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Yosemite under Orion's gaze

Friday, March 16, 2012

Fool me once

I got another one of those nauseating emails from the democratic machine today. The kind that makes believe that we are all part of one giddy democratic lovefest. Dinner with Barack? Goody!

Robert --
I see this happen a lot:
Someone in a crowd yells at my husband, "We love you, Barack."
That's when he interrupts himself, smiles really big, and says, "I love you back." And he does.
That's why Barack's dinners with supporters mean so much to him -- because they give him a chance to show it and to say thanks.
I can say from experience you won't want to miss out on the next dinner. I hope you'll consider donating $75 -- or whatever you can to support the campaign -- and be automatically entered today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinners-with-Barack
Thank you,
Michelle
I was at the Glendale show talking to Bijou and Roger about my antipathy for this administration and Roger started repeating Supreme Court, over and over again. And I get it and will be forced to hold my nose and vote for the guy. But the reality is that I feel betrayed by this president. He lied on the patriot act, civil liberties, medical marijuana, environmental protection and a host of other issues. Sens. Udall and Wyden released a letter to the administration the other day that suggests that americans would be apoplectic if they knew how the administration was interpreting its power to spy on its citizens through Section 215 of the Patriot Act. I squirm at the thought of what exactly the spy machine is really up to. But I will never know and most Senators will never know, the information limited to a very privileged and select few.

When the democratic committee calls me for support and a contribution, I give them an earful before I hang up. Because I feel punked in many ways by this administration. I hope that he wins because the alternative is so bad but can not get excited about his re-election. Eat with him?Wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

1 comment:

windowdancer said...

Yea... Well I for one won't be voting for Obama this time around. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. He's a lying, hypocritical politician. No better, possibly worse then the rest. Why worse?... for all the reasons you mentioned... "He lied on the patriot act, civil liberties, medical marijuana, environmental protection, etc., etc." All of theses issues were extremely important to me and I refuse to whore myself out and vote for this man just because the alternative is worse. To be honest, I don't know who I'll be voting for, but it won't be Mitt, Rick, or Newt either. Life's too damned short to trade your principles in on someone you "Wouldn't piss on if he was on fire"

WD