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And You Look The Other Way

A friend of mine posed the following question: “Who would trust Trump to be alone with their young adult daughter?”

Hmmmm....Obviously this is someone who doesn’t trust Trump in general, and knowing him I can say with certainty that he is firmly on the Liberal side of the political spectrum. Which I am not. Well, not until recent events caused me to find myself labeled a Liberal by people whose leanings I realized were so far right that they can’t go fishing for fear of capsizing every boat they are in. But then something interesting happened, and by interesting I mean something that caused my hair to catch fire I was so mad at the jackass who responded with the following: “In the White House with Trump, yes. In the White House with Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton, no.” 

See what happened there? The respondent (Let’s call him “Jack”) somehow decided that not only is Trump trustworthy enough to be left with a young woman alone, but that both Bill and Hillary Clinton are NOT. And when he was questioned on his statement he went even further, stating, “Only 2 presidents have a history of grabbing the pussy or letting sperm fly in the White House, and they are Kennedy (D) and Clinton (D).” That’s an exact quote so don’t blame me for the shitty writing, I do well enough with that on my own. 

With that comment Jack has done two things. First he has implied that Presidents Clinton and Kennedy’s affairs make them LESS trustworthy for young women to be around than a man who has been caught on tape admitting to grabbing women’s genitalia and getting away with it because he’s famous, and admitting to walking in on underage girls in beauty competitions he funds while these underage girls are in various stages of undress. Second he has implied, by including the aforementioned Presidents’ political affiliation, that Democrats are somehow less trustworthy around women than a man who between 1987 and 2012 changed his Party affiliation FIVE TIMES (1987 Republican, 1999 Independence Party, 2001 Democrat, 2009 Republican, 2011 No Party Affiliation AKA Independent, 2012 Republican). And that’s just since he moved to Manhattan back in 1987).

So I decided to tell him that no, he wasn’t correct. And a LOT of “NO” wound up coming out.

No, other Presidents have had numerous liaisons both in and outside of the White House.

No, they were not all Democrats. Like Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican (the ideological predecessor to the modern Republican Party), who had an affair with a slave and fathered five children with her. Can you imagine if he’d have been a Democrat? NO ONE would have let their slaves near him knowing how lecherous those pesky Dems could be! Or Warren Harding, a Republican, who allegedly had TWO affairs, and whose second mistress was actually paid $50,000 BY THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE so that she would not come forward and expose their affair as Harding had just won the Republican nomination to run for President. Boy, if he’d have been a Democrat I’m sure that he’d have dies much sooner from his untrustworthy ways than the manner in which he allegedly DID go - poisoned by his wife for cheating on him just three years into his Presidency! Whew! Good thing he was a Republican!

No, you were not asked to elaborate on the question so as to draw attention away from President-elect Trump's proclivity for physically assaulting women. You may (and I’d venture a guess WILL) continue the current Trumpist strategy of “Defense By Distraction,” but I would also venture a guess that such a tactic will eventually blow up in your collective faces.

No, it is not okay to state that "Only 2 presidents have a history of grabbing the pussy," since it completely ignores the fact that President-elect Trump has a history of doing just that, which is known because HE HIMSELF SAID SO. That’s right, you remember don’t you? He actually said that himself, it wasn’t someone claiming that he heard it, or some “11th hour victim” as you and others have called them, who you claim only came forward to try to hurt Trump’s chance of being elected. Even though a number of those women have been either attempting to get their story out for years or had previously told their story only to have it ignored because, well, the man wasn’t running for President at the time. Excuse me for a moment.

Okay, I’m back. I felt the need to wipe the feeling of disgust off of myself, for having to explain such things to a fellow human being who is apparently fine with slandering possible assault victims as well as blatantly making things up to suit his guy’s case. It’s sickening. And now to continue....

Yes, you can and probably will spend the next four years defending a man who, before he has even taken the Oath of Office, has reneged on many of the campaign promises that you voted him into office because of. A few quotes, and their current state of being: “I WILL build a wall, and Mexico will pay for it!” NOPE. “I will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.” NAH. “I will repeal Obamacare and replace it with something much much better.” SORRY. “I will drain the swamp.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHANOOOOOOPE!

