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Oh, GTFO already

Just about every year around this time, I write something about 9/11. It’s kind of cathartic for me to memorialize the experience, to reflect on how we weathered that day – not knowing where our friends were, struggling to get through on the phones, breathing in the ash – but this year I am particularly crabby.

The radical right wing that now constitutes the bulk of the Republican party (bye bye, fiscal conservatives, please start your own party and stop wandering into the Democratic tent) just loves to talk about how terrible cities are. They particularly like insulting New York.

So this year, I would like to tell them to just GTFO. Stop pitching fits about the fact that we’re diverse places and that you don’t like how we operate and then lament 9/11. If you hate cities, then you shouldn’t give a rat’s ass that we were targeted. No one crashed into or blew up your buildings. No one killed your people. You were completely and utterly ignored.

It is simply not right for you to claim our pain and then dismiss our people. We are only part of your “America” while you’re using the horrific day to justify your behavior. You don’t give a damn about what happened, you only give a damn about being able to hate others free of guilt and justifying your irrational and xenophobic fears.

So GTFO. I’m sick of trying to be civil when your version of the day was a TV show and yet you act like the horrible event we experienced in New York City belongs to you. You were never targeted, you didn’t have to live with the reality of the day – nor did you have to live with the after effects of constant bomb scares and military suddenly present on your daily commute.

Take your 9/12 crap and shove it. Take your famewhore pastor and shove him. Get a damned clue.

2010
09/10
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McCain vs. Obama on the issues: Intro

Megan and I can hardly listen to the radio anymore without feeling so frustrated we have to turn it off and hope by the time we turn it back on that the media is done finding angry Clinton supporters to sound off and give them fun and ridiculous soundbites. It’s almost impossible to listen to the discussions of anything Michelle Obama does because it comes back to questions of “Do you think she was patriotic enough? How can she convince people she doesn’t hate America?”

Let me tell you now – there is absolutely nothing Michelle Obama can do that will get the pundits to stop asking that question, just as there is nothing Barack Obama can do to stop the media from dwelling on the drama that they continue generating about the small but vocal number of Clinton supporters who threaten to support a candidate who opposes almost everything their candidate believed in.

So you know people question Michelle’s patriotism, Barack’s “Americanness,” whether Hillary’s supporters will support a Republican rather than vote for Obama.

What else do you know? How are you being educated about the differences between the candidates in this race? (Boy, are there differences!) Well, your humble blogger has had it. From now until the election, I will be giving a weekly analysis of a specific issue and how the two candidates differ. It’s time to talk about what matters and the petty dramas that find themselves at the top of the media cycle are not what’s most important. Most important are what are the candidates’ values and what are their visions for our country – and how do they plan to implement those visions.

Look for Part I of this handy guide to McCain vs. Obama on the issues this Sunday.

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08/27
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