I write with a nonpartisan pen, but others continue to destroy any slight grip on harmony we have and replace it with the ugliest division they can conjure in their smoldering, bubbling cauldrons.
The column I wrote was about political spin and those who use it and buy it. It got many comments online, in the many places it appears, but one woman seemed to have less of a clue than most.
Her first comment: Why do we allow democrats to vote, as all of them are on welfare?
This was exactly the Kool-Aid drinking attitude I was talking about. With one incredible and definitive statement, she proved she drinks the Kool-Aid, the size of her glass and that her lips are red.
I have never been on welfare in my life and have no intentions of trying it. To say such a thing, is to demonstrate the depth of your ignorance or the depth of the ignorance of the person who influences you. You are still drinking Kool-Aid created during the division and hatred of our past.
Her next statement shows even less intellect. Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis; she even provided a link to a video which supposedly proved it.
The video was removed by its poster, imagine that. I hate it that people will write and speak anything from a position of ignorance. I hate it more that others will actually believe it and sell it as truth. The real problem here, manipulative people write it, then retract it, but not before ignorant people believe it and run with it.
Furthermore, the video went on to show Davis as a Communist, never mind he was an intelligent, articulate, black man trying to create a better world for his children during the most prejudiced and turbulent time in our history.
What if he were a Communist when a teenage Barack met him? Must we be held accountable for those we knew as children? My grandfather and father were moonshiners, I dare say everyone in my family made, hauled, drank or lived off the money moonshine provided. Not only am I not on welfare, I don’t drink, make moonshine or haul it. Unlike the Kool-Aid drinking idiots in this country, I am my own man and make my own decisions.
These seemingly intelligent adults who don’t have a clue about politics and don’t know the difference between certain parts of their anatomy and a hole in the ground would have you believe that Obama grew up as a mixed-race child, in the most chaotic and racially biased times, in our history. While doing so he was busy making complex political affiliations with our enemies.
Teenagers look up to anyone who is addressing their particular concerns. Most know as much about politics as, well, someone who would say, all Democrats are on welfare. It’s okay to be ignorant at 15, that’s why you can’t vote at 15. It’s dangerous to be ignorant at 30 or above because there is a 20 percent chance you actually might vote.
Before I go insane listening to the ignorance, let me make one more point. In a speech this week, Paul Ryan said our country has moved from producing 5 million barrels of crude oil a day to producing 5.5 million a day since 2008. In 2011 our country imported less than half its daily consumption of oil, for the first time.
This should have been an indication of a resounding victory by the Obama Administration. Instead, he went on to explain that Obama has fought every effort to drill and discover our own oil and natural gas resources. Further he explained that the high gas prices are entirely the fault of the ObamaAadministration’s tax and environmental policies.
You can’t have it both ways. Either the Administration increased production of crude oil by .5 million barrels a day, or it did not. If you’re going to make a generalized derogatory statement, make sure that the sentence just before it doesn’t prove it as total poop.
Continuing to say the same things repeatedly does not make them true, regardless of which party says them.
Obama did not create the price of gasoline, start the wars, create the deficit nor implement the bailout fiasco. Who honestly cares who his father was?
I will go on record here and make a few predictions.
In regard to the above matters, it mattered little who won in 2008, it matters little who wins in 2012.
Gas prices and the deficit will continue to rise.
The government will continue to grow and do stupid things. Both parties will continue to blame it on the other.
Paul Ray
7:56 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Although I totally agree with your article and wince at the ignorance I see and hear around me I have to point on some discrepancies in your own article.
Ryan pointed out that the "private sector" produced 5.5 more barrels of oil, a significant increase. His reference to the Obama administration fighting against that production is not a total false hood. The number of new and renewed gas and oil exploration leases under this current administration is at an all-time low. So although his statement was of course self-serving, politifact did not give it a pants on fire or even partially false and was rather neutral.
Please do not take this as a slam, which is far from the truth, because personally I feel like I am on the deck of the titanic, a bottle of vintage whisky in hand, my deck chair secured, a warm blanket about me and of course plenty of ice floating around enjoying the closing act of the show. And the 2012 elections are certainly entertaining although more so terrifying in their divisiveness and hate mongering.
So post on and let us enjoy your comments.
Red
10:14 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Move along-move along nothing to see here. Poor "Reverable-Mittens" does it again after a primary full of "I'll repeal Obama Care on the first day", Now he says "well, there's some parts like". I'll have some of the parts I like in there. The same day the Mittens explain team comes back with "what he ment was. .. ... and "Oh no he didn't mean THAT"! I think Mittens got more than a few shirts at Costco. I think he bought a New Suit of Clothes. So nice only special people (like wing-nuts) can see them.
Jerry Kendall
11:41 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Having your head in the sand and ignoring the facts of the last four years does not make you politically astute either.
Richard C Joyner
11:48 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Red it is also sad and lacks intellectual strength to name call and demonize like you were doing. Reminds me of daily kos and the gross immaturity and lack of tolerance of others. Sad.
Richard C Joyner
11:57 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Here is the full coversation. This is what we should expect out leaders.
GREGORY: On health care, you say that you would rescind the president’s health-care plan on day one. Does that mean that you’re prepared to say to Americans, young adults and those with pre-existing conditions, that they would no longer be guaranteed healthcare?
MR. ROMNEY: Well, of course not. I say we’re going to replace Obamacare. And I’m replacing it with my own plan. And, you know, even in Massachusetts where I was governor, our plan there deals with preexisting conditions and with young people. Everybody . . .
GREGORY: So you’d keep that part of the federal plan?
MR. ROMNEY: Well, I’m not getting rid of all of health-care reform. Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health-care reform that I’m going to put in place. One is to make sure that those with preexisting conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like. I also want individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance, on their own as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax advantage basis through their company.
rick blank
3:15 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
Once again we have no choice , only the same ole same ole to vote for again.Neither candidate is worthy of my vote and neither will get it,just like in '08.
Chris Doan
5:10 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
Their venom and extreme hatred directed toward Obama tell me things about the Republican electorate that are very disturbing. The outright lies by Romney and Ryan speak to their characters. There is a clear choice in November. And, by the way, journalists trying to be evenhanded are wrong to say that this is happening equally on both sides. Thin skinned and disingenuous, Republicans who cry about Democratic slings and arrows, have it entirely wrong.
rick blank
5:58 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
I said neither of THOSE 2 will get my vote, I didn't say I'm NOT. Voting @trace Taylor . I have voted in every election since I turned 18.
BTW I am fully able to "carry" myself to the polls honeycakes.
V. Scheurich
9:14 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
Well,
it is now official. President jimmy Carter passed the torch to
President Barack Obama tonight at the DNC which now makes Barack the
worst President in United States history.http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/04/video-jimmy-carter-passes-the-worst-president-in-history-torch-to-barack-obama-at-the-dnc/
Joseph Robert
9:40 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
Telling lies and distortions is the MAIN element of Romney-Ryan's campaign!
It's DISGUSTING!
Just read Fox News, Associated Press and other major media outlets tell about all of Paul Ryan's lies told at the Republican Convention.