Okay remember when then Senator Obama was trying to explain people (who happened to be PA residents) to people in the more liberal and urban state of California? He had to do a lot of pacifying and explaining why he would suggest that these people from small towns lack faith in their Government and that they cling to their guns and their religion. His mistake there, in MY opinion was nothing he said, but that he made it sound like it was just rural areas in Pennsylvania. I live in a state of people running out to buy every gun in sight. You know what would be cheaper?? Read his mission statement. His position on all things including the sacredness of the constitutional right to bear arms. That's just the tip of the iceberg. It's easy to understand the mistrust of the Government because the Bush administration has been less than forthcoming with their political agenda. All this time we thought we were avenging the audacity of the Al Qaeda.. Yeah, no. We've been fighting a pretty pointless war as our REAL enemies regroup in Afganistan. Have you noticed that this war doesn't have the flashy name of the last one?? Operation Desert Storm, that is something you can really get behind. But this has been confusing with the Sunni and Shiites and who is threatening us and whose side we are on. Even McCain is constantly confused and honestly it IS confusing. THEN we discover that it has nothing to do with the Al Quida at all. So where do you come up with a cool and appropriate name?? Sometimes if you take the first letter from each word you come up with something flashy that distracts.... hmm The War Against Terror? Yeah that sounds like something else, ok, nevermind, maybe I shouldn't be the namer of faux wars.
So back to my point. Not only has this war turned out to be not at all what we were told it was, neither has our Presidency. I mentioned yesterday to a friend that they need their own 'ism' name (socialism, fascism, that kind of thing). I think it should be called OZism. Where we have travelled for 8 years with flying monkeys and scary green women only to find that at the end is the most powerful man in the world deciding the fates of millions, George W Bush. Then someone pulled the curtain aside to find Dick Cheney behind the wheel. Weird how that happened huh???
So we have a new President Elect. Barack Obama and he is confusing the country. He is not filling the cabinet with yes-men and croneys. He is actually pulling in people who don't always agree with him. People that are smart. Smarter than us which is often referred to as elitists, but isn't it time for intelligent people?? People who said some pretty nasty stuff about him. That is really weird don't you think??
Meanwhile the Republican party is falling apart. It's like a catfight. Everyone scratching, pulling hair, and blaming each other. What IS a Republican anyway?? Is there a definition of Republican anymore? Well, they have 4 years to pull it together, hopefully 8.
There is another option though. I think it's really a good one. I have noticed that most rural states are a majority of Republicans (MINE is). The bitter clinging to their guns and their twisted view of religion. I have also found someone who could lead them. His name is Ayman al-Zawahiri. He's the #2 man in the Al Qaeda. He has spoken out to insult PE Obama. Calling him the "house negro" in the White House. A racial reminder of the follies of our early years of slavery. A house slave was more servile than the slaves that worked the fields. To me them is fightin' words. To most people around me it's the punchline to a joke. At the risk of pigeonholing, or stereotyping, which I so abhorr, many of these gun-loving, religion-twisting, people around me (and obviously in many other states judging by the record gun sales) I have a really good idea. So this leader of your new party, is NOT the #1 Al qaeda, that would be Osama bin Laden, but hunters can track really well, right?? So why settle for #2 when you could have the top man?? Take the family, I hear Afghanistan is lovely this time of year.
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I forgot to post a link for al-Zawahiri story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilan-goldenberg/what-zawahris-message-say_b_144902.html
Where it says that our new President shows that we are an open and tolerant society, they aren't talking about those of you who trade racist jokes and emails, and teach your kids that it's ok to say that they want to shoot Obama. If you are one of those kind of people, just skip over that part.
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