Yes, other Presidents have made mistakes.Clinton slashed both military spending and Intel spending to the point that the Agencies that collected Intel hoarded it and kept things from each other in order to make themselves look important, which indirectly led to the failure of Intel that was 9-11. But I’m sure his affair with an intern was MUCH worse since that is ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT when Trump’s sexual misadventures are brought up. And Obama spent so much time trying to get social programs through Congress that he ignored a large swath of the American public who were also hurting but felt that they had no voice anymore, which indirectly led to Secretary Clinton losing votes and helping Trump get elected. But hey, HILLARY STOOD BY BILL EVEN AFTER HE HAD AN AFFAIR! WHAT A BAD PERSON! That’s way more important, since you remember THAT but not that Trump is on his third marriage after cheating on his first two wives, while Bill and Hillary are still together even AFTER all that they went through. Family values, only Trump understands them.

No, you will not actually be able to point to the mistakes of these and other Presidents for the next four years in order to distract from the dumpster fire on top of a train wreck that is ALREADY becoming the Trump Presidency.

So there are my nos, along with some yeses just to keep it positive. But you may ask at this point, “Preacher, exactly WHY do you feel that the impending Presidency of Trump will be suck a massive clusterfuck?” Well, here are just a FEW things that I told good ol’ Jack when he continued to try defending the sweet potato with legs that is about to take charge. Mind you, ALL of these are FACTS unless I otherwise mention, and I DO mention it if it’s simply speculation or opinion for the sake of fairness:

The man admitted to grabbing female genitalia and getting away with it because he's famous and to intentionally walking in on young women while they were getting dressed. It’s him, on tape. And you looked the other way.

The man berated and belittled women. He called a former beauty queen “Miss Piggy,” he alluded to Megan Kelly having her period to explain why she, in his words, treated him “unfairly.” And you looked the other way.

This man mocked a reporter with a disability on national television. And to DEFEND HIM, right-leaning news outlets showed videos of him mocking OTHER PEOPLE. So the argument was that he wasn't mocking the disabled (which the video actually shows that he WAS), he just MOCKS LOTS OF PEOPLE. Which is unconscionable in a Presidential candidate, let alone the actual President. And you looked the other way.

The man pointed to completely fake news stories in order to besmirch the names of his political opponents. He actually cited an article in the Enquirer to explain how Ted Cruz’s father may have tried to kill Kennedy. On television. And you looked the other way.

This man got the news that the last true Socialist dictator, Fidel Castro, had died the same time the rest of the world did. And while the sitting President released an eloquent letter on what Castro's death and the ongoing normalization of relations between our two countries meant for Cuba and for the world, YOUR man tweeted, "Fidel Castro is dead!" That's it. From the next leader of the free world. And you looked the other way. 

The man used hatred in order to incite violence among his followers. He once told a crowd at a rally that he loved “the old days” because a protester who was interrupting him would be “carried out on a stretcher, folks,” and told another crowd in reference to a man who was punched and kicked for protesting that “maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” The man was protesting. Nothing else. And you looked the other way.

The man showed on national television that he was unaware of some of the key aspects of our national defense strategy. When asked about our nuclear triad, the man SIMPLY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL THAT WAS. HE flailed about speaking on various topics from his opposition to the Iraq war (sigh - you’re on tape with an opposite statement there too guy), President Obama being wrong about global warming being important, and, oh yeah, his commitment that nuclear proliferation should be halted. And if that last one sounds great, it would except that shortly after this interview he went on record saying first of all that OTHER NATIONS SHOULD HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and that he himself was not opposed to A NUCLEAR STRIKE IN EUROPE in order to win a war. Which. I’m sorry, is as terrifying as it is absolutely fucking insane. And you looked the other way.

The man stated numerous times during his campaign that he would release his tax returns after the election. Then after the audit was completed. And most recently that it doesn't matter if he releases them because only the media cares. Which is completely false as well as a smack in the face to people, like Jack, who ACTUALLY DEFENDED TRUMP by saying that after he WON, the tax records would come out and then “boy will you Liberals look stupid!” And yet here we are. And you continue to look the other way.

The man stated, in clear language and in NO uncertain terms, that he would build a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico, and that he would make Mexico pay for that wall. Unequivocally, without any reservation, with no room for gray area, he told the American people that Mexico would pay for the wall. And within a month of his being elected he stated that the United States would build the wall and that Mexico would "reimburse us," which is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than what he said would happen. And the SAME DAY that he announced this, the President of Mexico reiterated AGAIN in a statement that Mexico will NOT PAY FOR A WALL. And you looked the other way.

