Enough is Enough

Before I start this blog, if you're easily offended by other people's opinions, then I suggest you never, ever read my blog ever again (all 6 of you that may read this). 

Anyway, whatever. I thought for a while what my first post should be. I kicked around plenty of ideas. Many of which will be future posts. Eventually I thought, hmm, what is a big thing happening right now? Who is a major person of interest that I could toss my 2 cents in about? Well, my answer came to me on Wednesday, January 14th 2009. The place? Lee's Comics, San Mateo, CA. The person? President-elect Barak Obama.

Now, I'm not a conservative. I would say I'm a liberal with some conservative leanings. Goddamn though, all this Obama love bugs the living shit outta me! Firstly, come on now, just like most of the candidates in 2008's election, he is not qualified at all to lead this country. Nothing in his record or his career screams "leader of the free world." In fact, I dare anyone that's not a poli-sci major to tell me, in detail, why they voted for him WITHOUT using the words: change (umm, Bush can't run for a 3rd term, ANYONE would have been change!), hope, George W. Bush or black/African American. Oh, and EVERYONE has ideas on how to fix shit, but we're all not running for president.

I got off point for a second there. Let me tell you what pissed me off: So, as per my usual tradition on new comic book day (Wednesdays for those of you not "in the know") I stroll into Lee's Comics at around 10:18 a.m. I notice that there's more people in there than usual. So, I stop Lee in between him answering the phones and I ask him "hey, why are there so many people here?" He told me "Oh, Spider-Man #583 with the Barak Obama variant came out today." I proceeded to ask, "oh really? that was this week? What happened?" 

"When I opened the store today [at 10 a.m.] there was a line of about 30 people waiting for me to open so they could buy one," he said.

"What the fuck?" I replied, "how many of these people that waited were regulars of yours?"

"Not a single one," he said. 

So I asked, "Well, how many of them bought ANYTHING else besides the ones that got the variant?"

"Not a single one," was his answer. 

This pissed me off. First, a goddamn Obama fundraiser took over my bar a few months ago with a bunch of misinformed, over-hyped, Starbucks swilling, collegiate douche bags bugging the fuck outta me asking me to donate my hard earned beer money to a fucking political party that has money coming out of their ass, but now they're fucking with my comics?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!? 

Let me explain, ever since the Spider-Man "Brand New Day" storyline started, the series has been shit. I'm sorry, but it has. Now, JUST BECAUSE OBAMA IS ON THE GODDAMN COVER 

there are people waiting in line to buy a book with a shitty Spider-Man story and completely stupid 5 page story with Obama in it. Yeah, only FIVE fucking pages! Here, I'll save you the 60 to 80 bucks it'll cost you to buy a first printing variant and tell you the whole story: Peter Parker is at the inauguration taking pictures for the Daily Bugle when he notices there is some trouble with the president-elect and security. He does his quick costume change (how, with all the millions of idiots that are swarming the place just to kinda be able to see it over the sea of people, did he find a secluded enough area is beyond me) and heads over. Apparently, there are TWO Barak Obamas! So, with quick enough thinking, one of the secret service agents BRILLIANTLY suggests they have a 3-point shootout competition! Well, the fake Obama states what a stupid idea this is (and I whole heartedly agree) and asks "where are we gonna find a basketball diamond?" (that's a for reals quote right there). So then they call him out on it and it's revealed that the fake Obama is the shape shifter known as The Chameleon. Obama thanks with Spider-Man, not with a handshake, but with a fist bump! Awww, shit, he's keepin it hella street blood!!!! Seriously, that was the whole 5 page story. That's what people are going crazy for. Yeah. For reals. 

Also, why the fuck is Montell Williams hocking this shit? This is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen Snuggies, the blanket with sleeves

Look people, Obama is not Christ our lord and savior. He doesn't deserve all the hype. HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING YET! We're not gonna pull out of Iraq overnight, gas prices aren't gonna magically go down, he's not gonna pull us out of this recession of doom with his magical stimulus plan of changing hope, we're not gonna ride flying unicorns to work, Skittles aren't gonna rain down from the sky when there's a rainbow out, none of that shit is gonna happen in the beginning!

Look, I know that I'm being a little biased in my viewpoint, but come on. Get off of his fucking junk! I mean, yeah backing your candidate is cool and all, but this is just insane. It's ridiculous! This blind, loyal following is just plain old stupid. Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he admitted to doing cocaine? When everyone and their mothers were getting all over Bush's shit for doing drugs? Also, why do we gloss over the fact that he doesn't support gay marriage? He supports civil unions yeah, but as many LGBT leaders and supporters would agree that civil unions aren't the same as marriage. He has stated many times that he believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Look, I whole heartedly support gay marriage. I think that denying two people (regardless of gender) the right to marry is just another form of discrimination. So don't try to take this as me saying I don't support it.

Anyway, this is getting long as fuck. I'm tired, I don't know if most of this stuff towards the end made a lot of sense, but I'm gonna go to bed. Maybe I'll re-visit this topic later if I have the energy or if people want to respond. So let's just say this is a possible "to be continued..."

oh shit! I almost forgot! Remember how we're in a recession? I wonder how much fucking money this new limo (dubbed Cadillac One) cost? Or why the fuck it was necessary to spend 150 million dollars for some party?