Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Infraggable Tony-Man vs Election Time

(Original Post date 7 November 2012)

Okay, as promised… as if anyone really cares what I think. Here is my review and opinions on this election year; available now ONLY on Facebook.

I have kind of a confession to make, before I go any further. The majority of my family view themselves as Republican. Many of my family feel that Republicans are usually more steeped in Christianity and tend to have a stronger moral code than Republicans do. And that’s probably a valid point, if it wasn’t for the fact that I have never believed that a person’s religion meant crap when it came to a Presidential, or even a Congressional election. My family has always sort of been contrarian, even in the face of evidence that points toward the merits of the opposition. I, on the other hand have also leaned Democrat. I’m not saying I’m Pro-Democrat; but what I am saying that in my 29 years of life; we’ve only had one other Democrat president, and personal flaws aside, I think Clinton did a hell of a job.

As stated, I’m twenty-nine years old. I was born in 1983; which would make me a “Reagan baby” or more commonly known as Generation X… or the “MTV generation” (look it up. Back then, MTV stood for Music Television; shock and gasp, right?) So, I was born when Ronald Reagan was president, secretly fighting Altzheimer’s and threatening to tear down the Berlin Wall, while having his finger readily available on the button to nuke the Soviets, and all those other urban myths we had about him. Unfortunately, I was too young to really remember him, nor to give a crap. So, I admit that the only presidents that I can really speak about are Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama. What I want to tell you in this opinionated review, is that it’s admittedly narrow-minded.

With four presidents to take a look at; two Democrats, and two Republicans; it is hard for me to be really objective since I was not old enough to vote for either Bush Sr., or Clinton. To make even more of a point here, I was not old enough to vote for Bush Jr., on his first term. So I can only really compare the last term of Bush, with the first term of Obama; which I’ll get to a little later in the review. Now, as said before, this review is rather narrow-minded, and when I think about the Bush duo, the first thing that comes to my mind that explains both of them, is Iraq. Other presidents before them had the Cold War, and the World Wars; and America in general usually averages a Major war, once every twenty years or so, I can’t help but to think that we had two major wars in Iraq in roughly about a 12 year span. Or maybe to be fair, we had a major war, and a much talked about conflict, but still. It’s pretty big considering. This alone made me lean Democrat. Clinton was never involved in a major war, and Obama pulled us out on two fronts. I understand he probably only did so, because Bush Jr., said that. But then Bush Jr., was quite premature in saying that the mission was accomplished in Iraq.

I didn’t vote during Bush Jr.’s second bid for the presidency. In 2004, I was in Germany, just waiting for orders to fight. And eventually they came in 2005, and again in 2008. As a soldier, you’re not really protected by the Constitution, you’re not protected by the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment was a joke for us. We didn’t have the right to say what we want, or to protest peacefully. We were zombies, really more than anything. And here I was, in the desert, fighting Bush Jr’s. war. I get it, it’s what I signed up for, It was my duty to protect the special interests of America. I am a warrior, and part of an integral team who blah, blah, blah. But let's be honest. A Global War on Terrorism? Terrorism is an ideology. We have terrorism right here in Augusta, or Columbus, or DC, or wherever the hell you are. Even now, as I type, people are being murdered all over the world, people are blowing up one another because someone’s God has a different opinion about how many dead virgins they’re going to have when they get to the afterlife. Someone’s wife is getting their eye punched in because their steak was overcooked. This shit happens.

But, none of this really has to do with this year’s election. A lot of people like to bring in the fact that Romney is Mormon, and Obama is supposedly a closet Muslim Islamic Radical Fundamentalist. Or some hokey crap like that. And of course, when that happens, people always talks about “Separation of Church and State.” Here’s my view on that. If you really, truly, honestly believe that there really is any separation of church and state, then this is what we really need to have happen. None of this half-assing crap that America has pretty much built its reputation on, sometime after the Korean War. (Maybe Vietnam War, you know, credibility and all that.) From now on, ALL of our elected officials MUST be Athiest. Not Agnostic, not Scientologist, not Satanic, or Muslim, or Jewish, or whatever other religion is out there. They must be Athiest, period. Second, no government official, may worship in a church on anyday for any reason, so long as they are a government, or political figure. I could go on; and rattle off several more “Separation of Church and State” reforms, but suffice it to say, that saying that whether one president’s religion made the difference over the other is complete crap. Nationally, Romney’s game plan for the presidency was weaker than Obama’s.

In closing, since I’m sure I’m going to take heat from all the leftists out there. You want to stop Obama from “destroying” America? Then do it in the Congress. Congress has been pretty notorious for deadlocking anything that Obama’s wanted to do, even so much as to threaten to default America on its debts anyway. But I have an idea. Now, I know that it’s human nature to be contentious towards radical change, but hear me out. Why don’t we try out some of Obama’s domestic ideas? You Republicans always seem to be on the trolley, when Obama gets the idea to dole out punishment to Non-Christian Special Interest groups… is it so wrong to think his domestic ideas are also good? Oh, and by the way… for those of you who thinks that Obama’s the reason why the national debt has doubled under his administration, it’s not like he just writes checks, and they get approved like that. Obama proposes spending this much on whatever, SOMEONE has to approve it. Check and balances, people. Hell, if Obama can do, just whatever the fuck he wants, without someone stepping in and say, “stop being a cheeky dickwaffle” we wouldn’t have this issue. And honestly, if someone… like his wife, or children would actually say those exact words to him, then we wouldn’t have so many contentious arguments in Washington. Anyway, in four years, if America’s gone further down the toilet; feel free to tell me “I told you so.” For now, I’m sticking by my vote; if for nothing else, just to see how it plays out.

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