Peder D4

Discussion of politics and other odious things

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Classless

Recently on Facebook I've seen a group called:
"DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN"

Wishing for the death of political opponents is pretty classless. I'm pretty sure that most of the people joining it are simply looking for a way to express their dislike for Obama's job in office. Some, of course, don't like the man himself but I honestly think that even that dislike is fueled by politics rather than who he is as a person. I thought the same thing of the majority of derision that was thrown at Bush.
One bit of irony is that this joke was started (or at least gained prominence) when it was used by a New Jersey union sent it out to its members with the last bit asking for the death of the New Jersey governor. Well, it was classless then and it's still classless now.
Get a grip, people.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Tax Thoughts

I suppose this is a day late, but no one ever blamed this blog for seeming timely...

  • I keep hearing some variation of 'taxes are the price for civilization' this year. That must be the push-back meme in response to the small gov't message of the Tea Parties. The problem with this message is that only goes skin deep. Almost no one is suggesting that all taxes be eliminated. The debate is over how much tax (and by extension what size should gov't be).
  • Another meme running around is that taxes as of this exact date aren't all that bad. This claim from Obama that protesters should be happy since he cut taxes, is a good example. The problem here is that the big worry is about future taxes. Spending is out of control, nothing is being done to address upcoming entitlements and we've just added a Health Care program that looks to be wildly expensive down the road. Why shouldn't people worry about this?

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Phony?


I'm a bit tickled that the President of the United States is a fan of the same team that I am. But holy cats he comes off sounding like a big phony in this clip. Even if he couldn't remember any names from when he moved to Chicago he should have shifted to some modern players and gone with that.
It's not as bad as Hillary with the Yankees hat of course...but yeesh!