I was originally intending this weekend to attend the rally being staged in D.C. this weekend, hosted by Comedy Central personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Unfortunately, I was unable to head down to D.C. due to a list of items I need to do here (graduate school isn't all fun and games). So, instead, I am working out of one eye, and watching the live web stream of the rally out of my other. Multi-tasking? Like a boss.
That being said, the intention of the rally is, as you could infer from the titles (and taking into account the tongue-in-cheek character of Stephen Colbert), is to call us back to reason. It seems we exist in tempestuous times with an ever more polarizing political climate. Midterm elections are coming up, and for Democrats it appears as though the shift in power to their side may be rapidly coming to a close, if not now in the near future.
The many people who first helped place many Democratic leaders into power in the first place are disillusioned, the magic that permeated the 2008 campaign wearing off to reveal a pumpkin.
I hate to say I told you so, so I won't. But for us who do prefer sanity, as the rally mentioned above hopes to bring back to the forefront, it was easy to predict this. Let's start at the top: President Barack Obama.
Many of us who supported Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign made him to be some kind of god. We portrayed him as Superman, one capable of things never before accomplished. We thought him a legend before he had actually accomplished anything at the presidential level, and we annointed him based on potential rather than accomplishment.
It was, to me, insane.
I supported him, and I thought him the best candidate for the job. But the people on his side were simply, for lack of a better word, insane. I just wanted to take so many people by the lapels and shake them, and tell them "No! He's only a man!" Albeit a good one, and well qualified for the position of president.
Unfortunately, it's insanity that helped put him there, rather than real, honest assessment of who he is and what he can do. Please, put away the capes people. You elected a man, not a god.
In these times, we could all use a little bit more sanity, and that applies to all people in all parties. For those people who still think Obama's a god (and I suspect there are fewer of you now than 2008): be reasonable! For those who flip flop from one extreme to the other: be reasonable!
People aren't gods. Neither are they demons. I assure you, Obama can't save the world with his power. At the same time, I assure you, John McCain would not have destroyed the world had he been elected. George W. Bush was not the spawn of satan. Dick Cheney is not an American mini-Hitler. Rush Limbaugh in my opinion is still a douche, but he's entitled to his opinions.
Regardless, let's be reasonable for once. And have reasonable expections as well.
Unfortunately, I was unable to head down to D.C. due to a list of items I need to do here (graduate school isn't all fun and games). So, instead, I am working out of one eye, and watching the live web stream of the rally out of my other. Multi-tasking? Like a boss.
That being said, the intention of the rally is, as you could infer from the titles (and taking into account the tongue-in-cheek character of Stephen Colbert), is to call us back to reason. It seems we exist in tempestuous times with an ever more polarizing political climate. Midterm elections are coming up, and for Democrats it appears as though the shift in power to their side may be rapidly coming to a close, if not now in the near future.
The many people who first helped place many Democratic leaders into power in the first place are disillusioned, the magic that permeated the 2008 campaign wearing off to reveal a pumpkin.
I hate to say I told you so, so I won't. But for us who do prefer sanity, as the rally mentioned above hopes to bring back to the forefront, it was easy to predict this. Let's start at the top: President Barack Obama.
Many of us who supported Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign made him to be some kind of god. We portrayed him as Superman, one capable of things never before accomplished. We thought him a legend before he had actually accomplished anything at the presidential level, and we annointed him based on potential rather than accomplishment.
It was, to me, insane.
I supported him, and I thought him the best candidate for the job. But the people on his side were simply, for lack of a better word, insane. I just wanted to take so many people by the lapels and shake them, and tell them "No! He's only a man!" Albeit a good one, and well qualified for the position of president.
Unfortunately, it's insanity that helped put him there, rather than real, honest assessment of who he is and what he can do. Please, put away the capes people. You elected a man, not a god.
In these times, we could all use a little bit more sanity, and that applies to all people in all parties. For those people who still think Obama's a god (and I suspect there are fewer of you now than 2008): be reasonable! For those who flip flop from one extreme to the other: be reasonable!
People aren't gods. Neither are they demons. I assure you, Obama can't save the world with his power. At the same time, I assure you, John McCain would not have destroyed the world had he been elected. George W. Bush was not the spawn of satan. Dick Cheney is not an American mini-Hitler. Rush Limbaugh in my opinion is still a douche, but he's entitled to his opinions.
Regardless, let's be reasonable for once. And have reasonable expections as well.
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