Why We Fight

Last night I was watching the DVD- Why We Fight...Serena came in for the last third and watched it with me. I bought the movie a month or two ago and she told me that she had no desire to watch it cuz it would just make her mad.It is a very good movie. I found myself laughing and cringing while I watched. I saw the administration and the President in a strange way. Funny- for the first four years of his Presidency I was mad at him and his cabinet. Now I am indifferent. It comes from a disappointment in the people of this country. You all knew he was a liar... that he was a terrible leader who had turned the world against us... (the scene that sticks out to me was the million people who took to the streets of Tehran, Iran on Sept 12 in support of the people of the United States).... Everybody knew all of this and still re-elected him proudly.It is weird how proud I am that I was right. That when Bush's approval rating was at 90%, some of my friends and I were in that lonely ten percent.Now nobody wants to talk to about it. Obama represents the other side of this recent history. It is a new guy who we think we can trust... that is gonna do right and make us proud. He is our apology to the world. He is white America saying, "we don't' trust Whitey no more."Barak is an awesome politician. And while I am making fun of him please don't be making it all racial. First of all, I am making fun of the white half- so that isn't racist. Barak Obama is Bi-racial / multi racial. He is the future. Someone who can golf and dance.He's the next step on the evolutionary chart. A hybrid. Like Halle Berry, Tiger Woods, Lenny Kravitz, and Colin Powell.I love it, I am part Irish, part Lebanese, part other stuff.I think this multi racial future is the way to go. Barak will also end that whole worry the generation before mine had with Bi-racial children, "What are the other kids gonna say to him in school?"They are going to say- 'hey, aren't you the President?'Barak is your typical politician shaking hands, signing autographs and kissing baby's mama's....... Folks!!! you see, cuz he's.... Folks.He also does that make outlandish promises that he can't possibly keep thing.I am old enough that I could have been anything I could dream of in life- a professional athlete, a lawyer, scientist.... President. WHAT HAPPENED!My friend, the very funny Bobbie Oliver, has a premise we were talking about- there is a story out of Kenya that along with all the atrocities there has also been a problem of people hate texting. Hate texting? How do you text "dllnnuu gguulnk chickapee" ...hatefully?I think the wall that is being built on the Mexican border should be done as financially responsible as possible and out of as much recycled material as we can. We should start by using pieces of the Berlin wall.Oh the irony. One- we know it works, and two- not as many Mexicans want to sneak into Germany.Thomas Edison had to fail a thousand times before he succeeded. It takes a lot of failure to be a success. Do you know what else it also takes a lot of failure to be? A failure.What if I was supposed to realize I am failure at the fifteen hundred mark.How would you like to have been Edison's girlfriend, or a woman who told him she wasn't interested. I wasn't stalking her your honor, There is actual scientific proof that to succeed you sometimes need to fail one thousand times.Serena is voting for Ron Paul or not at all.She watched the rest of the movie... then looked across the couch and said, "I can't believe you are not talking about this any more in your act. How did you just stop talking about that shit? No one who is great and someone you admire in comedy or life would have just stopped talking about it."She is right. But damn, my friend John Bizarre is just saying fuck it and moving out of the country. Sometimes you get tired of banging your head against a wall. I like Sports Center and Seinfeld reruns too much for that. She is right though. Hopefully I will figure out a way to be funny about Peace, about the corporate war machine and the destructive power of a foreign policy run by greed and force for the last fifty plus years.Or I can talk about how uncomfortable being around other people makes me, and how I deal with pain, sorrow, fear and being uncomfortable through humor.... how I like to diffuse pain in my life with jokes and laughter. My mother told me that she was worried about the fact that Obama went to some Islamic fundamentalist school as a child and she is worried because his father might have been a radical Muslim. Um mom... first of all the school wasn't that? and, you are a radical Christian. So you are the more present danger.Obama's main competition after Clinton is John McCain.Obama is optimistic, hopeful, futuristic, charismatic... McCain is against torture. He spent four years as a POW being tortured. Imagine the impact on him this experience has had. He is adamant that our country should not use torture against our enemies. He has stood up against this administration as it has ignored the international laws and bent the lines to fit their own desires. He has stressed that torturing our enemies makes us all less safe, that it is wrong and unnecessary. I disagree with John McCain and agree with the Bush administration.I get a lot of flack from my liberal friends but I am Pro Torture. I believe that it can work to create great human beings of sound character and judgement. Torture works. Look for instance at John McCain. He is who he is, in part, because of what he went through as a prisoner. Would he be the same respected man he is- making the same difference?John McCain is ironically this country's worst anti-torture advocate.That torture is even a debate is hilarious to me. Really? Really? Why do people even need to speak out against torture? We haven't reached a point yet as Americans that we can't agree that torture is wrong..? holy shit... we got some work to do before we decide it is in the world's best interest for us to be running things and making the choices about ethic for mankind.it is laughable.The one kink I have come across in Obama's armor is the fact that he is a smoker who can't seem to quit. Two people I know have made it a point that they can't vote for him because of that. A flaw in his character that points to some greater weakness that disqualifies him to them.... seems ridiculous until you think...If Vladimir Putin and his gang of mafia thugs that are running Russia grab our next President during a visit to Moscow... who do you want sitting in the interrogation room? The guy who has been through four years of brutal torture and imprisonment, or the guy who might give up National secrets for a Marlboro.Funny if the reason Obama is winning is because he traded in Camel miles for votes.