I'm The Derider

Today is Memorial Day and our president spoke from Arlington Cemetery where he placed the traditional wreaths on the graves of the unknown soldiers.

I heard part of our Chief Expletive's remarks and had to go and look online to see if what I heard was really what he said and it would appear that it was. Here's the part I'm talking about:

'They're an awesome bunch of people and the United States is blessed to have such citizens..."

He was talking about the dead buried at Arlington and if you'll notice, it would appear Bush isn't aware that these are not actual real citizens anymore, and we don't exactly have them, if you know what I mean, unless you mean their bones which we do have. In some cases, anyway.

Is there no end to this man's idiocy?

I doubt Bush wrote the speech but if it were me being given those words to read, I think I would have objected to that part and also the part where he called the dead "awesome." Bush is probably not aware of this, but everything from Taco Bell burritos to Hannah Montana are routinely referred to as awesome, which made his words sound not only ridiculous but insulting when used in the context of human beings who died while serving our country.

It's not just what the president says that makes him sound like a moron though, it's how he sounds when he's saying it. I've heard he's not as dumb as he sounds, but that's not very reassuring because he sounds WAY, WAY, WAY too dumb to be even president of the local chapter of banana sticker collectors, much less to be president of the United States of America.

But here's the thing- we elected the man. At least once.

Oh not me and probably not you, but a lot of people voted for him. I asked one woman I know why on earth she voted for him the second time. I said I could sort of understand voting for him the first time (although really, I can't) but the second as well?

She hemmed and hawed and said something about "life style issues" which we all know means abortions and gay marriage but then she got a bit huffy and said, "Look, my husband and I have worked for everything we've ever gotten. And we don't like giving our money to people who don't want to work."

So, okay, elect an obvious moron because he's a Republican and Republicans keep our taxes low.
Well, if you're wealthy, anyway.

And here we are, about to face another election and perhaps the Democrats have a chance this year with Obama. But there's part of me that worries that there are so many fearful racist people in this country that McCain will win and if he does, we're done for in my opinion, because not only does he want to stay the course in Iraq, he wants to make Bush's tax cuts permanent and he really, really wants to overturn Roe v. Wade which he honestly could manage with a few supreme court appointments.

My husband and I talk about moving to another country sometimes and if McCain gets elected, I'm going to get really serious about it and I'll want to take my kids with me.

Not just because I think he'll be such a horrible president but because I just don't want to live in a country where the people would vote such a man to office and I don't want any grandchildren I might have growing up in a country who would elect that sort of president again either.

Haven't we learned anything? It's not like Bush has done one damn good thing for the country in his eight years of being the decider. Sometimes when I see people who still have Bush stickers on their bumpers I want to stop them, grab them by the shoulders and ask, "Do you like the way this is turning out? Are ya happy now? Are you so proud of the idiot that you just can't bear to take his name off your car? Really?"

I'm trying so hard to believe that Bush's elections were aberrant behavior on the part of the American citizens but I swear to God, if McCain gets elected, I'm going to have to face the fact that it was actually abhorrent behavior on our part and that really, yes, we are a country of morons.

And we'll deserve everything we get and frankly, I don't want it.

And even more frankly, I don't think I can survive it.