Barack Obama

The Smack Heard Around The World

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Last night I was reading the Rude Pundit.

Rude had created a list of things he hoped President Obama would say at the State Of The Union Address. My favorite was this one:

Obama introduces Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright as guests seated behind Michelle Obama, who fist bumps them both. The President says, “Scared now, fuckers?”

from: In Brief: Five Fantasy State of the Union Speeches from the Rude Pundit

The reason I liked Rude’s fantasy was this- after watching The Teabaggers, Sarah Palin and that Orange Guy- what’s his name, Boner or something, and the cast of the scripted reality show that is Fox News, The Birthers, The Tenthers being taken seriously, hell  they at least we heard and their words and stories tracked and recorded lovingly by the media- I wanted to see some heads roll.

And I wanted President Obama to do it.

Well, the State of The Union was what it was. Obama did great and I did enjoy what I thought were some bitch slaps being handed out by the President.

But that was nothing compared to what happened today.

Today I surfed over to the Huffington Post and saw this:

Obama Goes To The Lion’s Den and Mauls The Lions

It was a great day-well, for Lion Maulers.

I, for one am hoping for more like it.

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What Do President Barack Obama and David Tennant Have In Common?

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President Obama

Okay.

It’s a tough question.

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I asked my husband this question.

I said: ” Luis, guess what David Tennant and Barack Obama have in common”

He says, ” you. “

Okay, that was a good answer but in this case it was wrong.

Funny.

But wrong.

Here is the real answer:

In the survey of 9-11-year-olds by the National College for the Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services ( that’s in the U.K.) President Obama and David Tennant were the top two picks for “Dream Headteacher”

President Obama came in second- David Tennant came in first- there, that ought to make the Birthers and Teabaggers here in the U.S. happy.

All of that important insight aside, here is the complete list

The top 10 “dream headteachers”:

1 David Tennant;
2 Barack Obama;
3 JK Rowling;
4 Cheryl Cole;
5 David Beckham;
6 Will Smith;
7 Michelle Obama;
8 Alan Sugar;
9 Lewis Hamilton;
10 Alan Shearer.

What a bunch of smart kids they have over there in the U.K.

It must have something to do with that Health Care System they’ve got.

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Letters To A Teabagger Continues-

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Dearest Teabaggers

Today while President – born in America so you can go suck his birthcertifate-Obama was discussing Health Care Reform

with

other grownups and sane people in Minnepolis

you guys ran to DC

– while he was out of town-

 and waved around signs like this one.

Amazing...where's the gun?
At least they spelled all the words right- this time

Is this for real?

I  heard that while you were in DC you did fun things like walk around looking at horse poop and while doing that you ‘found’ a picture of President- yes he is a black man– Obama under a pile of it.

Then you called your friends over to it and took a picture.

Seriously.

You guys get off on horse poop?

I’ll be darned

I guess you do….

Teabaggers and Horse Poop.
Teabaggers and Horse Poop.

Still.

There was one picture, one moment that I think really captured what you guys really wanted to tell

President- Lots of White People Voted For Him too so LOL-Obama

and it didn’t have anything to do with Health Care Reform…

did it?

 

Um..did you leave it back at the trailer park?

Um..did you leave it back at the trailer park?

 I hope  you enjoyed your big adventure in

OUR

Nation’s Capital.

Don’t let the door hit you on your butts on the way out

and have a safe trip home.

 

Love you more than air

can’t breathe without you

xoxoxo

me

He Didn’t Even Wear A Cape

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I am feeling so cheated right now.

I mean it, I am crushed.

I was promised by some blond woman on FAUX news that President Obama was going to use mind control on kids, that he was going to take away their free will and turn them into mindless drones ( Ha, I’ll be that had Pharmaceutical Companies scared out of their minds ).

I have never been so excited: I thought President Obama was going to pull an Amazing Kreskin…maybe even a Mandrake The Magician on us.

He did not.

He didn’t even wear a cape when he made his speech to the School Kids of  America.

Curses.

Do you hear me?

Curses FAUX News- you big old liars.

From now on stick to promoting Teabagger Parties and that crazy woman who thinks President Obama was born in a mud hut in Kenya.

You’re good at that and nobody is listening to that anyway, it’s not like they pay attention to those reports. After all,  the minute you guys say ” Tea” or “Kenya” people either turn the channel or they start  running around in front of the TV in circles and barking.

