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Stop blaming Obama
The Daily Vex ^ | 08/08/2010 | Devon W

Posted on 08/08/2010 9:49:05 PM PDT by HushTX

Stop blaming Obama.

I have noticed a growing trend to attribute every crisis or failure to President Obama. Out of control spending, the leak in the gulf, sexual education in public schools are all Obama’s fault.

Except, not really.

While it is easy to blame the man in the White House for any number of problems in this country, and it is tempting to praise the Commander in Chief when things go right, there are more players in this grand game than the President alone. The obvious next step is to look at the President’s cabinet, those he has appointed to those roles, but that is not exactly the point I’m getting at. Sure, it’s easy to say that they are responsible for problems under the jurisdiction of their office, but that is as dishonest a response as placing all blame on President Obama.

Congress- the House and Senate- are obviously a mess, and are guilty of bringing on so much of the frustration, ills and woes that face us today. The dangerous legislation they enact, the denial of accountability, the rampant ignorance and the sheer lack of understanding that plague our legislative branch have put the United States between Barack and a hard place, but even they are not the end of the line when seeking someone to blame.

My fellow Americans, I am blaming you. Everything we have today is your fault. It is my fault. It is our fault.

We voted these people into office. We, as voters, have allowed them to lapse into untouchable incumbency, and our own ignorance has fueled their abusive corruption of our Constitution and legislative system. It doesn’t matter if you vote Democrat or Republican, Green party or any other third party. The fact is, you don’t do your damn job as citizens. Even I have failed in this regard at times. We are all to blame for the state of this country.

Those who are in a fit over President Obama’s birth certificate need to realize that they had a chance to address the situation before he was elected. Sure, the few meager attempts made were blocked by those who wanted Mr. Obama to win, but the avenues of pursuit were hardly exhausted, and the reality is that this was not a logical means by which to prevent his election. Instead, producing a viable and electable candidate to oppose him would have been more effective and likely would have succeeded. Instead, the choice was John McCain, the least electable Republican I knew of at the time. Conservatives and Republicans, you let the left wing media dictate who your candidate was, and you deserved to lose.

More importantly, conservatives and Republicans are at fault for not holding each other accountable. This “better Republican than Democrat” nonsense is why the Right is suffering so much. The value of the candidate is outweighed by his or her party affiliation, and somehow people are surprised when the Republican Party isn’t conservative.

Republicans, really, get most of the blame. I don’t mean Republican Senators or Representatives, or any other public servant. I mean all people who identify themselves as Republicans. You have allowed the truth of the party’s history to be hidden and forgotten, and allowed your opposition to take credit for matters of historical significance. You have allowed your opposition to hide its involvement in matters of social consequence, and stand idly by while supports of the Democratic Party attack you as racist, bigots, enemies of the common people. I would wager it’s because you are all ignorant of the facts I refer to, and I can’t say that I feel sorry for any of you.

By no means do I mean to claim that the Democratic Party is a nest of vipers waiting to strike. There are a handful of people within its ranks that truly want the best for America, and a handful that mean well. I would say that the ratio is about the same as the few within the Republican Party that are sincere in their desire to help the country. Unfortunately, there are so many who are misguided and lied to by the “elite” of our country- Republican and Democrat alike- that nobody can really see which way the wind is blowing anymore.

A major failing of the average American is a lack of reliable information… a lack caused by laziness, not the absence of such information. Liberals tend to rely on sources such as CNN and CBS while conservatives lambaste them for their blind adherence to the message of the mainstream media. But what about conservatives who only go to Fox News? I tend to get a majority of my news from Fox, but I don’t limit myself to a single source. I fact check, I challenge the information, I research and I dig. I realize I am not the only one, but those of us who do are in the minority. Even with all my effort, I still get things wrong sometimes. How much worse off are those who don’t even try?

Here’s a news flash: Fox News is biased! Every source of information is biased, period. The trick is in identifying the bias, because finding that can give as much information as the article or story itself. Looking at the whole picture will reveal a wealth of information you cannot find any other way. I have added the Huffington Post, a second tier news source with an obvious and deliberate liberal bias, to my daily reading. While some of what I read infuriates me, I still read it daily. I don’t know many liberals who make a point of following Fox News, despite its right wing slant. For that matter, I don’t know many conservatives who make a point of following liberal publications.

How exactly do you propose to address the “agenda” of your opposition if you don’t know what they are saying? If you only pick a handful of articles to look at, specifically the ones that are obviously and openly fallacious, and limit your response to insulting them, how do you intend to fix the problems associated with the media’s attempts to dictate public opinion?

