Revenge of the Gamer

Everywhere around me I see people bashing Obama.  I’m not a huge fan of his, nor do I agree with many of the things he’s doing.  The healthcare overhaul is missing the critical pieces that would have made it effective.  The bailouts for home owners are a slap in the face to all of us who lived within our means.  The increase in troops to Afghanistan is madness.

But you know what?  At least he is trying.

Bush crippled our nation.  He eroded freedoms.  He pillaged the treasury.  He started two wars, both of which have gone on longer than Vietnam.  So when I saw the following list circulating online I had to repost it.  I’ve even added a few of my own:

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when we found out Cheney gave no-bid multi-billion dollar contracts to Haliburton, a company where he’d sat on the board of directors and still owned millions of stock in.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn’t get mad when we lost Habeus Corpus (the right to due process).

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in  Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You didn’t get mad when Bush added NINE TRILLION DOLLARS to the national debt.

You didn’t get mad when the president ignored the clear and timely warning that terrorists were going to hijack planes and fly them into the WTCs.

You didn’t get mad when the weapons inspectors, who said there were no WMDs, were ignored.

You didn’t get mad when it was finally proven that those WMDs didn’t exist, and were just an excuse for us to invade Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when hundreds of thousands of people died in Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when Bush passed a $700 billion dollar bailout for the banks.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.  Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans…oh hell no.