Monday, December 21, 2009

Apparently, its not a Tumor...

A moment of silence please.
It is my sad duty to inform you that Arnold Schwarzenegger is dead.

OK, he's not ACTUALLY dead,
he's just dead to me.

Conan the Destroyer has become Conan the Flaccid Slab of Stupidity.
The Terminator, the once proud robotic badass has relegated himself to the anals (no misspelling there..) of history as a pathetic sack of poo.

Am I being too harsh? No.
Unfair? No.
Am I pissed? Not quite
Am I disgusted? Hell-to-the-yes!

Perhaps the fault is mine.
Perhaps I demand too much from my childhood hero..?
No.
He just sucks.

The fall has been a gradual one - and so, I thought the landing would be softer.

Let's face it. His tenure as governor of California has been a complete and utter failure. With every new tax, with every new growth of state government, with every failure to reign in unions, he became more and more ineffectual. With every knob-schlobbing of the eco-moron movement he became more and more of a joke.... but today he turned from an object of pitiable disappointment to an entity of purest scorn and derision...

You must be saying to yourself, 'self, this must be about Schwarzenegger giving Obama an -A- grade for his job as president thus far.'.....and you would be wrong! (cue dramatic music) well, at least partially.

It's not the -A- that bothers me so much. For the above-listed reasons, Schwarzenegger has already proven himself to be useless. He, like Obama, are more celebrity than public servant - both large on style, little on substance.
No,
its not the grade.
Its the category.
Effort.
EFFORT!!!
Who the #*@% cares about effort!

That's like giving Nero props for playing a good fiddle while Rome burned.

Schwarzenegger, in one brief foray into stupidity has exemplified one of the greatest failings of our time. That effort is more important than results.
It is not.
Consider -
teachers are encouraged not to grade papers using red pen, for fear it may be too harsh and hurt the child's feelings
No more dodge ball
Awards ceremonies where everybody wins something
Teams vilified for winning by too much and coaches fired for the offense
Grades abandoned as too harsh

I could go on, but it I have already vomited a little in my mouth already..

Winning is no longer the desired goal.
Success is a relative term.
Excellence has been replaced with impotence.

Schwarzenegger is pathetic for what he has become.
The voice of the castrato.
Because he allowed it to be so and he was once something better, something greater.

It matters not I suppose that president Obama has made a bad economy terrible
or that he shows nothing but disdain for our country when speaking overseas
or that he is more interested in attacking G.W. Bush than defeating terrorists
or that his strident march to socialism spits in the face of our constitution
No.
What really matters is that president Obama is really trying hard - and to Arnold and the rest of the great American castrato, that is all that really matters

Apparently, its not a tumor..
I guess all of those steroids really did shrink his sack.

Bastard.