I recieved one of those inane forwards yesterday from a relative, and after showing it to the wife, she decided to make a full reply. I wanted to share it with you all.
The email is suppposedly from the president, and he is writing to let us know he is quitting his job (I wish). Here is her reply, all credits go to her:
My thoughts follow with the original in quotes:
" Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow
> Americans.' Not doing it this time. If the polls are any
> indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore."
If the polls are any indication, you don't speak for most Americans anymore. Maybe instead of ignoring them, you should be what you were voted to be, a REPRESENTATIVE for Americans.
"I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really
> not fellow Americans any longer."
cute two fold bull. First and foremost, invoke 9/11, the DEFINING MOMENT right?. Cause we all know, you've screwed it up from there. And now that we don't agree with you anymore, you say we're not Americans anymore? WE'RE Americans, and as our PRESIDENT you tell us we are NOT? And you're better then a dictator because......?
"There's been
> no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office."
Illegal war (if you didn't know, the US went above and beyond any international law in it's preemptive war with Iraq....how can we say that we expect the world to be accountable in the standing of an international court when we IGNORE it ourselves?), illegal wiretapping of citizens (if it wasn't illegal, why is the congress in the middle of debating on a law that gives past and future RETROACTIVE immunity to the telecom companies that went beyond FISA law in regarding the constitutionality of spying on American citizens?), torture (i'm sure innocent until proven guilty stands side by side with water-boarding), incompetence (he may not have got his dick sucked, but he certainly had enough information that we were going to be attacked before 9/11).
"The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people."
thanks mr. president. sure glad to know you care about us.
"I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really
> going on in the world."
Oh, you mean like how the whole of Iraq should pay for the terrorist threat you ignored? Or the reality that everyday you bomb the people of the middle east you create more of the enemies that you fear??
"Or of what's going on in this once-great
> nation of ours."
Like the breakdown of our Constitution. the governmental control that you claim to not want, you are creating every day with your databases and spying of american citizens. Do you honestly think that WE Americans don't know about the databases ? the police state tactics? the fact that our government can now, under YOUR WATCH, come into our homes and do searches without us even KNOWING about it?! You speak sooo much about not wanting government controlling our lives, and you do the VERY OPPOSITE! RFID chips??? Ever heard of them? If not, do some research, cause the Bush administration wants everyone to have an ID card with an RFID chip...this is not a conspiracy theory, it's reality.
"And the majority of you are too damned lazy to
> do your homework and figure it out."
No, Mr President, you like people who don't do their research. You don't like people that question you, hence the reason why you would treat the AMERICAN people the way you are in this letter.
"Polls show that the majority of
> you think the economy is in the tank."
Uhhh......yeah, because it IS.
"And that's despite record
> numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY
> homeowners."
Sub-prime mortgages much? More like record number of homeowners being FORECLOSED ON.
"Our
> unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton
> administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it
> doesn't seem to have sunk in."
As low as it ever was?? it helps when the administration changes the way they figure the numbers, eh? Loved when back in 2002 they changed fast food employes to being considered 'manufacturing jobs'...nothing like manufacturing a cheese burger.
"
> Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has
> rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are
> participating in these markets."
yeah, they are, and it's not necessarily because they want to (or most over, know about it). Pentions are becoming 401 stock market dividends, and then TANKING. Just because Walmart or GE's stock price goes up, doesn't mean that AMERICANS are reaping the benefits. Get that clear.
" Meanwhile, all you can do is
> whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to
> realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand
> in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy
> idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property
> than your economic security."
First off, people probably wouldn't 'whine' so much about gas prices if it wasn't a fact that the oil companies were reaping RECORD profits. That, Mr President, is what Americans term as PURE GREED. And Secondly, 'whining about polar bears' is more then just the animals. Your idea of global warming is "well atleast we'll get to drill in Alaska without all the ice problems". You claim that we dont' know about what is going on, but you REFUSE to listen to THOUSANDS of scientists and ecologists (the far majority, I might add, and probably a general consensus of) that agree what we are doing to this planet will come back to BITE US IN THE ASS.
"We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood
> for oil' thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've
> already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country
> go to hell."
Oh, you tried to. don't think we don't know about how the start of the war most of the military resources were put on protecting the iraqi ministry of oil. But that fell apart, didn't it? When the Iraqi people went fucking nuts and said "why the hell are you in our country????!" Insurgents are a pain in the ass, arn't they? People defending their own liberties arn't terrorists, and over 90% of the people that fight american occupation in Iraq ARE NOT AL QAEDA ALIGNED.
"And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap
> either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've
> easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be
> 'discovered.'"
that statement alone lays out the jingostic foreign policy ideals ("I could have beat you down bitch, but I didn't, did I?"). Maybe you honestly thought the American people would buy it, and they did, for a while. The fact remains that you had all the intelligence that told you Iraq and Saddam was NOT on immediate threat, and inspections showed they didn't have mass chem, bio, or nuclear weapons. You chose to ignore that because you and your Project for a New American Century buddies had their minds made up. But to try and lament that you could have done something more sinister, is absolutely appauling. Should we be grateful?