The man said that if he won the Presidency that he would put his businesses into a blind trust run by his children. Which is NOT A BLIND TRUST. Not by the business definition and CERTAINLY not by the legal definition. These are holdings that CAN and in fact already HAVE caused ethical issues stemming from the fact that foreign nations could show preferential treatment to his businesses in order to get preferential treatment from OUR NATION. And you looked the other way. But wait, this one gets worse. Because now that you have elected him, he has gone back on the promise to divest himself from his business holdings or come even CLOSE to putting them into a blind trust, instead openly stating in his first press conference that the day-to-day running of his businesses will be done by his sons, and that he and his daughter will have nothing to do with the running of said businesses. He will STILL OWN THE BUSINESSES THOUGH. Which, yes, is actually against the United States Constitution. That, in case you forgot, is the document that you and others like you were afraid that President Obama and Secretary Clinton if she were elected would tear to pieces, the same document that YOUR GUY is about to violate. And his daughter is as of today still in talks with a Chinese company about a Trump project in China, a company that is majority owned BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. Neither she nor her father have made any move to cut her out of these negotiations. And you continue to look the other way.

The man stated that he would repeal Obamacare and replace it with "something much better." his own words. He also stated that no one would be left without coverage when Obamacare was repealed because he had "so many ideas" (again, his own words) for what to replace Obamacare with. And Congress has just moved to begin the repeal of Obamacare, something of which Trump approved, with NO REPLACEMENT AT ALL. AT ALL.  Let me say that again, NO REPLACEMENT AT ALL. Because of this, over TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE will at least temporarily and over half of them permanently LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE. This is tantamount to murder, as one of the biggest provisos of Obamacare has always been the inability to be turned down due to preexisting conditions, which is ALSO coincidentally one of the FIRST things that Congress JUST VOTED THE OTHER DAY TO END. And you continue to look the other way. 

The man, AND the sitting President, were briefed on CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE that members of President-elect Trump's campaign had DIRECT CONTACT with the Russian government during the election. This is not the bed-pissing nonsense, I could not care less about whatever deviancy he practices or does not practice in his bedroom or in a Russian hotel room, for that matter. This is a detailed report based on real Intel that has caused the FBI to begin an investigation into whether members of the Trump election team colluded with the Russian government to sway a United States Presidential election. And you continue to look the other way.

But hey, at least he’s surrounding himself with “good people, smart people.” Once again, his words. How’s that going....

The man said that he would "drain the swamp," and that he would begine to rid Washington of lobbyists, insiders and big-business types who were only there for their own good and not the good of the people. And once he was elected he proceeded to nominate two Goldman Sachs executives, the CEO of the largest corporate entity in the world (Exxon-Mobil), and a handful of lobbyists to Cabinet and leadership positions. And you CONTINUE to look the other way.

The man appointed Stephen Bannon, who is responsible for articles such as “There’s no hiring bias against women in tech, they just suck at interviews” (totally misogynistic and written in such a gender-biased way as to be laughable),  “Trump 100% vindicated: CBS reports ‘swarm’ on rooftops celebrating 9/11″ (completely debunked to the point that CBS ran a story just to let people know that this was false news), and “Racist, pro-Nazi roots of Planned Parenthood revealed” (a hit piece written with such a slant that there is not an ounce of verifiable factual information in it). And when the man had his first press conference, he berated a CNN reporter and called the network “fake news” for reporting NOT that Trump likes to pay Russian prostitutes to pee the bed (that was Uproxx and others after that), but that he and President Obama had been briefed on “unverified intelligence from a credible source” that the Russian government might have information that could be used to blackmail the President-elect. That’s what CNN reported. NOT the pee-pee diaries. And your man conflated them with Uproxx. And then Trump took a question from Breitbart News. I shit you not.  And you looked the other way.

The man nominated a man who has a questionable track record regarding civil rights, who opposed repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to give people of all sexual orientations the right to serve their country and who supported a Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage to head our nation's largest law enforcement body. Senator Sessions lost a bid to be a Federal Judge due to racist comments, and led his State’s defense of a school funding bill that was eventually found to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL due to its favoring of wealthy, mostly white schools over poor, mostly black ones.  And you looked the other way.

