullshit fights, find a way to pull together, and do what we all claim we want to do: set this country on a path to once again being the BEST in the world.
I'm the Fat Man, and I approved this message.
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