Obama as Bad as Bush?

“I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security.”
-President Barrack Hussein Obama

You just have to love how Obama stands by his principles! Ahmadinejad steals an election in Iran, and the most “the greatest orator of our time” can manage is a tepid wag of his finger. The people of Honduras peacefully (and by legal means) expel a Castro-Chavez-wannabe for trying to illegally alter the constitution, and Obama cries bloody murder. And now the Afghanistan re-vote, called because of rampant fraud in the first one, is cancelled, giving Karzai the presidency once more (and less democratic legitimacy than George W. during his first time), and Obama is all smiles and praises. Finally, when a Muslim Army Major kills a dozen people, rather than focusing his whole speech on it, he gives it a passing mention, after an off-script “shout out” to a man he claimed had won the Congressional Medal of honor, but who had, in fact, actually won the Medal of Freedom; it’s surprising mistake for Obama to make, especially seeing as he was the one who presented him with the medal. [1]I tell you, this guy is already as disgraceful as George Bush, and it’s only his first year!

This Tuesday saw several important developments in the American political arena. The office of governor in both New Jersey and Virginia switched from Democrat to Republican control, voters in Maine vetoed a decision by the legislature allowing homosexual couples to marry, and for the first time since the Civil War, a Democrat was elected representative of the 23^rd Congressional District in the state of New York.

In regards to Maine, I’m appalled. The fanatical religious right, who are no worse than the fanatical left in their desire to use government as an instrument in their own plans for social engineering, are already proclaiming this ‘victory’ as proof that ‘the people’ disapprove of gay marriage. Quite frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn. Do you think that, if the people of the Southern states had been given the chance to vote for it in the 1960’s that they would have approved of the repeal of Jim Crow and the segregationist laws on the books at the time? Do you not think that, if on September 12^th, 2001, we’d had a nation-wide referendum to deport all Muslims and nuke the entire Middle East (sparing only Israel) that half the country wouldn’t have voted ‘yes’? We are not an absolute democracy. We have a constitution that guarantees certain rights to our citizens that cannot be denied, regardless of how many in the electorate would have otherwise. While we do have ‘majority rule’, that majority rule is balanced against respect for the rights of the minority.

We are a secular nation, and anyone who claims we are a “Christian nation” is full of shite, and is contradicting the words of our founding fathers. Our own first President, the man we have on our quarters and dollar bills, George Washington, said that, “The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian religion”. Benjamin Franklin, the author of our first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, and the Founding Father whose face we feature upon our one hundred dollar bill, once said, “I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in my life I absented myself from Christian assemblies”. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and our nation’s second President said, “I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature”, and even re-wrote a his own version of the Gospels that excluded all of Christ’s miracles. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president and the man whose visage graces our pennies and five dollar bills, once said that, “The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma”. Found Father Thomas Paine said, “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church”. Finally, James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights and our Fourth President, once said that, “An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against [...] Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance [...] religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government”. In short, our Founding Fathers would, if they could, pimp-slap Jerry Falwell, Pat Buchanan, Bill O’Reilly, and all those other overweight, self-righteous moralfags who claim that this nation is a “Christian nation” whenever they oppose abortion, gay marriage, pornography, etc., and tell them, as we say in internet and text messenger parlance, to “stfu and gtfo”. The United States is founded upon freedom, and freedom means you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you aren’t impeding the ability of another to do the same. If you want to smoke weed while sodomizing some dude who’s snorting coke while firing a fully-automatic AK-47 loaded with armor-piercing rounds, as long as you’re not hurting another person or another person’s property without their consent, then, damn it all, that’s your right!

Speaking of firing fully-automatic weapons, I’d be remiss in my duties as a freelance editorial journalist if I did not mention the Fort Hood shootings. You know, the one committed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist and a Muslim. I mention his faith only because he shouted “Allahu Akbar (“God is great”; also, the battle-cry of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, et al.) before he killed thirteen people and injured thirty, and because, according to one news source, he “once gave a jarring presentation to students in which he argued the war on terrorism was a war against Islam, and ‘made himself a lightning rod for things’ when he felt his religious beliefs were challenged.”