The man nominated a man to run the Office of Housing and Urban Development who has publicly stated that he DOESN'T THINK HE KNOWS HOW TO RUN SUCH AN ORGANIZATION. Ben Carson has ZERO experience running such an Agency, and has just as little experience in government. Oh yeah, and you and your friends AND TRUMP made Carson out to be a complete idiot during the Primaries who couldn’t run a Burger King. And you looked the other way.

The man nominated a man to run the Department of Energy who has publicly stated that he would DO AWAY WITH IT, though he COULDN'T REMEMBER THE AGENCY'S NAME WHEN HE WAS ASKED IT. Former Governor Perry is a climate change denier, and is STILL ON THE BOARD of the company that is trying to build the Dakota Access Pipeline. And you continue to look the other way.

The man nominated a woman to run the Department of Education who has a long and vociferous history of OPPOSING PUBLIC EDUCATION. Betsy DeVos is a billionaire who advocated for charter schools and the privatization of the public education system, something that has been repeatedly proven to favor the wealthy and to disproportionally affect the poor.  And you continue to look the other way.

In a few days this man will take the Presidential Oath of Office under a cloud of possible ethics violations, under a cloud of question over his leveraging of national power to make money for his businesses, under a cloud of suspicion over whether he will keep ANY of his campaign promises, most of which he’s already broken, and under a cloud of doubt as to his ability to actually do the job of President. The United States will have a possible Constitutional crisis on its hands from day one.

The fact that he has admitted to inappropriately touching women without their permission and to walking in on underage young ladies in various stages of undress are only two of MANY reasons that I would not trust the man alone with ANYONE, least of all my daughter. And she’s not even a year old yet. Which is good, because at least I can hope that by the time she understands stuff like politics, the Trump era will have become just an extremely embarrassing memory.

- Preacher

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Why can our Government not do its job?

I. Am. Outraged.

Alright, stop for a moment if you would, put down the book, the remote, the phone (unless you're reading this on a phone), the Cheezits, or the channel changery-thing, and PLEASE pay attention. I'm gonna go off a little bit here, and for a change, it really is IMPORTANT.

As the following article notes:

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130923/NEWS05/309230018/No-mid-Oct-paycheck-troops-government-shuts-down-lawmaker-says

if the Government doesn't get off its ass and DO ITS JOB, then Servicemembers will NOT BE PAID. Period. No back-up plan, no nothing. We just stop. Being. Paid.

There are a couple of really important things to note here.

1. This is not the first time in recent memory that this has happened. Hell, this is not the first time in THIS DECADE. The current version of our Government (that's Congress, the President and the Veep) have been waging this battle, with We The People as the unwilling and unarmed casualties, since March of 2011. Since then, the Government has "narrowly avoided" a shutdown like three times. Which still caused Soldiers to miss out on some paychecks. Many of these Soldiers were in combat zones (coincidentally, like the one I am writing from). Considering that many Soldiers live month to month, having to wait or get half-paychecks for a month was devastating to them and to their families. Regardless of what men and women who have enough money to skip a paycheck or two think (that's aimed at you, 537 people who are supposed to make sure this doesn't EVER happen), we don't actually enjoy lives of luxury on our current salaries.

2. While this impending shutdown would affect we Servicemembers and many government workers, the 537 (Congress, The President and Vice President) STILL GET PAID. That is just how it is. I said the following during the last crisis caused by and then narrowly avoided by the Government: "There should be a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the pay of Servicemembers. We should have AT LEAST the same right as Congress has to be paid in the case of a Government shutdown. Who do you want to not pay in such a case? The people who caused it, or the people who are still defending us both at home and abroad?" It seems to me that, though I put forward that idea back then to much agreement and support, as soon as the Government dug itself out from the pile of shit it had buried itself in and got things running again, everyone did what Americans do - they went back to ignoring everything outside their immediate worries. The fact that the people who we elect to ensure a working budget is passed would rather fuck around and play games with the good will of both the American people in general and the Servicemembers in specific is so far outside the realm of sanity that I cannot bring myself to believe that ANY of them is in his or her right mind. How do you look at one of the PRIMARY FUNCTIONS of your job, one of the MAIN REASONS that your job even exists, and say to yourself, "What we'll do is NOT do our jobs. That will make the other guys NOT doing their jobs look bad. Then the people will hate them just enough for just long enough to vote for me again. Rinse and repeat." My brain hurts just thinking of it. I just ran through my mind what would happen if ANYONE in the Army tried to work the way Congress and the President do. They'd get an ass-whooping at the least, and get booted out or thrown in jail at worst. It's seriously unfathomable.