I was hoping to see a good Magic Show today.

Instead I am nursing a crushed dream- you know, the one I have always had  invovling having a Magician For President.

Thanks FAUX news….thanks a bunch- why don’t you go and pull a rabbit out of your hat. 

 

 

Birthers -Seriously?

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LOL

I’m just wondering.

If President Obama

had been born

on the same exact day in the same exact year

in Hawaii

to

WHITE PARENTS

would anyone be questioning his citizenship?

That’s what I thought.

 

 

Definition of ” Birther”

from

The Urban Dictionary

1.

 Birther  
 

A conspiracy theorist who believes that Barack Obama is ineligible for the Presidency of the United States, based on any number of claims related to his place of birth, birth certificate, favorite birthday, or whether or not he has heard the song Africa by Toto.

The Devil In The Details

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There are a lot of reasons why, if you’re going to start kicking the proverbial dog around the block you should not do it out in public.

I was at this snack place when a person I talked to occasionally starts ranting and raving and fuming to me about,  ” Obama  bailing out those slackers and scammers  and rewarding them by buying them a house with OUR tax money. “

” Really. We shouldn’t help to keep people in their homes, we should go let them live on the streets.” I said.

” Hey. They made bad choices. They deserve it.”

 That’s harsh. So even though we have the ability to help them, we shouldn’t. ” I asked just wanting to make sure I understood the conversation.

” That’s the way it is.”

” So even though the ability to help is there, we should just not use it.”

” It’s about people thinking they’re entitled to things when they’re not. You just don’t get it.”

” You know,  I get it. Really.  Like I know CPR- so if you were having a heart attack I could help you. But do you know what? You didn’t take care of yourself so why should I take time out of my day to reward you by putting air into your lungs and  massaging your heart ? “It sounds like you  may have made some pretty rotten choices in life that damaged your heart and it’s not up to me to bail you out right?”

………….

Well.

Am I right?

My Friend Bertha

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” The world ” people have been saying since November 4th ” will not change over night because Barack Obama was elected President.”

That may be true,

 but the fact is

that it can never go back to the way it was before

he was elected.

Which is a good thing if you ask people like me- or my friend Bertha.

What follows is from the Seattle Times-they did a story about my friend Bertha-

she got to be there when that shift happened.

She needed to be there.

I love you to death Bertha, you know that.

I’d say hurry home- but I’m guessing you’ll be floating so no rush…

and I hope you took lots of pictures.

anita

An Inaugural Journey in three parts

Part 1: A 2009 Presidential Inaugural Exclusive

78-year-old Bertha McDaniel and her nephew Terry Hayes are preparing to witness the event of a lifetime.

 Video Part 1

Part 2: Prepping for an inaugural journey

78-year-old Bertha McDaniel and nephew Terry Hayes discuss the importance of making the trip to witness the 44th Presidential Inauguration.

Video Part 2

Part 3: An Inaugural Journey concludes

78-year-old Bertha McDaniel and her nephew Terry Hayes, along with his wife Jennifer made the long journey from Seattle to Washington D.C. for the Presidential Inauguration. Massive crowds and restricted gated areas required the small group to split up.

Video Part 3

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A Tribute To George W. Bush

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No doubt about it, the Inauguration of President Elect Obama

is a moment that we should celebrate.

But in all of  joy that we will be feeling and sharing, I think we need to remember those of us who are no longer here to celebrate with us because of the actions of

George W. Bush.

That’s what this song by

Ronnie Ray Jenkins does.

It remembers.

Thank You Ronnie Ray and keep singing for us.

a.m.

( note below is from Ronnie Ray Jenkins.Com )

George W. Bush Jr deserves a tribute of sorts. …He goes back to the freshly painted mansion in Dallas, missed by few, but will always be remembered. If the spirits could talk, what would they ask of their loved ones? In this case, this ghost soldier wants Bush and Cheney to remember how their lies, cost him his life.

RRJ

 

“They Lied…We Died”

We walked the waving hill of wheat, the day I said goodbye

With sunbeams on our shoulders, and teardrops in your eyes

Your glowing face was filled with pride, and mine was filled with glory

Now you know, as this ghost does, their cause was just a story.

I promised you that I’d return, as we walked hand in hand

With whispered dreams as lovers do with marriage in our plans

Of raising baseball playing kids and we’d watch them from the stands

Of fishing trips, and picnics, and castles made of sand.

