Bitter, indeed.

Can you please call Dick Polman and tell him to get his head out of his ass? Usually I appreciate this guy's perspective, but today he has lowered himself down to the level of the tabloid press (which is what 99% of our media/news is anyway).

Obama lied? Wow, does this rank up there with "under sniper fire", or McCain's abuse of the public finance system? Apparently its worse!

But you know what? Fuck it. Fuck the republicans, democrats, and fuck the US media. This country has become a gdam distortion, a funpark parody, a religious tent revival of "faith healing", a fucking joke on the principles it was founded on.

I'm a middle-class white American from the midwest. I'm also an atheist, college educated intellectual working on yet another degree.

Am I bitter? Fucking believe it.

What the hell happened, and how can things be put right? (or left in this case, as thats the political direction we need to move in) Because it looks more and more like we are going to have the Jonny (100 years in Iraq) Mac as our next president.

-Bitter White Dude

http://dickpolman.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-shaken-rattled-and-rolled.html

His response: "I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins. This is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with and, once again, distracts us from what should be my job when I'm commander in chief..."

Instead of answering straightforwardly, Obama lied.

Contrast his statement last night with what he said on Oct. 3, 2007, when a TV reporter in Iowa asked why he wasn't wearing a flag pin: "You know, the truth is that, right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that (pin) became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is (about) speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security. I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great and, hopefully, that will be a testimony to my patriotism."