Looks like my letter grade of “D” really pissed a lot of you people off. That’s a good thing. I expected as much.

For starters, let me just remind you all that blind faith, marching lockstep, fanaticism, willfully ignorant zealotry and demagoguery are salient ingredients for a stew of poisonous broth, corrupted vegetables and rotting meat. The wine will turn out to be vinegar. The water, tepid and bitter. It is what Republicans have been cooking and serving for decades. No wonder they’re all bug eyed, pasty, jowly, slow eyed plutocrats; narcotised by an astringent, relentless dogma of defying truth and flouting compassion.

Democrats in general and progressives in particular do not run their kitchens in such a way. Some of us are moderate, some of are progressive and some of us are even downright conservative (often to my dismay). It is both the beauty and often the bane of our party. But we Democrats have the courage of our convictions.  We really are about truth, justice and the American way.  We like prosperity for the middle class. Unlike the other side, that will lie, conceal and obfuscate to regain power and once they have it, to keep it, without regard for the circumstances or who may suffer.

I do support Mr. Obama, unlike the prodigious quantity of jerk offs that salivate at the idea of America failing to increase their chances of re-election, I want, hope and sincerely wish for him to succeed. I have not lost my belief in him. He is not even four years older than me and that just confounds me. It really is the most difficult job in the world and he cuts through it like a curtain in the wind. I’ve yet to see him rattled. I am proud and happy that he’s my president. Like I said before, we’d have been fucked from hell to breakfast and screwed nine ways to Sunday about now were he not our Commander in Chief.

But, I’m a Democrat. I’m a progressive Democrat. We don’t think twice about criticizing our elected leaders and we are rarely ostracized enough to regret it. The black hats are forbidden such redress. Such trespass. We are encouraged and expected to engage in as much, at least.  It is expected of us.  Or so I’ve been told, by my mother of all people.

So all of you that would pile on, or engage in any attempt to shame or prevent me from saying what I am here to say, can piss up a rope, smoke a pole or otherwise play Tiddlywinks with manhole covers. It’s subjective. It’s my opinion. And I am compelled.

Here is what chaps my ass:

First of all, and there is plenty, I hate, hate, hate that Dick-in-Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and cronies et. al, won’t be held accountable for the egregious war crimes they so obviously and blatantly committed. Torture, profiteering, wiretapping, overt fraud by the private contractors acting on behalf of the military industrial complex……. all in the name of terrorism.  Crimes against humanity.  Dirty business.  Inexcusable.  Awful things for which they will not pay.  Disgusting.

Terrorism.

A concept, an idea, that has proven to be no more than a paper tiger. Underwear and shoe bombers. Give me a break. They tell us that most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi Arabian( 16 of 19), did we attack Saudi Arabia? It’s another story and another blog but it’s all crap. Bullshit on a scale you don’t want to know. Something we have waged war over and killed hundreds of thousands if not millions for.  Thousands of our own dead and tens of thousands permanently broken.  All of it, all of it is a lie. We’ll get to the stupid fucking war part. But the rest remains. Crimes on an international scale, horrible things done in the name of national security that should never, ever have passed beyond the purview of our own Constitution much less the Geneva Conventions. Posse Comitatus and Habeas Corpus out the window……….

What the fuck is that?

Here’s the sick part. The part where the goddamn rubber hits the motherfucking road. It’s all still happening, all of it. We still torture, we still “rendition”, we still spy illegally on our very own people and Gitmo is still open for business.  There are as many private security contractors, at least, in Iraq and Afghanistan as there are enlisted men and women and you and are paying for both while they can and do kill anyone and everyone they want.  Over five hundred different private armies. We still award contracts to Blackwater, albeit under a different name.  KBR and Halliburton……..

Absolute nonsense.

Why?

For what?

My President, Our Man, has not lifted a finger to change or stay or mitigate any of it. The Patriot Act, fucking joke unconstitutional legislation that it was, is still, for all intents and purposes, fully intact.

Why Mr. President?

Speaking of prosecution, The Obama administration will not be prosecuting a single player involved in the contrivance masterminded by Karl Rove that ended up in nine state attorney generals being fired for not pursuing totally bogus assertions of voter fraud.  Nice.  Cowardly.

Are you hearing me?

A “D”.

See, these are historical things that will suffer from historical context. Important things. Beyond deficits and debts. Realistically, and I’m sorry, far more consequential than soaring unemployment and a tanking economy, because these things, these issues, don’t just threaten our livelihoods, these things threaten our lives. See?  And it’s these things that will ruin our posterity as well as our ability to even create, seek or gain employment because we simply cannot pay for them.  We are not paying for them.

Deficits and debt don’t matter when it comes to the military industrial complex.

