The only thing that Johnny and Gidget have to run on at this stage in the game is the issue (or non-issue, really) of the character of Barack Obama. Watching the people at the Reichstag....I mean, rallies....will be remembered as classic moments in the history of unintentional comedy; a virtual treasure trove example of the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American people:
"I ain't votin' fer no nigger A- Rab!"
Nice! No, it doesn't get any weirder than that. It really doesn't!
But there is something which is also very disturbing and deeply ominous about the McCain/Palin events - the visceral shouts from the crowd, implying threatened violence:
"Kill him!" "Off with his head!" "Terrorist!" "Bomb Obama!"
All of these choice nuggets of electoral discourse were captured by the microphones of MSNBC this week. In an interview a few days ago with CNN's Anderson Cooper, David Gergen said:
"There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we're not far from that. I really worry when we get....the kind of rhetoric that you're getting at these rallies. I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down."
Your average McCain/Palin rally has all the look and feeling - not of your average campaign event -but of an out-of-control lynch mob! Middle America, as mythologized by Thornton Wilder in his literary masterpiece, Our Town, has lost it's fucking mind.
There is the malignant cancer of racism which affects the American body politic that Camp McCain is willing and eager to exploit. How else can you explain Sarah Palin's constant, suggestive inquiry, "Just who is Barack Obama"? All last week she has been trying to transform Senator Obama's casual acquaintance with former sixties radical William Ayers into a full fledged plot to blow up America.
Her desperation is quite touching, really. She is loyally following the tried and true Lee Attwater/Karl Rove playbook - the three D's: Divide, Distort and Distract. She is trying to hoodwink the American people into foolishly swallowing the fiction that the Republican party is the party of traditional middle class goals and values. That won't work any longer. Sure it will always work with the type of idiotic Nazi wannabes they were able to dredge up for their rallies in Wisconsin and Florida last week - but the grand old party is over. The era of half-witted, right wing ideological perversity which has polluted America's national political dialogue for nearly three decades is over.
The pendulum has swung - with a vengeance, baby!
I've been waiting for this moment since the day I picked up Dick Gregory's autobiography from the shelf of my high school's library one afternoon in the spring of 1974. I knew that an African American would make it to the White House in my lifetime. I can't explain to you how I knew it; it was just a feeling I had. Call it intuition; call it prophecy; call it Degan's dumb, Irish luck - But I knew it, Buster!
The irony is that I always thought that the first black man to live in the White House would be a centrist Republican. (Let's face facts: Middle America would never have sent a black woman to the White House at this point in time, no matter how bad things were.) Even a slightly left-of-center black Democrat traditionally scares the shit out of Middle America. A Black Democrat in the White House? It'll never happen, I thought.
Tom Degan is a former Green Party candidate for New York State Senate. He writes on a blogsite called, The Rant by Tom Degan. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.....Okay, he didn't really receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But he did get a ribbon of sorts when he was in the Cub Scouts.
for a qualified American of African decent for president, of which Obama is not. I will not vote for him on account of his saying on thing in January of this year, and now flip-flopping of the issues several months later. He also has less than 200 days as a Senator, so is level of Executive experience is minimal.
Your statement of the Republican party represents itself as having in common what middle Americana is accurate. These hypocrites who espouse less government and federal spending, end up bloating the bureaucracy while adding trillions to the debt with billions unaccounted for that their future great grandchildren of "Loved Ones" will still only be paying a fraction on the interest.
Their "Family Values Candidates" include the demigod Ronald Reagan who was a wife and political party swapper expanding the size of government while adding significantly to the deficit, Mark Foley, the House-Page boy sexual predator, Larry Craig who you wouldn't want to meet in a public bathroom, Henry Hyde and Bob Barr who prosecuted Clinton on charges infidelity, while they had and continued "Youthful Indirection" infidelities themselves.
Now we have the "Straight Talk Express" of John McCan who not only collaborated with the enemy as a POW, but has has numerous martial infidelities and his running mate Sarah Palin who was pregnant before becoming married with her daughter following in her footsteps. So much for "Faith Base" abstinence programs working.
These white and blue collar American will howl at federal welfare and public assistance programs, while they pocket their PIC farm subsidy checks, corn-ethanol pie in the sky alternative fuel subsidies, low interest federal loans to rebuild after a natural disaster and other federal government handouts.
