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Monday, August 17, 2009 (22:35:09) |
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It looks like our grassroots efforts are starting to pay off. The White House is backing down on its stance/push for the public option in health care reform. They’re listening. Our voices are being heard.
This is Democracy in action. Well, we’re more like a Republic, but you get my meaning. Retirees, full-time moms, businessmen, and people that would otherwise not get more involved in the political process than casting a vote are showing up in droves at Town Hall Meetings nationwide. They’re voicing their opinions online (and getting SPAM from the White House in return), by phone, by letter, and in person.
We’re taking America back and I couldn’t be prouder.
But, I’m sad that there are people still people who don’t think they can make a difference. Remember the story of Susie Weakly from a couple of weeks ago? Well, that saga continues. I got into an email exchange with her sister, Casey shortly after I posted my last blog.
I’m going to share it with you here with some more of my thoughts that I didn’t share with Casey. For those of you that feel as passionately as I do about involvement in the political process, you’ll find some of this humorous and sad. For those of you on the fence, I hope that you are inspired to take action.
Here we go!
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Casey Weakly in a Facebook email with the subject line “Stupidity”
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Let's get one thing straight.... Your passion is your passion. Her passion is her daughter and nothing will change or interfere with that. There are people out there who choose to work and continue with their normal life after having a child. She and I are both not that person. Her only focus right now is loving and teaching her daughter. Nothing else is of major concern right now. For the moms fighting these battles with young children...Congrats to them. But for the ones that take the time to sit in the floor with our kids, read books, introduce them to the world of animals and nature outside, and make our life completly and 100% about them, we just don't find it our #1 priority to call some number and express our opinion about something we have no knowledge and really no interest in. Ask her to call about child abuse, animal neglect...She would be the first one on the phone. People like you are the reason people like me don't get involved in this stuff. If we don't know anything about a matter and Heaven forbid don't agree with it, we are called out and made to feel like shit because we don't have your passion. Why don't you use all the time you're using to make a HUGE deal about this and call some one out you don't know much about, to worry more about your passion and direct it at someone who gives a damn!!!! |
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Mike Newbern
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Are you calling me stupid? Seriously? You don't get it. You just don't get it. Sad reality is that you're too pigheaded to even try to understand what I'm saying.
It can be done. You can raise a child, show him or her love, and be politically active all at the same time. I have a friend that is doing it right now. He, his wife, and his six children have been to a tea party with me. He went to DC with me last week and took his teenage son with him. Talk about education! You can't buy that kind of education and you sure as hell aren't going to get it by sitting in the floor reading Cat in the Hat to your kid.
I had a whole bunch of other stuff I was going to type, but that's all in the blog I wrote. I figure if you didn't read it then, you wouldn't now. I would just be wasting time.
BTW, you made the blog! Congratulations! Some people never get that honor. You might find this one a little more scathing though, as I doubt I can hold back like I did last time. You and poor little Susie may want to hide your eyes! |
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The stuff in the blog I was specifically referring to is that you don’t have to share my opinion or interest in the topics that I find important. I would like for you to be open minded and listen to what I have to say so that you can develop your own opinion about its importance. But in the end, if you don’t understand how important it is and/or see how each side of the issue impacts us even after you listened with an open mind, I have failed.
I seriously think that any rational, sane person with even a minimal level of intellect will understand how my side of any issue is right. No, I don’t think I am perfect or never wrong. I just don’t go around running my mouth about stuff I don’t know about.
I’m also offended for the friend of mine that I referred to in my reply to her. She is insinuating that he and his wife love their children less than she or her sister do. Actually, I’m a little pissed.
Never in anything have I written did I make susie feel like shit. Nor, did I do it to Casey. But, in response to the insinuation that my friend doesn’t place his children #1 in his life, I will.
That has got to be one of the most asinine comments I have received in a long time and I do get some doozies. The more and more I think about that, the more and more I am sad for her children. They are going to grow up thinking that they only way a person can show love is to constantly shower someone with it. They are going to become needy little bitches whose self-esteem relies on how other people treat them.
A vagina is not a clown car! Nor is it some place for you to produce that little burping doll you always wanted as a child. Human beings are made there you retards. There's way more to raising a child than playtime and diaper changes.
Yes, they need love and affection and parents should give it to them. But, they also need to be taught self reliance and social awareness. They need life lessons they can and can’t get from some Dr Seuss book you read to them on the floor.
There’s a time and a place for everything. They need to be taught that the playground is not the only place to stand up for what you believe is right. They need to be taught how to balance life, work, and play.
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Casey Weakly
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| Don't worry about me man. I don't really give a shit what you or your political buddies think. I was just saying you need to use all of this negative energy for better use than sitting here on facebook talking about us. Kinda makes me proud though. I live to get under people's skin and I have really accomplished that with you. I have other things in my life that are more important to me than politics. I don't know anything about it and I really have no interest in learning about it either. I think the times we live in are really sad but there is nothing that I, you, or your group of hippies will ever be able to do about it. I don't knock you for being passionate about politics. That's great!! Just don't hate on people who aren't. There are alot of things I wish I could make people believe in but some people just don't give a shit. They have their passions and I have mine. That's what makes the world go round. If we all cared only about what you cared about then we would be a one sided, pigheaded america and that's not where I want to live. I hate the president and I really hate the illegal immigrants but there is not a damn thing I can do about it but vote. That's what I do and I'm happy with that. In the mean time I'll take care of my kids, all the animals I can, and all the problems the good Lord sends my way. By the way, we prefer Fox in Sox |
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She has no clue how far off her hippie comment really is. Silly, clueless girl. She also has no clue how pretentious she sounds trying to use ‘pigheaded’ in a context that makes no sense.
I guess it’s true what they say, some women do belong in the kitchen baking cookies and making lemonade.
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Mike Newbern
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Don't give yourself that much credit, honey. You're not that important. I experience this from people all the time, not just you or Susie. I'm just using the two of you as an example.
My audience is also way bigger than my FB friends.
Still don't get it. And that's the reason for the subsequent blog. |
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And she still doesn’t get it. I am not saying you’re wrong for not having the same values I do. I am saying that you’re wrong for thinking your voice doesn’t matter and then giving up on any social/political awareness.
I’m not “hating on” the Weakly sisters for not being passionate about politics. I’m calling them out for blaming their lackadaisical attitudes on their inability to do anything in our political process. Call it for what it is. They just don’t care.
For those of you that do and are active, I say thank you and please continue to be. We can and will take our country back! I have faith in all of you and our system. |
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