I want to know....I *REALLY* want to know...
I want to know how some of my friends (and even acquaintances or absolute strangers for that matter), who voted for George Bush, can look at themselves in the mirror...
I really do...
How do you get up in the morning knowing there's a madman/blithering idiot at the helm? Do you get some perverted pleasure in knowing the leader of the most powerful nation on earth can’t articulate in an intelligent manner? I mean is it too much to ask to have someone who is smart in the Whitehouse? I guess so...how embarrassing...
What so *you* don’t need an abortion today, or contraceptives? Perhaps your privacy isn’t all *that* important to you? How about peace, remember peace? What, is that just too ho-hum for your tastes? We are and have been treading in really dangerous waters here….it’s really scary…but yet you aren’t frightened are you? Have they not trampled on something sacred to you yet? (Like our constitution?????? Remember that???? Is that not important anymore???) Or is it that you feel it's the price you have to pay to be safe?
I have friends who are gay – they aren't suppose to be in love – they aren't *allowed* to be in love...they can't be parents yet they'd make amazing parents...gee so that’s *your* business now, is it?
I see young women who have no choice but to get their pregnancy terminated – or a lot of women who's partner’s condom broke and now they have to take the morning after pill – well guess what – I guess they are screwed literally and figuratively – what do you have to say for yourselves? Guess you’re glad not to be in that situation yourself huh?
I just don’t get it...I really don't – I can't remember when I've been more ashamed to come from this country…and that’s sad because I really do love this country..but our founding fathers (all of whom are STILL smarter than G.W. although they’re dead) are rolling in their graves...
Are we seriously at the point where we need to give up our freedoms? And what does that have to do with me making MEDICAL decisions about MY OWN body and since when is it anybody else's business including yours? When has it ever been? I said it before I will say it again – when we decide it's time to keep men from doing something to help their penises perhaps the tide will turn. I mean this is crazy and you all know it right? WE ARE NEVER GOING TO ALL AGREE ON ABORTION – we simply aren’t but just because I don't agree with you on something, that does not mean I have the right to take away your right to decide what to do for yourself. Pro-life my ass – have any of you ever thought about what that term even means? What you think, that I am Pro-death? Think again asshole. It’s a matter of me having the right to choose – I would defend YOUR right to choose – I don't recall there being a bloody revolution (as well there should have been) when G.W. cheated to win the first time around and we all kind of had no choice but to accept, albeit begrudgingly the second time around….but now all this abuse. Lies, contempt, innocent people dead, rights being swept away, wars begun for false reasons, Bill Clinton was impeached for lesser offenses, and give me a break – do you really think I cared that he got head from an intern? That’s his wife's business not ours...and as Arlo Guthrie said “If anyone deserves a blow job, it’s the President…” and if we want to go to the arena of moral fiber – how many of you really think ANY of the former presidents were not guilty of such indiscretions? (G.W. probably can't even spell that word correctly)..a lot of them DID have affairs but thanks to the fact that the media was not embroiled in every single aspect of the president's private life or up their asses so to speak – most of us didn't know what they did behind closed doors and that included policies both domestic and foreign (did we forget that Franklin Roosevelt lied to this country to get us into WWII – luckily we didn’t know until much later or he’d have been impeached eh?)...but what impeachment is TOO GOOD for the likes of criminals such as Dick Cheney and George Bush...how about jailing them? You know kind of like what we are doing to the people in Gitmo - what is it we do to citizens for the crime of treason? Are the president and vice-president citizens? Are they? Or are they above the laws AND the constitution of this country? If you are going to sell my country out from underneath of me while simultaneously stripping me of my personal rights – in my book that's a treasonous act...
Like I said I want to know...how do you people look at yourselves? Do *you* want to be the ones going down and talking to the poor people of New Orleans and explain to them that the President DID lie? ‘Cause we can’t blame it on the Governor or Mayor now, can we? Or perhaps you in your delusional state you can...how about the homeless? How about the fact that they spend billions of dollars on a war that *I* certainly didn't approve and yet I can't afford to send my son to college or buy a house – every American's dream huh? Life, LIBERTY...(do you have any idea what the word LIBERTY means??? guess not)....I guess we are not guaranteed our dreams – and no I am not saying I expect Uncle Sam to ‘take care’ of me or even my son – but I do expect our government to not waste money and to help the poor, to not cut social programs and to be careful with the lives of the citizens of this country but I suppose that is asking too much.
