Let’s start by establishing a few points of reference. I am a 64 year old white guy. I am a conservative republican from the Goldwater era. I am an unapologetic Vietnam Marine vet. I am the flag-waving, card-carrying front of the “baby-boom” parade. I am a now-focused, reality-based, career adult educator from the world of financial services. Do you have the picture? So let’s talk some politics!
It’s all about the money – always has been, always will be. But before we get to that, we have some current events to deal with. Can we just get over the election of Barack Obama? I didn’t vote for him either, and yes, he has the most liberal voting record in the senate, but he is not the anti-Christ. The Republic I have fought for and love will not collapse because he and the chief justice stumbled through the presidential oath together. He is young, smart, well-educated, internet-savvy, and a first-rate public speaker, and he’ll need every one of those skills – and then some – to get through the next 4 years.
Was the inauguration, with all the solemn pandering of the liberal press (and the near- deification by the entertainment and civil rights communities) just a whole lot over the top? Sure it was, but let ‘em have their day – they won it. And just maybe, when the confetti is all swept up, we can finally lay to rest all the slobbering, self-flagellation of quotas, tokens and affirmative action, once and for all. After they get done gushing, “I never thought I’d see the day…” black folks will have to quickly wake up to the reality that a black man has been elected president, so it’s about time for them to quit taking handouts while despising the hand that feeds. They need to just get off their collective backsides, get out the door, get an education, and scrap for a job just like the rest of us.
If you need an image to put yesterday's events into perspective (so you don’t stomp the new discount wide-screen Christmas gift to death), just visualize the inauguration as a “re-make” of Mel Brooks’ classic movie, “Blazing Saddles,” with Barack in Cleavon Little’s role, as he rides into Rock Ridge to assume the duties as the new, black sheriff. Remember the line, as he strides up to the podium? “Let me just whip this out!” There, now doesn’t a good laugh make you feel better? More to follow from the Old Man…
(Editor's note: you can find part two of this series here).
I’d have to agree Maobama isn’t the anti-christ; he’s the father of the antichrist, the Devil, incarnate.
and I resent the image associated with this article. It’s like MTW is implying couch potatos are slovenly (fries spilling onto floor), fat, uneducated boobs.
I am a couch potato. I’ll admit I’ve got the beer gut going, that I sit on the couch and watch tv while stuffing delicious, greasy food in my pie hole. But I am not the left-voting, Obamination-worshipping libtard the cartoon is obviously singling out.
TV teaches you a lot. For example, Mythbusters saved a life with their episode on how to get out of a car sinking in water. Watching TV can make you stupid, depending on what you watch, but just because someone watches TV does not make them an idiot.
On behalf of couch potatos everywhere, I demand an apology!
Hey Troglodike,
I’m new here, but I can see right through you. It is obvious that you are completely self-absorbed…that you make EVERYTHING about you.
Anyone that understands evolutionary biology knows that couch potatoes may share a common ancestor, but have evolved differently due to their environment. There is no “superior” species of couch potato, but each species has adopted different traits to ensure survival in its respective environment. You, my friend, are making rash generalizations due to your lack of knowledge of scientific facts found in encyclopedias.
First, the image in question is referring to the “potatus lectus liberalus,” which has evolved from primates that had no personal responsibility but excessive amounts of free-time, maninfested directly from someone else providing them with common necessities and free resources to obtain unnecessary luxuries.
Since I went to University, I can easily deduce that you are a descendant of the “potatus lectus conservatus.” This species evolved from primates that hunted and gathered throughout the day, and then at night would exhibit similar behavior as the “potatus lectus liberalus,” i.e. TV watching and greasy food-eating. However similar that behavior may appear, the two species have little in common, other than a “common ancestor” from about 10 kagillion years ago.
Troglodike, check your facts before you spout your uneducated rhetoric. If you have any desire for “real” truth, you would do like I do and read books written by other people and accept their opinions as fact. It’s people like you that push that whole “think for yourself” propaganda that pollute the minds of young Americans.
By the way, the plural form of potato includes an “e.”
GET A DEGREE!!!
Good thing you have a degree- you’re lacking a funnybone. And I can tell writing wasn’t your major.
By the way, what college did Plato get his degree from? I forget.
Just like a “potatus lectus conservatus” to resort to ad homonym attacks. No, writing wasn’t my major, but at least I had one.
What does Plato have to do with this? There wasn’t even TV in his time. The real subject here is evolution and how some couch potatoes aren’t responsible for their behavior, because they are just products of science through evolution.
Just more of the typical red hairing tactics of you “plc’s.”
Troglodip and Don McManure
Actually, you both r dumb and yer stupid two. Troglodip, u r such a girleeman wit yer funny bone n yer chips-n-fish. Mister McManure pulease lern to spell or do nut comment at all. Big fat dummy. No matter what yer backgrownd, caveman or evo-conservative, yall suck.
Hey guys,
I’d appreciate it if you’d stop fooling around and give my dad some props. He’s a first timer at MTW and I’d like him to submit other things he’s written.
See you.
Dach, you are barkin’ up the wrong tree here. Your childish comments only diminish the intellectual discussion. I can’t believe that the moderator even approved your response.
Grow up! And read a book or two, and then maybe you can make a positive contribution.
Hey Chuck,
Thanks for your contribution. Your piece is concise and insightful. It’s funny, I had thought about “Blazing Saddles,” too. Some might find that racist, but like you, I chuckle at the brilliance of Mel Brooks. The point is that people put too much emphasis on race, and I think that is what Brooks’ is saying.
It’s great that we have a black prez…I just wish it was one with some good “realistic” policies.
Can’t wait for more musings!
FYI: The photo was submitted by yours truly, I did not intend to “put words” into Chuck’s mouth. I just thought it was funny.
Your humble, unskilled, new (wanna-be) editor,
Ron
Red “Herring”- a fish. Good grief.