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June 08, 2010
I, Ace of Spades, Also Care Deeply About Obamatrina
1. I care deeply about the oil slick. It really bothers me. I'm not being sarcastic-- it does.
2. I have done absolutely nothing to stop or slow it.
I just wanted to point out that I match Obama 2-for-2 on this issue. So do most of you.
I guess I have to give White House staffers their props -- dubious props -- and admit that until now I do not remember having nightmares about Obamatrina; but then, I rarely remember dreams. So maybe they edge me on that point alone.
I cannot believe that the MFM is actually insisting the relevant storyline here is whether Obama merely cares about a disaster.
I will not bother to point out that the MFM was less-than-interested in whether Bush cared that 9/11 happened on his watch, or cared that the War in Iraq took a bloody awful turn. Except, you know, I just did point that out.
In what strange alternate reality did I awake, in which the standard of presidential performance isn't performance at all but "caring"?
I'm sorry-- when did this become even relevant, let alone determinative?
I feel like I'm being skull-fucked with the crazy-stick.
There are a great many things I care about. However, I do not actually do anything about them, partly out of apathy or laziness and partly out of futility-- I don't have the power to do anything about them.
I didn't realize that the President was as powerless as I was, such that the only dimension of debate should be how much he -- and I -- happen to care about an issue.