The Obama-haters are really starting to get to me.
The latest headline I saw was that 1 in 12 of those surveyed in New Jersey think Obama is the Antichrist.
Let's get away from how one can lie with statistics or proper statistical groups and all that. Let's pretend this isn't any kind of judgement of New Jersey as a state (and it really isn't).
That anyone in the United States feels that way about Obama just boggles the mind.
Seriously. Let's compare our single year of Barak Obama's term as President of the United States with a few highlightes of eight years of George W. Bush, shall we?
Barack Obama is trying to get Americans covered with universal health care. Most industrialized nations have far superior health care systems to the U.S., so he's trying to do the same for us.
What his opponents are accusing him of is a rambling, incoherent hodge-podge of terms like "communist", "facsist", blah-blah-blah.
The man is trying to make sure Americans are taken care of with proper health care and people are bagging on him. Why? Oh, they don't want government involved. You know, the same government that provides social security, medicare, medicaid, military protection, laws, oversees public parks, funds highways... all that stuff.
These same people largely don't seem to have a problem with the last eight years of BushCo waging an illegal war that got over two thousand of American soldiers killed and wasted billions upon billions of our tax dollars for a non-existent threat.
These same idiots didn't make a peep over Gitmo, illegal wiretapping, bold grabs for Executive powers, and countless blatant lies surrounding our military involvement in Iraq.
Okay...
So further, Obama has been striving for bipartisanship and consensus in pretty much everything he's done in establishing policy. Despite a bold and clear Democratic majority that pretty much spells out the public's support of anything that isn't holding to the last eight years of policy.
He doesn't
have to do this. All the same, he's been patiently striving for mending bridges. I personally think he should tell the Republican party to stick it where the sun doesn't shine and move on. The Republicans have been nothing but difficult and obnoxious since day one. Then again, the Democrats demonstrate time and time again that they're chaotic, unable to maintain a single coherent message, and lack even the most basic spinal column.
All the same, that hardly qualifies the President as being demonic or adhering to any Marxist teachings.
I take issue with Obama's reluctance to persecute those who authorized torture. I have huge problems with any continuation of the wiretapping/spying policies that the Executive branch have in place. I feel that the other two branches need to spank the Executive branch for overstepping in its grasp of powers.
That said, all of those issues originated in Bush's term in office. If you're looking for an Antichrist, I think you can safely find a couple from that era.
I think former President Carter hit the nail on the head. These people who are raising such a stink may well be racist and need to fucking grow up and stop acting goddamn crazy.
