BackdoorJesus

Oh, nigga puh-lease!

Reading this crap you are all spewing back & forth is driving me nucking futs.

When Clinton was president, all that the rightists could do was to continually badger the man over irrelevant "moral" issues (as was their Constitutional right), to the detriment of our national security, in that it prevented the man from taking any action abroad (read: doing his job) without being accused of "wagging the dog" to divert attention away from their (the rightists') agenda of impeaching him because they had moral objections to his personal, private behavior.

Now the rightists have their guy in, and all of a sudden their line is, "Let's bring the country together & support our president, no matter who you voted for"; the leftys are the bad guys for trying to point out that this Repub president is just doing some things wrong, in their opinion (as is their Constitutional right), in his public behavior. The leftys are now the bad guys for not rallying behind our "great leader", despite what they may feel about him personally.

So, in a nutshell - when the left was in power, all the right could do is piss & moan about how wrong the president was for the country, and they did everything in their power to remove him. Now that the right is in power they're pissed off that the leftys would actually have the audacity to complain their guy is wrong for the country, and that the leftys would try everything in their power to question & remove him. I think the right needs to unbunch their panties - take it as well as they can dish it out, and the left needs to nut up and get tougher on the tough issues - or they are gonna be doomed to be perpetual "also-rans".

If you take nothing else away from this rant, take this - if you are an American, you have the right to question our leadership, at least until such time as that right is stripped away from you, and if you don't like that, just be glad that when & if your side is not in control of this nation's destiny (ostensibly), you will still have the right to question the other side's leadership. If you feel that the president is "not doing his job", in your opinion, you have the right to say so - you do not have to complacently sit back and accept it, just because he's in elected office. Both sides, think about it - one of the main reasons we have the Constitutional right to bear arms is so that we can defend our right to speak out, & take action against a government that stifles that right to speak out.

And yes, the president does owe something to the American people - he wouldn't even be in office had the American people not put him there in the first place. He should always remain accountable for all of his activities while in elected office to those people who elected him.

Personally, I have no love for either party - I am now and always have been a registered Libertarian, and as such, view both the Republican & Democratic parties as variations on the same tired theme; more alike than they are different. I have no desire to see my son, who just turned 12, shipped off to die in some foreign land some six years from now because of some fucked up political "world police" agenda, an agenda that apparently both of these controlling parties are in favor of in one form or another.

The hypocrisy I have seen in both of your parties' platforms is astounding. For example, the majority of Republicans consider themselves "Pro-Life" because of their stand on abortion, yet this same majority overwhelmingly is in support of the death penalty as a sentence for violent criminals, so perhaps they should say they are "Pro-Some-Life", or just stick to the issue at hand & say they are "Anti-Abortion". The majority of Democrats consider themselves "Pro-Choice" because of their stand on abortion, yet this same majority can't seem to handle the fact that the American peoples' "choice" for president is what it is - their choice - so maybe that plank of their platform ought to be "Pro-Some-Choice", or maybe they should stick to the issue at hand & say they are "Pro-Abortion"...

Oh, but that's not politically correct, and would lose votes, wouldn't it?

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