I don't think being a liberal should be like drawing a line in the sand – don't you want things for your kids? Don't you want to try to help those less fortunate than yourselves? Don't you want to live in peace with your neighbors globally? Don't you want to be tolerant of others?
Like Ann Coulter, I am not calling for the poisoning of a Supreme Court justice but then claim I was just kidding...Um yeah OK why isn't she is jail? *I'd* be...so would you. Like Dick Cheney, I didn't just go out and shoot someone but am now saying that one country can't have nuclear weapons; while at the same time my boss just told another country they *can* have them, wtf??? So what now, it’s up to the glorious US to decide who has the nukes too? Did we forget that we are AGAINST nuclear arms proliferation? (Bet G.W. can’t spell that word either...)
So again tell me...how *DO YOU* look at yourselves in the mirror?
I really do...
How do you get up in the morning knowing there's a madman/blithering idiot at the helm? Do you get some perverted pleasure in knowing the leader of the most powerful nation on earth can’t articulate in an intelligent manner? I mean is it too much to ask to have someone who is smart in the Whitehouse? I guess so...how embarrassing...
What so *you* don’t need an abortion today, or contraceptives? Perhaps your privacy isn’t all *that* important to you? How about peace, remember peace? What, is that just too ho-hum for your tastes? We are and have been treading in really dangerous waters here….it’s really scary…but yet you aren’t frightened are you? Have they not trampled on something sacred to you yet? (Like our constitution?????? Remember that???? Is that not important anymore???) Or is it that you feel it's the price you have to pay to be safe?
I have friends who are gay – they aren't suppose to be in love – they aren't *allowed* to be in love...they can't be parents yet they'd make amazing parents...gee so that’s *your* business now, is it?
I see young women who have no choice but to get their pregnancy terminated – or a lot of women who's partner’s condom broke and now they have to take the morning after pill – well guess what – I guess they are screwed literally and figuratively – what do you have to say for yourselves? Guess you’re glad not to be in that situation yourself huh?
I just don’t get it...I really don't – I can't remember when I've been more ashamed to come from this country…and that’s sad because I really do love this country..but our founding fathers (all of whom are STILL smarter than G.W. although they’re dead) are rolling in their graves...
Are we seriously at the point where we need to give up our freedoms? And what does that have to do with me making MEDICAL decisions about MY OWN body and since when is it anybody else's business including yours? When has it ever been? I said it before I will say it again – when we decide it's time to keep men from doing something to help their penises perhaps the tide will turn. I mean this is crazy and you all know it right? WE ARE NEVER GOING TO ALL AGREE ON ABORTION – we simply aren’t but just because I don't agree with you on something, that does not mean I have the right to take away your right to decide what to do for yourself. Pro-life my ass – have any of you ever thought about what that term even means? What you think, that I am Pro-death? Think again asshole. It’s a matter of me having the right to choose – I would defend YOUR right to choose – I don't recall there being a bloody revolution (as well there should have been) when G.W. cheated to win the first time around and we all kind of had no choice but to accept, albeit begrudgingly the second time around….but now all this abuse. Lies, contempt, innocent people dead, rights being swept away, wars begun for false reasons, Bill Clinton was impeached for lesser offenses, and give me a break – do you really think I cared that he got head from an intern? That’s his wife's business not ours...and as Arlo Guthrie said “If anyone deserves a blow job, it’s the President…” and if we want to go to the arena of moral fiber – how many of you really think ANY of the former presidents were not guilty of such indiscretions? (G.W. probably can't even spell that word correctly)..a lot of them DID have affairs but thanks to the fact that the media was not embroiled in every single aspect of the president's private life or up their asses so to speak – most of us didn't know what they did behind closed doors and that included policies both domestic and foreign (did we forget that Franklin Roosevelt lied to this country to get us into WWII – luckily we didn’t know until much later or he’d have been impeached eh?)...but what impeachment is TOO GOOD for the likes of criminals such as Dick Cheney and George Bush...how about jailing them? You know kind of like what we are doing to the people in Gitmo - what is it we do to citizens for the crime of treason? Are the president and vice-president citizens? Are they? Or are they above the laws AND the constitution of this country? If you are going to sell my country out from underneath of me while simultaneously stripping me of my personal rights – in my book that's a treasonous act...
