Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Dear Mr. President:

In the fall of 2008, I took a graduate-level course on Political Rhetoric. (Yes, I know it was emotional suicide at the time, but I got an A). Anyway, one evening, we were treated to the Pink "song" Dear Mr. President, which was of course a slam at George W. Bush. I hate the song, but now that the conservatives have fallen out of favor, I find the motif useful for my particular question, which is:

Dear Mr. President, how DO you sleep at night? I really must wonder, because:

  1. You have done everything you can to encourage, not discourage, the hateful slime of racism and immature playing of the race card
  2. You have conversely acted ashamed of one of the races (white) that is your heritage, and disgusted blacks throughout this country
  3. You say you care deeply for the state of the environment, yet you can't even plug an oil spill hole. Meanwhile, California is up to its eyeballs in debt from killing itself to "go green," and you not only encourage that, but you want the rest of the country to go into the same debt.
  4. You promised a job increase--well, where's mine, pal? And by the way, did we mention that U.S. employment as a whole is still over 10%? I may be an English major, but please, do the math.
  5. You were so anxious to enact your universal health care "plan" that you never even read the darn bill. In fact, you are pushing your "agenda" through the ranks of D.C. in a flagrant attempt to destroy this country. Now, thanks to you, the Terri Schiavo travesty could become a regular news headline, and no, I do not think that is a stretch.
  6. You have deliberately insulted and rebuffed Israel on a number of occasions. Now, I'm not one of these Christians who gets fixated on the end of the world, but here's a news bulletin: Israel and its people are God's chosen. Gentile Christians are "grafted in," but Israel is His baby. And when someone messes with God's baby, watch out!
  7. You have chosen not to observe for yourself or otherwise acknowledge the National Day of Prayer
  8. You insist on giving Muslims preeminence, while out of the other side of your mouth, you claim that there must be tolerance and a separation of church and state (which was NOT in the Constitution. It was a later quote from Thomas Jefferson, and no, he did not mean it like that).
  9. You chose to go on vacation rather than honor our fallen heroes at Arlington on Memorial Day; instead, you sent Joe Biden, the poster child for Scotch tape over the mouth. This is the same guy who told a wheelchair-user to stand up, and who said "God rest her soul" about the Irish PM's dead father. What is wrong with this picture?

Need a Tylenol PM or three, Mr. President?

2 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness... you took the words right out of my mouth!! Bless you!

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  2. Happy to help, Laura! I'm here periodically throughout each week. Tell your friends; I love new readers. :)

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