"Let me remind you that the rest of the
> world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also
> remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy
> before I came into office. Some guy named ' Clinton '
> established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?"
yeah, we did know that. The problem is that you don't think we understand the ideal of DIPLOMACY and dealing with things outside of having an out and out WAR. Ya know, the same reason why your father didn't continue on with the first Gulf War? He knew it would end up with guerilla conflict and a bunch of ethnic quandries that an occupation wouldn't be able to contain. And none of the other countries NOR the Clinton administration deemed Saddam an IMMEDIATE threat like you did. And none of them had a pre-invisioned idea of controlling the middle east resources, either.
"You
> idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy."
What's unique about someone or some group hating the US? the only thing unique is how many warnings were ignored and how many times we let 'our enemy' escape our grasp. It's almost as if our government allowed to happen to garner more controll over the American people.
"Back
> during the cold war, there were two major competing political and
> economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so
> because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as
> we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them."
I've always loved the labels. Millions of living and breathing people trying to survive just being "communists". So they had a different ideal then us, I never drank the kool-aid that told me they were going to take over the world. Just like I don't buy the crap that some ideological Muslims are trying to take over the world, either. If you wanna get me worried, lets talk about the Christian fundies. They're a little closer to home.
"> That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy
> don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd
> be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many
> of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill
> you, and the bastards are all over the globe."
ALL OVER THE GLOBE!!! Thats what you want. You want people to be scared of their own shadow, so they'll do whatever you say they should do for your protection. It's no different them mob rule, with you being mob. You still fail to address the fact that terrorists grow with every war you wage. And not because people want to become terrorists, but because they seen their friends and family being killed for NO GOOD GOD DAMNED REASON when they have no connection to terrorists, and are left to believe that America is working to be an EMPIRE. That is your legacy, Mr President, you have convinced the world that we Americans don't give a shit about anybody else. And THAT is what creates more enemies. They don't just wake up one day and say "I think I'll hate America today". \
"You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us
> here in the United States since September 11. But you're not."
We should be grateful that even though you ignored many warnings before 9/11 you're not ignoring them anymore?? Good try. Actually, after 9/11, I wasn't so much worried that we were going to be attacked again as I was about how much of my personal rights you were violating to compensate for your incompetence.
"That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of
> intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security
> people have worked to make sure of that."
You mean like Sibel Edmonds, who was an FBI translator that spoke infront of the 9/11 commission about the bueorcratic and corrupt dealings that left (and still to this day) leave our intelligence community ignornant? Or all of the FBI whistleblowers that have come out stated for a fact that this administration ignored purposeful information that would have stopped the 9/11 attacks? Or all the CIA officers that have come forward to show that our government honestly doesn't give a SHIT about Al Qaeda...they just like the fear angle of it all (and that it makes the Military Industrial Complex a whole ton of money).
"You're incapable of seeing
> things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do.
> You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops."
Actually, we'd like to see less people dying the name of progress. Cause, no matter how you'd like to paint those people, they're still humans, and NOT TERRORISTS. A few million Iraqi's displaces outside of Iraq (refugess), a few more internally displaced, and just about a million killed, with no really justifiable accomplishment other then the disposal of Saddam doesn't get us any closer to a victory. And I highly doubt Iraqi's will agree with your justification, no matter how long you wait. Basically, the Iraqi's are waiting for the next dictator to advance control....the only issue is if it's one that the US likes (via it's own foreign policy goals, not what is best for the Iraqi country). This, Mr President, is why the people are sick of you and your foreign policy. It's not so much that we are impatient, it's because you have proven to incompetent to see the forest before the trees.
"Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the
> enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you
> send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign,
> well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to
> a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing."
that right there is a dictators take on things. "don't like me, then you're supporting the enemy". that is NOT the way America works! And that is the very reason people are sick of you and your ideology.
"In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all
> over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York
> Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any
> smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol."
thats great, just claim that those who don't agree with you 'dumb'. Perfect way to connect. Also, Mr President, if you had any problem with the consolidation of media, why didn't you address that when you allowed for the amount of our media to be owned by any major corporation to be expanded??
"I could say more about your expectations that the government will
> always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to
> leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane
> approaching."
so cute to belittle the deaths of over a thousand people, especially when your "brownie on campus" was much more worried about whether or not he should roll his sleeves up during the tv interview to look 'busy'. I guess you forget taking responsibility, cause you really didn't mean to say it, eh?
I would address more of this insane forward, but I honestly need to get to bed. If you have any questions, please do send them along. It's this kind of jingoistic, end all bullshit that angers me. What kind of America do we live in that puts an "end all" to discussion? Not one that I live in. It's still a democracy, at least representative one. And any representative is accountable.
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