Like I said I want to know...how do you people look at yourselves? Do *you* want to be the ones going down and talking to the poor people of New Orleans and explain to them that the President DID lie? ‘Cause we can’t blame it on the Governor or Mayor now, can we? Or perhaps you in your delusional state you can...how about the homeless? How about the fact that they spend billions of dollars on a war that *I* certainly didn't approve and yet I can't afford to send my son to college or buy a house – every American's dream huh? Life, LIBERTY...(do you have any idea what the word LIBERTY means??? guess not)....I guess we are not guaranteed our dreams – and no I am not saying I expect Uncle Sam to ‘take care’ of me or even my son – but I do expect our government to not waste money and to help the poor, to not cut social programs and to be careful with the lives of the citizens of this country but I suppose that is asking too much.
I don't think being a liberal should be like drawing a line in the sand – don't you want things for your kids? Don't you want to try to help those less fortunate than yourselves? Don't you want to live in peace with your neighbors globally? Don't you want to be tolerant of others?
Like Ann Coulter, I am not calling for the poisoning of a Supreme Court justice but then claim I was just kidding...Um yeah OK why isn't she is jail? *I'd* be...so would you. Like Dick Cheney, I didn't just go out and shoot someone but am now saying that one country can't have nuclear weapons; while at the same time my boss just told another country they *can* have them, wtf??? So what now, it’s up to the glorious US to decide who has the nukes too? Did we forget that we are AGAINST nuclear arms proliferation? (Bet G.W. can’t spell that word either...)
So again tell me...how *DO YOU* look at yourselves in the mirror?
posted by Colette at 10:53 AM
8 Comments:
you know what Colleen - *I'm* NOT THE ENEMY (remember saying that to me once? I still remained your friend, even though I can't quite wrap my mind around how ANYONE could have voted this guy in)...I am not suggesting YOU are the enemy but I'm not either and neither are YOUR liberal/Democratic 'friends'
I DIDN'T elect the asshole and I want to know how someone who did can look at themselves in the mirror ...it's pretty simple. Cause I'd be hiding if I had elected this guy....
I knew you'd be the first person to say something on this post....it's not why I posted it - I also know problems have been around forever - I am not an idiot - but I am tired of the whole damn thing and it forcing people to make choices they should not have to make - including supporting a war they never agreed to that once again was based on lies - or doesn't that matter to you? If you think war is so great, why aren't you over there? Why isn't our leader? WTF?? Don't you want to evolve??????
And don't hand me this shit about your library records you how very smug of you - you've got to be kidding right???? It's more than that - you know that, right???? Don't you??? Geez...please
I am sick of this shit and sick of having a useless idiot as a president - I am speaking in 'youisms' cause that's what the republican assholes in this country are forcing us to do...how dare they take away our rights....how dare they and how can YOU of all people be so obtuse about the whole thing - think it's a joke?
That's just great....let's hope you don't need anything like your personal reproductive rights to fall back on anytime soon....
Glad I could entertain you....it's what friends are for....and while I consider you my friend it does not mean I don't think you were insane for voting in a guy and a regime so hell bent on destroying the planet and taking all of us (willing or not) with them...but then most of my friends *didn't* vote for him....most of my friends enjoy their rights too much, don't have a problem with gays marrying and don't like going to war over lies...
...and I am sorry if this personally offended you it's not my intent but I don't think we can continue to ignore the crimes being committed by the highest, most powerful men in our country - perhaps you can....
If you voted the regime in you voted the regime in - I want to know how you sleep at night....cause I can't anymore...
THAT'S HOW SCARED *I* AM
And for someone who doesn't like screaming in a vacuum, you sure do a lot of it on *my* blog...