Now, to preemptively cut-off any accusations, I am not claiming that all, or even most Muslims, are terrorists or bad people. I do believe, however, and will hold this belief until I see concrete proof to the contrary, that Islam is not a religion of peace. Sure, most Muslims, like most Christians, Jews, Socialists, Republicans, and vegetarians, are nice people; that I do not deny. However, I truly feel that there are elements within Islam that encourage violence, and that Islam as a religion needs serious, wide-sweeping reforms to become compatible with modern, secular, liberal, democratic, capitalist western civilization. The Islamic opposition to images, music, the belief that women are inherently inferior to women (why else would they have to cover their heads, and men not do the same, Why else would the testimony of a man in Sharia court be equal to that of two women?), and opposition to the separation of church and state all come to mind as problems that prevent Islam from being compatible with modern society. I say this not as some jingoist conservative. I say this as someone who values liberty. If you doubt me, look at this: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23762591-islamist-group-march-for-full-sharia-law-in-britain.do. Europe is in danger of becoming dominated by extremist Islam. So yes, Maj. Hisan, whether the U.S. is currently waging one or not, I think we should wage a war against Islam, or at least elements within Islam, because when I hear “Islam” I think “burka”. I think “hijab”. I think of the girls in Afghanistan sprayed with acid because they dared to-horror upon horrors!-go to school! I think of all the women stoned to death because they were raped and were unable to produce enough witnesses, and were therefore charged with adultery or fornication! I think of the underage brides that Saudi millionaires buy with their petrodollars-and by “underage” I mean “under 10”. Yes, Christianity still has some individuals who hold beliefs just as vile. And, every now and then, we encounter them, be they Mormon fundamentalist factions that marry off girls at the age of twelve to men who already have two wives, the Westboro Baptist Church and their “God hates Fags” signs, or the occasional fanatic killing an abortionist. But they are far and few between, and are almost always universally condemned by even the most conservative Christians. For the most part, Christians embrace, or at least put up with, our modern, decadent, secular culture. They can condemn it, yes, even try to change it through democratic methods, but they rarely, if ever, resort to organized violence. Yes, some Roman Catholics protested the “Da Vinci Code” movie, but they did not riot, unlike the Muslims all over Europe and the Middle East because some Danish cartoonist poked fun at their prophet. Look at gay marriage: the people who oppose it most are old and white, and, as such, they won’t have power for much longer. Give it ten, fifteen, twenty years, and, even if conservatives still outnumber liberals, they’ll have embraced gay marriage. Compare that to Iraq, where there has been a recent spate of “honor killings” of gay men, which the local police have acknowledged and permitted. I am disgusted, but not surprised, that liberals, who readily cry bloody murder at the slightest whiff of inequality in the West, turn a blind eye to such barbarism in Muslim world, for they are blinded by “Political Correctness” and “moral relativism”. Face it liberals, you wouldn’t be able to have your Gay Pride and pro-abortion marches in a Muslim country. Western, Graeco-Roman/Judeo-Christian civilization has, for all its faults and shortcomings, delivered to you the freest, most prosperous civilization that mankind has known, and all you’re doing is selling it out to backwards fanatics who would drag us back to the dark ages, and the only reason you’re letting them is the fact that they’re from a different country and of a different race. Open your eyes, people, all of you, be you conservative, liberal, or moderate! Your freedom truly is never more than a generation away from being lost, so wake up and smell the jihad. They’re serious about destroying us: we should be serious about defeating them.

Finally, the House passed the health care bill last night, in a vote of 220-215. Lady Pelosi has hailed it as similar to the passage of Social Security in 1935 or the passage of Medicare in 1965. I wonder if that means that, like those two programs, this new health care program will be horribly inefficient and end up broke.

 
Sources for this entry:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091108/D9BR59EO0.html

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/karzai-steals-presidency-as-afghanistans-oneman-poll-cancelled-20091103-htrt.html?autostart=1

4 Responses to “Obama as Bad as Bush?”

1. Tony says:

   November 12, 2009 at 10:01 pm

   … delivered to you the freest, most prosperous civilization that mankind has known …

   lol
2. Siegfried says:

   November 13, 2009 at 10:10 am

   OK, lolTony, name a freer and more prosperous one.
3. Freud says:

   November 13, 2009 at 3:17 pm

   I think your perspective is very secular and one-sided
4. diddler says:

   November 25, 2009 at 1:18 pm

   try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjtgMnzIado