A daily blog in defense of liberalism and the President.
So Sen. Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Republican Party still won’t shut up about how the President is mishandling the Iranian Protests. Graham who is everything the Iranian Ayatollah is pointing to when referring "The Great Satan" says that we should strike a harder line with Iranian government. Sadly the Republicans are not interested in the freedom of the Iranian people or human rights or anything else positive, they are just interested in making political points here at home by bad mouthing the President and undermining his authority! A few years ago these were the same assholes who called people unpatriotic and Un-America when they voiced opposition to the criminal destructive policies of George Bush! If human rights were an issue for the right then why have they not spoken out about the continuing abuses of the Chinese people by their government? I guess that is just the way the new Grand Old Hypocrisy Party rolls. If they just pretended sometimes to actually care about the issues instead of trying to destroy the President and his policies then maybe I could begin to respect some of them again, but these hypocrites won’t even speak out about one of their own like Sen. Ensign who has lied, cheated on his wife, bribed his lover and her husband, and used party funds to pay off his mistresses son, so you can’t expect integrity from this group!
As for the Iranian people I hope that their protests enable them to gain some of the freedoms and rights that they desire, for I draw a line between what is happening there and what happened in America during the 60’s when the youth stood up and said they wanted change. What they got was Billy clubs, and bullets, and just like with the young girl Neda who was killed on Saturday we as a nation got "Four dead in Ohio" yet nothing really changed. I hope things there are different, but those in power are always reluctant to release it, and change rarely happens without great turmoil and heartbreak, so I wish the Iranian people the best during this uprising and can only say one thing "POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
I want to make a quick note about the state of the economy. Even though I see on CNN and other news groups saying we look to be turning the corner, I can tell you that here in east central Illinois things have not improved, hell they might even have gotten worse. I live in a town that has 18,000 people and there were all of two job listings in the local paper. I hope things begin to turn soon, for it is very hard to buy food and gas and pay rent when you can’t find a job and prospects are so bleak. I vow however to keep my chin up and strive to succeed, let us hope some employment opportunities come around as well.
Now I come to the Philosopher of the Week and I want to introduce one of my all time favorites and maybe my favorite philosopher of all time Baruch Spinoza who once Albert Einstien was asked if he believed in God and Einstien said I believe in the God of Spinoza. I think I do to, and to show how brilliant he was he once said, "Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many." If it isn’t accepted by many it usually is correct! Spinoza also wrote," Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men." I wonder if the President is feeling this way sometimes. Well I bid you all farwell and until tomorrow goodbye...