Reader question #3

Natalie said, "I want you to blog about politics. About Obama. And Arizona. And the oil spill. We don't have cable, so I need to keep informed SOMEhow. Help me, ShaNae!"

Well Natalie, you know as well as anyone that I am not the person to ask about all this. But I will say a few brief things.

I still love Obama. I will be voting for him when he's up for reelection. No president is perfect (except Abraham Lincoln of course :P), but I can imagine much worse things.

I hate Arizona and am glad I do not live there. Imagine what it would be like if there were black people in Arizona too. Maybe if they change their ways, I would go live there for the nice climate. There's a right way and a wrong way to do immigration reform. I gotta admit that I don't really know what the right way is, but I sure as heck know what a wrong way is and Arizona hit it right on the head.

The oil spill--- oh boy. I feel depressed about how apathetic I feel about the oil spill. I've been thinking this since it started-- it's kinda crazy how when it feels like something doesn't really affect me directly, it feels kind of insignificant. Okay, before you all go commenting about how it does actually affect me, I know that. But it feels far away. Also, I feel helpless about it. And since there's nothing I can do, it's easier to just not stress about it. All that being said, I think this is a fabulous time for all of us to be pushing for and thinking about alternative energy sources. I understand that we are going to be reliant on oil and such for some time, but we can use this incident as an opportunity to move away from those energy sources toward more sustainable ones. I feel like we haven't heard enough about that from the president. That being said, I feel bad for Obama in this whole thing. I guess I kind of relate. I am the charge nurse at work most of the time (which means I am in charge). That means that when something goes wrong, even if I wasn't directly involved, it's partially my fault. And I hate that. It sucks to have to take a lot of crap when someone under you didn't do what they were supposed to be doing. I guess that comes with the turf when you're president, but I relate to it in a new way now that I've really been there.

And that is my ever-so-brief and hopefully not too explosive political post.