So, I’m catching up on my teevee again. Catching up on Olbermann, to be more specific, and I’m watching last night’s show (I think it was last night’s show; I watched a bunch in a row. But anyways….

So I’m watching, and they do a story on Obama. He says that Hillary Clinton being fucked up is a “generational thing.” That “that gerneration” (sounds a lot like “those people” to me) is still fighting the battles they fought 40 years ago, and it makes it “difficult” for them to compromise on shit.

Exsqueeze me!?!!?? Difficult to compromise? Do you have any idea whatsofuckingever what we’ve already had to compromise on, you little punk?

First, music sucks today, compared to what it used to. I’m not saying there isn’t still good music – but it’s lot fewer and farther between these days. Worst, I think, is radio. Used to be some good radio stations on FM in the olden days. Now, everything pretty much sucks (at least in my neck of the woods – we are, after all, in the Provinces up here). But anyway, I’m sick of all this shitty music on the radio.

Next, we are the children of people who fought in the big war. The “right” war. The “necessary” war. And they won. Our parents were the Jedi. Well, my parents were. Some people’s parents (who shall remain nameless) fought for the Empire. You can’t hold it against them, though. They were just doing what they had to do to get by. Same as I am. Thank god I haven’t had to make any really tough decisions or sacrifices so far. I’d like to think I’d stand up if push came to shove, but of course you never really know until you get faced with a situation just how you’ll react. I’m a hero in my mind’s eye, but you waterboard me, I’ll give it up (or make it up) before you even get the water turned on. Anyhow…

We went from having hero parents to being suckers in Vietnam (not me, personally, since I’m too young, but my brother had the honor of serving his country in Vietnam, and I certainly remember the daily body counts on the Today Show – back when it was an actual news program), to witnessing the disbanding of our system of government. No more co-equal branches of government. No more elections. No more civil rights (regardless of color; the irony may well be that we finally all get treated equally regardless of race, color or creed, — unfortunately that just means that we all get spied on, and have an equal opportunity to get tossed into Guantanamo and tortured), no more free and open society (to the extent that we had one, anyway). No more America.

Look, Barack. Let me ‘splain it to you. It’s not that the baby boomers are reluctant to compromise. It’s that we’ve been forced to fucking compromise far too much already, and there’s nowhere left to go. It’s time to quit compromising with the evil corporate bastards that have pushed our country and our way of life to the brink of destruction. We need somebody that will stand up to these people, and quit giving away our rights.

That may not be Hillary, but it’s becoming increasingly clear it isn’t you, either, pal. You’re just the same-old, same-old — a slightly newer model of the calculating, posturing, and, yes, compromising weasels that got us here in the first place.