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So you knew I had to post something about the brouhaha with Obama’s speech and the health care debate, right?
Well, HA. I’m not.
I’ve seen quite a few nice posts about it, though, many of which reflect both a growing discontent with the options and lack of concrete information. Which, of course, is a recipe for mob mentality, strenuously to be avoided. People who know what they’re objecting to, and do it badly, are just as clueless as the person who doesn’t know what they’re objecting to, but does anyway.
Look, I know I’ve said this before, but it seems to have become the paean that I keen more and more every day.
Just because I don’t agree with you, it doesn’t mean that I hate you.
I don’t even dislike y0u.
No, really. I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s entirely and realistically possible to object to someone’s point of view, but still have nothing but warm fuzzies toward them personally. The uncoordinated leap into “you’re just a hater” is easier, sure, but quite frequently wrong, intolerant, and…dumb.
So look. I may be the mom who wanted her child home for Obama’s speech. I might be the woman who, with every fiber of her being, believes that a woman’s “right to choose” is a soft metaphor for systematized infanticide, and doesn’t want Obama to facilitate more. I might even be that crazy Christian who believes that an “open mind” is code for someone who can’t think logically through their platitudes.
But it’s very, very far from hurling stones, shouting epithets in the House, and screaming in people’s faces.
Call me a conscientious objector. It’s lightyears from being a hater.
Ok, ok- one more and I’m done with the Crowley/Gates thing.
What are y’all’s (really? two apostrophes?) thoughts on this?
A picture's worth a...oh, you know.
LOVED this.
Cracks in the facade, Mr. President?
This, too. I agree that health care is important. SO important that I don’t want to see it in the hands of the federal government. But he’s going to fight me, and many others of my ilk (and for the record I am NOT a GOP fan) to the death. Hurry, hurry hurry- but since when has wisdom been reflected in the decisions of a moment?
UPDATE: Guess I’m not alone. About time.
This article made me chuckle. Gay rights groups are getting a little impatient with President McDreamy, as he hasn’t even addressed the GLBT community yet during his administration, except to make a small, offhand joke about “making it official” with a male colleague.
More chuckle-worthy is the consternation of these groups over his position, which was reversed. Apparently Mr. Obama was in favor of same-sex marriage sometime around 1996, but has since made a U-turn. One wonders why, especially since he’s liberal even for his party.
But now, pro-gay friends and neighbors are hoping “his position will evolve“, and reflect the values of the next generation.
Wait.
He evolved before, right? And that wasn’t ok. But now he needs to evolve again- just in the correct direction. Oh, that pesky evolution. So hard to predict! So hard to control! You never know what you’ll end up with when you pin your hopes on a theory.
Here’s hoping he waits for a few millenia before he evolves again.
Oh, Obama. Didn’t think too far ahead, didja?
I realize that in the first tumultuous months of your presidency, it was important to take DECISIVE. ACTION. ‘Cause your platform was Change.
It might have been prudent to consider the direction of that change. And maybe the consequences? Just an idea.
Sure, the US is the unpopular fat bully in the world’s high school locker room. You’ve made great strides to change that- opening us up to talks with communist dictators and A-bomb-toting radicals, which is always a nice gesture.
But closing Gitmo without any clear idea of where to send the detainees? Pardon me while I snicker at your lack of foresight. And then cry, because our country is in the hands of someone who lacks that basic characteristic of maturity- thinking about the consequences of one’s actions.
I for one will not be signing up to host an exchange terrorist. Call me crazy, but somehow things can’t be THAT bad if the detainees are allowed out of their cells for 22 hours a day and have just harvested a bumper crop of Gitmo-grown tomatoes. Not to mention the “optional interviews”, which have replaced “interrogation”.
Think, President McDreamy. Then act.
Even my five-year-old can appreciate that lesson.
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