Okay guys, I've been trying SO HARD to keep my mouth shut on this site when it comes to Obama, because I know everyone here thinks he's the Second Coming or something, but I finally gotta weigh in since theres been plenty of McCain/Republican bashing going on.
::cracks knuckles:: Here we go.
I won't get into the politics to much here. I want to focus on how absurdly anti-American this dude and his wife are. They are on such a high horse talking about how America sucks, and how America isn't what it should be blah blah blah. They seem to be doing pretty okay to me. Has America wronged them some how? Last time I checked they're doing just fine.
Here is a SMALL list of things that this supposed American power couple has said about America/ns.
OBAMA: They get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.
MICHELLE OBAMA: Barack knows there's a hole in our soul.
OBAMA: I know my country has not perfected itself.
MICHELLE OBAMA: It's easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your ignorance. That's America.
OBAMA: We're confronting the history and stain of slavery in this country. We're confronting those scars.
MICHELLE OBAMA: For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
OBAMA: America, uh, is -- is no longer, uh, what it -- it could be, what it once was.
Rush (which I KNOW you guys just love) had this to say: I'm sitting there listening to this, and I'm thinking, "I'm hearing sort of a cleaned up version of what Jeremiah Wright thinks." (doing Jeremiah Wright impression) America's chickens are coming home to roost! Evil white people!
THEN
Obama gets asked a very simple question by a seven-year-old girl. She asked him "Mr. Obama, why do you want to be President?" Should have been simple enough right? "Well little girl, because I love America. I think America is the best country in the world and I'd like to do everything in my power to protect what our founding fathers put into place for us. I feel so fortunate to be an American, and I just want to help lead the most BAD ASS super cool country evAr!"
Except for thats not exactly what went down:
Rush commented on the issue by verbalizing exactly what I was thinking:
All right, now, here he's brought it home. He had trashed his country in Germany, he has seen the result of that in his plummeting poll numbers, and now he does it again in Elkhart, Indiana, to a seven-year-old little girl. You're running for president, Senator Obama. A little girl asks you a question, "Why did you start running for president?" It's a seven-year-old, Senator. You tell her because you love the country. You tell her because this is the greatest place on earth, that we've got challenges, but you want to help the country through it. You don't tell a seven-year-old that her country isn't what it once was. You do not lie to seven-year-olds and tell them that your country sucks. You just don't do it, Senator. America is no longer what it could be, what it once was? How the hell would you know, sir? Your experience has only been in one part of America, elite, leftist academia. Oh, and with Jeremiah Wright. You've hung around with a bunch of people who do hate this country, there's no question about that. But for crying out loud, to a seven-year-old? America is, uh, no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, what it, uh, once was, and I say to myself I don't want that future for my children. You wouldn't want your life and your wife's life for your kids?
Before you decided to run for president, Senator Obama, your wife was pulling down 300 grand working in PR at a hospital. You had written two books that got you out of debt. What is wrong with your life? What is wrong with the opportunities in this country that had been made available to you, that you wouldn't want for that seven-year-old girl that asked you the question? What's so bad about your life that you wouldn't want your kids living it? You're running for president of the United States, and you've run down the country to a seven-year-old. We've got to have better than this out there.
I won't even get into how he said that if people had their tires properly inflated then we could stop offshore drilling... OH my gosh, I won't EVEN start.
It boils down to this. Let's look at the past 8 years and the freakin GIGANTIC mess we're in. We've got a seemingly insurmountable deficit (and here I always thought republicans were about fiscal conservatism, no big government WRONG! They've been spending like money was going out of style...), were at war in not one place but effectively two places (Afganistan, the forgotten conflict), the politicians that were elected to protect us are making themselves silly rich with oil money through contracts awarded to companies they are directly profitting from, and the ENTIRE WORLD HATES US! (Well at least the smart people hate the adminsitration, not the people of the US.)
Why do you think Obama is so popular overseas, his great looks? No, the simple answer is they are tired of seeing what a crappy ass job our current adminstration is doing. Yeah, so he said America isn't what it once was...WELL HE IS RIGHT (Please read above if you disagree).
