Wednesday, March 05, 2008

"Hope for an Alternative"

..that's the title of a "letter to the editor" at the Journal-Times of Racine, Wisconsin by one Angie Smucker. Miss Smucker is either a master of snark or a political genius; 'cause with a mere hundred-odd words she rips the clothes off the man whom would be Emperor, and exposes his intellectual nudity:

I agree with Kim Morrison that Barack Obama would be a great president. I have hope that he can provide free health insurance for everyone.

I have hope that he can bring our soldiers home and make the world a safer place. I have hope that he can protect Americans from poverty by printing more money at the mints.

And, I have hope that he can make me a taller, more attractive, wealthier person, immune to all illnesses. The best part is that all of these will be accomplished at absolutely no cost to me.

Some skeptics would say that he can’t do these things because he hasn’t had enough leadership experience, foreign policy experience, or government experience. Some would say that Obama can’t provide for all our needs without doubling taxes. And, some would say that he hasn’t provided one piece of a specific plan to reach these goals.

Well, to those people I ask, “Where is your hope?”

All these years I’ve been creating accomplishments and gatherine experience to list on my resume. From now on, I’ll just list my hopes and plans. All that work was so unnecessary.

Angie Smucker
Racine

Love ya, Angie....

1 comment:

Erica said...

This reminds me that I should simply move on every time I happen to peruse through "Readers' Comments" on a news story about politics.

I am no pundit, as you know, but the lack of informedness (it's a word now) about our candidates, and the skewed priorities of Americans ("gimme, gimme, gimme")...I'd be lying if I didn't say that a tomahawk wedged in my frontal lobe is a less scary prospect than the America they are hoping to create.

It's one thing when you are a kid and your parents give you an allowance, but peeps need to grow up, get a job and learn how to support their own damned selves, instead of relying upon a government-subsidized allowance.

Chutzpadik.