VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: In any normal country were a candidate for public office to suggest that biblical creation legends be taught in the schools on par with scientifically sustainable theory she would be laughed out of the political forum. Not so in the USA. In her successful gubernatorial election campaign in 2006 Sarah Palin, now John McCain's nominee for his Vice President, said just that.
This woman is entirely typical of and well represents about half of our remaining voters (and remember about two-fifths of US voters abstain, understanding correctly that the outcome of national elections, whoever wins, cannot but be disparaging to their interests) who believe in literal interpretation of the Bible.
Apparently her religious manias are so extreme that she has gone to the extent of failing to instruct her young daughter in the facts of life. But that discussion is for another paragraph. But, such prudish and stupid attitudes are again typical of about half the remaining electorate, and we will return in due course to this subject.
Her boss, Mr McCain learnt to his cost in 2000 the power of this, the largest surviving bloc of American voters when he was roundly trounced in South Carolina, losing his chance for that presidential election to the light-weight but Bible-waving Governor of Texas, George W. Bush. It is good to see that Senator McCain can learn by experience. It is not good, it is an agonizing heart-break for an American patriot like myself to see how low the once-Great Republic has fallen that such sectarian loonies now decide its destiny. But facts are facts.
It is left for us to decide how best to profit from the guaranteed incompetence, the bellicose war-mongering, and the totally defective, even psychotic misperceptions of any possible US government.
The first thing coming to mind is that the Bush presidency has damaged the Empire beyond the wildest dreams of its most adamant enemies, amongst whom I count myself. I am a republican -- with the lower-case r. This indicates that I believe in the republican form of government, not the laughably misnamed Republican Party.
I do not believe that generations of US patriots fought for the triumph of nobilities and elites. Like my own highly decorated uncles in World War II they fought for democracy, not for the Fascist ideals of the Corporate State. They were allies, not enemies of the Red Army of Russia, and gave thanks to God for every Nazi their Russian friends shot dead. And when they met their Soviet friends at Torgau on the Elbe they made that very, very plain.
But the helmets of modern US soldiers resemble those of their German enemies, not of their own fathers and of their grandfathers. And this is no accident.
For we are no longer, and never again can be the bastion of democracy. We are not the Great Republic of President Roosevelt's day, but only another sorry evil empire. One run by rich and corrupt corporate elites and their political hirelings.
Indeed, and I grant you it is true that certain factions within this elite are appalled by the incompetence and ignorance that has been brought forward by Bush and his anti-Christian supporters. They perceive the Pyrrhic nature of the "victory" in Iraq. And of all the other policy of this regime. So they uselessly seek to advance the candidacy of their reserve political army, that of the Democrat Barack Obama. But they've only themselves to blame for the debacle which is upon us.
For many, many years these very same elites have worked day and night to remove educational benefits from working-class persons. For many years, decades even, these elitists have thought themselves ever so clever in surrendering to the priests of these wacky Armageddonist cults the great mass of our people. These, our best and our brightest, the leaders of our government and of our commerce were quite sure such a policy would leave only themselves and their friends permanently at the summit of US power.
Before it was dynamited by Hitler's order the monument in the French Forest of Compiegne commemorating the armistice of 1918 bore the inscription, "Here succumbed the criminal pride of the German Empire."
In a similar decision, taken perhaps as long ago as 1968, the leaders of the USA cut their own throats.
We Bolivarians and Socialists must hope for, and more to the point, work for the victory in the coming US elections of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Let these persons finish the national destruction begun by George W. Bush.
A perfect leader for the evil empire is a woman unwilling and unable to tell her own daughter, "'Tis he who will have the fun, and thee the baby."
Venezuela is facing the most difficult period of its history with honest reporters crippled by sectarianism on top of rampant corruption within the administration and beyond, aided and abetted by criminal forces in the US and Spanish governments which cannot accept the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people to decide over their own future.
Now I am sure that the person who wrote this article was very secure in the Knowledge that God Loves Everyone!
GOD did NOT say don't love that guy but that one is ok! He allows human beings to be creative. Oftentimes it is not the way that a mother or a father would deem it, but God allows us to make the decisions. When Moses was born in a large family, his mother put her baby in a basket and set it in a stream that flowed by the Queen's house. Upon hearing the noises that the little one was making she told the wards to get the little babe. She had enough food to make him strong and enough love that would bring him together with his own real family again later in life. If we listen to barack obama he is saying go ahead and have an abortion but make sure that the baby is dismembered or kill it before it can even reach the air of life! I guess that his ideas about when life begins is far different from mine. I remember, while swimming in that little womb of my mothers, the grateful praises to God that HE had given her strength to carry this little baby all the way to term. (She had many miscarriages before me) And I remember my daddy saying that he wondered if I would be a boy like my brother or a girl like my sister, but that he hoped that I would be a healthy baby.
Nothing is more important to a child than being loved. If you have Love it is everything. The most important thing that we can learn no matter if we are rich or poor, no matter what the color of our skin, because there are so many shades of white, brown, red, yellow, black, and pink. We all started with one mother and father ADAM & EVE. If we could believe in that ONE great God the Father who made us in his image and likeness, and ifwe could all LOVE Him first and our brothers next, then there would be no more wars and we would live in Peace.
Speak not badly about your brother or sister, for they were created as you were! Love God with your whole mind, your whole soul and with your whole heart, and then to love your brother like yourself!
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nestacal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 39 comments) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:37:06 PM
Comment from Ratings: God loves Everybody. He loves the horrible man who is trying to teach your child the wrong things in life, "to be careful of creating a baby and if it appears that a baby is about to be born to get an abortion", Barack Housien Obama. His beliefs NOT mine!
I believe that a baby is precious. I also believe that everyone has a right to live on this earth for as long as God wants him to live. If the Democratic message is one of DEATH then I will change parties. I really hoped that President Clinton would win in that Democratic convention, because she, Kerry, Kennedy and 93 other senators voted for Life. Barack Obama voted AGAINST the keeping alive a little baby.
It allows people to really choose between LIFE or death! Well I choose life!
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nestacal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 39 comments) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:53:00 PM
Excuse me Clinton and Kerry are pro death not pro life. They voted for the US military to invade Iraq and murder the people of Iraq. But I guess all you care about is forcing women to have children they don't want or are unable to take care of.
Pro-war not pro-choice means pro death.
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Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 888 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:52:48 PM
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