A God Forsaken Nation

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6630

A God Forsaken Nation
by Jaime O'Neill | Apr 8 2007

They're everywhere, those little plastic decals calling upon God to bless America, usually decorated with the American flag and accompanied by a bumper sticker urging other motorists to support our troops.

God bless America. In numbers beyond counting, we implore the Lord of All Things to shine his light down on us with little vehicular prayers that often don't seem at all supplicatory, but usually carry the air of a demand. God bless America, and be damn quick about it.

But it ain't working. In fact, there's much evidence to suggest that we're pissing Him off.

And how is God expressing his displeasure? Well, for a start, he's plagued us with a truculent idiot as our national leader, a man who, before he assumed office, had pretty much fucked up everything he ever touched, a patched-up lush who found sobriety without the corollary of wisdom some recovered drunks manage to find, a rich kid with a ticket to ride easy through life, without much expenditure of sweat or serious thought, always accompanied by a coterie of sycophantic supporters willing to tell him how terrific he is and eager to be the proud recipients of the nicknames he enjoyed bestowing on them, nicknames like "Turd Blossom" for the man known as his brain (giving new meaning to the phrase "shit for brains"), "Fredo" for his Attorney General and all-around toady, and "Brownie," for the minion he put in charge of emergencies.

It's likely that God Himself disavows responsibility for the fact that this man is in charge. God may have made him, but we elected him as our president-twice-with all his myriad faults on ample display: the smirk, the inability to speak a sentence in English, the arrogance, the ignorance, and the unwavering allegiance to the rich and powerful above all else. The Bush presidency is surely a prime example of the idea of the self-punishing mistake. So, when a nation, favored by the rights and privileges of democracy, fails in the responsibilities to those rights and privileges by mal-educating its young and mal-practicing its political process, then the punishment God delivers to us is venal, inept, spirit-destroying, reckless, and stupid leadership, which makes for a venal, inept, reckless, stupid, and increasingly spirit-dead nation, moping around and waiting for a new election cycle when the curse of these times might be lifted. Bitching about how bad things are in these circumstances is kind of like a drunk bitching about his hangover. Sympathy is hard to find for self-inflicted ailments.

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[ms liberty]

1. Oh my! K&R! n/t

[Mnemosyne]

2. Very nice, though we did

NOT elect that imbecile, shit for brains.

knr

[snappyturtle]

3. K&R God is being implored......

in Indiana. My ninety year old mother was all excited last Thursday telling me that the next day she was going to pick up her new license plate that says: In God We Trust. Also says, "Everyone's getting them"....which sounded like the argument I tried when I wanted a bucket purse in the late fifties! It didn't work....I so wanted to ask Mom on Thursday if she was getting the plate because she thinks she can't trust bush any longer and instead is giving her confidence over to God to get us out of this mess?

[POAS]

4. Now snappy, remember

the fifth commandment!

Hey wait a minute, 90 years old and still driving? I think the license plate sentiment is necessary in this case!

[snappyturtle]

5. Oh absolutely it's a good thing for Mom. I told her, "That's

great Mom." She's truly remarkable.....lives alone,drives, takes care of the "old" people,etc. I told YOU, what I wanted to say. I just vented because in my statement to Mom I was being hypocritical and I don't like to do that. I guess my response was in the good lie genre---a little white one!

[Straight Shooter]

6. God made Little Boots as much as God made Damien.

Nope. Sometimes what appears to be the work of the devil is actually the work of the devil, if you believe in such things as God and the devil.

I just blame Republicans and their limbic-brain-driven motivations.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that bush was never elected. Like everything else in his life, he had it handed to him by slick maneuvers, he didn't deserve it, and as usual he's totally fugged things up. That's just his nature. As my mother used to say, leopards don't change their spots.

[Vidar]

7. A magnificent editorial recommended.