The media’s agenda driven corruption and departure from journalistic purity is your fault, America. Instead of holding so-called journalists accountable, the average American is content to listen to what is deemed “worth reporting,” and soaks in the ideology the media elite want to perpetuate. The same is happening with fans of Fox News and talk radio. There is regurgitation without contemplation, and it’s killing our country. Yet, instead of calling each other out for this, Americans try to avoid conflict and try not to “make anyone feel bad.” Sometimes people need to feel bad. Sometimes that’s what it takes to spur them to correct undesirable behavior. Conservatives love to say that Congress is not supposed to be full of elites, but rather it was meant to be a body of common people representing the best interests of common people. If that’s the case, why did we let things get so out of hand? More important, why do we complain about it instead of fixing it?

I don’t have a solution. I don’t have a magic fix that will put everything back the way “it should be.” But I do intend to hold myself and my peers accountable. That means I don’t tolerate this “blame Obama” mentality that is going around. Nobody should settle for pinning blame on the President, even if you can see his involvement. Hold the President accountable for his part in this mess, but hold your elected officials on all levels accountable. Hold your friends and family accountable. Hold yourself accountable. Don’t let people sit in their ignorance. Don’t let them make ridiculously off base claims without challenging them. Don’t settle for citation of sources that don’t give the full picture. Do a little research and have some facts to work with, and use those facts in discussion with others.

And make sure you are friends with people who don’t agree! They will be your biggest resource when developing your arguments and challenging your ideas. They may even be your best friends.

What it all comes down to is that we can see the writing on the wall. We see what our "leaders" are doing, how our representatives are betraying us. We get all up in arms, but every time an election cycle rolls around we put ourselves in the same boat. We do it to ourselves. Then we blame Congress. We blame the President. We blame the liberals, the conservatives, the Democrats, the Republicans. We fight amongst ourselves, and let the people at the top encourage our division so they can stay in power.

Are we really this stupid?

Quit whining, do something about it, stop shifting the blame. If you don't want Obama and the Democrats to pursue their agenda, get them out of office. If you happen to believe in the Democrats and their agenda, make sure they stay in power.

Stop throwing accusations and insults, and use some facts to sway others to your side. Listen to the opposition. If you're really right, you have nothing to worry about.

What it all comes down to is that Americans have failed America, and it's time for us to be held accountable.


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To: HushTX

Its ironic that they say stop blaming Obama but they are perfectly willing to blame Bush who hasn’t been president for almost 2 years.


41 posted on 08/08/2010 10:27:10 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: beckysueb

Well, to be fair, I’m not exactly defending Obama, so much as I’m holding myself and other voters accountable.

Would you say a necessary inclusion to this is a mention of the tendency for libtards to blame Bush, and if so how exactly would you suggest I do that without detracting from the intended message of citizens responsibility?


42 posted on 08/08/2010 10:29:20 PM PDT by HushTX (quit whining)
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To: HushTX

Here is the Vendome Cliff note to better writing.

Write everything, read it and start cutting until you have the true essence of what you are trying to say.

Otherwise, it’s writing that is on the fly and is what it is.

Also, your title sucked and you can tell by the responses they didn’t bother to read your article.

LOL


43 posted on 08/08/2010 10:29:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: HushTX
I was working my butt off for that idiot McWhatshisname. Not because I could stand him but because I lived through the 1960s and I knew what was coming. Nobody understood the Malcolm X thing and the Angela Davis thing. They were all focused on Dr. MLK. But some of us understood what Moscow was doing in the Black Community (Soul, Brother!) and it scared the crap out of us. We screamed from the rooftops but Alinsky and his ilk know how to marginalize us and keep us from having an impact. Until now... These are horrifically dangerous people who are hell bent on destroying the United States and they have big money behind them.
44 posted on 08/08/2010 10:32:04 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Vendome

Yeah, the title was intended to get a rise out of people. I didn’t anticipate the rest to go unread, however. Stupid of me, given that anything like that is typically ignored here.

Of course, given the theme of my blog, the rising blood pressure I’m noticing is keeping with the theme. Just not exactly how I intended.

I think my points are valid, but am curious how “the opposition” will respond when they read it.


45 posted on 08/08/2010 10:33:05 PM PDT by HushTX (quit whining)
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To: scott7278

I blame 0bama for logging me in! And either beebing my stuner or stuning my beeber, which ever comes first.

I will agree on one foundational point of this vanity.

Running John McCain was about 1/2 inch short of arrogantly saying “we (repubs) don’t give a crap about the country or its people and we can do whatever we want”. Maybe that’s a viewpoint that benefits from a smelly pile of hindsight, but IMO most Republican leaners and conservatives found themselves unable to get excited about so mediocre a candidate. And understandably so. That 0bama won with so thin a resume and so little sizzle was surprising to me, maybe because I was at least partially as complacent as the RNC who chose McSlug to run as Bob Dole redux.

But we only get two to choose from and what little sizzle 0bama had, it worked.

If all it takes is a decade to undo the damge currently being done to the US, it will be evidence yet again of how blessed is the United States.


46 posted on 08/08/2010 10:36:09 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder ("No longer can we make no mistake for too long". Barack d****it 0bama, 2009, 2010, 2011.)
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To: HushTX
Those who are in a fit over President Obama’s birth certificate need to realize that they had a chance to address the situation before he was elected.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We here on FR raised it and roared it to the high heavens. The Journolist made sure it was censored.The issue did not reach daylight until after the inauguration when the law suits began.

