PT 1.
My personal awakening.
BHO and the Dailey show.
911 had a powerful impact on my soul. Unfortunately, it surfaced mostly deep anger and a desire to seek revenge. I wanted to kill the Mother Fuckers who did this! I wanted to cut their throats and feel the warm blood flow over my knife hand as it splashed on the dirt and stained my boots. I know it’s not a pleasant thought, but they killed civilians his time. Women and children. I watched as the jumpers chose their fate rather than being burned alive. I wept and then I got pissed. I think a lot of us felt that way in the hours, weeks and months following that dark day. I didn’t realize at the time that this one single event would launch us into a decade and a half of war. Iraq, Afghanistan, the global war on terror, it all felt good right? How many died? Kill them fucking Ragheads right? Now, I look back and wonder what was really going on.
I did not regularly follow John Dailey much. I thought some of his comedy was witty but he had a passion for leaning left and I did not care for his political satire funny as it could be. I briefly lived in Canada and the Dailey Show reminded me of the Canadian TV evening shows constantly ripping the USA and Bush Jr like we were all stupid rednecks and they were enlightened sophisticated world leaders. Maybe it was because I was an ExPat at the time but that shit got old quick. I was a registered independent back then but voted mostly republican because of the Dems position on abortion and gun rights.
In early 2007 (Jan-Feb) I remember watching the Daily show and seeing a skit about this young upcoming senator from Illinois who was taking the Democratic party by storm. The new darling of the democratic party they were calling him. I had never really heard of Barack Husain Obama at the time as I was not following politics that closely back then. I remember thinking “Barack” sounded like a weird name and that he looked like a different type of ethnic cat to me. During the show I discovered that he was biracial and that his father was from Kenya. He seemed to have a silver tongue and he obviously had a following. The comic twist that the Dailey show provided was that a black reporter was commenting on what a great candidate he would make for POTUS. His white side would be articulate enough to lie his way out of the scandals that his black side would inevitably get himself into. It was a funny skit and then Dailey had some more witty commentary. Later on the show the parodied that “ Breaking News! BHO was announcing his intention to run for president of the United States of America” complete with inaugural music and a parade background setting. They then announced that his campaign mascot had also been chosen. The shot then switched to the Aflac Duck popping up and saying in a duckish voice “Barack Obama… HALF BLACK”. It was so funny I almost died. Funniest shit I have seen in years and I laughed along with a few of my friends until I cried… Half Black.. Blahhhh…. That vivid memory stuck in my head for years. Indelible in my hippocampus you might say.
Well we all know what happened. BHO announced his candidacy and like a rocket ship so was his ascension and subsequent election. It was a storybook election. He slaughtered Hillary in the primary and I was amazed at how many independent votes he received in the presidential election. I didn’t like his politics and I voted for the other guy but WOW… I didn’t see that one coming. It was like he was “The Anointed One” as Rush liked calling him. Anointed by who though? We the people so it seemed.
Fast forward a few years to 2009. I had decided to peruse obtaining my Concealed Carry Permit. I did so for a few reasons but one major one was the BHO was pushing gun control again. I figured I needed to get ahead of it before it became too expensive or too politically difficult to do so. I am a Vet and I remember being frustrated that I had to provide my DD214 to prove my honorable discharge status. Civilians do not have to prove anything of the such but I had another yet another hoop to jump through to exercise my constitutional right to carry because of my service. Hoop after Hoop after Hoop had to be cleared. They make it such a PITA that many are unwilling to go through the process I guessed. Just another creeping infringement of our rights. What pissed me off even more is that the Obama administration had also just submitted a report stating that the biggest domestic terror threat was from lone wolf agents and that Vets were to be more suspect and scrutinized. Really, WTF??