Bullshit

One of my favorite blogs, Margaret and Helen, recommends that we start calling the constant hysteria aimed at our president what it is, which is bullshit. This is not a word I normally use, but it is time to call out these racist folks who claim to be so worried about the imaginary government take-over of their lives. These are the same people who sat on their hands for 8 years while the previous administration started 2 costly, deadly, quagmirish wars, wiretapped anyone they felt like, suspended our basic rights, politicized the Department of Justice, squandered our standing throughout the world, and pretty much gave us the finger while saying "in your face, chumps".

But now, my fellow americans, we must prevent the president from giving a back-to-school pep talk to our students.

Next these same parents, so worried about their impressionable youth, will be demanding that the president's picture be removed from their schools.

And will the school administrations cave on that? You bet.

What message is this sending to black students? What message is this sending to business owners who might be thinking of locating to one of these areas where the president is being censored? Would you locate your business in one of these areas?

The USA has a terrible dropout problem. Is it any wonder with idiot parents like these that one in 3 students drops out of high school. Colin Powell and his wife Alma started a foundation called America's Promise Alliance to address specifically our disturbing inability to finish high school. This makes me wonder how these same objectors would be acting if Colin Powell were president. How about Hillary - how would they be acting if she were president?

I despair for the future of our country. I remind myself that any time a country goes through big dramatic changes, those feeling threatened by those changes make a lot of noise and carry on irrationally, but then the change comes and they quiet down, or die, or accept the change, which turns out not to wreck the country after all. Please tell me that will happen this time.

I don't like to use the word bullshit, but sometimes that's what you have to do, for the good of the country.