Smoke and mirrors… again.

We have some real problems facing our nation. Millions of Americans are without health care. Our education system needs a major overhaul. Energy prices are at an all-time high. Our trade deficit is skyrocketing. Our national debt is astronomical. Government spending is at the highest level ever. Inflation is on the rise. Interest rates are going up. We are in a protracted, bloody occupation in Iraq. Iran poses a serious national security threat as a potential nuclear power. North Korea poses a serious national security threat because it IS a nuclear power. Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are still at large. Never in our nation’s history have we faced so many serious threats to our stability, our security, and our way of life.

So, of course, our illustrious President and our nation’s legislators are working hard to come up with effective solutions in our nation’s hour of need. Their latest proposal to address the country’s woes? A constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage! That’ll fix everything!

What??? Are you kidding me? This people, is nothing more than an election-year stunt to put a wedge issue front-and-center, to distract the people from focusing on our real problems, and encourage voter turnout amongst the conservative holyshit crowd. ”Oh my God! Men are marrying men! Women are marrying women! It’s unholy! It’s eeeeeevil! What is our nation coming to?” I guess the good news is that the 25% who were too stupid to realize there was something seriously wrong in our country are now up in arms. The bad news… They don’t have a clue as to what the REAL problems are.

So I have to ask the minority in this country who are still blindly supporting this President and his administration… What REAL problems has this man actually solved? What serious issues has he even addressed?? Cause unless you consider the wealthiest 1% of the population not having enough take-home pay to be a “serious” problem, this guy and his team have accomplished absolutely NOTHING since he’s taken the oath of office. This administration is about dividing, not uniting. They are about creating elaborate solutions to nonexistent problems. When in doubt, drive a wedge into the public debate, and while the rabble are distracted, we can make some more money for our corporate friends. We are being PLAYED folks. We are being played like a cheap fiddle. And sadly, a quarter of the population hasn’t seemed to figure that out yet.

There is good news. Cheap stunts and sideshow antics like this are far too little, far too late. The vast majority of the American people HAVE figured out the game that these folks are playing. And I’m betting that they are going to make evident their displeasure, loud and clear, come the November elections. America deserves better than smoke and mirrors, better than band-aid fixes to serious national problems. And come November 7th, America is going to demand better, with the greatest gift our founding fathers bequeathed to us, our vote.