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Showing Original Post only (View all)To us non-Americans, Obama is Doing a Pretty Good Job! [View all]
Look, I get the fact that you're in the thick of your lives, wondering if you'll be covered if you get sick, worried about your kids' education, maybe even frantic about the possibility of foreclosures on your mortgages. Hey, the prospect of being homeless would scare the shit out of my Canadian ass, and I truly hope that someday, you Americans won't have to worry about basic food, basic shelter, basic health care.
But help is on the way, IF you don't succumb to wingnut stupidity! The President's health care plan won't go into full effect until 2014. Even then, it will not provide you with the single-payer system I enjoy. But you HAVE to look at this incrementally!
Allow me to posit a scenario: You've been carjacked, and the coke-addled idiot now driving your vehicle has the pedal to the metal, propelling the both of you toward a cliff at 120 mph, ala Thelma & Louise.
Two hundred feet before you hit the edge, the carjacker bails out. By the time you scooch back into the driver's seat and regain control of the car, you're now 50 feet away from plunging into an abyss.
Question: If the vehicle goes over the goddam cliff, is it your fault? No? Well, say hello to the world Barack Obama lives in!
The goddamn GOPhers have made it clear that defeating a black President is more important than THE SURVIVAL OF YOUR FUCKING COUNTRY! HELLO???
Barack Hussein Obama is a politician. In my very humble opinion, he's the best damn POTUS of the last 50 years. I realize that you, my American friends---and I honest-to-God consider you my friends---have a tendency toward The Ideal, The Perfection. But c'mon! We are, all of us, intelligent men and women here: We all know that this Commander-in-Chief is every bit as mortal as George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. FDR. JFK. And.....
You.
Me.
I do believe that I speak for men and woman of other, admiring democracies when I make this simple request:
Give this smart, savvy, intelligent and truly caring man another four years to show you---and, VERY selfishly---show us, the other citizens of this planet, what he can do!