I won't comment on this entire entry, there's too much here to wrap my poor brain around at the moment, but I will say that a law should be passed...saying that if a sitting president has children (of any gender) old enough to be in the military, that the moment they take office, those children are REQUIRED to perform military service in ANY active war theatre. What would Mr. Bush do if his idiotic drunken slut daughters were on the front lines?
It would force presidents to think about others a bit more before they make these broad sweeping war decisions.
first, my dear, lovely, "c", let me just say that i am outraged by the mockery you receive by way of comments from a coded coward. my name is sidney shawn callihan, i am a gay american living under the thumb of probably the most serious threat our society has ever faced...the dictator named g.w. bush.
i could call myself "s2" (sidney shawn) but i'm proud of my thoughts, i'm not ashamed to share my fears or my disgust. i will always stand in front of my beliefs, not behind smirking cattiness.
having said that, i just wish i knew...how do i get to be "that big"
and by "that big", i'm referring to 2 of americas most beloved crusaders. martin luther king, jr., and rosa parks.
and if my recall of history serves me well, ms. parks didn't even set out to blaze any trails, she'd simply just had enough.
by that very act of keeping her seat, she became a symbol of the oppressed, and her act of defiance catapulted said oppressed into action.
how do i get that big? what can i do to tell society that i've had enough? i don't want anything special from anyone, i just want the right to live my life with so many of the "rights" that other citizens take for granted and abuse. i want to invite my friends to a gathering and before them and god (yes, even gays sometimes believe in a god, and probably a better version of "god"..one who loves everyone and weeps for the self-righteous people who use him as the most deadly weapon in creation) and take my partners hand and pledge my life and my love to him. after that, i want to know that i can rest at night knowing that when the day comes, all that is mine will be his, and when one of us is sick, the first person the nurse will ask for is the other. my dad said something over christmas that will live in my heart for the rest of my life...liam was holding my 5 month old nephew on his knee and my dad looked at my nephew and asked..."who's got you? is that uncle liam?" that was when i knew. my dad gets it. liam is my husband. he is family. and the earth didn't fall off its axis!
what are people so afraid of? that letting "us" marry will destroy the sanctity of marriage?? HAHA, thats laughably ludacris...straight people ruined the sanctity of marriage a long time ago. my own dear "c" has been divorced at least twice that i know of. we as a society revere and hold-up as role models people such as jennifer lopez and elizabeth taylor. both are beautiful, talented women who have made great contributions to society, both artistically and philanthropically, but c'mon! 11 marriages between the 2 of them? and G.W., if i'm not mistaken, your brother just went through one of the nastiest public divorces in recent memory. how about that for sanctity?
i totally, completely agree with liam about the military requirements of our, well, not my.. leader, but, c'mon! you have to admire princes william and harry. they were born with big 'ole silver spoons in their purty little mouths, but they both knew that upon coming of age they would be serving their country via military experience. and they didn't shirk that resposibility, they did their time.
like MLK JR., i too, have a dream.
i dream of living in a country that embraces, above all else, its own. that we would be known for our fantastic school systems, our astronomical literacy rates, our massive percentage of inner city youths attending post-secondary educational institutions, learning to believe in themselves and make something of their lives. i dream of living in a country revered for its medical program, one which ensures that ALL citizens have access to quality health care, not just preventive but comprehensive and all-encompassing. a medical system that respects us for the individual that we each are and respects the decisions we each must ultimately make about the fate of this body we inhabit. that the only religious belief guiding our options is our own!
with my dream, i also have a fear:
some day, we will be recalled as the society that let this happen! the society that brought despair upon itself and went from world power to a decrepid, lost nation that was undone by itself. sound unimaginable? remember history dear readers. from the ancient romans done in by bloodlust and and corrupt leaders living a life of indulgence and indifference to its societal needs...to germany, led blindly like sheep by one ruthless coward that noone was "big enough" to question. did noone say to themselves..."i've had enough"?
