It's not all about you

Wow.  It's been almost a month since my last post?  Yeah, I've been busy.  I have lots of ideas, but little time to set them down on "paper."

This weekend President Obama spoke at Ohio State's graduation ceremony.  It's only the third time a sitting president has spoken at that, and OSU is my alma mater, so hey, it was kind of a big deal.

One of my Facebook friends posted a link about Obama saying Republicans are un-American during his speech.  I read, and listened to, the speech and he didn't say anything like that.  See for yourself.

I suppose, if you're paranoid, you can hear someone talk about those who say government is the "root of all our problems" and that "tyranny is always lurking just around the corner" and say "hey, he's talking about me!"  Because, you know, if you think those things, he is talking about you.  And you're a nutjob, and he didn't say you're un-American, but you know what?  You are.

Anyway, he of course didn't say what some nutjob conservative says he said.  And that particular site is barely readable since said nutjob doesn't know how to use quotes, and really doesn't prove his point on his own site, using those quotes.  So we should probably just ignore it.  But dumb shit like this sticks in my craw.  How can anyone read or hear that speech and not appreciate it for what it is- a speech congratulating and pumping up graduates, and reminding them to be good  citizens?  The same kind of speech any other president, or any speaker at all, would have given on that occasion.  Sadly, the kind of people who can twist that sort of thing into an assault on themselves hear it that way.

You know what?  I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Some conservatives ARE un-American.  They've been saying that about liberals for years, falsely, and now I will say it, truthfully, about them.