Politics have become so boring to me now that America isn’t being governed by a flaming idiot. Craving the asininity of conservative public figures, I resort to reading linguistic analyses of Sarah Palin’s Twitters (here) and colorful attacks on RNC Chairman Michael Steele — a “horse’s rear,” according to former Republican House majority leader and eponymously-named Dick Armey (here). Well, if that isn’t just the ass calling the ass an ass!
I like Obama. He just makes sense to me. I like to think that, had I been able to rise above my inherent character limitations and become President, that I’d be doing many of the same things as Obama: instilling diversity in the Supreme Court, pulling all combat troops out of Iraq (here), expanding children’s health insurance, reforming health care, funding embryonic stem cell research… Reading articles about Obama doesn’t elicit any emotion other than tacit approval. An offshore-drilling moratorium in the wake of our country’s greatest environment disaster? Okey-dokey, Obama!
To me, the man acts and speaks with such logic that I immediately ascribe a certain dimness to anyone who speaks ill of Obama. Yes, of course the American economy is faltering, unemployment is acutely high, and our education system is crumbling faster than our bridges, but it’s not like these problems just started to happen. It’s not like America was just hummin’ along until Obama started to eff shit up with his radical socialist Islam agenda.
And that brings me to my point: according to a recent poll, 18% of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim (here). That’s up from the 11% of American who believed this in 2009. So despite having more opportunities to educate themselves about the very public religious beliefs of their President, Americns are just growing more ignorant.
It’s almost as if people want to believe that Obama is Muslim. Because only that could make sense of what’s happening in America: the income inequality, the joblessness, the mounting social alienation and the erosion of the social welfare net, and the black man in the White House. It’s gotta be the influence of that shadowy mysterious Other that eludes rational analysis.
Or, as Sarah Palin would posit it, “Will Obama express US lingering pain& ask Muslims for tolerance by discouraging 9/11 mosque while he celebrates Islamic holy month tonight?” Wha??