I'VE HAD ENOUGH.
now how do i get big enough to make it matter?
i apologize in advance for any run-on sentences or mis-spelled words, for any lapses in grammatical judgement. i don't know how one loses touch so completely that the mis-use of punctuation becomes a concern. does one live in complete confinement? i doubt it, i think one must live very comfortably. and i've never heard ANYONE who had confused comfort with security proclaim "i've had enough".
Sid,
I love you...
I love C2 too - we call her C2 cause I guess I am C1 (or 'orginal' C as I like to say)- she has a right to her opinion but it's not her opinion I want - or really care about - I am trying to sound an alarm and I don't care if she heeds it or not - I hope she does care about these things but she's as strong-willed as I am and nothing I am going to say or do is going to make her change how she feels - but that's OK - all that matters is if we can turn the tide - I keep praying that we can...
I write how I feel - I don't give a flying fuck about punctuation or grammer (it's why I love certain poets and forward thinking writers) - further you want to talk about speaking properly - have you heard YOUR president speak??? Kiss my ass about the puctuation OK, Besides, this ain't a fucking english class it's *real* life, it's a lesson in human rights - tell the Muslim world we just pissed off that we want to discuss punctuation, go ahead, punk, I dare you - I don't care if you *are* a friend - enough is enough and I can't sit by and blithely accept what is happening in this country - it's wrong on so many levels I can't even begin to articulate - being snotty and catty does not score you brownie points - it just points out how little you seem to care for your fellow man/woman/person's rights - war is not an answer (it NEVER IS is NEVER WILL BE) - it should be keep the peace at any cost - that does not mean 'lead us into war' - I was not afraid of Sadam - I DID want Osama captured - oh well - we blew that - now let's piss off the rest of the Middle East so we can rest assured that once they DO get the bomb we will be their first target - way to go America - I am just bursting with pride. I can not believe that we can't manage to get our heads out of our asses or, for that matter, get the biggest threat to our very security (that would be Bush), impeached and thrown out of office for breaking the laws in our OWN constitution - war time my ass!
Sid, YOU ARE THAT BIG, darling - we all are - we just have to get organised and stand together and stop this affrontage to our rights (it keeps happening over and over again) - for I am about as sick of this as it gets....and I owe no one an apology for saying so - be they friend or foe....
I want someone to introduce me to repulicans (you know the people I refered as you, yourselves etc...) who are as outraged at this crap as we are (and no, it's not about us and them) it's about tolerance and sanity and respect for humans rights (up to and including: our right to freedom of expression, freedom to love whom we choose - without fear, freedom to make personal-medical decisions regarding our very bodies) - and I am sorry to say most republicans don't get it - because if they did - how then can they stand by and watch this silently and not act - or are they so embarrassed that all they can do is lash out at others to make up for their utter lack of judgement in voting in an ignoramus as a president.
It's like I told Liam tonight - you can't be on the fence - if you are for Bush and his regime then you are obviously against women's rights, gay rights, global peace and countless other vital issues - you don't get to pick and choose - you had that chance when you voted and obviously you voted wrong - at least in MY estimation and countless others....
In other words, I want to know if at least some of you Bush voters REGRET what you did...just curious - I know of one person who has said to me she wished she never voted for the man - but I haven't heard that from anyone else.
I don't want to offend, like you Sid I just want to live my life - but I can't stand by and see my gay friends and their rights and womens's rights completley annihilated and shut the hell up - I can't stand by and shut up while he and his friend Dick lead us into a full blown war over Iran now - if I make you uncomfortable or angry, good - I want you to think....am I bugging you? Good - cause I mean to...we need to get this asshole out of office now...before he completely destroys the planet. And I DO love this country - I just depsie it's leadership right now and if I can't blame the people who were dumb enough to vote them in - who am I suppose to blame? The point is to get them out....and then fix the mess they've managed to create - that is if we can, if it's not too late....
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C2, do you not know this woman? Does a speech like that seem like something to "diffuse" with lighthearted comedy?
She's pouring her heart out about her fears for this country and what that idiotic evil man is doing to it.
Give her some respect...intelligent discourse at the very least, not jokes and bad humor.
Save your humor and bad jokes for the aforementioned idiot!
