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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 01:43 AM

  @ AKASmith

  Thanks for your comment on my earlier post. I agree that Obama should be given a chance to show what he can do before critiquing his performance. But my post was mostly about the character of the American nation, not Obama. He may have been elected, but I think that the American people remain largely stodgy, dull and unimaginative. They may have voted for change, but they're idea of change is along the lines of a dieter who builds their weight-loss plan around getting the small order of french fries with their value meals instead of the medium or large order of fries.

  Don't you feel it, the vibe of the nation? Even now, can't you feel the great inertial mob mind hoping to go back to sleep as quickly as possible? Obama could be a great leader, but I think he's greatly misunderestimating (to borrow Bush's term) the electorate's tendency toward complete lethargic apathy. "Oh, you mean we have to stay informed and work for change on a local level? Fuck it. Let's just keep things as they are."

  When Bush spoke with Charles Gibson, I was, as I have been for years, completely baffled that this hollow shell of a human being, this nothing, this prevaricating, smug, self-congratulatory moron, could have convinced people to vote for him over and over.

  In the last election, even after eight years of disastrous governance, it still wasn't enough to keep, what, 46, 47? percent of Americans from wanting basically the same sort of governance to continue. Sarah Palin pops up on the scene with her snark, and her wardrobe, and her 'You Betchas! And suddenly the only thing wrong with America to them is that crybaby liberals were standing in the way of 'Drill, baby, drill'ing our way out of all of our problems.

  Obama should have his chance to show his stuff, but we are still the nation who stood by stupidly as Bush lied us, not even skillfully, into a war that has taken hundreds of thousands of lies, voted him back into office in spite of his proven criminality and incompetence, with the death toll continuing at a sickening rate — but insists that we are a moral nation because we remain steadfast in denying gays the right to get married. If only we could summon that kind of moral outrage for dropping bombs on people, but no. That just doesn't seem to bother us much somehow.

  —Tideswimmer Read Tideswimmer's other letters
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