I would love to write about the audacity that is Michael Moore, how ridiculous gun control is or any number of right-leaning issues. However, the right side of this nation just won’t give me a break.
Come on guys, you’ve got to know how to pick your fights.
If the Republicans aren’t putting Sarah Palin out in front of a camera, then someone else is throwing around the word “socialism” like it’s going out of style or just plain not understanding the healthcare reform happening in this country. Could you conservatives just give me a week free of absurd antics? I don’t even remember the last time I was able to make fun of just one hippie.
Through it all, in general, if President Obama is doing something, then they have to hate it. It’s gotten so bad that if Obama came out with the cure for cancer, conservatives would protest it.
Take the Olympics for example. President Obama went to Copenhagen to lobby for the city of Chicago as the site for the 2016 Olympics. Americans for Prosperity, a national conservative group, made headlines when video of their Defending the American Dream Summit was released showing the crowd cheering and rejoicing when Chicago lost the bid.
Oh, that’s great. America is snubbed! Break out the bubbly! Obama wanted it, plus his hometown lost out. Cheers, everyone!
Hopefully we are out of the harsh economic times currently facing us by 2016, but wouldn’t you assume the Olympic games would be a great chance to pull in some much-needed cash to our country? America loses an opportunity to host such a prominent worldwide event and their response is to cheer. So what next, a boycott on Black Forest Berry Honest Tea? It’s Obama’s favorite, according to the Sun Times. Bet you didn’t know that.
Obama digs tea. Though I probably shouldn’t have mentioned it, the Tea Baggers will have a field day.
Issues like these make it difficult to take seriously the arguments over the President’s recent Nobel Peace Prize. Granted, this is a topic that should definitely stir some debate around the water cooler, but the massive rash of angered conservatives has just gone a little too far.
President Obama received the prize for his movement of American efforts into diplomacy and dialogue with other nations. OK, it’s hard to fault that reasoning.
“Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a press release. They felt Obama brought the United States into a more “constructive role” to engage the world’s challenges. Or what Rush Limbaugh would refer to as “neutering America.” Has Rush even uttered a coherent, logical or factual argument over Obama yet? Or is he still going on about his ears?
Participation: a novel initiative, I know.
Is arguing really worth the effort? It’s a Nobel Peace Prize people, and sure, a few other candidates probably should have beaten out Obama. But whether you think the Norwegian Nobel Committee was just trying to acknowledge and reward America’s newfound ability to talk with other nations, or if you think he got the prize because he wasn’t Bush, an American got recognition. Be happy.
George W. Bush was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after 9/11. About a year into his presidency, and he got the nod. Where were the rebellious cries then? After all, he never really did anything for it.
Just as the boy who cried wolf eventually failed to receive attention, neither will the political cluster that cries foul at every chance they get. If you guys keep screaming (inaccurately, half the time) at every word that comes from the President’s mouth, like a mob of tweens hopped up on sugar and fighting over who the cutest Jonas Brother is, no one will take you serious on anything. Especially when something significant comes along that is worth dissent and protest. Learn to pick your fights.