Every time I feel moved to post something, I think better of it and decide to wait. A few days ago — reading the dispatches from the Whitehouse in their war on Fox News – it struck me that the Obama Whitehouse was everyone I ever disliked in college. These were the people who skimmed the works of philosophers and novelists, never understanding more than a few cocktail party talking points. These were the people who were incapable of taking the deeper themes of those works and applying them to the everyday struggle of being human. They don’t see themselves in context. They see themselves as self manufactured images. They see the rest of us as pieces of machinery. These are the people who have never wondered if God exists and who are incapable of recognizing that there is a very real possibility of consciousness without end and an inifinite time line from which they may have to look back at how they used that time – what they did with it when they had the body and the tools to matter in a small space that had meaning and an opportunity to grow their soul – they are incapable of knowing us or themselves.
I despised those people, and I hate that I despised them because deep down I knew my own intellectual growth required that they exist. Adversity isn’t always physical, sometimes – more often, actually – it’s mental and emotional. People like the Obama’s and their minions have done more for the maturation of a generation than any group of people in modern history. All around me people have stopped and taken a hard look at what is happening, what Obama is doing and they are understanding why and what it means to them. All around me people are putting the pieces of their lives together and seeing themselves in context the way those philosophers and novelists did when they wrote the works that the dilettantes in DC could never fully appreciate.
They are two dimentional and they think we are as well. They argue that they can’t send more troops to Afghanistan because they might die senselessly even as troops in Afghanistan are dying senselessly because they are abandoned by this Whitehouse. I think of those men and women who are over there and despair that we are now a nation led by shallow, spineless, self-absorbed cowards. Obama says these things – that he will not send our troops in harms way to die senselessly – even as our troops are in harms way waiting for him to decide and dying senselessly because he dithers. What a horrible and horrifying time we are in now. What a tragic lesson for this generation to have to learn. The tears from times like these created the oceans. Our only saving grace is that in time, oceans will eventually wear away the jagged edges of our shame at having learned these lesson far too late to matter.
Fight this war or bring them home.
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“Fight this war or bring them home” ~AMEN!
I am beyond disgusted by this President. I am at the point where words are actually failing me and they never have before – even on days like 9-11 when unspeakable evil was unleashed. I read the news and I am beyond reasonable speech, beyond the ability to rationally process it. I am reverting to the emotional reactionary of my teen and twenty something years and I hate feeling that out of control and beyond myself. I am fast reaching a point where the simple occassional rant just won’t cover it. I read the things this President is doing and not doing and I feel real pain. It’s weird. I thought I’d outgrown those crazy uncontrollable emotions – except for love. Everything else was under control and in perspective.
Apparently not.
I understand, now, why people drink to excess. I get it. My husband is in harms way nearly every day and my son wants to follow him and we have a President who has no concept of men like them – no frame of reference and no interest in discovering who they are and why they are moved to serve this country. It is a soul crushing, heart wrenching fact of the life we are living right now.
It sucks. It sucks the nails out of a 2×4.
I know how you feel. I’m a bit calmer now because I took some time off and I refuse to let myself get sick about the whole situation.
I was in So. Florida this past weekend for a high school reunion. With the exception of the random die-hard liberal Obama-fan, everyone seems very anxious about what is happening to our country. Some talked about storing arms and ammo and many believe we are headed for a revolution of sorts. These are not right-wing fanatics, just plain folk sitting at a large table. I heard “this country is going communist” more than once. People are scared. The fight with FOX News has really woken a lot of people up and you’d be surprised how many people love Glenn Beck!
“we have a President who has no concept of men like them – no frame of reference and no interest in discovering who they are and why they are moved to serve this country”
That’s EXACTLY how I feel.
As you know I have a kid that joined the Navy. He joined because he is a patriot and has ALWAYS wanted to serve and plans to enter politics when he retires from the Navy. He wants to SERVE and make this nation better. He’s not in it for glory or money or power. Obama could never understand.