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2 years ago
The dreaded community activist…
Ok, so another boring and stupid day in my life leads me to comment on the even more boring and stupid events in the world…
As I attempted to revive myself this morning in preparation for the dreaded return to life after a three-day holiday respite, the subject of Obama’s speech that was to be broadcast in schools across the nation landed a top spot on the local news this morning. While I don’t consider myself gifted in the art of politics (that would imply I actually care about what goes on inside the beltway), I listened with the appropriate amount of interest while I waited for the morning miracle of caffeine to do its thing while running the required brushes over teeth and hair.
The report seemed to indicate something about the travesty of involving our children in the running of this country, leading the viewer to believe that children would have about as much interest as I do and perhaps are just dim witted enough to not be able to discerne a sock from a suspension bridge. Now that I think of it, they may be on to something? The competency scores tell it all but thats for another post when even the news falls short.
The next few sound bites are from local people voicing their opinions, yay or nay on the subject when one particular man interviewed said “I don’t want my child to be raised as a little community activist…” errr…..surely I hadn’t heard this correctly? Maybe I heard it wrong, maybe he said he didn’t want his child raised as a little community communist? who knows, people will say the most retarded things….rewind….listen….rewind….listen again.
A ‘little community activist’…..as I ponder that characterization, clearly I could see where doing helpful deeds for no motivation other than to contribute to thier community, state, and country, would really send the wrong message. What’s next? A side of meth with the animal crackers served before naptime? Clearly we’d be better off just packing handguns in their lunchboxes and telling them to shoot anyone who looks suspicious. Got kevlar?
Perhaps I’m too pessimistic, perhaps I’ve somehow missed the bigger picture with this Obama fellow. For fear of being too narrowminded or judgemental, or just plain missing something that would make this man say such a thing, I gave the President’s speech a quick listen. Waiting for the embedded message of being a dreaded community activist to spring on me at any time.
Well, clearly I’ve not been listening to what the left-wing, tree-hugging, granola eating, jesus-shoe-wearing democrats have been spewing all this time and merely hearing the words ’every single one of you has something to offer’ and ‘you have a responsibility to yourself to find out what that is’ from the President made me want to sell everything I own, live in a commune and work towards utopia for all! Go Babeuf!
Oh yes, this Obama character is a real threat to us. So grab your guns, load for bear, hide your cash and don’t EVER ask yourself what you have to offer the world, you may just might turn out to be a critical thinking, intelligent, selfless person and we all know that’s what’s wrong with the world today.
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