Re- Wake up America!
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Date: 2008-04-08, 12:42PM EDT
I have not heard such vitriolic feminist jingoism since my heady days at Georgetown University. While reading your post I was readily reminded of the shameless self absorbed event seeking individuals that used to caterwaul in “red square” (Georgetown’s Universities “free speech zone”). I have to ask, do you really believe the statements you made? I ask this because if your comments where made in earnest they smack of some one who possesses gender specific anger issues more then likely stemming from some unresolved childhood trauma. Aside from that personal observation your misandristic ranting is full of logical fallacies, such fallacies to include “correlation equates to causation” and “appeal to emotion”. Regardless of your motives, let us unpack some of the more sophomoric statements you made shall we?
“Isn't it about time we Americans woke up and voted for the right people?”
Aside form your misandristic rubric of whether or not a candidate possesses a “vagina” between their legs what specific indexes would you use to measure a candidates legitimacy?
“We have a president who has allowed our country to be one of the most disrespected countries around.”
This comment stems from your misconception that the image held by other actors in the world system was not competitive / hostile in nature prior to this administration being elected into office. Further if you ever took a geo politics / international relations course you would know that the relevance regarding the perception of legitimacy is directly correlative to the relative position of power between the perceiver and the perceive. In short the view of the United States held by other actors is not in large part due to this administrations policy, rather such views are indicative of the structural nature regarding the world system coupled with the competitive aspect of human nature.
“Our economy is terrible and it's not getting any better.”
It is your miss guided conclusion that the potential economic down turn is due to the president possessing a penis? If there is more to your statement then just “genitalia” then which of the current administrations policies are you citing as the cause of current United States economic problems?
“Gas prices are out of control.”
Again you think this is due to the fact that we have a man as president? Let me help you my misguided misandrist. The price of a gallon of gas stems from a combination of the following factors Crude Oil 57 % + Refining Process 18 % + Retail Sales/Distribution 11 % + Taxes 14 % = price you pay for a gallon of gas at the pump. Let us deal with the largest contributor shall we?
Oil: The rise regarding the price of oil is in large part due to three contributing factors. First is the rise of global demand as middle and lesser developed countries become more industrialized. Then there is the fact that that most of the easily accessible conventional sources of oil have already been tapped. This is followed by the devaluation of the United States dollar (devaluation in large part due to both trade and public deficits). The factor which contributes the least is the 10 dollar premium added on to the price of oil from regional instability in the Middle East. Read at most our interventionist foreign policy constitutes approximately 11.7 % regarding the rise of oil prices. Keeping this percentage in mind while taking into account that oil represents 57 % of the currently $ 3.60 price for a galleon of gas the most our foreign policy represents regarding the rise of gas prices is around 24 cents a galleon.
“Our young men and women are getting killed everyday in Iraq - and for what? Weapons of Mass Destruction that never existed?”
Your comment is yet another logical fallacy specifically an “appeal to emotion”. I also find your position that weapons of mass destruction never existed in Iraq odd. I find this statement odd in light of the fact that Sadam has used chemical weapons against his own people. Even if we where to frame your comment specifically within contemporary United States interventionist policy in Iraq, your statement is still inaccurate seeing as coalition forces found 500 shells containing still lethal mustard and nerve agent. (1) Let me remind you that possession of such materials constitutes an Iraqi material breach of UN Resolution 687 – that’s the 1991 cease fire between the coalition and Iraq. Said cease fire was contingent upon among other things Iraq giving up ALL its chemical / biological weapons. Notice this resolution does not say some, it does not say most, it does not say best attempt it says “ALL”, with the burden of proof being on the previous Iraqi Baathists regime. I could go on to explain to you the legitimacy of preventative warfare, how intelligence agencies measure intent citing the dulfer report ect, sadly from the sophomoric nature of your post I feel that such discussions are way above your head.
“It's time we voted in a women for president. Enough is enough and it's time that we stand up and say something. Do you really think that Obahma or McCain are any better? They're men - of course they're not! Vote for Hillary! Stop letting men run our country - they are destroying us because of their greed and sexual deceit.”
I can only imagine the toxic cloud of sexist rhetoric that hovers above your place of residence. I suggest you seek some professional help to resolve your gender specific anger issues, as left unchecked they will continue to poison your quality of life.
Jeff
"U.S. Hegemnony Without End..... Amen"
1. http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/pubfiles/iraqwmd.pdf
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