I don't usually do the t-shirt first. But this time, my reason to finally choose between
Obama and Clinton resolved into this shirt I posted a couple of days ago. It's taken this long to put the reasons behind it into words.-
Endorsing
Barack is not just a choice for me, it's pretty much an unavoidable choice.
Barack Obama chose to tell the truth to people who needed to hear it, despite all advice to the contrary.
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
As well they might. One might call this "elitist" or "talking down" - but the fact is, the great majority of the people have every right to expect our delegated representatives to be in an informed position to understand and legislate issues, or in other words, be ABLE to "talk down to us." And every once in a while, they need to be able to swat us upside the head and force us to look at the
crapfest we have allowed ourselves to indulge in rather than actually shoveling our share of the
shitstorm.
We do have a right to be bitter about the results of being exploited and pandered to for political gain as a substitute for actual competent, compassionate and intelligently conservative management of our interests on our behalf. Hell, conservative voters have completely given up on the idea of government or their taxes bringing them any benefit - so long as it benefits nobody else, and so long as their frustrations are expressed in making the rubble jump somewhere far away.
But it's not enough, and it's certainly not worth three dollar gasoline and milk at 3.50 when your wages have been stagnant for a decade or two.
They - the people Clinton so swiftly assumes are dumb enough to be unthinkingly offended - are not actually that dumb. Their noses are rubbed in it every day. It's bad enough to have to shop at
Wal-Mart - when it's getting hard to make ends meet even by making do and settling for less, when your grocery bill tells you that all that good economic news is complete and utter nonsense for you and everyone you know, it's time for the lies to end.
There's a saying from the great undefined middle of this nation:
"Don't pee on my boots and tell me it's sunshine."
Well, we've had eight years of that, and Clinton obviously figures that if it's worked for eight years, it will work for eight more. Just like John McCain.
As much as I'd like to vote for the first woman president - the actual result will be much more along the line of John McCain in drag.
This is
Graphictruth, and
Barak gets our endorsement for speaking the
Graphictruth. I discount his apology - for if you read it, it's the apology I would have made, if my arm were twisted as hard as his;
"I'm sorry you feel that way."Reality is not optional in Politics. We have had far too much post-modern bullshit, and quite frankly, it's making ME want to cling to the hard cold reality that a handgun represents. A gun is simple, understandable and comforting in times of trouble - even when it's an utterly useless comfort. Even when you know perfectly well that your troubles are not ones that can be dismissed with "a whiff of grape-shot" or rightfully blamed on the symptoms of malfeasance and greed, such as outsourcing and illegal immigration.
We have the right to expect leaders who understand that it's their job to keep things from getting to such a point where we start to think wistfully about deploying Occam's Machine-Gun.We also have the 2
nd Amendment right to employ our arms at need to insist on such leadership.
I don't know if
Barack Obama understands the full import of the second amendment and it's
precursor, the preamble to the Declaration of
Independence - but it was not that long ago, actually, that another president did.
He is known as FDR, and he pretty much ran roughshod over the letter of the Constitution, in order to fulfil it's intent in a time of far greater emergency than our history books would like to admit. We were a whisker away from outright revolution, because the Constitution was being used as a reason to NOT meet the needs of the great majority, while the "important people," "the People Who Matter" were being feted at the White House.
Herbert Hoover was very lucky that his time in office ran out, considering the alternative.
This time has come again. And while I'm a constitutional absolutist, as one Justice observed, "the Constitution is not a suicide pact."
What it is, above all, is a document that outlines what government is intended to achieve and delegates powers sufficient to that end. Well, our current leaders - and this
neocon abomination goes right down to the local level, where the
taser fetish has become a cliche' - are clearly fearful of and
contemptuous toward the individual liberties the Constitution holds sacred.
"To promote the general welfare and to provide for the common defense." I don't recall any exception in duty toward persons making less than five figures.
We can only hope he's also smart enough to call upon the services of Ron Paul to help him make his instincts constitutionally bullet-proof, because the Supreme Court is three to two against common sense and the rights of the individual.
