Poetry in Politics?
Feb. 24th, 2009 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
autumnluv143Since when to presidential party nominees start campaigning when the current president has been in office less than two months? Maybe I just haven't noticed it before. Hmmm...
My hair stood up on end twice tonight. Once was from listening to the powerful speaker that we've elected as President. Specifically from this:
I admit that I agreed with 90% of what he said. That's dangerous to say in the mixed company that haunts the halls of my LiveJournal, but I don't care. The other 10% are things I would rather not see happen, or can think of better ways to have them happen, but considering that I could have hated everything they'd just voted into action...I can deal with them. I sincerely believe that, while it may not be the best way to handle our economic strains and concerns, his methods may be the best way to handle them right now.
The second time that my hair stood on end was a much longer incident. It was when Bobby Jindal started to speak, about 5 min into his playacting and speil, when I came into the realization that he is almost completely full of shit. It wasn't even anything that he specifically said at that moment, but where that speech was going. He was putting on his show. A show that won't end until 2012. He is a local jackass that is going to take a national stand for a minority of the people and spill the same carousel of garbage that's been talked about for 8 years. Ok, so he said it much more articulately. *blinks* So what?
Ok, maybe I have a bone to pick with our dear and national spokesperson of a governor. Perhaps it's because in the last year (since he's been in office), all the crap he talked about in the retort to Obama's address to Congress has either happened to me or someone I love. I have no health insurance, no car, and thanks to our financial status, possibly no jobs. Yes, jobs. I might lose both of my state-funded jobs. I certainly hope he changes his mind about accepting that money for unemployment, because I may need it.
My parish alone is having to cut teaching positions because of the state economy. Already at one local school, two teachers have lost their jobs and they are almost certainly going to cut out the gifted education classes at the junior high level. If anyone has ever sat with a very gifted child in a mainstreamed situation, they can tell you that this doesn't help that student reach their potential and takes away from the other students in the class because gifted children require more attention. The state is considering cutting state parks and historic sites down to only being open on the weekends. Grants have been approved state-wide and multiple universities from the end of last year for 2009 and they are sitting on their hands waiting to find out whether or not there is going to be funding available for those grants. Some of the grants go to fund research that is detrimental to our state's economy. Catch-22 or clusterfuck?
Yeah, maybe his speech wasn't as bad as I thought. Maybe the hair on my neck and arms stood up on end throughout most of his speech because I'm just being silly. This all isn't going to affect me so why should I care? The national economic crisis also hasn't affected 15 people I can count off the top of my head either. They didn't lose their jobs, health care and have to put their houses up for sale (in some cases all three) just before Christmas. I voted for him. I regret it. Especially now that he's become a showboat that is less concerned about the state and more concerned about his national bid.
My hair stood up on end twice tonight. Once was from listening to the powerful speaker that we've elected as President. Specifically from this:
And if we do - if we come together and lift this nation from the depths of this crisis, if we put our people back to work and restart the engine of our prosperity, if we confront without fear the challenges of our time and summon that enduring spirit of an America that does not quit, then someday years from now our children can tell their children that this was the time when we performed, in the words that are carved into this very chamber, "something worthy to be remembered." Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.
I admit that I agreed with 90% of what he said. That's dangerous to say in the mixed company that haunts the halls of my LiveJournal, but I don't care. The other 10% are things I would rather not see happen, or can think of better ways to have them happen, but considering that I could have hated everything they'd just voted into action...I can deal with them. I sincerely believe that, while it may not be the best way to handle our economic strains and concerns, his methods may be the best way to handle them right now.
The second time that my hair stood on end was a much longer incident. It was when Bobby Jindal started to speak, about 5 min into his playacting and speil, when I came into the realization that he is almost completely full of shit. It wasn't even anything that he specifically said at that moment, but where that speech was going. He was putting on his show. A show that won't end until 2012. He is a local jackass that is going to take a national stand for a minority of the people and spill the same carousel of garbage that's been talked about for 8 years. Ok, so he said it much more articulately. *blinks* So what?
Ok, maybe I have a bone to pick with our dear and national spokesperson of a governor. Perhaps it's because in the last year (since he's been in office), all the crap he talked about in the retort to Obama's address to Congress has either happened to me or someone I love. I have no health insurance, no car, and thanks to our financial status, possibly no jobs. Yes, jobs. I might lose both of my state-funded jobs. I certainly hope he changes his mind about accepting that money for unemployment, because I may need it.
My parish alone is having to cut teaching positions because of the state economy. Already at one local school, two teachers have lost their jobs and they are almost certainly going to cut out the gifted education classes at the junior high level. If anyone has ever sat with a very gifted child in a mainstreamed situation, they can tell you that this doesn't help that student reach their potential and takes away from the other students in the class because gifted children require more attention. The state is considering cutting state parks and historic sites down to only being open on the weekends. Grants have been approved state-wide and multiple universities from the end of last year for 2009 and they are sitting on their hands waiting to find out whether or not there is going to be funding available for those grants. Some of the grants go to fund research that is detrimental to our state's economy. Catch-22 or clusterfuck?
Yeah, maybe his speech wasn't as bad as I thought. Maybe the hair on my neck and arms stood up on end throughout most of his speech because I'm just being silly. This all isn't going to affect me so why should I care? The national economic crisis also hasn't affected 15 people I can count off the top of my head either. They didn't lose their jobs, health care and have to put their houses up for sale (in some cases all three) just before Christmas. I voted for him. I regret it. Especially now that he's become a showboat that is less concerned about the state and more concerned about his national bid.