C2
Yes I do know you - better at times than I think you know yourself - proven by the fact that I *knew* you'd answer to this post first and in exactly the manner that you did answer - it's lke shooting fish in a barrel....or baiting the conservative, your choice...
But you know what, I didn't even want to dignify YOUR answer with my own - I ended up doing it anyhow - why, cause this post WASN'T for YOU - it's for me - it's for people out there who can STILL be reached - I don't like lumping people together and I will say what I said again, (which you didn't dignify with an answer - and that's the other thing - when I DO say something worthy, like every other conservative fop out there you brush over like it's not important - well guess what it is!)- the republicans force the rest of us to do so - by courting the funadamentalist groups, by shunning the gays, by dividing us they force that - don't you think *I* , my friends and dare I say it plenty of YOUR friends feel disenfranchised? Doesn't that bother you a bit?
I don't mean to stoop to their level but in some ways how else can I say what I need to say - what by ignoring the whole thing thereby making you not upset or not risking disfavour in your eyes? or others? Um no...
The fact that you answered snidely and with wise-cracks only shows my dear that YOU don't know me and that does bother me as well - but it's OK I never expect anyone to really *know* me....neither should you - we all don't really know each other deep down - we all keep to ourselves...
Franskly stating that you had an abortion, married a black guy, and have gay friends does not mean much since you still voted for a man who would not allow that abortion, doesn't really like the poor (black) element in this country, and hates gays...I mean I don't know how it sits with you that you voted the way you did - but if it were me - I'd be apologizing. He wasn't the right choice and I think we all know it - the only problem is that those that did vote for him cling to their vote like it's their last hope and absolutely refuse to aknowledge that by putting this man in office they may have helped cause irreparable harm to this country - nope you got get on the bandwagon and 'take us down' with your off-putting, self-righteous, condescending banter and it doesn't do ANYONE any good - but thanks for sharing *rolls eyes*
*I* fear for this country and that's what *I* was writing about and I want to know why - if you feel the way you claim, you aren't screaming on your blog (instead of tearing me down on mine), or writing to your congressman and screaming for his head as well...
But then...this was never about you...you DO know how I feel about your voting for Bush - I just figured you'd use your good common sense and try to see eye to eye with the horrendous things he's done and he continues to do and if you vote a regime in C2 - you ARE responsible for what that regime does....as well as what it does not do to make our world a better place. You might be better off that you were 4 years ago - but I'm not...and that's how you judge a presidency - am *I* better off? is the country better off? I have to say no on both counts and that's a shame.
That said - those of you out there who aren't going to come back at me with more fodder, snideness, and your own personal vendetta cause I don't see things *your* way, write your congressmen/your state reps and ask for his impeachment - do it soon...
for once and for all - this post was NOT directed at YOU - I know how you feel, C....
I don't appreciate your trying to diffuse me, or this situation - it needs fixed - it needs people angry enough to act - and it does not need humour I don't find a fascist/McCarthy-like regime to be very funny, C - I don't think any of this shit is funny AT ALL...but that is NOT to say I DON'T love you, your sense of humour, your wit your fierceness, your intelligence - I actually admire you - more than you will ever know...
Don't apologize for your vote - be proud for who you voted for - I know in my heart Kerry wasn't evil - I can't say that about either G.W. or Dick - it's pretty obvious to me who they are...
But when you can't do something or your friends can't because of their regime - don't say a thing to me...I don't want to hear it..
When I lose sleep at night it's nobody's problem but mine unless I am sharing a bed with you...it's my burden...cause I make myself that way....but C - I can't help this *I* am really scared - and I am sure alot of people lie awake at night worrying about this country....
I don't care if people think I am lashing out or if I am screaming - cause that's what *I* do when I get upset - so sue me - it's probably not the best way to start a dialogue but I figure since I wasn't asked whether this country should go to war (unjustly), ban gay rights and women's right I've got *every* right TO scream about it - and I don't know why everyone else thinks it's OK to sleepwalk through it unless it is simply how they enjoy living their lives...and that's pitiful...
I am passionate - have you met me? And I make no apologies for being the way I am - especially on MY OWN blog...
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