I’ve really disconnected myself from the news lately. I’ll read stories about “happenings” such as flooding or that “balloon boy” hoax. But overall I’ve been trying to stay away from all the cnn, msnbc and especially fox that I used to watch or be exposed to while my hubby watched it.

Even in my disconnected state, I still pick up things such as how Obama won the Nobel peace prize and how everyone bashed on him for it. Seriously? I mean. I’m not saying the guy fixed everything in the 10 months he’s been in office, but he’s totally changed the tone our government is saying to the rest of the world.

I mean, let’s be honest here. When Bush went to meet with world leaders, they knew he wasn’t there to be diplomatic. He was there to remind everyone that we have lots of weapons, and we just a LOVE usin’ ‘em! The last 8 years was about waging wars and nation building. Obama doesn’t seem to be interested in pushing the war machine forward quite as fast.

Seems reasonable then, that the people judging that award, recognized the fact that without him being our newly elected leader… there is no telling how many people may have been killed or how many more fronts we are looking to wage wars.

Well anyway, I got off on a tangent there. My point basically was that no matter what President Obama does, says, wins.. there’s this huge chorus of people attacking him for it. Everyone forgets that the last 8 years fucked up shit so royally, that it’s probably going to take obama 8 years to fix it all.

Somehow with the democrats winning the last election, came a wave of hatred from the Republicans side that I never realized existed. The talking heads they have on tv are just the nastiest people I’ve ever seen. They stir up disdain and tell people outright lies about the government and have half the country ready to revolt.

So I have to ask.. To what end? What is the purpose of this? All you are doing is weakening our standing in the world by trashing our president like you do. The world is losing confidence in our country as a world leader. Our dollars value is crashing.

Throughout history, the easiest way to control people, is to get them to hate each other. If they are busy killing each other, they have no time to worry about what the government is doing.

We are taking our eye off the prize people. Hating each other doesn’t work. We are americans. We are supposed to be hang tough people who band together for the common good. That’s the kind of spirit we need now!

Instead of bashing President Obama for wanting to have more community volunteers, see what you can do to help out in your community. Even if it’s just something simple like adding a few cans of soup to a food banks shelf.

Somewhere along the way, our American Spirit was lost. We lost our charity, our hope, our honor.. and we replaced it with hate and dishonor. We’ve entered a time where an elected official will interupt the President while he’s addressing them and the nation and disrespect him by calling him a Liar. Where an honors student can’t walk down the street without having his head bashed in for no reason by a pack of animals…who just happen to be other teenagers his age.

Where did our civility go? Where did our sense of doing the right thing go? What has become of us?

It really makes me sad to see my country in the state it is in now. So divided. So full of violence and hate.

Imagine if all that energy, could be refocused on improving our country instead of destroying it.

Why is something like free healthcare, or free college or any number of other programs that would actually help us to grow as a society, labeled as bad for us?? Bashed in the media. Torn down and made to seem like the worst thing that could ever happen to us? It’s utter lunacy. You know you want to go to the Doctor when you get sick! You know having a college degree will get you a better job. Why on earth would you be against things like that? Honestly! Sit and ask yourself what harm would come from you being better educated or healthier? Because I’ll be damned if I understand it.

If we want to see our American Dream flushed right down the toilet, then keep on truckin’ right down the road we are on now. Keep listening to all the hate mongers on Fox News telling you that the government is evil and wants to control you by giving you things to improve your life. But know at the end of the day that people like Glenn Beck and Bill O’rielly are laughing at how easy it is to lie to you and get you to believe it. I guess the old P.T. Barnum quote still holds true. There is a sucker born every minute and if you’re bad mouthing our president and doing everything you can to see him “fail” you are that sucker.