Little Voices in My Head

Normally, I shy away from commenting on politics in public. Quite frankly, it’s no one’s business what my views are, as I’m going to vote as I choose, not as you ‘convince me’. I feel you should do the same.

However, I saw something so…far afield of importance, so full of idiocy, so…rampantly diversionary, that it made my head spin.

The lead story on not only the 11 o’clock news, but my Yahoo! home page, my AIM dashboard, and even my Embarq updater, was about the Obamas getting a dog.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

I am fully in support of the President elect (sigh, it makes my brain hurt to say that) and his family getting a dog. Go for it. Get 20. It’s a big damn house and it’s not like YOU’RE going to be doing the pooper-scooper duty. However, does the lead story really have to be a debate over wither or not they get a rescue dog or one from a shop or breeder? There are even ‘Presidential Puppy Watch’ sites. There are petitions and letters being sent to him in DROVES to get a rescue, or this breed or that.

Are we THAT stupid as Americans that we have to ALL debate on this? Seriously?! It’s a DOG. I’m a dog lover, I love my dog. My home has had a dog in it since I was a child. I can’t imagine life without one…but if the President gets a dog…well…that’s not going to impact my life…AT ALL.

I would rather the news today have been about his economic policy, or lack thereof, or his cabinet choices, or hell, the price of tea in China because that can determine the price of tea for me here. ANYTHING but about the ‘potential First-Dog’.

*huge sigh* I probably shouldn’t expect any better of the ‘general public’. After all, people are sheep, they’re probably very concerned over who’s (potentially) nipping at the ankles of the flock…