One of the greatest things that we as human beings can do is share. We share food, we share ideas, and sometimes people even share their significant others and not even know it! Jan the famous cafeteria worker at Western Carolina University who can remember every student who frequents her line by name had a saying “Sharing is Caring”. So in furtherance of this principle I will attempt to share comical rhetoric found in my rural western North Carolina’s publications. Originally the intent was to provide counter points to each of these statements; but after additional thought counter points have been replaced by quips and banter. Enjoy!
Under “Rants & Raves” portion
“It’s not about Obama’s color; it’s about his evil agenda. He’s out to destroy our country and our freedoms”
Yes, President Obama sits in the White House plotting word destruction with Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget. Though I doubt you complained when the Bush administration implemented the Patriot Act and took most of your freedom.
***Personal Favorite***
“Please write your church leaders and protest the communist infiltration into our churches that use the tenets of Christianity to deceive parishioners into embracing Marxism”
YES, finally someone who probably reads the new and improved Conservative Bible, because things Jesus said were to very liberal for what God wants. I think the word this writer is looking for is “socialist”; though that would make their rant more intelligent.
“Do not mistake opinions, however cherished or widely held as the truth. History has shown mankind will believe, defend and even kill for all sorts of lies”
This one wasn’t as much as a witticism as it is a sign of hope. Someone else in this town understands that the level of this hatred can grow.
These are parts of a “Letter to the Editor” entitled “Redistribution of wealth” reminiscent of Karl Marx – by Joe Foreman, Franklin, NC. Published in the Franklin Press Oct. 28th
-I’ve just picked out quotes to save you from reading this garbage.
“O’Bama quote: ‘Redistribution of Wealth.’ I may be wrong, but that quote sure sounds like something straight out of Karl Marx called Communism.”
Where to start… The first and obvious problem is Joe here thinks the POTUS is Irish. Oh to have another Irish President! Alas, no. The quote Joe speaks of “Redistribution of Wealth” is a quote from the President. The dilemma that Joe has is the severity of which this quote is taken out-of-context. Here is where that quote comes from:
“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples, so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.”
“But,” Obama said, “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, as least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted.”
Obama said “one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that.”
Actually seeing where the quote comes from more or less saps the fun out of it.
“Now, think what would happen to the economy if major corporations, high-paid actors, TV stars, sports stars, builders, etc decided to quit making a lot of money”
If that happened then the people who actually work for these corporations would get paid equivalent to what they work. Wow, what an idea people actually getting paid for the level of labor or skill applied to a task. Maybe if they decided to “quit making a lot of money” they would stop outsourcing jobs, hiring immigrants, and providing better insurance to their constituents… But, those are good things so you just summed up my witticism for me. Thanks.
“Now, Instead of me calling the president what I used to. ‘President Neil Chamberlin O’Bama the Appeaser,’ I’ll now have to call him “President Carl Marx O’Bama the Commie.”
Now, (to steal from Mr. Foreman’s consistent use of “Now” to start every paragraph) if you are to say that jumble every single time I would probably get annoyed very fast. Also, it’s Karl.
