There are few phrases that sum up how I see life that are more poignant as "Stupid should hurt". As a society, though, we end up putting up safety nets to minimize the pain. What this does is allow others to attempt stupidity without the pain to really drive home the "teachable moment". Examples: No cell phones in cars without devices to minimize distraction. Meanwhile, as long as that stupid douchebag detector device is snuggly in your ear, you can put on makeup, eat, read and otherwise get distracted by anything else your stupid heart desires. Idiots...as Napolean would say.
I digress...what I want to talk about now is Obama. Not about his ideas, his policies, his wife or his golf game. I wanna discuss the millions of people who "heard" how amazing he would be as a president in 2008. The people who were "told" about his non-negro dialect, his American dreamlike rise to the top of Harvard Law, Illinois state politics, US Senate and now President of the US. What is missing? We were all told how he was the perfect picture of familyman, statesman and black man to lead us to a new world. What is missing? I think I know what it is. WE TRUSTED WHAT WE WERE TOLD without READING for ourselves, looking into his past, his policies and his job history, mentors and what molded him into the man he is. So????? America was stupid. Simple...now the stupidity hurts. This is good. Why? Because Carter ruined the democratic party for a long time...as Barry is ruining the Democratic party. We are learning that we cannot take the words of the establishment to determine if a candidate is a communist, a Marxist, a capitalist hating narcissist with a predisposition to spreading wealth to lazy people who "deserve more"...in fact, if we had done our homework on this guy (MEDIA????) we might have avoided this scraped knee of an administration.
So now what? Let's take the Republican Establishment's word for it that Romney is the hope of the nation? "He is a businessman with experience and conservative roots." Really? Has he run a company, or did he just sit on a board? Did he push for a public healthcare policy in Mass, or did he push for privatizing it? Did he have policies contrary to the 2nd amendment, or did he champion gun rights? Does he believe in continuing the current wars/gov't military action in non-congressionally approved wars across the world, or does he take a strong stand against military action directed from the White House without Congressional approval? Does he believe in State's Rights before Federal mandates/fiats? There are questions out there that need answering...the question I want to know is are we going to believe the words of a man running for office that needs to act a certain way, or are we going to really look at his record and determine for ourselves what kind of man he is. I know it takes longer to care and look it up for yourself...but how much more pain will it take to make you realize that being in a democratic republic is HARD WORK. We aren't guaranteed a painfree life, we are guaranteed the right to pursue our own success. That's what makes conservatives different from liberals. So vote however you want, it doesn't matter to me. But don't cry about how the president isn't who he said he was, when you didn't bother to look into it yourself. Stupid should hurt, and elections have consequences. I won't throw MY vote away, because my integrity tells me that Obama and Romney are the STUPID that ends up hurting. You can't say you weren't warned.
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