SA:
> >At first the whole thing against Bush I saw as politics
> as usual, but he's
> >really an ass - the >whole not playing golf, then he
> played golf a couple
> >months later and still went fishing >and hunting,
> that guy is really cold
> >hearted and disconnected. I heard he didn't know
> gas >was this high in
> >price, that he thought it was only still around $2.50,
> I wonder if that's
> >true.
Chris:
> That's what I like about parliamentarianism. If one guy
> turns out to be an
> asshole it doesn't matter. If your president turns out
> to be an asshole the
> whole world suffers the consequences, as has been proven
> time after time.
SA: Bush is really an ass. He thought by saying he was giving up playing golf
he was sacrificing just as much as the soldiers and their families dying and
losing a loved one in Iraq. Wow, he sacrificed playing golf, that old-time
traditionally rich person's game where you traditionally needed to know
somebody to get into the club. Yet, he couldn't even stop playing golf on top
of this already silliness. He was seen playing a couple months after he said
this above. This isn't politics as usual anymore were talking about somebody
that really lost his noodle and he's a president.
I don't know much about parliamentarianism. If you wanted to, could you
explain how it differs.
Chris:
> If it weren't for the fact that the constitution is
> worshiped almost as much
> as the Kaaba then maybe at sometime someone could voice the
> opinion that
> having a political system designed after the 18th century
> conditions isn't
> really that Good a thing in this day and age. That perhaps
> a political
> system that is designed to keep the mob away from the real
> power is a bit of
> a paradox in the "land of freedom"
> But what do I know.
SA: I'd say the U.S. constitution is idealic. It is a goal, but the intents
many times over don't reach it. It's usually 'well, maybe someday.' So many
people are wondering if Obama will get assassinated. I heard he has double the
secret service protecting him. So much of the racism I've heard about up until
this point in my life was a lot of hearsay and I really didn't know if it was
true or people's perception. I now know it's true. I'm hearing people
first-hand that are calling him dumb because of the color of his skin, and my
grandmother secretly calls him a 'nigger'. I say secretly due to she says it
away from me - she's afraid of how I would perceive her. Yet, my wife heard
her and she talked to my uncle, her son, about it and he talked to me. The
newspapers and exit polls are full of this. I feel like so much is warped in
this society and people really can't move on, educate themselves, and plainly -
just grow up and focus on the more
important events. It's really warped, as if I've been swept back to those
history books during the early 1900's and even earlier in this countries
history. I've begun to wonder how people could really think this way about
color. It's opened a whole new wonderance that I thought only existed in
history books. It's so much about ego, and making one feel better at the
expense of another. The lowly waitress (my grandmother) in a dead end job
probably felt better at the end of the day thinkin' at least she didn't have to
use the Black Only water fountain. She really has come a long way, a really
long way. I knew my great grandmother and was around her when she would say
'niggers' and demean them in the grocery stores when she was in her 80's in the
1980's. The black people would look at us, the adults with us, my mother,
would say we're sorry, she's old, she doesn't know any better. They would say,
"It's ok. We understand," and smile. I didn't
realize how deep this really does go. It's not old news and in this nations
past as some would like to argue. It is an effort to put it in the past. I
did the same thing, but then some people still live in the past and that's
really freaky.
SA
P.S. I did like Tim Russert. So young.
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