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Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 05:34 PM by nadine_mn
Ya I said it and I know it was been said before, but I am on a rant today so if you don't like it move on.
Maybe I am getting old - 36 - but dammit... we have a country full of whiners and scaredy cats. This is not news to many, and the reason it is a bug in my butt today is because I have a real concern that McCain might win the election because of that frickin fear card.
Yes the 2000 election was stolen and for 4 yrs we saw the ineptitude that was Prez Bush... but (despite the voter tampering) people still voted for Bush in 2004... and not just a few. They voted because of fear and ignorance.
And now "fear" is showing up in this election... oooh Obama is <gasp> Black and wants our white women (the Paris and Britney ad), ooooh Obama is Muslim... (this is such a ridiculous fear... one because its a lie and two because ummm so what if he was), oooh our taxes will get raised (but ignore the trillion dollar debt), ooooh if a Democrat is elected Al Queda wins.
And the Democrats are equally scared.. oooh we don't want to make the Republicans mad by impeaching, oooh we don't want to seem weak on terror, ooooh we don't want to be called names. Its ironic that the most diminutive (in size)Congressman... Kucinch has the most courage.
And the hyprocrisy running rampant in our country pisses me off... I see kids rollerblading down the block who have better armor than our soldiers. Heaven forbid little Johnny scrapes his knee, but fuck our soldiers in Irag and Afghanistan. A side note on the kiddie armor... what??? why? As a kid I went all over town on my pink Huffy and crashed that thing more times than I can count. And I scraped knees, skinned elbows and conked my head... and I lived.
We freak out about "spying" on our kids... we won't check their computer use or who they are friends with... that's invasion of privacy. Nevermind the fact our Prez is reading our emails, opening our mail, tapping our phones in case... yup terrorists. And if you ask the average Joe, they will say its ok because if you aren't doing anything wrong then why should you care? And in the meantime our children our left to their rooms unsupervised on the computer where they can see things like 2 Girls 1 Cup
We wage a war on germs... anti-bacterial everything yet we eat food that has more chemicals than nutrients. But we are soooo afraid of "germs" that we are impairing our own immune systems. And my favorite ... whenever there is a food contamination outbreak... some poor undocumented worker is always blamed for having unclean hands or taking a dump in the field. And immigrants are so scary we need to build a wall... they want our jobs, they want a better life, they want education... yet we ship highpaying jobs overseas that hurt our economy more than unskilled laborers working at McDonalds or in factories. And if we grant them citizenship... white people will become the minority? Holy Starbucks, Chad.
But you know who really scares Americans.... gays. OMG.. they have gay superpowers... they can destroy marriages, "corrupt" our children, and our poor defenseless military men and women - w/out armor to protect from bullets - also have no protection from gays in the shower... so we better just ban them from the military.
So back to the thrust of my rant... why are we so afraid? Why does fear work? And when did we become go from a country to be proud of to a bunch of 'morans' who are "Proud to Be American" but can't name their representative or find America on a globe? Why can McCain get away with outright lies..and comparing Obama to Hitler because of the crowds in Germany? Why aren't more elected Democrats standing up for Obama and calling McCain out on his lies? Why was it a Republican who supported Obama's decision not to visit the wounded vets while McCain was running his mouth?
Because I think Democrats think McCain is going to win/steal/tamper whatever this year and they are too afraid to make him mad.
Bunch of chickenshits
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