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A Nation in Adversity

Sep 032010

          Adversity is something everyone experiences. Currently, our entire country is feeling some sort of adversity. Everyone either knows of someone, or are themselves, in financial difficulties. Like some sort of Snidely Whiplash, the economy is robbing us of everything including our homes. People are edgy, nasty and cannot see beyond their own need. We are like lions on a carcass growling at anyone who may appear on the horizon. We are no longer friendly because being nice is weakness and right now the only thing that is taught on the streets is ‘The Eye of the Tiger’.

          The most blamed person for all of this is our President, Barack Obama. Through all of this adversity, he has approached the problems with aplomb and diplomacy. People have accused him of everything from socialism to being a Nazi (I will give you a massage if you can explain that one to me) to being too bipartisan to being too…you know….that tyranny of the government thingy. Meanwhile, he stays cool and we wait for him to get fed up and say enough is enough.

          What drives me nuts about this is that we forget what a mess he inherited. He is being blamed for his predecessor’s war, financial mismanagement and general disregard for what the constituents wanted. Dick Cheney said it himself that when he was told that 61% of the country did not like the Iraq War he said, ‘So what?!’ The truth is that Obama became president when we should have been playing a game of Not It! Who would want such a job?

          As this is CoupleDumb and we do discuss relationships, we must look at Obama‘s relationship to this nation. Right now, as a nation, we are scapegoating our president. This is easy for us as a public. As I mentioned on Monday, we blame people when the shit hits the fan. He is the nation’s whipping boy (and before you get your panties in a bunch look it up). Anything he does or says is dissected and analyzed for any type of angle. People are hell bent on painting our President as a liar, thief, idiot and anything else that could possibly inspire more fear.

          You see, when we face adversity we don’t really try to get out of the feeling of anxiety or desperation. What we tend to do is create elaborate methods of dissipating are tension without really addressing the issue. We tend to pull out our defense mechanisms and work them to death. Americans have projected all their fears on Obama and are in complete denial of why they cannot trust him. They will say it is his politics but cannot spell out which policy they distrust. They say it is his promises and cannot name which promise was broken. They say it is his character or his values or his morals or his use of his family or his lack of family focus. I say it is his color.

          Adversity has some pretty scary side-effects. Adversity separates the men from the boys and the mature from the bigoted. It s time to take some responsibility for the mess our country is in and work at problem solving instead of blaming. As long as Obama is the focus of our problems, we will never fix our situation. As long as we are oblivious to our defense mechanisms and play the game of stealth racism then we will continue to struggle. What we are doing is blaming him as if I would blame Ronald if our Big Mac was not up to snuff. This is a systemic issue. Something that had a point of beginning but we require a complete mind and policy change if we are ever to see what truly happened.

          There is so much to say about this. As a nation, we are handling our adversity like a good bipolar patient. One side spreads fear and the other shits rainbows. We need to return to the middle and see the reality. Perhaps then we can begin to change and fix what is broken.

WTF of the Week: Can anybody work for the government?

WTF of the Week

Sep 122009

Thought bubble: Michelle is going to kick that motherfuckers ass!

          If things don’t change soon, we will need to do a WTF on a daily basis. Seriously people, we write a post everyday of the week except Sundays. If we only did WTFs we would need to take shifts to sleep.

          This week was especially stupid. All branches of the government vied for their crown of WTFery King. The President did his speech on Tuesday; however most of the kids in Miami Dade didn’t even get to see it. Why you ask? Simply put, the school board voted not to show it and tentatively left it up to the teachers to include it in their lesson plans. The school board was afraid of lawsuits because they did not send out permission slips in time. Now there may be some of you who had issue with the President of the United States talking to your child but I have more of an issue having a bureaucrat tell me what is appropriate for my kid.

