For the last few years I've lived in the city of Atlanta, since the election of Barack Obama there has been some grumbling in the community I live and work in about Obama not leading the country in the right direction. When I think about it, it's true, Obama is not leading the country in the right direction, he's leading the country in a forward direction. Speaking about the rights of people that historically have been in the shadows is a big hill to climb. Gay rights, woman's rights and minority rights have always been swept under the radar of civil action in favor of the more popular positions of this country like war, the budget, and what the Republican Party always screams about, state rights.
The polling data lately is evidence that the country is in favor of what Obama speaks about and in witch direction he thinks the country should be moving. By it's definition the word conservative means keeping things the way they are, staying the same, you know, keeping the power structure the way it is, in favor of the people that control the economy and the flow of money throughout the country. Sure conservatives say they're concerned about maintaining a stable fiscal financial system but those claims only hold true when the conversation is about spending money for social programs, and investment in things like education and new ways to produce energy.
If the conversation is about invading a country like Iraq or Iran, well the money is available with no limits. Nobody on the right during the Bush years thought about restraining the spending when it was time to send Americans overseas to fight in a war that was coined as national security when it's really about providing contracts for companies that make money in those situations. Vice President Dick Cheney was quoted as saying deficits don't matter when the question was put to him about the amount of money that was being spent in the Iraq War. Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company made a ton of money selling the U.S. Government faulty equipment and it was all credited to the so-called free and unregulated U.S. market, capitalism.
I try hard to maintain some civility in my everyday life, I work in an area that voted for Mitt Romney, I work with a bunch of people that have a deep seeded hate for Obama, even though they never met the man. The talking heads on the right and the political leaders on the right say the things they say about Obama to either sell books or tickets to their events and in the politicians case stay in office.
It doesn't matter what the President's positions are, the right wing talking head farm is against them because this is what sells, hate for Obama is a hot commodity.
I ask questions at work about political issues and the conversation quickly goes to silly town and the answers are almost always personal attacks on the man, not the policy. It makes me wonder if these people think African Americans have been in love with all of the previous Presidents we've had. Now we're talking smart people, I.T. Techs! I know a guy at work that is super smart, but he takes a dumb dumb pill when it comes to politics. We're pretty friendly toward each other because we have a mutual respect for each other base on our individual knowledge of a network, we each lunch together and crack jokes on one another but let the conversation go down political avenue and it's egg head time. He cracks me up when he says Dave your not like Obama your like me? I wore an Obama T-shirt under my sweater one day and showed it to him and he almost had a heart attack.
Now it's the gun issue, here we have a group of people, who I assume attended some schooling, saying limiting gun availability will do nothing about the amount of violence with a gun. DA!?
So let me get this straight, limiting cigarettes reduces the possibility of getting cancer, safety caps on harmful household products limits the possibility of a child poisoning himself, even limiting the amount of traffic running through a domain controlling sustains the life of that controller, ( I put that one to my friend at work one day) but limiting the availability of a gun does nothing about gun violence.
Okay!
The polling data lately is evidence that the country is in favor of what Obama speaks about and in witch direction he thinks the country should be moving. By it's definition the word conservative means keeping things the way they are, staying the same, you know, keeping the power structure the way it is, in favor of the people that control the economy and the flow of money throughout the country. Sure conservatives say they're concerned about maintaining a stable fiscal financial system but those claims only hold true when the conversation is about spending money for social programs, and investment in things like education and new ways to produce energy.
If the conversation is about invading a country like Iraq or Iran, well the money is available with no limits. Nobody on the right during the Bush years thought about restraining the spending when it was time to send Americans overseas to fight in a war that was coined as national security when it's really about providing contracts for companies that make money in those situations. Vice President Dick Cheney was quoted as saying deficits don't matter when the question was put to him about the amount of money that was being spent in the Iraq War. Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company made a ton of money selling the U.S. Government faulty equipment and it was all credited to the so-called free and unregulated U.S. market, capitalism.
I try hard to maintain some civility in my everyday life, I work in an area that voted for Mitt Romney, I work with a bunch of people that have a deep seeded hate for Obama, even though they never met the man. The talking heads on the right and the political leaders on the right say the things they say about Obama to either sell books or tickets to their events and in the politicians case stay in office.
It doesn't matter what the President's positions are, the right wing talking head farm is against them because this is what sells, hate for Obama is a hot commodity.
I ask questions at work about political issues and the conversation quickly goes to silly town and the answers are almost always personal attacks on the man, not the policy. It makes me wonder if these people think African Americans have been in love with all of the previous Presidents we've had. Now we're talking smart people, I.T. Techs! I know a guy at work that is super smart, but he takes a dumb dumb pill when it comes to politics. We're pretty friendly toward each other because we have a mutual respect for each other base on our individual knowledge of a network, we each lunch together and crack jokes on one another but let the conversation go down political avenue and it's egg head time. He cracks me up when he says Dave your not like Obama your like me? I wore an Obama T-shirt under my sweater one day and showed it to him and he almost had a heart attack.
Now it's the gun issue, here we have a group of people, who I assume attended some schooling, saying limiting gun availability will do nothing about the amount of violence with a gun. DA!?
So let me get this straight, limiting cigarettes reduces the possibility of getting cancer, safety caps on harmful household products limits the possibility of a child poisoning himself, even limiting the amount of traffic running through a domain controlling sustains the life of that controller, ( I put that one to my friend at work one day) but limiting the availability of a gun does nothing about gun violence.
Okay!
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