But they lied.

Yes, they lied.

And we died.

And you cried.

When the singing wind reminds you of how things used to be

Don’t cry for me, I’m singing still… upon some gentle breeze

Now, I’m all around you in the moon, the stars and sky

Ever young in memory because of rich men’s lies.

Yes, they lied.

And we died.

And you cried.

All our dreams are empty now, my soul floats with regret

Cheated of this life of mine, I hadn’t lived it yet.

Someday I know that you’ll move on, young lovers always do,

There is just one thing that I am gonna ask of you

Is remind that man in Dallas, and in Wyoming too,

That their lies pulled the trigger, and took me away from you.

And they lied.

And we died.

And you cried.

Yes I Will

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When I was about 9- so this was in 1973, I belonged to this Girl Scout ( don’t laugh or I’ll smack you with my badgeless sash ) type group called ” The Bluebirds “

Along with the other projects I didn’t do for Bluebirds because I was a latch key kid and my Mom would have killed me if I’d messed around with the stove when she wasn’t at home ( they focused on you earning your badges through lots and lots of homemaking skills back then)  I also missed out on those sewing and outdoor projects because my Mom was scared of what was happening to her feet and to a lesser degree her hands.

My Mom worked in this apple processing plant where she found out- a little to late-that she was allergic to apples and the skin on her hands and feet were peeling off and blistering and leaving her looking like something from a Sci-Fi Movie.

Why didn’t my Dad help me?

Because he wasn’t Mike Brady – you know the dad from the Brady Bunch- my Dad was a Cook back then with long weird work hours and you bet your backside I wasn’t going to bother him when he would crawl through the door at night either.

So I was totally badgeless and sometimes I forgot to bring treats and it was a good thing I could box because if you think you can just talk your way out of corner you’ve been backed into by a bunch of angry 9 year olds who are expecting donuts or something for ” Treat Time ” you are seriously mistaken.

So as a Bluebird I sucked.

And then redemption came.

 One day, we had to come up with an idea for ” Volunteer Day “.

We had to sit around in a circle and come up with something we could do to help people in our neighborhood or schools.

I had a brilliant idea.

Day after day in School I had to sit there and listen to some of my friends struggle through ‘reading time’. And in some cases not just struggle- they either cried or refused to read at all.

I, on the other hand had managed to find something I could do well because Badgeless Me was reading two years up from my grade.

 So there was something I could do to help.

I said, ” We could help kids practice reading “.

My Leader looked at me like I had just suggest we make Doggie Doo-Doo sandwiches and hand them out to starving people. ” Anita, that is not a  good idea. No one is going to want to sit around and listen to kids read.”

So what did my little Troop do?

We decided to lip sync that song ” Snoopy Vs The Red Baron“  for old people at Nursing Homes who “didn’t have anybody.”

That was how we ‘helped’ our community.

Once.

They did it once.

I walked my Sister to and from her ballet class that day and a lot of other classes after that day even though I had a lot of other fun things I could have been doing instead.

I offered to do it.

Volunteered you may say.

So on Monday, when we are asked to participate in a National Day of Service I am going to go through my books, chose ones that really meant something to me and I am going to donate them to a shop by my bus stop where the money goes to help the homeless.

So why do that?

Because it’s a sacrifice, because books still matter to me, because reading matters to me

because a long time ago

A Little Bluebird told me too.

links to participate in National Day of Service below

2009 King Day of Service Will Be Largest Ever –
11,400 Projects and Counting!

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America Serves at Change.Gov

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Reflecting On January 20, 2009

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These are my  thoughts as a writer and as a Political Activist on the upcoming Inauguration

of

President Elect Barack Obama.

I know that I kid around a lot on this blog and my short stories are  all about ghosts and zombies, cannibals and Werewolves but hey, sometimes you have to sit down and just reflect-

no matter how crazy things are around or inside of you.

This is what I’ve come up with- it took a lot of thought and I put more into it then most of  other attempts at ‘serious writing’.

Okay.

This is me turning into a Political Blowviating Blogger

for this one time and one time only

and

it will never happen again because doing this type of writing was too hard:::

We’re getting a real  President! We’re getting a real   President! We’re getting a real  President!

ha- ha- ha- ha- ha!

ps enjoy the LOL pics.

a.m.Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures

Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures

Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures