Obama Resign! People Are Dying!

"Two sheriff's deputies killed at a gun range. [Shooter] severely disturbed that Barack Obama had been elected President."

"Richard Poplawski killed three police officers, feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns."

"Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt."

Clearly, a message is being sent here:

Hey Obama!
Say hello to my little friend!

And real people are dying. Now I ask you, would this have happened had Obama not become President? Would not these people be alive today had he stayed an obscure Senator from Illinois? And if the answer to that is yes, does our President truly believe his being President is more important than the lives of police officers and his innocent supporters? Logically speaking, he should resign now in order to save lives, no?

Oh, how I love using simple-minded logic back on you simple-minded morons!

"So let us not talk falsely now
The hour's getting late"

The reality is there's a very simple reason why people act like assholes: they are assholes. But after choosing to be an asshole, some cause must then be associated when said assholeness is expresed. And then in what must be a vain attempt to excuse the asshole in all of us, we blame the alleged cause as being the true cause. Good plan that.

This "logic" is a common device. Those who lived through the 80s remember we as a country were on the verge of total collapse (at least it was reported that way). Why? Drugs! Poll after poll showed it to be the number #1 crisis facing us and had it not been for the wisdom of a First Lady telling us just to say no, we would not exist today. But just how does an inanimate object kill you? Do needles just jump off the table and into your arm?

Again, we blame the method a person uses to kill himself as the reason why he kills himself. There's always some outside force causing us good people to do bad things. Why do we rape? Porn! Why are we so violent? Video games! Why are there wars? Bad hair day! None of those things happen because we're, say, assholes. "Serious" studies are conducted and applauded essays are penned and holy wars waged against these forces that if only we could get rid of them, the world would be saved. ("If we could solve bad hair days, we'd have war no more. A beauty shop on every corner I say!" And the sheeple clapped.)

I do so love the Alice In Wonderland logic I hear every day. Religion is especially rich in this area: "I saw a man of God molest a child, therefore I know God does not exist." "A woman who says she believes in the Bible beat me, therefore I know the Bible is bad." "I saw a follower of Jesus do wrong, therefore I know Jesus is wrong." Amazing how easy it is to conflate things: just do something in the name of somebody and everyone believes you!

So let's start the "Resign Now, Obama!" petition drive - and save a conservative's life.