How do you like me now?

Well, I’ve got more. Still wondering about that letter grade of “D”?

Come with me, I’ll take you a little further.

Afghanistan.  We visited this war on these people over a single man and a hand full of other assholes a decade ago.  Nothing has changed.  Nothing.  Even if bin Laden is dead, he’s alive.  We don’t even know.  Al-Qaeda is still a shadow and in some circles rumored to barely exist at all and the Taliban is more robust than ever.  Thank Dick-in-Bush for that.  Now we are nation building so that they don’t send more underwear or shoe bombers, I guess.  Fucking ridiculous.  The tail wags the dog and the military industrial complex is in leg humping lust with it.  Fuck this shit.  We kill and die everyday for no sane reason.  It’s beyond stupid and for a commander in chief to countenance it, much less agree to escalate it, is an absolute betrayal on levels of morality, humanity and common sense.

This really is the heart of my “D”.

The stinging reality that our people are falling into poverty.  Not enough work.  I’m talking about the asshole Republicans failing us by threatening to filibuster the extension of unemployment benefits four goddamn times.  People in this country are literally starving and we refuse to help them but there is always money for this kind of wrongheaded imperialism that is absolutely doomed to fail.  This policy has never, ever worked,  Obstinate Republicans won’t vote to extend unemployment so that innocent children can be fed based on the notion that it would contribute to the deficit, but both they and dipshit Democrats never ever ever fail to pass a supplemental war spending bill.  Unpaid for.  Through the lips and straight to the hips……of the goddamn deficit, on the order of ten times as much.  Not only are we accomplishing nothing but we are making matters worse.  It’s the stupidest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen.  A ballet of illogical at $10 billion a fucking month.

Mr. Obama has not said a word but to throw more money and lives at it.

Breathtakingly despicable.

See, this is where he gets his “D”.  It would be an “F” but Dumbya blew the curve.

There are all sorts of lesser but still vitally important issues.

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  Give me a break.  The administration is waiting for an implementation study to be completed in November?  There’s some sort of survey going on in the meantime?  Did we conduct studies or surveys when we integrated blacks or women?  Nope.  You know why?  Because it was the right thing to do.  This is chickenshit.

See the “D”?

Why Mr. President?

When we hear the clean up workers in the gulf are getting sick and need respirators but BP won’t provide them or that they are being housed in formaldehyde contaminated trailers……..well?  Fuck off, put your boot back on that neck and make it fucking happen, not now, yesterday!  Two words “Executive Order”, look into it.

Our mutual ass licking contest with Israel is profoundly ridiculous.  We give more money to them than every other nation on earth combined, and for what?  So they can run their own Semitic version of apartheid?  Hey Barack, Netanyahu has your number and is playing you for a chump and it’s embarrassing.  They kill and rape and steal and oppress with our dime.  We fund them.  It’s our money.

Why?

See the “D”?

Health care was a start but a mandate without a public option?  Is there a punchline?  Call me nonplussed.  I honestly haven’t researched financial reform but I hear it’s pretty much the same deal and I’m confident that what I find won’t surprise me.  I guarantee I won’t be impressed.

Smell the “D”?

I do.

Is this change?  Nope.  It is merely the same game being played less clumsy, just a little less recklessly, with just a little more political adeptness.  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Feel my “D”?

Here is where it also lands for me.  I am frustrated and dismayed by Obama’s reluctance to engage anyone and everyone that would smear him personally or progressives in general based on race as well as those that would, and do, strong arm  this country in pursuit of the filthy lucre.  Money they don’t deserve.  They are liars and thieves and Mr. Obama postures as though they barely exist.  Liars and thieves.

I hate a liar and/or a thief.  Hate.

Herein lies my “D”.

For example:

Shirley Sherrod.  Van Jones or ACORN.

I’m not going to detail the the gory, if you’re aware and attentive, you already know.

Shame on you Mr. President for allowing this to unfold and gain the traction that it has and then allowing such knee jerking so recklessly and so irresponsibly.  You and your administration ran from the liars and thieves.  Callow.  A party foul.  Stupid.  Amateur hour.   A woman who’s father had been murdered by white supremacists.

Why again, Mr. President?

So, it is indeed a “D”.

I would be remiss for not undertaking the following:

To Andrew Breitbart, Fox News, patrons and purveyors thereof, and anyone and everyone else of similar ilk, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU IN THE NECK.  You racist, lying, porcine, soulless, motherfucking hypocrites.  The word “nigger” applies more to you than it does to any other ethnicity in the world because you have consciously chosen who and what you are.  You suffer from a low level, intellectually bereft cranial priapism that allows you to somehow justify such overt bigotry.  FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Drinks for my friends.

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