It's just you, Gerald. Idiot.

Well, this just put a hair across my ass and since it's my blog, why not....here goes.

I never thought I would get political here. However, my mother sent me this blog entry and I
am not sure how she found it. I don't know why she sent it with only this to say, "Interesting
Reading."

She knows who I voted for and we all know how she feels about Blacks, much less Democratic Black Presidents. I'm sure I don't have to point out that my mother is one of many who kept Bush in office. Yes, I did send my response to her, as written below, and if I hear back from her, I may post it. My theory is it will go ignored as my parents sit in one of their three homes and snicker to themselves about the silly view points of the Democrats and pat their morally righteous backs.
The blog post she sent me is here:

"If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.
Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.
That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralized CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.
"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed..
So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers...
President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cozying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America 's enemies. Here, they realized, is a sucker they can really take to
the cleaners.
His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: Why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?"

MY RESPONSE:

MOM:

I don't know where you found this article and the only interesting thing about it is that someone would actually have it published. Mark Twain said, "Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to speak and remove all doubt." This guy should have listened.

"Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them" I'd like to see the "How To Get Waterboarded and Like It 101" class. What a waste of ink, paper and cyber space.

Obama embarrassed the Republicans? They ought to be embarrassed all on their own....and for many many reasons aside from this.

With everything that is going on in the world, having one national embarrassment exposed and outlawed by Obama is the least of our worries. Cannot believe that anyone with a modicum of intelligence could possibly think that because we won't waterboard anymore that there is not a plethora of interrogation techniques still being used or at our disposal. What a non-issue and sorry I can't have this brain space back. Sorry you can't either.