I don’t like veneration or adulation. That ties into my rejection of religion and certainty there is no god. It’s why I don’t give a damn about American Idol or idolatry or most celebrities.
So, I’m not the kinda guy to wish the President a happy birthday just because he’s president.
It’s troubling how many people who consider themselves patriots absolutely hate Obama beyond all restraint. These are people who stand and cover their hearts for the National Anthem and who pledge allegiance to the flag. I do not. These people coined “My country, right or wrong,” and “America, Love it or leave it.” Indeed, just six years ago, they were joyously hoping for a liberal exodus to Canada or some other socialist nation (hear the sneer). They screamed for us to sit down and shut up. They herded us into Free Speech Zones without a clue about irony.
Today, many good, decent, upright, gawdfearin’ sons and daughters of the Republic hate one man with every fiber of their beings. They pray and hope for his death. He is Satan, as far as they are concerned. And it has nothing to do with his race.
Now, to be fair – and I do want to be fair, even to people who aren’t fair themselves – I know something about anger and hatred and I have plenty of both for some people. I hate George Duhbya Bush to this very day. Spit on the ground. I hate Big Dick Cheney. I hate Karl der Grosse Rove. Yes, I hate them passionately and I won’t shed a tear when they die. But I want them to live out a natural life. I want them to live long enough to realize that if they are remembered at all, it won’t be kindly.
I think the damage those vile men wrecked on the nation is as obvious as taking off your shoes for the Homeland. I think they are evil villains. So, I voted against them and spoke out against them every chance I got. I endured their horrible reign over the nation for eight awful years. I never once waived a gun in their directions.
I believe change is inevitable and only fools fight it. And I think the biggest fools waive their guns the hardest. I know the crazies won’t simply SHUT THE FUCK UP and wait for 2016. With luck, their venom will poison only them or they’ll shoot each other.
Happy Birthday to Barrack Hussein Obama. I thank him for his extraordinary courage in taking on the huge mess made by Duhbya and AmeriCo. I wish Obama good luck, and a long, long life.
Happy “Birth” Day, Mr. President; Welcome to the Post-Fact Era – Tuned In – TIME.com
Posted by James Poniewozik Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 3:07 pm
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Barack Obama celebrates his 49th birthday today. Or so he claims. According to a CNN survey, more than a quarter of Americans doubt that Obama was born in the United States; 29% say he probably was; and a mere plurality of 42% have no doubt. This despite widely reported empirical documentation of the President’s birth in Hawaii in 1961, contemporary newspaper reports of his birth and the dismissal of birther rumors by Hawaii’s Republican governor. Speaking of which, big shocker, there’s a
partisan divide in the findings: 41% of Republicans believe Obama probably or definitely was not born here, next to (a not entirely comforting itself) 15% of Democrats.
There is no reasonable basis to believe Obama was born outside the U.S.; a lot of people believe it anyway.
Happy “Birth” Day, Mr. President; Welcome to the Post-Fact Era – Tuned In – TIME.com