My original plan was that junior year is a bitch, so I would write during summer. I didn't. This was noticed. So. Its not that there wasn't anything interesting to write about this summer. There were sooo many things I could talk about, but I was totally uninspired to actually write about it, although I have no idea why. Normally ranting to the world wide internet about everything that bugs me in the political world today is my idea of fun. Obviously the huge amount of free time I had to actually write made me not want to, because as soon as my packed, scary senior year started I could not wait to run back to the internet and continue my obsession of being a political troll. So lets begin!
Just an overview: Right now President Barack Obama is "in charge" of the United States. I put "in charge" in quotations because I am one of the liberals who believe that he is playing pet to the Republicans. President Obama, in my opinion, is a good man, and a good president, or he would be if he wasn't so desperate to make everyone like him. Which is never going to happen. No matter how much he rolls over for the Republicans, they will dislike him. I think Bill Maher put it best, "Hes the wrong age, the wrong party, the wrong color." Bill Maher, who I don't always agree with, because I think he can be a bit of a douche-bag, and even to liberal for me, I really agree with on this, and with another comment he made, when he was talking about Republicans not supporting the bills they wrote up after Obama began to support them. He said, "The entree isn't the problem, they just don't like the waiter." That, in my eyes, is all too true.
I do have hope for Obama, though. I will be voting for him again, come November, because I will be 18 by then and able to vote, and also because I believe in him as a president. In his recent campaign he has been mentioning all the stuff he has given the Republicans in exchange for their agreement on something he wants to do, and how they always change their minds right before they have to help him, but after they have been served. Eg, he has deported more people than any other president in history. He has tightened border patrol. He has cut budgets, given grants, and sold out to a major corporation, all at the urging of the Republicans, and yet they screw him every chance they get, even if its on passing bills they themselves came up with and supported. I hope, if he gets re-elected, he will behave as a president in the country that needs help, and not as a politician hoping to win a popularity contest.
Speaking of popularity contests... There are currently 16 Republican candidates running for president for 2012, each one more ridiculous than the last. Here are my favorites: Michelle Bachmann, who I seriously hope is running for a joke, as she makes Sarah Palin look good at fact checking; Ron Paul, who is running as a Republican, claims he is a Libertarian, and who has ideas about privatizing businesses and making the government smaller that honestly makes me worry; Mitt Romney, who is either a total idiot, or very good at pretending to be; Rick Santorum, the most homophobic asshole to hold the spotlight, which was received well by the gay community (Google "Santorum", I dare you); and then of course, Sarah Palin, who isn't actually running, but she has a bus with her name on it and is visiting all the red states, so at this point we're all waiting for the day she announces so we can pretend to be surprised, then get Tina Fey back to mock her again. I'm not even going to MENTION Rick Perry, as that will get me into a rant I don't have the time or energy for, so all I will say on him is this: All the other Republican candidates look normal next to Rick Perry.
While the Republicans scrambling for a job none of them can handle is funny, there have been a lot of very serious things happening in the world today. My heart goes out to everyone still suffering today in Haiti and Japan, just because its not headline news anymore doesn't mean its rainbows and unicorns over there. More later on the Republican candidates, though.
-teenageliberal
Just an overview: Right now President Barack Obama is "in charge" of the United States. I put "in charge" in quotations because I am one of the liberals who believe that he is playing pet to the Republicans. President Obama, in my opinion, is a good man, and a good president, or he would be if he wasn't so desperate to make everyone like him. Which is never going to happen. No matter how much he rolls over for the Republicans, they will dislike him. I think Bill Maher put it best, "Hes the wrong age, the wrong party, the wrong color." Bill Maher, who I don't always agree with, because I think he can be a bit of a douche-bag, and even to liberal for me, I really agree with on this, and with another comment he made, when he was talking about Republicans not supporting the bills they wrote up after Obama began to support them. He said, "The entree isn't the problem, they just don't like the waiter." That, in my eyes, is all too true.
I do have hope for Obama, though. I will be voting for him again, come November, because I will be 18 by then and able to vote, and also because I believe in him as a president. In his recent campaign he has been mentioning all the stuff he has given the Republicans in exchange for their agreement on something he wants to do, and how they always change their minds right before they have to help him, but after they have been served. Eg, he has deported more people than any other president in history. He has tightened border patrol. He has cut budgets, given grants, and sold out to a major corporation, all at the urging of the Republicans, and yet they screw him every chance they get, even if its on passing bills they themselves came up with and supported. I hope, if he gets re-elected, he will behave as a president in the country that needs help, and not as a politician hoping to win a popularity contest.
Speaking of popularity contests... There are currently 16 Republican candidates running for president for 2012, each one more ridiculous than the last. Here are my favorites: Michelle Bachmann, who I seriously hope is running for a joke, as she makes Sarah Palin look good at fact checking; Ron Paul, who is running as a Republican, claims he is a Libertarian, and who has ideas about privatizing businesses and making the government smaller that honestly makes me worry; Mitt Romney, who is either a total idiot, or very good at pretending to be; Rick Santorum, the most homophobic asshole to hold the spotlight, which was received well by the gay community (Google "Santorum", I dare you); and then of course, Sarah Palin, who isn't actually running, but she has a bus with her name on it and is visiting all the red states, so at this point we're all waiting for the day she announces so we can pretend to be surprised, then get Tina Fey back to mock her again. I'm not even going to MENTION Rick Perry, as that will get me into a rant I don't have the time or energy for, so all I will say on him is this: All the other Republican candidates look normal next to Rick Perry.
While the Republicans scrambling for a job none of them can handle is funny, there have been a lot of very serious things happening in the world today. My heart goes out to everyone still suffering today in Haiti and Japan, just because its not headline news anymore doesn't mean its rainbows and unicorns over there. More later on the Republican candidates, though.
-teenageliberal
I would agree, Obama does seem like nice guy. When he speaks I have a tendency to be drawn in. But don't you think that Obama isn't really giving in to republicans, per say, anymore than he's giving into the corporations, wallstreet, and banker? I would agree that he has changed his position and not followed thru with plans he said that he would, but I think saying he's just giving into the big bad republicans is basically shows a misrepresenting and under standing of how things really work? Aren't the wallstreet guys, corporations, and bankers the same guys that past presidents have been giving into for many years now? From Obama to Bush to Clinton. It's the same song and dance! I had this same conversation with a friend of mine and to this day she religiously beliefs that Goerge bush was the cause of our economic crisis, and republicans control everything and are to blame. When I asked her about Glass-steagle, she has no idea what I'm talking about. When I asked her about Brooksley Born, again she has no idea what I'm talking about.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the situation as it is and the problems we face as a nation, can not be simply placed on the republicans back. It is a far cry from getting to the root of the problem, while it also protects the culprits.