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i call bullshit!
This is truly rich. On Thursday, at one of his fake �town hall meetings� (aka GOP rallies), the Prez said that opponents of investing Social Security funds in the stock market �say certain people aren't capable of investing...It kind of sounds like to me, you know, a certain race of people living in a certain area." (USA Today) A certain race of people living in a certain area. I�m not generally a �political blogger�, although I read a few (see left), but...um... COME ON! Will somebody please call this smirking little bitch out on what is pure, old-fashioned racebaiting? He�s floated every stupid rhetorical construct Karl could drum up to try and sell this thing, and people aren�t buying it. He tried to say that Social Security was unfair to African Americans because of their lower life expectancies. Too bad about how everyone who�s taken, oh, say, freshman Sociology knows full well that this is due to higher rates of infant and teen mortality, as well as higher incidences of certain health problems. And those are issues related to public policy in the areas of health care and economic development. They have exactly 0% to do with Social Security. Everyone knows it except the hardcore rubes that form his unquestioning base in this country. And we all know that they ain�t interested in all that there fancy book learnin� and liberal �facts�. But this is just getting stupid. This is too much. Like David Duke-style too much. It�s trite to say that we should all write to our congress-sheeple, but it�s nevertheless true. Especially if you live in a �red state� like I do. They need to know that not all of their constituents are toothless hillbillies who will buy whatever steaming pile of crap the GOP is selling on a daily basis. And if there ever was an issue that was about more than liberal v. conservative, THIS IS IT, folks! So write your Congressional cretin and tell her or him that real Americans think talk like that is weak, divisive, manipulative, and beneath the dignity of either this country or its president. Also, remind them that we�re not idiots out here! You can find out how to contact whoever �represents� you in Congress up in here. Also, while I would just as soon churn my own butter as sit down and write a letter on a sheet of paper, there is some evidence that paper letters get more attention than email. And while you�re at it, rip one off to the White House, too. I�m pretty sure that the Prez doesn�t ever read letters from citizens (and that he couldn�t even if he wanted to, since most of us write with words, rather than pictures, using a pen, rather than crayons) but someone must. Let this cretin know that he�s gone too far.
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