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Jesus returns, nobody notices

The Rage! It Burns!
Jan 212009

Why don’t they notice? Two reasons. First off…a long haired dude in robes and sandals isn’t actually going to attract near as much attention as one might think. And the instant he tells the first person of authority he sees that his name is Jesus it’s off to a jail cell until Immigration can find a way to get him back in to Mexico. Secondly, with Barack Obama basically already being declared ‘Greatest Human Being to Ever Exist’ Jesus is utterly irrelevant! Cancel religion, we’ve got Barackocentrism!

Now, I like Obama. Nobody with a working set of ears is going to deny that the man is an incredible, inspiring public speaker (well, unless their ears and the rest of their head is covered by a pointed white hood and their best buddy goes by the name ‘Grand Wizard’…THEY might disagree).  And the guy certainly can be inspiring…anyone who can speak as well as he can can inspire a nation. Maybe he CAN be the next John F. Kennedy…narrowly stave off global nuclear annihilation, start a war in some godforsaken backwater country nobody can even find on a map, and bang himself the sex symbol of our time (hopefully he’ll avoid that pesky ‘brains splattered all over his wife’ aspect of Kennedy’s presidency). Or maybe he’ll inspire his people to rise as one, fight off economic hardship, begin throwing anyone he doesn’t like in to slave labor camps and instigate a massive conflict that will leave Europe a smoldering wasteland before shooting HIMSELF in the head (hmmm…speakers who inspire their people seem to fixate on the shot to the head, don’t they?).

Yeah motherfucker, you read that right…I actually just drew a comparison between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler (let’s see ANYONE else try THAT!) Am I saying he’s a homicidal maniac? No. I’m trying to point out the fact that ‘Inspiring Public Speaker’ does not necessarily equal ‘Peachy Keen Good Guy’…it can just as easily equal ‘One-Nutted Douchebag With Inferiority Issues Who REALLY Doesn’t Like Yamulkes’ (and, you know, if it gets me a little notoriety…’Canadian man says Obama planning Fourth Reich!…more the better for me!) Inspiring public speaker also does not necessarily have a goddamn thing in common with Good President.

Now, Barack gets one HUGE running start in that he’s replacing a man who most people now look at as having been about as presidential as the sweaty nutsack of your average 710 pound shut in. It’s like starting a new computer company that gets a $3 billion dollar advance from IBM on their first day of existence. Hell, Barack could spend use his first 6 months mooning pedestrians on Pennsylvania Avenue, inspiring the black community to rise up against ‘those honky motherfuckers’ and wiping his ass with the American flag and a good chunk of the population would still say something akin to “Yeah, but he’s not Bush.” Call me crazy, but I think I have slightly higher standards than that…and I’m hoping I’m far from alone. I’m hoping people can get past starfucking the guy and actually give him a chance to do some things and then judge them fairly.

He’s been in office less than 24 hours, and there are already people running around screaming about what a great president the guy is. We don’t have any way of knowing if he’s great, average or utter crap…he hasn’t had time to do anything much beyond wander the White House, eat some food and possibly get a piggyback ride from the head of his Secret Service detail. Maybe give him time to actually meet a world leader or two, actually make a tough decision or two, and actually get completely hammered on Air Force One before we start declaring him ‘Awesomest Motherfucker EVER’. Certainly a lot of this stems from the fact that a black man has just been named President, and that IS a major step when one considers the history of race relations in that country. Again, though…the color of the guy’s skin isn’t going to matter one iota when it comes to how he does running the country (I actually find it rather odd that the very same people who typically try to point out that his election is a great step towards the unification of the country often follow that up with constantly pointing out the fact that he’s black. Kinda missing the point, geniuses.)

And while we’re at it, can Canada PLEASE stop desperately, pathetically trying to horn in on the party? I’ve actually found it rather revolting these past couple of weeks to see the country I’m usually at least somewhat proud of pull our usual act when it comes to dealing with Americans…first we go on about how awesome we are, then we fret about how much they like us like a 14 year old girl who still doesn’t know if she’s going to be invited to Junior Prom or not. Let’s come up with a list of the 100 Canadian songs Obama should hear! Let’s come up with a list of the greatest Canadian books he should read! Is he coming here? Is he coming here FIRST? Okay, how long after he’s been declared President is he actually coming? How much does he like us? Notice us, or we’ll just DIE!

Ugh. IT’S fucking pathetic! We’re a COUNTRY, we’re NOT a character in a goddamn Judy Blume book! I’m sick and tired of this “Are you there God? It’s me, Canada!” act. Stop it.

And it doesn’t STOP there…no, now it’s “Where’s OUR Obama!?” Can we please, maybe find someone OF OUR OWN to latch on to?! PLEASE?! Lord knows I cannot STAND the current crop of elected dingbats and retards we have to choose from right now, but I’m ALREADY tired of hearing us desperately try to interject ourselves in to something that IS NOT OURS. I don’t see Britain, France, Australia, Jordan, Bangladesh or ANY OTHER COUNTRY going on like this. They all have the confidence to actually STAND as THEMSELVES and applaud and hope from afar. Why are we seemingly incapable of doing that? Why do we have to push our way in to the photo? “See that arm coming in from the left? That is TOTALLY Canada! Yeah! We’re in! Of course, they couldn’t find the time to squeeze ALL of me in…”

Let the US have their moment, for chrissakes. Then let’s just stop the hero worship long enough to see if the man is actually deserving of it.

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  • http://grindingpixels.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Thanks for saving me from having to write all the same stuff in my own blog post. While he was still campaigning for the presidency, I actually googled “signs of the antichrist” just so I could check for any similarities. While I think it’s great that people have a lot of hope for what he COULD do, we have yet to see if any of it will actually happen.