And there's clearly one thing I can see that allowed a monkey like our current president come to power. There's only one thing that would allow the voting people of America to elect a cocaine sniffing, DUI offending, military duty dodging person into office. FAITH. That's it. It's all it takes, someone to say that I have faith and I am a new person and people will give him a chance. Not once, but TWICE. Crazy...just crazy.
Bottom line is that I think it sends a clear message when the military donates more to Obama than McCain.
Now please understand, I'm not a liberal democrat by any means, I'm not even registered as a democrat, although I imagine most of the people on the Met are. I am just really sick and tired of everyone who still champions the Republicans because of party line. I see it first hand in Washington all the time, I see it first hand in Sacramento all the time. Party line, party line. In my opinon, the system is broke.
Kara, It's interesting to see your point of view and I would say many people in middle America would agree with you. I find it admirable that you wrote this post even though you know it's probably not the most popular stance to take.
this is why I'd held back. yikes. I said that I didn't really want to get into politics, that wasn't the reason for my blog. I reallllly didn't want to get into specific issues. I don't have the time nor the energy to sit down and write out how I totally disagree with MOST of Obama's views/policies. I'd just been upset at his lack of love for America, and wanted to vent. This is in no way a political site. Things are usually kept pretty light around here, so I made sure not to go into too much depth.
I know that Rush isn't a McCain supporter, but what I love about Rush is that he doesn't have a veil over his eyes about Obama, and that he thinks Obama is as scary as I do. Who freakin cares if he got addicted to oxycotin. I don't know very much about the situation, but I'm sure it was prescribed to him, and drugs like that carry a risk of dependancy. I myself had to be weened off morphine because I was having withdrawls when I got out of the hospital. I took them for longer than I was supposed to because I was still shaky and having severe diarrhea. Does that make me a bad person? I didn't think so.
Look, I really didn't intend to start a war here. And as for the pot calling the kettle black thing... I'll admit that I can be a bit of an "elitist" if you will. The difference is I don't go about saying that I'm "the common woman". I know that I grew up in a privileged household and that I don't understand struggle like some people do. I'm okay with that. I don't try to hide it, problem is, he does.
I don't think we're in "Deep shit" We've got issues, of course, but just because we're in a war that we all know has gone a tad bit overboard... (hyperbole) that doesn't mean that our country is going down the drain. I wouldn't want to live in any other country. I am so glad to have been born in about the only place I know where anything is possible. Where you can say whatever you want to say, and worship whom ever you wish.
I'm glad hes sympathetic to people who haven't been as fortunate to succeed as he and his wife, but he was saying that he wouldn't want this for his kids... what's so bad about how his life has turned out?
PS... Even though I'm not a Bush fan, I DO NOT think he is a liar. It makes me cringe every time I hear someone call him that. I think he made some really uninformed decisions. I think that after he made those decisions, he didn't know how to undo them, so he stayed the course hoping things would pan out. They didn't. I REALLY believe with all my heart that he has never intentionally lied to us, or misrepresented what is going on to us. Really. I'm not sure anyone actually has proof that he lied. I think we owe the guy AT LEAST the benefit of the doubt.
i actually appreciate how obama gives it to us straight. he's not "un-American", he speaks from the heart, he knows this country's in deep shit and he's not afraid to say it. i wouldn't want him to sugarcoat it for me, after these 8 years of lying all i want is some truth from my government.
call him a snob, call him a rock star but don't count him out. unless he really f's it up...obama is going all the way.
First off, i really think that political differences are great. it means that people actually care about what's going on with the world. Having said that, I'm only going to touch on only one point in the posting.
Just bc someone is doing well it doesn't mean that they can't be sympathetic to people who aren't. You wrote that Obama's "wife was pulling down 300 grand working in PR at a hospital", he had written two books that got him out debt. Then you posed a question to Obama "What is wrong with your life?" If people just looked out for themselves and didn't give a damn about what was going on with other people, this world would be a lot worse.
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