In Chin Deep

So it’s the middle of the week and you are stuck at home in the morning.  What else is there to do but channel surf through the mindless dribble that is weekday morning television.  I guess Springsteen had it right even back in the 80’s when there were only 57 channels and nothing on.  Then I come across the political drama The West Wing.  The story of a liberal president fighting for the American people against those evil conservatives.  Although annoying at times, it was and still is an amusing show so I stop searching and finally find something to watch.

So as I sit there, I realize it was an episode from towards the end of the show.  Having the godsend for tv tivo, I look up when it was originally aired and saw it was 2005.  Going back through my mind, I recall a certain person from Illinois starting to make some noise about that time.  As I sat there, one of the new characters is making his announcement to run for president, which of course includes his little speech about why.  And suddenly my jaw dropped as I listened to the speech.  I knew I had heard this somewhere before but couldn’t quite place it.  Then he said it’s time to put our partisan ways behind us to make a better future.  Then as he talks about kids going to the school he is outside of going in to glimpse their future and ask for hope.  He goes on to say they may not know they need it yet, but they do.

As I sit there open mouthed like a slack jawed yokel, I hear the last 2 years of speeches running through my head.  We need hope.  Hope is all we have.  Hope is not up for debate.  Hope can change the world.  Blah fucking blah blah.  I then realize that life truly does imitate art.  This last campaign is just the brainchild of Aaron Sorkin.  Apparently hollywood was more behind the campaigns than we realized.  If only I had listened to south park all those years ago and realized we truly are voting on either a turd sandwich or a douchebag.  That the American people are a bunch of retarded ADD morons willing to follow the bright shiny object to their overtaxed doom.  So I say to you president Santos of the west wing, you can keep your hope.  Your show ended after only a season of your hope.  I guess it can’t save everything.  Maybe in a couple of years, the American people will realize they have been had, been took, been hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Led astray. Run amok.  Then the pendulum will swing back like it did in the 90’s and we can get out of the crap we are in now. Government cannot save us, it can only hinder us.  Try to remember that instead of pretty speeches with nothing to say.

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