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I don't blame my president. He is what he was forced to be.
Obama was saddled with more toxic baggage than any of his predecessors and from the beginning his lily white haters laughed at the black kid with The Audacity. "Okay, then" they said, all smarm and patronizing charm.
But he is surrounded by leering Nero's, fiddling while the Gulf hemorrhages.
And now, as the sea floor gapes, finally howling its rage after the slow, steady rape at the hands of insatiable oil companies (and their strung-out customers), the haters look at the president and say "Well aint'cha gonna do something 'Mr. President'?" and chuckle conspiratorially.
The Republicans have a "purity test". Well then, Americans---real Americans, not the shrill racists who twist reality to fit their inane, insane agendas---should have a purity test, too: when the country bleeds, you staunch it.
When the culprits show clear disdain, you kick them the hell out.
When there is suffering, you heal it.
The tea baggers (who from the eye rolling they cause alone could generate massive amounts of energy) say "Take our country back"? Americans who have truly had enough of the bullshit, taking a page from their coloring book should shout the same, only direct it toward the real enemies, rather than the imagined ones: the voraciously greedy corporations which profit from peril, grow fat from dwindling resources and control the flow of information thanks to their home-grown enablers.
The Cheneys, the Bushes, and all the slick, vile men of that ilk---who will not be forgiven or forgotten---who have wrung the life from this country, however they and their propaganda ministries will twist and warp current events to appear as innocent victims as opposed to the ones who perpetrated this (and many other) disasters, in the end the proof will be the ruined shores, the broken food chain, the destroyed livelihoods, the aborted future.
Parade them through the streets like the traitors to Democracy they are.
March all the congressmen and congresswomen on their payrolls to the shores of the Gulf and make them wade in the muck, make them stand there in their pretty suits and shiny shoes and see what their complicity has bought.
Make the loudmouths on the right and the traitors on the left----the Fox News flunkies and the AM radio thugs---clean flapping, writhing birds and bag diseased fish and then sit there while the fishermen and their families tell them their stories, show them pictures of how it used to be before the drunken, sloppy surgeons nicked the main artery and exposed their practice for what it always was.
So, no, I do not blame Obama. I see him hampered by the bureaucracy, hobbled by the web of backroom deals and under-the-table favors that has defined governance.
But history will out.
Because blood will out.