September 21, 2009

• Stop Bein' Lazy & Think Of Your Own Title!

  I swear sometimes politics is so damn frustrating. No wait..............not just sometimes, but an overwhelming majority of the time. As a liberal, I like to think that liberals are different and better than conservatives as I'm sure that conservatives like to think that conservatives are different and better than liberals. I'd like to think that for the most part Democrats are good and Republicans are pure evil. And although I'm quite certain that Republicans are indeed pure evil, I've learned over the years that Democrats are just a pussier version of evil. Then again, I have always suspected as much, but tried to keep myself in a state of denial about Democrats. I know there is famous quote somewhere that somebody said about how there really is no difference between Democrats and Republicans but I can't think of the quote right now. Although their ideas are for the most part, vastly different, their tactics and ways in which they get things done are practically identical.

  While watching Bill Maher the other night, one his guests, who was as Republican pointed something out that really made me think because it made so much damn sense and was a great analogy. He compared people on the left who are hollering that anybody who disagrees with Obama is racist to those same people on the right who, when Bush was in office, said that anybody who disagreed with him on the Iraq war was not patriotic and hated America. And Obama has reacted the same way Bush did at the time; they both pretty much disagreed with the radicals of their parties who were making these claims. Of course, they had to disagree, after all, it would cost them too much politically to agree with those people. What I find interesting though is that its not only the radicals who made those claims when Bush was in office and its not the radicals who are making those racist claims now that Obama is in office. And while I'm fairly certain that there are a lot of racist people who hate Obama just because he is black, I really don't believe that the charge of racism is a bullshit charge, much like the charge of anti-Americanism during the Bush years. But it is interesting to point out how similar both sides are when it comes to trying to drown out the opposition.

  In both the Obama administration and the Bush administrations, neither president was willing to ask for sacrifice from the people. Bush could have asked for the people to sacrifice and do things to help fight the war on terror much like Obama could encourage people to lose weight and get healthy in the battle for health care. Yet both sides are too damn afraid of the American people to ask for a sacrifice.

  Both sides have a distrust of the media. Come to think of it, everybody seems to have a distrust of the media. But mainly in politics, both sides like to blame the media for all sorts of problems, yet the media remains so vital to anything they do. Both sides seem to understand that the American people distrusts the media and generally doesn't like the media so what do they do, they try to give the impression that they have the same distrust of the media.

  Although I'm sure there are a lot of politicians on both sides of the aisle who want what's best for America, the primary concern of a majority is to get elected or reelected and remain in power. Most will have no limit to how low they will stoop to achieve this goal. Some, like Bush did to John McCain, John Kerry, and in a 2002 Senate election, Max Cleland,  will spread slanderous, offensive and hateful lies to get elected, much like how Obama will sell out his own ideas and party to remain popular and as not to offend any group of people who might not vote for him next time.

  Although both sides point fingers at each other for taking money from special interests to help get elected, they all seem to take money from lobbyists and organizations who are lining the pockets of the politicians so they can buy their support when it comes time to vote on certain bills.

  Republicans and Democrats each have organizations and companies that fully support their party and their party defends to the death, yet they always turn out to be shady or evil. For the Dems, look no further than Acorn. For the Republicans, look no further than Halliburton, and Blackwater or whatever the hell Blackwater is calling itself these days.

  Really, I can go on and on and on, but I have to end this post at some point. The bottom line is that neither side is good. And for the most part, neither side actually is actually looking out for the best interest of America. And neither side should be trusted to do what is best, because in the end, most of the time, they were doing it to line their own pockets or stay in power.

  And yes, you can put President Barack Obama in the same mix with the rest of them.

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