{"id":94561,"date":"2012-08-14T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94561\/republicans-call-senior-citizens-inhuman\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T21:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:35:19","slug":"republicans-call-senior-citizens-inhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94561\/republicans-call-senior-citizens-inhuman\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Call Senior Citizens “Inhuman”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline is sarcasm… sort of. <\/font><\/p>\n

Obama got in \u201ctrouble\u201d today for making an off-handed joking reference to Mitt Romney putting Seamus the Dog on the roof of his car in a kennel some 29 years ago. <\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Obama\u2019s exact words:<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201c(Romney) said that new sources of energy, like wind, are \u2018imaginary\u2019. Governor Romney then explained his energy policy this way, and I\u2019m quoting here: \u2018You can\u2019t drive a car with a windmill on it.\u2019. . . Well I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s actually tried that. . . I know he\u2019s had other things on his car. . .\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Of course, the line drew laughs and Republican outrage. Then, the media spent all day debating whether or not this was a gaffe, whether the outrage is justified, whether or not that kind of \u2018teasing\u2019 is okay & pointing out that 68% of Americans disapprove of strapping a dog to the top of your car. <\/font><\/p>\n

Lost in all this is the substance of the context. For intents and purposes, YOU CAN DRIVE A CAR WITH A WINDMILL ON TOP!!! Not literally, of course, but in case Governor Romney hadn\u2019t heard, there are these great new devices called ELECTRIC cars. You plug them in at night to an electrical outlet that can get it\u2019s juice\u2026FROM WIND!!! So, in that sense you CAN drive a car with a windmill on top, and with climate change becoming an increasingly more apparent and dire reality, we need to get more of these electric cars on the road! <\/font><\/p>\n

Instead, we\u2019re talking about dog jokes. <\/font><\/p>\n

Reverend Sharpton had the best take on how, with Ryan entering, the race has turned to a discussion of Medicare. \u201cThe race isn\u2019t about Obama, it\u2019s about yo momma.\u201d Awesome. <\/font><\/p>\n

What I find interesting about how the Ryan budget destroys Medicare as we know it is how it\u2019s supporters try to justify the change to all-important senior vote. They say over and over about how the proposed changes do not effect anyone 55 years or older. How can these seniors be so opposed to turning Medicare into a voucher system? It won\u2019t effect them? It\u2019s only us young whippersnappers who won\u2019t be able to get Medicare! <\/font><\/p>\n

See, Republicans, American seniors are capable of a very simple human emotion, one of the very things that differentiates human beings from animals. It\u2019s called empathy. <\/font><\/p>\n

Now, if I were on cable news, I would say: \u201cREPUBLICANS DENY THE VERY HUMANITY OF OLDER AMERICANS\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n

Point being, yeah, a senior whose on a fixed income with limited resources will oppose ending Medicare for people twenty years younger than them, maybe even after said senior won\u2019t even be around, because they can imagine what it\u2019s GOING TO BE like for the next generation because they are in that circumstance right now. I would even go as far to say that it\u2019s even easier for a young person to vote in a way that\u2019s against their own interests 20 years from now than it is for a someone twenty years older to vote those interests for someone else who will be in that position in 20 years. They can empathize twenty years down the road. <\/font><\/p>\n

So, every time you hear a Republican try to appeal to a senior citizen voter by saying that NONE of the proposed changes effect anyone over the age of 55, what that Republican is actually saying is that seniors should just be selfish, heartless and not care about the next generation. Who cares if it\u2019s screwing over your children, it\u2019s not screwing YOU over, right? You shouldn\u2019t have EMPATHY. You shouldn\u2019t be a human being! <\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m wondering if, under a Romney\/Ryan regime, the \u201cGrade B\u201d eggs in my fridge would qualify for \u201cpersonhood\u201d?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline is sarcasm… sort of. Obama got in \u201ctrouble\u201d today for making an off-handed joking reference to Mitt Romney putting Seamus the Dog on the roof of his car in a kennel some 29 years ago. Here\u2019s Obama\u2019s exact words: \u201c(Romney) said that new sources of energy, like wind, are \u2018imaginary\u2019. Governor Romney then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1031,3413,252],"class_list":["post-94561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-1031","tag-election","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}