A response to Time Magazine for picking us, the American people, for person of the year:
"American people, you should be ashamed! The president went and bit off a big piece of the Middle East and, like an eagle, brought it back to the nest and he's regurgitating it back into your mouths! Why won’t you swallow?!!
When history looks back at the actions of this president and the decisions he made regarding this war, you will go down as the most incompetent American people of all time. Deal with it!" ---Stephen Colbert
Lifted from The Daily Kos
And also, go here for an interesting debate in the same thread.
3 comments:
This epidemic that has plagued our environment, our politic, our reputation etc. is directly my fault. I am, after all, an American citizen, a member of what we haughtily call a democracy (even if it is a broken one). Hopefully taking responsibility and thereby taking action is a step in the right direction, not just for me, but also for all Americans who are gradually waking up to the reality of our circumstance. Statements like this from Stephen Colbert indicate that we will have to deal with what we’ve allowed to take place.
My hope is that the integrity in the people (or what's left of that dwindling integrity) will allow us to "deal with it", to rise up, take responsibility, holler loudly enough that we hear each other across the globe, and then nurse our hemorrhaging nation back to something healthy. All hope is not lost. People are good.
What are you doing taking responsibility? How un-American. Don't forget there are 300 million of us now so everything bad has to be one of their faults, & up to them to change.
It would be awsome if stuff like the Time thing motivated people to action, but I'm too cynical to think it will. Web based action re-took the congress, but now we'll sit back & let the Democrats fall into the same abuses & coruption that the Republicans perpitraited. We're tired, and we want to watch Survivor. We think it's all ok because the Democrats are in power & they are all valiant & true. Turns out they were excluded from the fountains of lobbyist cash because they had no power. You don't bride the impotent. Now that they are moninally incharge we see who they really are. But for god's sake America stay awake.
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