Some will throw out the name Colin Powell as a upstanding American of African decent as insinuated in an opednews article a couple of days ago. The man is a parrot with his WMD speech at the UN before the War Of Terror Crusade began. He is also responsible for his signature to transfer weapons from the Pentagon inventory to Ollie North's Treason-War Profiteering-Cocaine for guns fomenting Iran-Contra scandle. So not only is he guilty of Treason but a War Criminal to boot.
What I know of Carol Mosley Braun I thought would have made a good president, and there are other prominent Americans of African decent who are much more qualified than Barak Obama, that I would be happy to vote for if they would ever be willing to stand up and lead.
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Stanimal (0 articles, 4 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 668 comments)
on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 5:28:10 PM
With all due respect as to Senator Obama's perceived "lack of experience", should we not forget the fact that he has at least - if not more - legislative experience than the following American presidents:
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Earl Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
With one or three exceptions (Nudge! Nudge! Wink! Wink!), I am sure you will agree that all of the above were competant, if not exceptional chiefs executive. The historical record runs rings around your subjective arguments.
Many years ago, an unknown actor was given a carte blanch contract by RKO Films to make any movie he desired. The guy came to Hollywood without so much as an idea how to make a film. He had not a drop of "experience". All he had was a vision. The actor was Orson Welles. The film was Citized Kane. 'Nuff said?
On re-reading my response to your posting, the sentence, "The historical record runs rings around your subjective argument" sounds a tad snooty and unkind. Forgive me, I didn't mean it to sound that way. The postings I have read by you - even though I might at times disagree with your conclusions - are always well thought out.
or of voting on machines that can be hacked without detection.
BUT, I believe Obama will slow the rate of US implosion caused by graft, greed and deception. In calculus, that's measurable.
However, the article's main point, I think, is that white folks shouldn't vote their racism. Tom Degan clearly slams the GOP for its lies and voter suppression tactics - which, no matter who you vote for (if you vote), should be scorned by all Americans who believe in honest elections.
This year, the GOP shot itself in the face with these despicable tactics. Rest in Agony, GOP.
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Rady Ananda (124 articles, 283 quicklinks, 36 diaries, 1061 comments)
on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 6:05:57 PM
I have said since the beginning and wrote one piece, that race is a huge factor. I was at the University of Alabama when Wallace stood in the door, so I am very familar with race and hatered. In 1981, in Mobile, my home town, a black man was hanged and thanks to Morris Deas the KKK was held accountable. To think that Barack Obama is not qualified are the words of a fool-----and they, like racists are out there. We call that "code", not experienced, but oh, I would vote for a black man. Bull shit.
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virginius "gin" arnold (11 articles, 3 quicklinks, 19 diaries, 205 comments)
on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 7:54:01 PM
I'm afraid I really don't get the "racism" connection here. I think what's solely at issue is that most "middle American crazy white people" don't think too much of those who associate with, and appear to agree with, people like Ayers, Dohrn and Wright, who advocate economy/401K/stock portfolio-killing marxist "liberation theology", be they black, white, green or red. A lot of the current decline in the stock market is probably due to people anticipating the likelihood of a coming socialist-style economy.
If ever a free-market conservative anti-socialist black American (they are out there) rose to be on the GOP ticket, he/she would be enthusiastically embraced by that base, just as has the first female candidate to fit that description.
It's not as simplistic as being only about race or gender, it's about ideology.
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Alan Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 709 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 12:51:48 AM
Time will tell who is the next Caesar of Rome. Time will tell if they do anything other than keep pushing the New World Order agenda forward. Their Nation's leader Nixon was one of the first of their leaders to mention the New World Order.
Hail Caesar. Hail the Senate. Send our mighty legions forth to conquer the Nations for Rome & Caesar's glory. I pledge alligence to the cash register & for all it stands.
And Augustus Caesar issued the decree to tax the whole world.
All ready the Bankers are talking about a new world order banking system. Everything was planned as they consolidate power due to what appears to be a crisis to everyone else. They are sly & they are clever, but God is not deceived by any.
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shadow dancer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 71 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:33:14 AM
I'll pinch you - and you are dreaming - WAKE UP!!!
The color of a liars skin really doesn't matter.
For some reason, maybe your overwhelming desire, you seem to think Obama is different because he's black?
Idi-Amin was black. Poppa-Doc was black. Just because Obama is black doesn't make him our savior. If anything, because the system itself is so entirely corrupt and at its head populated almost exclusively by old white men that really control things, what makes you think that Obama isn't anything more than a sock-puppet for Power-Elites?
