A Political Spew ...

I think that many people are wayyyy too stuck on the labels in politics ... instead of looking at individual issues ... I know people that both hate and love the president that would actually agree with each other on almost every single issue ... but they’re stuck on the label of democrat or republican ... I am neither ... because I balance each issue and politician as they stand alone ... I also am over the name calling, stone throwing, and bullying based on the labels ... if you want to criticize the other side use hard facts ... not rumors .. and not just some derogatory statement ... remember that these people were elected to office ... so the majority of the people wanted them there ... I also find it interesting how people don't understand how the three branches of our government work and blame one branch when another is to blame ... or really all of them ... because it's designed to have checks and balances ... and it does ... I guess all and all I am proud to be an American (especially today) ... and proud of our abilities to be free and make choices ... and that is what we should do ... not just say ... oh he's good or bad based on his political party or some rumor we heard ... we have a right in this country to think for ourselves ... and to vote on that ... to follow any political party blindly is really quite idiotic … regardless of which party you affiliate yourself with …. If you want to call the president (whether Bush or Obama or whatever president present, past or future it happens to be) an idiot or stupid or unpatriotic … be able to back it up … but actually … in a more intelligent manner … why don’t you start with your back up … and not lower yourself to name calling … or to uninformed statements …

I have seen so much lately where the president has been blamed for things he has no control over … and things that are twisted and contorted to a point that they’re nearly unrecognizable …. One of the biggest is that Obama wants to cut military pay … where on earth did anyone get this from? … he vowed not to freeze military pay along with other federal pay (despite heavy protesting from several democratic congressmen) … and he proposed a 1.4% increase in pay which while smaller than usual is in line with the mathematical equation that every president since 1972 has used … with one exception … when Clinton was president and he proposed no pay increase for military … but guess what? Guess who has the real power on this subject? … The legislative branch … not the executive branch … when Clinton proposed no pay raise … congress went
ahead and gave the military a 2% raise anyway … but the more important factor is that the proposal was based on a mathematical equation … one that Reagan, Bush & Bush used, along with Clinton, with that one year exception …. To come up with the 1.4% number … Also, did you know that the Department Of Defense … the Pentagon themselves … asked for the raise to be less? …. That Obama’s proposal exceeded the amount the Department of Defense wanted it to be …. Because they want their budgeted money to go to other things …. Facts people, facts …. Next issue; gas prices … the number one reason before this weekend that people stated that Obama’s approval rating was falling was because of gas prices … okay … so I’m wondering when exactly it was that supply and demand and the cost of barrels of oil was directly controlled by a president … indirectly maybe there are some things that can be done … but I will say that in 1995 I paid $1.30 a gallon for gas ... and there have been three presidents between then and now … and really this is the first time I’ve heard people flat out blaming a president for the gas prices … Now … the budget and the near government shutdown …. That wasn’t the president either … that again … was the legislative branch of the government … and republicans and democrats not agreeing with each other … the president just said basically figure it out agree on it … or there won’t be a budget at all … which is what ANY president would basically be required to do under the same circumstances ….

This is actually just a handful of things that have come up …. And I am defending a man that I didn’t vote for … but I have the head on my shoulders that I choose to use to actually find out the facts for myself instead of listening to rumors … no president will please everyone …. But facts are facts … issues are issues … ignoring that just because his political symbol is the wrong animal is just kind of dumb …