Friday, September 4, 2009

The Apex of Right Wing Nuttiness

It has been brewing for a few days, but the right is up in arms about President Obama's plan to address the nation's schoolchildren on Tuesday 9/8, at 9 am Pacific Time. For many students this is the first day of school and the president wants to talk to the kids about working hard, studying hard, and thinking about ways to help the country. He's even making the speech available online Monday for parents to review it. Not that 90% of Republican parents of school-age children will actually go to the website. No, they'll probably let Fox News interpret it for them (God forbid they think on their own).

For me this is just the height of all the nuttiness I've seen since before election day. Birthers. Socialism. Re-education camps. Posters defaced to look like Hitler. Death Panels. And now comes an uproar that somehow, someway, Obama's speech to students is going to indoctrinate them into a secular lifestyle of secular humanism. Or something.

This is the President of the United States! Our national leader. The commander in chief of our armed forces. The leader of the "free world." He wants to address our kids in school to tell them to stay in school, study hard, and give back to the country that's providing them with an education, so that future schoolchildren can have what they had, or better.

But we know what this is really about, don't we? We know what they're really trying to say, right? OK, since we all know then I'm just going to put it out there.

Now, all of you out there who oppose Obama's speech to our kids, I want you to stand up... go ahead, now, don't be shy, you over there with the tin foil hat on... that's right, stand on up there... you with the assault rifle on your shoulder, I mean you too. Hell, any white Christian below the Mason-Dixon line who didn't vote for Obama, please stand the fuck up! Good. Now, make two fists, stand with your feet apart, bend your knees a little, grit your teeth, and growl for me... good! Now you've got the rght spirit! OK, here it comes... you ready? Everyone shout out at the tops of your lungs:

"I don't want that Kenyan-born, illegal alien, socialist, faggot-loving, rag-headed Muslim (insert black racial epithet of your choice) talking to my kids!"

There, now, feel better? Good, now shut the fuck up.

1 comment:

George said...

Do you remember when we were called crybabies for pointing out that Gore had actually won the election?