Posted by
Optimus Magnus on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:31:43 AM
At the age of fifteen, I had to have a girlfriend. It didn't matter who she was or what her character was truly like, so long as I had someone who was dating me. She just had to be someone who liked me.
As it turned out, she was ungodly possessive. She had to know where I was and what I was doing twenty-four seven. I had no time to myself. For much of the time we dated, she was seeing a mutual friend of ours behind my back, I later learned. When anyone tried to point out to me just what a DUD she was, it only provoked a defensive and hostile reaction from me. No matter how hard people tried to convince me, I just could not be made to realize that, while I did have a girl of my own, I had chosen the wrong one. I was in complete denial about my choice. I went around doing my best to convince myself and everyone else that she was the only one, ever, for me. Even when I was totally sick of her, I still hung on to that relationship, convinced that no one better would ever come along.
My blindness was not realized until after she was done using me as arm candy. When I finally reached that point after the split where I could listen to people telling me her character flaws, I was furious with that Beatle-spec wearing geek in the mirror.
The reason I say all this is to draw a parallel between my own experience and that of the sheep who voted for then Senator Soetoro. I don't recall having worn a George W. Bush t-shirt or hat a full two months after either the 2000 or 2004 elections, nevermind TEN months afterwords. These people suffer from a combination of Buyer's Remorse and Battered-Mate Syndrome. They will stop at no end to convince themselves that they made the right choice last November. Not even over-taxation will change their minds. Only when Soetoro's Marxist policies finally wreak havoc upon their lives will they get an inkling that they may have chosen wrong. Then again, though, Soetoro's media will come to the rescue by reminding these sheep that everything bad that ever happened in their lives is all George W. Bush's fault. Sadly, some of them won't learn even after they die as a result of their relationship with such a man because Obamacare's Death Panels decided they weren't worth saving.