Dear Vicki:
Thank YOU for not using SNL to speak your political views. I really appreciate you exercising prudence.
I ask though, that you please continue to be careful with your words, and where and how you post them. When people go to your site, I ‘m certain they would love to laugh and be inspired. I would hate for you to disappoint more of us by contradicting yourself again…
We are in a very exciting time where we as a country can take a giant steps towards healing. Now, more than ever, we need to come together as a people…and we need leaders like yourself to stimulate this rather than divide.
You ended your open letter to Joy Behar by saying…
“Our system of government has checks and balances. Instead of complaining, why don't you take a political history course and run for office and see what good you can do for the world.”
…yet you have written and posted numerous passages from others implying or saying flat out that Obama is a Communist, and a Marxist. This is not accurate… Do you know what these terms mean?
Communism and Marxism have varying definitions, depending on who is doing the talking. Ask millions of Russian immigrants who escaped what they thought to be Communism, but was really totalitarianism… a dictatorship. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
Look up Marxism. Marx was a philosopher who was describing a “process” that humans went through on their daily lives, depending on what class they were. A maid’s day cleaning and mopping is probably WAY different than yours when you were hot on SNL Vicki! He was describing a process of people realizing their potential and moving towards it. He was talking about a evolution of any society which is divided by a class system.
Unfortunately, others came along and started to debate HOW to change this, and this is where many definitions were sprouted… And AGAIN, totalitarians in Russian took advantage of this, and bluffed/scared the people into giving up their rights to the state. They hold up Stalin and Lenin as great Marxists, and that is a lie. But I am a political science major, and happen to know this stuff…
DO YOU HOMEWORK. You are a woman of high public standing, and you are doing yourself a disservice blurring terms…thus you come across much less intelligent than you really are.
And might I remind you that our troops have PTSD, high rates of suicide, Gulf War Syndrome, sickness from depleted uranium, and a high chance of birth defects for their future kids…not to mention the millions of people killed in Iraq that you don’t and will never hear about. We are wholly responsible for that…and THAT, is NOT CHRISTIAN.
You attack Obama’s interpretations of spiritual concepts. They scare you, so you do the same thing to him that was done to your ancestors just a few hundred years ago. You attack him…and I wonder if you had the power, would you try to get him drawn and quartered too? Weren’t our ancestors escaping this religious judgment when they founded this country?
Please do your homework. And if you are too lazy to do that, then at least turn OFF loud ranting heads, go within, pray, and meditate on what else you can do to bring light to this planet. You have brought us so much laughter and light already. You are an obviously powerful person. You have so much… Beautiful, blonde, funny…women would kill to be in your position. What are you afraid of that you spend more time attacking with words which contradict each other instead of inspiring others? This is why McCain is having such a hard time right now…
I don’t care who you endorse… I respect it fully. I WANT you to vote for who you believe in.
But please use your power to inspire instead of spreading more fear, hate and smoke. Jesus inspired, right?
Thank you…
…always a fan… Blue