3. If one more "well-intentioned" member of Congress tells the press that they are gonna refuse their paychecks "in support of the troops" until the CURRENT budget crisis is over, I am going to shit a brick while simultaneously shooting fire from my eyeballs.  I will be that pissed.  If you can afford to skip a few paychecks, then thanks you for placing a huge neon sign on one of the big problems.  First, you are still getting paid asshole (see proceeding paragraph).  Second, if you've got enough moolah stashed away to be able to just flippantly throw away a month or two of pay, then you are doing better than about 80% of the Servicemembers out there, jackass.  It's a slap in the face to go on TV and tell the world what a great guy you are because you are gonna skip the ol' paycheck this month as a show of support, when you know DAMNED WELL that wither your rich ass is not even gonna notice the loss, or that some lobbyist's special interest that you sold your soul to will make up to money at a later date anyway.  So stuff it, okay?

4. I asked everyone to do this last time our Government decided to act stupider than normal (which is, on average, pretty stupid), and I am going to ask, nay, beg, again. Contact your Congressperson. Senator and Representative. Regardless of what party you are or aren't affiliated with. PLEASE, tell them what a Godawful bad idea this is. Explain to them that they need to actually DO THEIR FREAKING JOBS, and pass a working budget. 

Here, I'll make it easy for you:

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Boom.  That's the sound of me dropping Congressional knowledge on ya.  Go to that site, look up your Congresspeople, and drop them a line. This is our country we're talking about, and the very people who we elected to run it aren't just running it into the ground. They've already proven repeatedly that they are willing to do that for no more than petty "He's red and I'm blue" party reasons. They are now having a big ol' hole dug and dumping the whole country right into it. 

And the joke is on us, because the people who they have to dig the hole won't even get paid to do the job. But at least, ya know, the Government won't have dirty hands once it's done. 

Oh, and that hole they're dropping the United States into? It looks suspiciously like a grave. 

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Rant: Syria

Okay you know-it-all, political science PhD having, up-to-the-minute news knowing, damned near omniscient I-shoulda-run-fer-office-cause-this-non-native(andIknowsincehisbirthcertificatewhichisolineforeveryonetoseeisobviouslyafake)-couldn't-hold-a-candle-to-my-ability-to-run-this-country thinking motherf***ers, listen up.  Sigh.

First, I am not the expert on all things military or political.  But I am pretty sure that the United States will not purposefully endanger the lives of the UN investigators currently in Syria by launching a strike on that country while the investigators are still in Syria. 

And here's the thing; the investigation has been called a formality at this point.  The United States, as well as our closest allies, (that would be Great Britain, Australia, and Canada - yes, these are our closest allies and also three nations that have particularly strong military forces of their own, by the way), have all come out and said that we KNOW that the Syrian government has used poison gas on its OWN PEOPLE.

Parenthetically, President Barack Obama was not the man I voted for in the last two elections.  I do not agree with most of his policies.  But he IS my Commander in Chief.  And, at this point, the Commander in Chief of the most powerful Armed Forces from the most powerful nation on Earth is trying to decide just how much whoop-ass to open up on Assad's regime.  And I am for that.  Here is why.

The government in Syria has repeatedly shown that it has ZERO care for both its own people, and for international policy on, say using POISON GAS to kill its OWN PEOPLE. The last person to do that was a guy named Saddam.  Here's a brief history on him.

Most of you remember him as the guy you were all foaming at the mouth to kill way back in 2003, a whole ten years ago, a guy most of you supported sending HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of U.S. troops to remove from power, and to take out ALL of the personnel and power bases of his regime, though we were not helping any rebels in their struggle against this megalomaniacal sociopath since there was no rebellion in Iraq.  You supported this because he MIGHT have WMDs, and he MIGHT be harboring Al-Qaeda terrorists in his country.

