Sarah Palin's quote surprised me. Considering that the Republican party said "hell yes" to ignoring information about 9/11, sending us to Iraq for no apparent reason, and putting the country into a coma inducing recession.
Have you seen the price of milk lately?
Ever since Obama became president the "Grand Ol' Party", which is actually newer than the Democratic party; not even coming into existence until just before the civil war, has been screaming up and down that the Communists have taken over.
Wrong.
False.
Not true.
1.) Thanks to this annoying little thing called the Constitution my Communist dreamland can't come true. 2.) Obama doesn't have one of those bitchin' Stalinstaches.
Republicans and redneck/crazy people have even compared the Obama administration to Nazi Germany. Now, even if you don't agree with Obama's policies surely some of you can agree with me that this is just a tad extreme.
So what's the deal? We're Americans. We're sorta smart, I mean we invented the McGriddle for crying out loud! Why is everyone suddenly terrified about the country being turned into the U.S.S.R.? Part of the problem has to do with those talking heads that the public likes to refer to as Fox News.
It's almost funny to watch Fox News, they constantly talk about what religion the country was founded on, their anchors cry on air, the women anchors constantly agree with the male anchors on everything (after looking up the definition to third grade words), and they constantly run around screaming how the country has gone to hell in a hand basket. It's almost funny. The reason it's not is because people, believe it or not, take the news seriously.
Not everyone looks at the news for what it's become, infotainment; which is another blog post completely, but as actual factual news. They trust what they hear. The problem with this is that Fox is nothing more than talking heads spewing out Republican talking points. For God's sake they have Sarah Palin as a guest commentator. Sarah F*cking Palin! That's literally the same as Joe Biden co-hosting Countdown: With Keith Olberman. And yes, it's ok to like to listen to what you're favorite party has to say more than the other guys. But you can't just make stuff up like Fox News does. They have been trying to scare the public with false threats of Communism and Socialism. As journalists they should literally be ashamed of themselves, if anyone knows how dangerous a scared public can be it should be the journalistic community. But, I digress.
Back to Sarah Palin.
Everything this women says reminds me of a thousand wolf killing fingernails scrapping down a chalk board. My roommate can confirm that when I hear her talk I compulsively fly into fits of profanity and banging my fist. Never before has a talking points machine been so popular. For this, a talking point machine, is what Sarah Palin is. She has no original ideas, if she does she's never stated them to the public, ever. She just has talking points that is it, that is freaking it! I literally can not state enough how unoriginal this woman is. Not only that, she has helped (in my mind) set back years of progress made by women in the realm of equality. Those thousand cracks that Hilary Clinton put into the glass ceiling Palin has done her best to fix them. She was picked from obscurity because of the fact that she was a woman (tell me any other reason McCain would have for her, or how he even heard about her) and she got immensely popular among male voters for her looks which she has made references to again and again.
Plus, she quit her job as....bloody governor of Alaska, she quite! You can do that? Personally, I think she should try to fix that problem of having the so called "meth capital of America" in her state before she tries again for the big leagues.
My whole point is this, come on people! If you don't agree with Obama fine, but use an actual argument composed of reason and facts, not this whole "he's a communist" bull crap. And don't just listen to Fox News, everyone knows that they wouldn't support a Democratic idea even if it agreed with their rhetoric (like Obama's new drilling policy for instance), get some other, more reliable sources.
As for the health care bill? Hell yeah! In your face insurance companies! Boom!
Oh, and yeah, France, Britain, and Canada (all countries with universal health care) have always and still are totally fascists and communists.
First, you mean she "quit" as Governor not "quite." Second, you are right about the Republicans and they really aren't giving him credit where credit's due. He has freed up land for off-shore drilling (something a lot of Republicans wanted, yet I have not heard any commentators give him credit) and his arms deal w/ Russia kind of went under the radar. The Daily Show talked about how hard he's been working which is true, he is and it's a good thing but once again no one mentions it. Especially after Bush who got so much flack for during his first term when he took like 3 vacations in the first year and a half. Obama even went to Afghanistan over the weekend which everyone always applauded Bush for but I hear very little about Obama doing it. Finally, the U.S. was the only westernized country without some sort of a universal healthcare option and had some of the worst health problems among westernized countries.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew that we were the last westernized country without universal healthcare. I just decided to stick with the countries that hadn't had a history of taking of Poland since that seemed a little counter-productive to the "not a communist or Naziesque" theme I was going for.
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