Super Bowl Rant and Open Thread

Posted on February 7, 2016 by ScottC

I’m watching the pre-game show and naturally CBS cuts to an interview with the Obamas. Sigh. Is there no occasion in this country that can pass without the precious thoughts of a fucking politician being foisted on us?

Newsflash: The president (any president) is a mere politician, not a monarch anointed by the hand of God. We have no need to hear him pontificate on every event, big or small, that takes place in the nation. The guest list for his party is completely unimportant to me. I don’t give a rat’s ass what kind of food he is serving. I couldn’t care less which team he is rooting for. Doubly so for the First Lady, for goodness sake. And I think anyone who does care is a moron.

It is actually quite baffling. The opinion of the ordinary person towards politicians in general is usually one of overwhelming contempt, and rightly so. Yet when a politician is so “good” at all the vile things that politicians do and are that they rise to the highest political office in the country, suddenly we are supposed to wait with bated breath for his sage thoughts on all things big and small. What does he think of the Super Bowl? What does his March Madness bracket look like? What is he saying about the latest tragedy in a small town in the middle of nowhere?

Someone stop the madness, please.

Rant over…open thread.

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