Now, fast-forward ten years to 2013. The U.S. will more than likely use missiles and rockets, not as of yet even ONE U.S. SERVICEMEMBER, to hit key sites in Syria with targeted, surgical strikes meant to take out the power bases of Assad's regime, to help the already existent rebels in their struggle against this megalomaniacal sociopath.  And most of you have found one reason or another to nay-say, complain about, degrade,  contradict, second-guess, talk shit about, decry,  trash, oppose, disapprove of, protest against, demean, sneer at, or just plain say f**k you to the mere HINT that the U.S. might "get involved" in a fight that is, in the words of some of YOU, "not our fight."  Really?  I've crafted the following for you then.  Here comes a news flash (or two):

GERMANS INVADE POLAND

NORTH KOREANS INVADE SOUTHERN KOREA

COMMUNIST FORCES INVADE VIETNAM

GUERRILLA FORCES SEIZE ISLAND OF GRENADA

DICTATOR SEIZES MILITARY CONTROL OF PANAMA

MEGALOMANIACAL SOCIOPATH INVADES KUWAIT

  Not our fight.

  Since when has it NOT been the responsibility, even the DUTY, of a powerful free nation to uphold the rights of the oppressed, in their time of greatest need?  Even when those being oppressed DO NOT share the same value system, legal system, or religious system as ours?  Here's the breakdown of the nations we helped:

Poland:  Authoritarian, one-party government

Korea:  Puppet republic

Vietnam:  Military dictatorship

Grenada:  Benign dictatorship

Panama:  Military/Criminal dictatorship

Iraq:  One party dictatorship

  And here's the thing - the governance of these nations wasn't the reason we went into a single one of them.  Not.  One.

Poland:  Attacked by neighboring Authoritarian, one-party government

Korea:  Attacked by neighboring Puppet republic

Vietnam:  Attacked by neighboring Military dictatorship

Grenada:  Benign dictatorship overthrown, eventually caused less benign party to take control

Panama:  Military dictatorship began openly dealing in shit-tons of drugs

Iraq:  One party dictatorship invaded a neighboring constitutional monarchy.   And we left the dictator in power.  The first time.

  We have routinely and with great glee attacked the shit out of anyone stupid enough to think that they could mess with the little guy.  Hell, we took over part of Serbia, let the people there rename it and turn it into their own damned country (Kosovo), and told the Serbians, who were threatening to attack our armed forces IN THE COUNTRY that they could kiss our asses.  And they backed down, and let Kosovo go.

Based on reliable, open-to-the-whole-damned world reporting, Assad's regime knowingly and willingly conducted chemical attacks on the people of his nation.  Not too long ago, approximately 98% of Americans would have volunteered to snipe his crazy ass themselves, given a Barrett .50 cal, some camouflage pants and a week's worth of MREs.  Now, it's a frigging National Crime that President Obama is sending in warships.

Have you all lost your damned minds?  Or have you forgotten so quickly that nations in the region that Syria is in that don't give a flying green shit about their own people and are cool with using chemical weapons against those same people have the annoying tendency to tend to be okay with letting, ummmm, what's the word I'm looking for, oh yeah, TERRORISTS hang out in their countries?

The people of Syria need our help.

The Assad regime is corrupt, self-absorbed and uncaring of the will of its people.

The United States has been asked, nay, begged by the Syrian people for help.

We as Americans, who tend to think of ourselves as the shining light to which all others can look, need to put our money where our mouths are.  We as Americans need to come together when a tragedy which is as terrible to the people of Syria as 9/11 was and should in our hearts still be to us occurs. 

And we as Americans, regardless of who is in charge at the time, Republican, Democrat, or Whig, need as one to say, "Enough," and take any and all measures necessary to end the atrocities that we see unfolding.  Enough games.  Enough beating each other up over political leanings when if "our guy" was in office, we'd be saying the exact opposite just because it was "our guy" and we would be okay supporting him or her. 

F**k, people, I watched us band together twelve years ago to end this type of shit.  Now we can't even get it together enough to give someone who DESPERATELY needs it a hand.  Let's be Americans again, if only for a little while.  Quit constantly bitching and moaning and whining and just get on board, swallow your stupid, over-inflated ego-driven TV news-supported partisan pride, and stand behind the Leader of the Free World, the guy who wants to do right by a whole country in need.

Then once he's done doing the right thing, you can go back to bashing him over his choice of dogs, because that makes him a bad person and a terrible President.

- Preacher