(Past post, I intended to start this blog last year..... obviously that did not happen!)
Well - as I said we have to start somewhere.
So this blog begins with the ad "I pledge" that I found posted to my Facebook page. It was posted with some sort of negative comment regarding the content. Then a few hours later I received a full page note regarding the hypocrisy of this ad and the celebrities in it.
If you don't know what I am talking about then you should go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw and view it for yourself before you read any further.
So here is my BIG problem with people attacking this promotional ad - there is no benefit. Regardless of what I believe or how I feel, others have the same God given right to have their own opinions. I am extremely bothered by those that profess to feel strongly about something so strongly in fact that they enjoy attacking those who think differently than them.
Why is it that the "Radical" Republican is the most critical?
What makes the most "Left" Democrat think he has it all figured out?
I see no harm in those that support the current administration saying so. Freedom of speech right? For those who say they are using their status to popularize the President - it is not their fault we elevate them into a place of false influence! They are just people like all of us, speaking out for what they believe. I also would contend that by asking them to keep their political views to themselves we further raise their importance and take away more and more of their humanity. They eat like we eat, they breathe as we breathe, they die like we die and celebrity or not, they are American.
When will we begin to understand the smallness of our place and humbly admit that not one of us has it all figured out.
I'll shut up now, thanks...
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