Kansas City is Not a Blemish

So yesterday I was mistakenly reading the Letters to the Editor online at the kcstar.com. Bad idea. Post election emotions have prompted all the crazies (myself included) to post whatever ramblings they deem worthy of online publication. So I decided to start my own blog. At least this way I'm posting my ramblings in my own private (ha!) corner of the internet.

The guy that led me to this conclusion had the audacity (of ignorance, not hope) to refer to Kansas City and St. Louis as zits on the otherwise clear face of Missouri. He actually said, "Thank God for rural Missouri." I mean, really?!? This is the reason our fine state went red once again. Thanks to chuckleheads like this guy, and the 17,769 folks that voted for Nader and the 11,355 folks that voted for Barr. These stats were online with some super cool interactive maps.

Additionally, a man named Gary Kerr posted a comment about how naive our country was to elect Obama as our next President. He suggested we go ahead and start grooming two strong Republicans for the 2012 election. First of all, grooming is the term used to describe what pedophiles do to children prior to abusing them. Poor choice of words, Gary. Second, didn't Senator McCain himself suggest in his concession speech that we come together as a country to support our next democratically elected official? I believe he most certainly did. My response to him was to follow his own candidate's advice. Besides, could we really just ignore the next four years even if we wanted to? I think not. Clearly Obama was not everyone's choice (although 52% of the popular vote, 63.4 million ballots cast beat George Bush's popular votes in 2004) but is the choice. So come on people, live with it. Do whatever needs to be done to be okay with this selection, because we have no other option.

Now is our opportunity to show the world that Americans might actually care about people other than ourselves. Maybe we can earn a bit of the privileged place we hold on this planet. And maybe, just maybe, we can not damage the earth any more in the process...