The coming obscenity

There is only one word to describe the coming $50,000,000 coronation – OBSCENE! With hundreds of thousands of tsunami victims without homes and hungry, with probably just as many in Iraq, with genocide in Africa, and near genocide in Palestine, with rampant poverty in the United States and most of the world, with forty million people in the United States without medical insurance, with the national debt at unprecedented levels, and with virtually no hope at all to get out of Iraq without the further loss of hundreds or thousands of innocent lives, to spend fifty million on a coronation ceremony in Washington, D.C. is simply unacceptable. It is so obviously unacceptable you would think that even the morons in charge would realize it. But apparently not. Remember, we are dealing with COMPASSIONATE conservatives. This is the most sickening example of human behavior, short of the actual killing going on, that I can imagine. Where is the outrage? Why are we tolerating this absolute travesty? What is wrong with us?

On top of this is the fact that Alberto Gonzales will almost certainly be confirmed as our next Attorney General. How can we turn him down? A Hispanic boy raised in poverty who pulled himself up by his bootstraps and became a high-powered lawyer counseling the President of the United States? Never mind that he thinks Presidential power is totally unlimited, torture is acceptable, and you need not be overly concerned with those who are about to be put to death. A President should have the Attorney General he wants – BALDERDASH! The President has an obligation to the country and the rest of the world. To have as your Attorney General someone who has claimed torture and incarceration without trial is legitimate is plain and simply unacceptable. Oh, I keep forgetting, the rest of the world, along with half or more of the U.S. population, are not important. The King must have his way¸ God has told him what is right and anyone who thinks otherwise is obviously a communist or a traitor. Perhaps it is true, we get the President we deserve. Aaaaaagh! Tell me this is all just a nightmare.