Southpaw

I'm a lefty. Right handed, but Southpaw in my beliefs. I believe in lettin' people do what they please (within reason anyway).





I don't mind gay marriage. I'm okay with people dressin' like Lady Gaga, ifin' that's their thing. I like drinkin' and smokin' from time to time. I don't like taxes. I don't like cameras on every stop light. I don't like speed limits. I don't like people tellin' other people what to do with their bodies, whether it be tattoos, piercin's, or abortions. I might not agree with gettin' an abortion but when I'm carryin' a baby in my belly and a kid's threatenin' to tear up my favorite part of my anatomy I might feel a lil differently. So, I'd like to keep people's options available to 'em.


I'm a lefty. I voted for Obama. I voted for change. You're free to disagree with me on that.



I didn't vote for Bush in the election before that. I didn't vote for Gore either. I didn't vote 'cause as unpopular as Bush was I figured he'd get booted without much effort on my part.



I voted for Obama 'cause I thought McCain might be more of the same. Plus he's a lil old and I really didn't want Palin in the whitehouse at all. I doubt she's as stupid as people make her out to be but that still doesn't mean she makes great decisions.


Now, this damn health care thing has come around and everybody's actin' like we live in 1984 and it's all Obama's fault. Southpark had a good point in that "Dances with Smurfs" episode. They said sumthin' like they hate the president 'cause she somehow managed to screw everything up but still didn't actually do anything.


It's politics and bureaucracy. Obama campaigned like he was gonna come in there and make everybody's dreams come true. He promised an end to the war, a solution to health care, and an end to the economic crises. He all but promised Utopia.


Do you know the break down on Utopia?


This is from wikipedia.org: "The word comes from the Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place", indicating that More (More is the guy that wrote the book that the word Utopia first appeared in.) was utilizing the concept as allegory and did not consider such an ideal place to be realistically possible. The English homophone Eutopia (/juˈtoʊpiə/), derived from the Greek εὖ, "good" or "well", and τόπος, "place", signifies a double meaning."


Of course Obama has fallen short and disappointed a lot of people. He is only a man tryin' to rework a system that's designed to screw us all. How the hell do you turn a mass rape machine into a flotation device for this new island of Utopia?


What Obama has tried to do is deliver on his promises. He's fallen short on that so far. I think it's mostly 'cause of the oil companies and all the money big businesses stand to lose from an end to the war. He seems to have done as much as could be done with the economy aside from stickin' up other nations at the ATM. He just passed this health care bill that a lotta people don't seem to like.


I haven't read it. I dunno what all's in it. (I've seen it. It's 1,990 pages long. I'm still skimmin' through it at this point.) I know we're all s'posed to get health care which is good. We get fined if we don't have it which is bad. It's s'posed to be more affordable which is good. But if it costs more than $20 a week it pretty well kills my budget and that's bad. People say docs won't work for their cut pay and will then quit bein' doctors which is bad. This seems unlikely to me 'cause if somebody spends the better part of ten years becomin' a doctor I'd bet he's serious about it and wants to help people even if it means he can't afford a vacation home on the beach, so I'd say that's good. Further down the line when bein' a doc might not be as lucrative as it has been people might not want to be doctors anymore. Again, I'd bet people that genuinely wanna help people are gonna do it anyway. Taxes are gonna go up to cover the bill on this and people aren't happy about it. I don't like payin' the taxes I already pay but I don't see so many people protestin' that. People find it necessary to have roads, police, and mail but not health care? Doesn't make sense to me.


But what do I know? Maybe there are gonna be those damned death panels where old people get turned into soylent green, takin' the census tells the satelites in the sky where to point the missiles, and Obama is the antichrist secretly manipulatin' the world towards its destruction.


I doubt all that though.


I think Obama is just a man. I think he's a man with a lot of weight on his shoulders and that he is tryin' to do what he believes is best for this country. I think he went in the like the Lone Ranger thinkin' he was gonna save the day and all he can do is try to struggle forward wrapped in red tape. He may not be makin' the best decisions for us and maybe someone else could do better but he's there now and we will never know 'cause we aren't in his shoes. When all is said and done we'll be able to see what he was doin'. But by then we'll be able to analyze his mistakes, and the lies he's told us, and the lies told to him. But like they say hindsight is always 20/20.



Obama is just a man and to put all those hopes and dreams on any one person is askin' too much. Those people that expected him to create a Utopia are askin' him to do the impossible. The people expectin' him to destroy the world are unrealistic. The truth always lies somewhere in the middle.



People's opinions and interpretations color the facts. You wanna know the truth about this health care thing? Take five minutes to google "read the healthcare bill online". I'll even do you one better. Just read this, http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.house.gov%2Frules%2Fhealth%2F111_ahcaa.pdf&h=a8824f2202147f601ea796221fba6775 , make up your own mind.



Think for yourself. Don't just buy what they tell you on T.V.