Of course we blame Obama and we will continue to do so.The more we blame him, the sooner he will be gone, and we will have a chance to fix this mess.

The MSM defence of Obama at all costs is not only growing thin, its making America angry. If they keep it up, there won't be even one print media outlet left, they won't be able to earn enough circulation to survive.

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47 posted on 08/08/2010 10:36:32 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes......is a fascist... ..He meets every diagnostic of history.)
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To: April Lexington

Then I can honestly say you represent the minority, but I thank you for it. How do you address the lack of action and accountability of the greater US populace? Or, I suppose more accurately, of conservatives in America? If we really are in the right, which I believe we are, then how did we give so much ground to people who cannot scrape together enough facts to fit in a Happy Meal?


48 posted on 08/08/2010 10:36:39 PM PDT by HushTX (quit whining)
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To: HushTX
I consider myself to be partially to blame.

I'd say repentance is good. Git over it and get back to work electing ANYTHING but socialists and communists...

49 posted on 08/08/2010 10:37:15 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: HushTX

All I know is they blamed Bush for every single thing that happened to every body and everything right up to this day so now its time to blame Obama. As far as blaming ourselves, I didn’t vote for him and I tried my darndest to get people to see through him. Sometimes I suceeded. Sometimes I didn’t. We may share some of the blame for not trying hard enough. But I think the media was determined to get him elected and we were overpowered.


50 posted on 08/08/2010 10:38:17 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: HushTX
Obama is a clueless dweeb.

I blame those who elected him knowing full well he was a clueless dweeb.

51 posted on 08/08/2010 10:38:26 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Candor7
We here on FR raised it and roared it to the high heavens.

Did a darn good job of it, you did. I dismissed it. Figured it would go nowhere and was a distraction. Now its becoming part of the culture, one of those things everybody just knows. Democrats are saying he wasn't born here. My guess is how alien to American tradition and politics Obama is, as people see everything they've taken for granted dismantled by Obama, the belief will grow, especially among Democrats. They need an excuse. "He's not one of us" will do just fine.

52 posted on 08/08/2010 10:42:28 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: HushTX
Most Americans are so self absorbed that they “don't follow politics.” They haven't a clue when they vote. They hear a commercial or some union buddy trashes Bush and they vote Dem. These clueless fools don't want to be laughed at and they think its ok to use “government” money to help the “poor.” So, they are like sheep. The Dems figured this out in the 1930s and again in the 1960s. It took a while but now, with our deteriorated public education system (which is NOTHING but Leftist propaganda for 12-16 years)and a welfare mentality, conservatives are in the minority. So... we lose elections. The only way to make the clueless American voter vote conservative is to show them that they are low class fools supporting an elite who wouldn't “date their daughters...” Another Great Depression might just do the trick...Power belongs too those who know how to use it and the Dems know very well how to use it. Why do you ask?
53 posted on 08/08/2010 10:42:32 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I remember watching one of the early Republican debates, and even though I was a Duncan Hunter/Fred Thompson guy, I was just thankful that there was no way McDweeb was going to get the nomination with that bad attitude and goofy voice.

Oh, how naive I was!


54 posted on 08/08/2010 10:42:58 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: HushTX
I'll stop blaming Obama and the government when “ We the People “ have a firm boot planted across their throats and make them and the republicans both equal partners in the crime of Treason , Theft and the Breaking of the Oath of Office ....

The last four years of Bush raised my blood pressure to new levels Obama is an outright liar and crook and so far “We the People “ don't seem to give a crap about nothing but getting along ....

Tyranny of the minority is Popular this season ....

55 posted on 08/08/2010 10:43:50 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: HushTX

The opposition won’t respond. The ones with intelligence will marginalize by their observation “Well, at least it was introspective”.

You are 29 and tired?


56 posted on 08/08/2010 10:45:01 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: HushTX

Before I even saw this thread I started watching a sunday night Bluray movie that was in the bargain bin at Walmart, it is “The Manchurian Candidate” with Denzel Washington.

Coincidence?


57 posted on 08/08/2010 10:45:40 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: April Lexington

You want more educated voters? Eliminate withholding and grab the popcorn...


58 posted on 08/08/2010 10:45:56 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: HushTX

I’m smarter then you, I did not vote for him.

I knew this was what we were going to get with this ........
in Washington DC.


59 posted on 08/08/2010 10:46:20 PM PDT by TrumpisRight (Proud Moosehead....)
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To: April Lexington

I ask because I want to improve the means by which I address this issue. My personal experience only goes so far, so the input of people at Free Republic is important to me.

Does exposing these facts and forcing our peers to recognize them count as holding them accountable?


60 posted on 08/08/2010 10:48:30 PM PDT by HushTX (quit whining)
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