A few lessons..

So, there was a Sandbox post about Bush supposedly saying that the Constitution was “just a goddamned piece of paper”. Not only did I notice later on that said article was posted in late 2005, I found out that it was also a hoax put up by a blog. What made this article slightly believable (but also hilarious) was the fact that President Bush, admit it, has a history of committing social un-niceties (you can call them faux pas, I call them un-niceties.).

The really unnerving part about this all was the fact that rather debating the authenticity of the article (which I admittedly should’ve done), people were trying to justify it! “Well..what he REALLY meant was…” No! I find it so utterly disappointing that people think that just because they feel the need to support someone (Bush), they have to throw all common sense into the wind. If someone I supported said something like that, I’d do my best to find out whether or not a) Their words were taken out of context or b) They ever even said it at all.

It’s wonderful if you want to support a politician or anyone in power, but for God’s sake, don’t blindly make excuses for their actions. If Angela Merkel said that she liked locking orphans in a large box and then throwing the box in the ocean, I wouldn’t say “Well, I think that she actually meant to say that she’d lock their sorrows and hunger in a box and throw this box into the ocean so that they can be happy and carefree once more!”

With that said, putting forth the argument “Well, they were under pressure/stress” is also complete nonsense. When you’re a politician, you have to watch everything you say and do. It’s a fact of life that most politicians and presidents realise. That’s why you don’t see too many of them flipping out in places where their words can be recorded/written down.

Conservative or liberal, people need to start seeking the truth on their own rather than relying on half-truths. That’s challenging for all of us and there are times where we mess up. Yet, to make assumptions on things were there is no proof is just unbelievably dumb.