          Then the President had his Health Care speech on Wednesday. Had we known that those speeches were like being at a comedy club, we would have worn our vinyl slickers to avoid the brain splatter. Representative Joe Wilson decided that heckling was allowed on the floor of Congress. During our President’s speech he yelled out ‘You lie’. We don’t know what makes this worse, the fact that the President was heckled by a Congressman during a health care address, not a set at Chuckles Night Club, or that Wilson was actually wrong and illegal immigrants are not covered under the Health Care Bill thus making his asinine actions even stupider. Best part, now he’s getting all badass after his contrition tour. Now he’s all ‘I will not shut my mouth and I will fight for what is right blah blah blah’. How about you quit while you’re behind Joe? How about you show a little sensibility since you completely lack manners? How about you ask another congress person where they get their kinky supplies and purchase a ball gag and shut the fuck up?

          So we’re writing the WTF when all of a sudden, we see that the CNN is reporting that the Coast Guard is circling a boat and has fired 10 shots. We think ‘Holy shit, not on 9-11.’ The reports go on to say that all this was taking place while Obama’s motorcade drove right by and he was in some sort of danger. Police, FBI, Coast Guard, Secret Service. WTF? Tension mounted for a while and then we hear, ‘Sorry. Just a training exercise.’ Seriously? On 9-11 when everybody is on edge and ‘Remembering the Tragedy’ you are going onto the Potomac and pretending there is a terrorist threat? Who was the asshat who thought that one up? Wait a second, what about Homeland Security? Wasn’t that department created so you assholes would all talk to each other or was it just another way of getting congressional relatives jobs?

          We are turning off the computer and TV after this post. Need a break from stupid.

Special Labor Day WTF : The Reaction to the President

WTF of the Week

Sep 072009

          Happy Labor Day everyone! Instead of eating hot dogs and celebrating the men and women who worked their asses off all year long, we will be discussing what will happen tomorrow to our children. You know what we’re talking about. That guy, President of the United States of America, has the audacity to address our children and discuss the importance of education while they are in school. Who the fuck does this guy think he is? Oh wait, that’s right, he is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!

          And now we have the Vocal Minority crying about how this nervy bastard wants to talk to our poor, impressionable children and ‘brainwash them’. In 15 minutes he plans to convert our kids to Islam, make them communists and buy into Universal Healthcare. We can’t get our kids to brush their teeth after talking to them for 15 minutes let alone explain the proletariat system to them.

          So it is official. Our precious country has lost its collective mind. We are allowing these crazy yahoos to take over the national conversation and the Boogey Man is as real as a tax audits and death panels. We are allowing these small minded, blinder wearing imbecile’s airtime to discuss their opinion which is solely based on the hysterical rants of some brain trust whose only function is to scare the populous. This is very similar to interviewing the idiots who claim that they were abducted by aliens while they hold a can a beer and you can hear the fucking ‘Deliverance’ banjos in the background.

          Seriously bitch, you’re crying over the fact that the most powerful man in the world wants to encourage your child to stay in school and value education? Are these concepts and values against what you’re teaching them at home? This ‘man’ you are referring to is the President. Not just any President, he is the President of the country you live in. The Commander in Chief. Not the president of NAMBLA or the Hair Club for Men. He’s not asking little Timmy to sit on his friggen lap. He will be there on TV where he can be ignored by the kids like they ignore everything educational.

But let’s just call this what it is. Let’s put aside all this petty bipartisan shit and address the elephant in the room, shall we? Sure you can stand behind ‘I didn’t vote for him so he ain’t my president’ but you are skirting the more insidious reason you don’t want your precious angel to listen to him. IT’S BECAUSE HE’S BLACK, RIGHT? This has nothing to do with your politics because if you were rational you would realize, Republican or Democrat, 15 minutes isn’t enough time to do shit with kids. It’s the idea that you don’t want this black guy with a ‘questionable background’ talking to your kids.

As Americans, we will take our kids to school and encourage them to listen to our President who is taking time to address them because he acknowledges that kids matter. You can keep Timmy and Buffy at home and you can draw the shades until this terror passes. We are ashamed of you. You would be the same assholes that would hold your purse tighter to you when you go to the Whitehouse, fearing being jacked by Michele Obama and her two thug daughters.