joe six-pack
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As a country, I think we've gone off the hyperbolic deep-end. It's time to take a sobering look at ourselves and realize that our political discussion is polluted with misinformation and insane gibberish.
Let me give you an example of a proper critique of Obama: He hasn't yet done the job he was sent to do. The President campaigned as a visionary, but has preformed to maintain the status quo; he has not delivered on all of his campaign promises, and has not yet delivered on the message he was elected to achieve.
But the conversation is deluded and skewed by pundits and talking-mouths who bring hyperbole into an otherwise reasonable critique of our 44th President. It detracts from the real issue of job performance when complete tools put his middle name, Hussein, in "quotation-marks" as if the people who voted for him care that his father was an African-Muslim.
It detracts from the conversation when crack-pots, who label a Liberal President, with many Conservative policies, a fascist or communist. It doesn't matter that these two ideas are contradictory. The people yelling these slogans don't really understand what they mean to begin with.
Take any major criticism of the President from the right--you can bet a Republican has done it. Health Care? Mandatory care was Bob Dole's idea, that Republican who ran against Clinton. Mitt Romney lead the charge for mandatory Health coverage in his home-state of Massachusetts, where homosexuals can get married to each other.
Government bail outs? Try George W Bush and the TARP fiasco.
There is nothing "radical" about this Presidents policies. If anything they are too ordinary, too common-place. It's been done, again and again by past Presidents, Congressmen and Senators on both sides of the isle. This is the status quo, not some radical Government overthrow.
You know what? I feel less represented by either side everyday. Republicans have no shame and Democrats are total screw-ups. But let's at least have a civilized discussion about the political process and accurately critique our Government and President. Please.
If not, then go to hell. Thanks. eace
Let me give you an example of a proper critique of Obama: He hasn't yet done the job he was sent to do. The President campaigned as a visionary, but has preformed to maintain the status quo; he has not delivered on all of his campaign promises, and has not yet delivered on the message he was elected to achieve.
But the conversation is deluded and skewed by pundits and talking-mouths who bring hyperbole into an otherwise reasonable critique of our 44th President. It detracts from the real issue of job performance when complete tools put his middle name, Hussein, in "quotation-marks" as if the people who voted for him care that his father was an African-Muslim.
It detracts from the conversation when crack-pots, who label a Liberal President, with many Conservative policies, a fascist or communist. It doesn't matter that these two ideas are contradictory. The people yelling these slogans don't really understand what they mean to begin with.
Take any major criticism of the President from the right--you can bet a Republican has done it. Health Care? Mandatory care was Bob Dole's idea, that Republican who ran against Clinton. Mitt Romney lead the charge for mandatory Health coverage in his home-state of Massachusetts, where homosexuals can get married to each other.
Government bail outs? Try George W Bush and the TARP fiasco.
There is nothing "radical" about this Presidents policies. If anything they are too ordinary, too common-place. It's been done, again and again by past Presidents, Congressmen and Senators on both sides of the isle. This is the status quo, not some radical Government overthrow.
You know what? I feel less represented by either side everyday. Republicans have no shame and Democrats are total screw-ups. But let's at least have a civilized discussion about the political process and accurately critique our Government and President. Please.
If not, then go to hell. Thanks. eace