{"id":4190,"date":"2009-02-11T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2009-02-11T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:54:19","slug":"i-am-still-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"I Am Still An American"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t really make any difference to me that Barack Obama won the election.\u00a0 Oh, it does <\/em>mean that I gotta get down to business selling an alternative vision for 2010, but that’s just politics.<\/p>\n

I’m still an American.<\/p>\n

For that matter, had Socialist Gloria La Riva <\/a>or wackjob Cyn McKinney <\/a>won, I’d still be an American.\u00a0 A disappointed and (to say the least) very politically motivated one, but an American nonetheless.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I’m going to depart from my traditional genial civility to say – and I say this with all due respect – every single person on\u00a0 this website<\/a> can eat sh*t and die a painful death.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh, who am I kidding.\u00a0 No, it’s not.<\/p>\n

I mean, weren’t these the same self-adoring nutslaps who got the vapors everytime they felt someone was “questioning their patriotism?”<\/p>\n

I guess I’m not just writing this to be snarky or mean. Sitting as I am on the “out of power” side of things, I’m pondering the road back.\u00a0 And I listen to stories like this woman, Rachel Zucker<\/a>, whom I heard on American Public Media’s “The Story”. \u00a0 The woman – an “artist”, a poet in this case – has lived her entire life in a society that has enough surplus wealth to afford her the opportunity to be an “artist”, rather than a farmer or a filth-shoveler or a prostitute.<\/p>\n

And yet she had the gall to go on “The Story” and say that the Bush years “filled me witha profound sense of disenfranchisement”.\u00a0 Actually, you should listen to the whole piece; the “Listen” button is at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 It’s clogged with cringe-worthy moment, the kinds of thing I’d hope Ms. Zucker will find embarassing someday, but somehow doubt it’ll happen.<\/p>\n

We try to share a country with these crybabies.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 OK, not everyone <\/em>can undertake what I suggested; there are more than a few hoax signatures.\u00a0 Including mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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