September 18, 2010

  • Random comment from http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/721294#mwpphu-container (for the record, I think changing our currency is a horrid idea, even though the graphic designer in me gets giddy at the idea of new designs and the ability to give other American figures such as other past Native American figures (Sacagawea or otherwise), Susan B. Anthony, and FDR a national position of representation - but that's a discussion for another day):

    "It would be such a disgrace to this country to remove the first president of the United Stated George Washington and put Obama on instead. Possibly the worse president this country has ever had and if he continues the way he is we wll be in a depression instead of recession if were not alreaddy there. He states that we are doing better, he better get out of the white house and instead of taking all those vacations start talking to the average american who is struggling to even feed their children. This is wrong."

    My response?

    The point of this is not some liberal vs. conservative bull. It's a simple...let's talk with our heads before our behinds.

    For those who read this, you may remember that, before Obama was elected, I said that I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about him as a candidate. I forget if I said much after he was elected but his often complete lack of doing anything for liberal issues (and his complete regressive acts on gay rights) made me absolutely infuriated. In fact, outside of health care and how he's been handling the economy, I have found little for which I've necessarily wanted to praise him. He'd get more of a neutral from me rather than a positive or negative.

    But to say he's the *worst* president we've ever had? Seriously?

    That's like idiots who say Bush was the most conservative president we've ever had. Let's not forget, before 9/11 struck, he was going to sign a revision to NAFTA with the president of Mexico so that labor (i.e. people) could traverse across borders without restraint. Hell, the War on Terror, while arguably socially conservative, is not, by any means, economically conservative. To say otherwise is just blatantly false.

    Do I think Obama should go on a dollar bill, so soon? No, I don't think he's earned it. I'm hoping that in the future he'll do so and I think he's just playing it politically safe for now (of course, if he loses reelection, that plan will have done him no good and look very poor in the histories of time). But at this current moment, no, of course I don't think he deserves to be on any currency.

    But there's a far cry from that and then claiming he's running our country into the ground. Don't be so sensationalist. He's done some good, he's done some bad. But let's make sure we know what we're talking about (remember when everyone was freaking out over Michelle Obama taking a supposed "vacation"?). When people claim that he is just utterly awful, one of the worst people and presidents ever, and all other forms of hyperbole, I literally want to just flat out laugh - but I can't forget that these people actually think they're being intelligent (of course, they're criticism is usually followed by some inane remark of racism or trying to turn our country to communism). Just...stop, breath, and then think. That's all I ask.

    The world does not exist in blacks and whites, people, it is many shades of gray.

     

    (btw, if you want to see the different designs, go here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/15-amazing-new-designs-fo_n_719913.html#s141225. Like I said, I don't want to change our currencies, but the new ideas and implementations are pretty cool)