HEY BUDDY. DID YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA'S REALLY AN ALIEN?

OK, OK relax for a minute. No need to start hoarding water, duct taping your doors & windows shut or fleeing the onslaught of alien Obamas. This isn’t 1938, I’m not Orson Wells, and Obama really isn’t an alien. Although judging by the amount of hysteria over the last year or so, only one of those three disclaimers seems obvious. (Look at my photo and then Orson’s) And don’t worry, this isn’t some political rant all done up in either red or blue. Just for the record, I didn’t vote for Obama, nor do I support the “spend now & we’ll figure it out later” school of economics.

What this rant is based on is the utter ridiculousness and disrespect being shown for the office of The President. These are just a sampling of the kinds of paranoid propaganda I've heard in the last year. And isn't propaganda is the stuff we always frowned on when used by Tokyo Rose ,Nikita Khrushchev ,or even our own beloved Joe McCarthy ? He even had an "ism" named after him.

Here we go:

1. Obama isn't a U.S. citizen. Come on now. You mean to tell me the same government that can monitor every one of your individual cell phone calls, read a license plate from space, and fly planes with no pilots can't substantiate a guy's birth place before he became president? There were only TWO guys left in the running. Then again, do aliens have birth certificates?


2. Obama is a radical Muslim AND a racist Christian. WOW, that's a lot of holidays to work into the Presidential calendar. And it's almost as absurd as...


3. Obama is a Communist/Fascist/Socialist. HUH??? Now I am by no means a poli-sci expert, but I don't think you can actually be all three of those, especially at the same time.


4. Obama was sworn in on the Koran. Hey Goober, I know you can enlarge that photo of the USC cheerleader, how's about you do the same for the swearing in. In fact, Obama was sworn in on Lincoln's Bible.


5. Obama's health plan will subject you to a death panel. A death panel!! Really?? Someone's been staying up late at night in Alaska watching the Twilight Zone marathon again.


6. Obama's speech to school kids will be used to indoctrinate them. Ummmmm, just a thought here. You might have considered taking a moment to actually read that speech before you got your dander all raised. It was the same kind of photo op speech that every president I can ever remember has given to school kids. Anyone remember what George Bush was doing the morning of 9/11?

These examples, coupled with the WWF style shout downs during town hall meetings are what led to this posting. Whether you voted for him or not, whether you like or despise him, Obama holds the office of President of The United States. That office needs to be shown a helluva lot more respect than it is currently. As a people, we showed a lot more respect for it during Watergate, the Iranian hostage era, Iran/Contra, "Read My Lips", Monica Lewinski and water boarding. It seems to me that we have a host of vastly more serious problems in this country than worrying about a man's funny sounding name, the party affiliation he holds, or the color of his skin. I'm all for debate and compromise. There's a lot about Obama's policies that worry the hell out of me. But it's really hard to discuss any of them when Tilda from rural South Anywhere is yelling incoherently during said debate. More over, how can I begin to debate ole' Til when she's convinced that Air Force One is now actually a space ship?