The latest non-controversy of feigned righteous indignation in my beloved state comes in the form of a politically charged Christmas tree ornament. Read here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/03/white_house_ornament/This faux controversy is almost as insipid as the circus created by the Atheist sign next to the plastic Chinese-made baby Jeebus in Olympia but not quite. The pathetic reactions from some of the remaining 22% of Americans dumb enough to still support the worst president in American history are just comical. I find it highly amusing that people can become enraged by a fucking ornament. Mostly they argue that a Christmas tree is no place for partisan political statements, but I believe there is nothing remotely partisan about wanting Bush impeached. Also hilarious is the belief that somehow art isn't inherently about sometimes controversial personal expression, political or otherwise, to which I ask, what rock have these people been living under?
Where was the justice when the previous President was impeached simply because he lied about a fucking consensual sex act? Yet our current president has been able to violate the Constitution, commit war crimes and lie to the American people with absolute impunity and face no consequences whatsoever, that in my opinion is injustice in it's highest form. Yet some people believe that the artist who created this ornament should be the one who feels shame. You have got to be fucking kidding me! We have the worst, most corrupt, most incompetent president in the history of our nation and they consider an ornament that calls for his impeachment an embarrassment to our state? Where are the priorities of these people? Where is their loyalty to their country and the laws of our land? In my opinion they are nothing but partisan hacks of shallow character who need a hobby beside self-righteousness.
One person wrote to the Editor of the Times stating oh-so-righteously that, "The artist who did do it wasn't shy about accepting the hospitality of the White House and munched on roast beef and consumed soft drinks and white wine at the good will of the person she hates. She seems to fit the definition of hypocrite. If you think that it's been the good will of Islamic extremists that they have not murdered any more people in the United States, you are wrong again. Our president is responsible for the artist being safe ever since 9/11 in the policies and commitments he's made since then."
First off the White House is a publicly financed institution, so any hospitality she received there had been paid for with our taxes including hers, it was not some benevolent largess supplied by our beloved monarch Georgie the boy King. Secondly the writer seems to believe that George Bush has protected us since 9/11. They don't seem to comprehend that he was the person in charge during the 9/11 attacks and he failed completely to heed any of the specific warnings about what was to occur. In fact he was on the first of his record amount of presidential vacations a mere eight months into his maladministration when these warnings were issued. If Bush is responsible for us not getting attacked since 9/11, then he is also responsible for us getting attacked on 9/11, that's some mighty protector...
But frankly this bullshit meme that he has protected us since then is just an fallacy that defies logic. The artist is in the same amount of danger that any American is from any criminal act, but specifically the statistical chance that an American will die in a terrorist attack is so small that it is virtually non-existent. But yet that fear card and his alleged protective paternalism is played at every hand as if it were a substantive argument forgiving Bush of his many crimes. But he kept us safe from the Evil-doers, they cry! As if we were ever in any real danger to begin with. There hasn't been an another attack because al-Qaida doesn't need to attack us again, they have achieved their stated goals by engaging us in their sphere of influence in an attempt to bankrupt us with unending warfare on their terms, not because George Bush has protected us.
The real hypocrisy here comes from people who are willfully ignorant of the crimes of this President and point an accusatory finger at the people who merely say that the Emperor has no clothes...
Happy New Year! Let's hope it is better than the last. But unfortunately I have the sneaking suspicion it's going to get way worse before it gets any better...So sit back, make yourself comfortable, drink heavily, and prepare for a rough ride, look on the bright side our new president can at least explain how shitty things are in complete sentences...