    Action > Words

    Oh, and way to go calling Shaun a douche. :)

  • http://grindingpixels.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Thanks for saving me from having to write all the same stuff in my own blog post. While he was still campaigning for the presidency, I actually googled “signs of the antichrist” just so I could check for any similarities. While I think it’s great that people have a lot of hope for what he COULD do, we have yet to see if any of it will actually happen.

    Action > Words

    Oh, and way to go calling Shaun a douche. :)

  • http://feelingsofwhite.com legion

    The United States has a predilection for treating their presidents as a Gods that can do anything. Then later on they get bitter and disappointed later on when it turns out they can’t make miracles happen. It’s like, get off your own asses and do something instead of wishing that the wunderkid will do it for you.

    But that said, Obama is incredibly charismatic and Canada is so very bound to what the U.S. does, especially economically. It would be preferable if Canada acted more like a 22 year old girl instead of a 15 year old one. But either way we’ve got the same sugar daddy.

    Wow, I just made that creepy. haha..

  • http://feelingsofwhite.com legion

    The United States has a predilection for treating their presidents as a Gods that can do anything. Then later on they get bitter and disappointed later on when it turns out they can’t make miracles happen. It’s like, get off your own asses and do something instead of wishing that the wunderkid will do it for you.

    But that said, Obama is incredibly charismatic and Canada is so very bound to what the U.S. does, especially economically. It would be preferable if Canada acted more like a 22 year old girl instead of a 15 year old one. But either way we’ve got the same sugar daddy.

    Wow, I just made that creepy. haha..

  • http://www.peerpressureworks.com Cliff

    I don’t remember quite the same level of worship for Dubya when he first popped up, though. Clinton in his first term really didn’t get a ton of fawning (well, except from chubby interns)…it wasn’t until term 2 when he rode a hot economy he really had nothing to do with to superstardom.

    Oh, and bonus points for adding to my ‘Obama wants 4th Reich’ with your ‘Obama Likes Fucking Kids’ bit. :)

    Chad : Amusingly, the folks at the Rapture Ready forums are WAY ahead of you when it comes to the ‘Obama…is he the Devil?’ bit (I think I pointed that out already in my ‘Nutjobs R Us’ post).

    In closing, the man can speak…now let’s see what he can DO.

  • http://www.peerpressureworks.com Cliff

    I don’t remember quite the same level of worship for Dubya when he first popped up, though. Clinton in his first term really didn’t get a ton of fawning (well, except from chubby interns)…it wasn’t until term 2 when he rode a hot economy he really had nothing to do with to superstardom.

    Oh, and bonus points for adding to my ‘Obama wants 4th Reich’ with your ‘Obama Likes Fucking Kids’ bit. :)

    Chad : Amusingly, the folks at the Rapture Ready forums are WAY ahead of you when it comes to the ‘Obama…is he the Devil?’ bit (I think I pointed that out already in my ‘Nutjobs R Us’ post).

    In closing, the man can speak…now let’s see what he can DO.

  • http://www.whitehouse.com Obamalover

    I hear Obama is putting some new chrome spinner rims on Air Force One, that nigger is tight, a’ight?

  • http://www.whitehouse.com Obamalover

    I hear Obama is putting some new chrome spinner rims on Air Force One, that nigger is tight, a’ight?

  • http://edmontonscotsman.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-for-canada.html Shaun

    LOL Obamalover.

    To my defense to my statement on my blog about where is our Obama, first I didn’t say he was an awesome president yet. Mainly I’d like to see Canadians get as excited as the Americans did for the political process. Not saying we need someone black, or someone exactly like Barack, although we do need someone who is a great speaker (which nobody in our current government is) and someone who is charismatic(see my previous ()’s). If we can have someone like that then maybe there is a hope.

  • http://edmontonscotsman.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-for-canada.html Shaun

    LOL Obamalover.

    To my defense to my statement on my blog about where is our Obama, first I didn’t say he was an awesome president yet. Mainly I’d like to see Canadians get as excited as the Americans did for the political process. Not saying we need someone black, or someone exactly like Barack, although we do need someone who is a great speaker (which nobody in our current government is) and someone who is charismatic(see my previous ()’s). If we can have someone like that then maybe there is a hope.

  • http://www.peerpressureworks.com Cliff

    I do agree that those would be nice things to see in a candidate…the problem is that the very process of running for office tends to beat those sorts of qualities OUT of people. Year after year of basically begging for donations, agreeing to give a little here for a little something there, and so on and so forth would tend to numb most people. Obama sort of got by that by simply not having so much time in office that the bureaucracy has had a chance to beat him down yet.

    So that’s sort of the choice…do we want someone who still has that fire, or do we want someone who has a voice of experience? Unfortunately it’s often an either/or kind of question.

    Of course one could rather handily replace Harper, Layton, May and Duceppe (Ignatieff really hasn’t had a chance to show anything good or bad, yet, so I’ll give him a little time) with 4 various types of cheese and see a definite improvement in governance. :)

  • http://www.peerpressureworks.com Cliff

    I do agree that those would be nice things to see in a candidate…the problem is that the very process of running for office tends to beat those sorts of qualities OUT of people. Year after year of basically begging for donations, agreeing to give a little here for a little something there, and so on and so forth would tend to numb most people. Obama sort of got by that by simply not having so much time in office that the bureaucracy has had a chance to beat him down yet.

    So that’s sort of the choice…do we want someone who still has that fire, or do we want someone who has a voice of experience? Unfortunately it’s often an either/or kind of question.

    Of course one could rather handily replace Harper, Layton, May and Duceppe (Ignatieff really hasn’t had a chance to show anything good or bad, yet, so I’ll give him a little time) with 4 various types of cheese and see a definite improvement in governance. :)

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