Yes, on a psychological/symbolic level it is something of a boost to have a man of color in the WH, but when that man is as bad or worse than those already running things, what difference does it really make?
Obama to me is nothing more than the perfect Manchurian Candidate. He started out stealing the anti-war crowd with his I'm multinational-can-get-the-world-together message and as soon as he garnered the nomination made turns so abruptly to the right I thought his neck would snap.
And of course his handlers and deluded followers said it was to capture that illusive "middle" that even if it existed doesn't come close to the number of the 50% of the voters that have been so disillusioned with this corrupt system for so long as to not even participate. So if Obama really wanted "change" why didn't he mobilize those sleeping 50% instead of feeding us a steady stream of same-old same-old?
I can answer that question for you. It's because he's not running to "change" anything but to make sure absolutely nothing changes at all, except maybe for he worse. Because there will be deluded masses wanting so hard to believe he's the "real-deal" he'll be able to push through even more Draconian measures without half the resistance McCain would receive.
You yourself have not made one mention of all the policy changes he's put forth that aren't any different than McCain's, or of any of the knives he's already placed in your back. Or of people like Brzezinski that is his foreign policy advisor and the titular head of one of the ruling factions of the Illuminati or that Obama himself is a member of the CFR. On what planet does that represent "change"?
Because the last straw was his backing of this disastrous so-called recovery bill when over 90% of the people were dead-set against it. I would like to know how this makes him a representative of the people or of change and not just another agent for elites?
Because I don't give a fat-rat's-ass what the color of his skin is, or gender, or religion, or sexual preference, when their policies spit in the face of the people they're all of one color to me, which is no color at all, for I can see right through them, and Obama I see right through.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 1696 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 11:38:53 AM
Those "prophetic" email chains claiming to reveal Obama as the anti-Christ has been cranked up to a frenzied level. The fact is, Barky is one overrated orator, with an overated level of intelligence. His ideas over the economy recently proved just that.
Clinton was more refined and eloquent than Barky could ever hope to be, and there was some "prophecy" to Bill being the anti-christ during the 90s, though not of the same magnitude experienced this time around.
A trend can be seen here. Only a Democrat can be an anti-Christ. No other arguments are tolerated. I am of right-wing persuasion but you can't appeal to reason with these mindless folks.
As for the anti-Christ's putative powers, charms and magnetic appeal, doesn't Vladimir Putin fit the bill better?
From what can be clearly inferred, such "prophetic" depictions of Obama as the anti-Christ is nothing more than a racially motivated sham. There are references and photos stretching back to Obama's roots or relations in Africa and Indonesia, and a traditional attire worn by little Barrack as proof positive of his Muslim faith (He was indeed born Muslim, I have no doubt about that).
But his subsequent conversion, though an osmotic process of social integration, and church attendance has had little effect.
Some guy called Lou Engle has prophesied "darkness" if prayers were not offered over the chaste and pure Palin. Read part of his insight here: http://www.louengle.com/
In other words, a vote for Barky is a vote for Satan. Does that sound familiar, I mean Alaskan familiar, going back to 2004 elections? Bush, their little horn, has truly delivered.
The term "crazy white people" reminds me again of encounters I have had at some bizarre prophetic chat sites. One was called Bluebells-something and the other Chariots-something. In each lurks a former cyber sex predator called Ol' Warrior aka Roland who claims powers to discern a wizard or a wiccan among every newcomer. Very unnerving.
Is he seeing a vodoo warrior or a Muslim jihadi in Obama now? Good grief, with citizens like these, it is little wonder that no worthy candidates have emerged for the presidential post for some time.
In the meantime, a pall of thick, hellish darkness has descended over the global economy, which, only the angelic waxed legs of Palin, and the cherubic procreational pursuits of Bristol Palin can dispel.
She was clueless during the VP debates, but then so were both the VP and Presidential candidates.
These are dark times indeed, but it should not be confused with the emergence of a dark-tanned President.
But tell that to the Dobson Army....
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Mathew Maavak (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 12:08:48 PM
for my tongue lashing of "Gin", I still want to know how many minorities is he living next to?
I have lived and worked in Africa, South American and presently in China as an ESL teacher. I dedicated my life to combat racism and help people less fortunate than myself.
You didn't acknowledge my willingness to vote for a American of African decent, if they are qualified and unbending in their quest to lead.
Tom lists a number of former who had a less Executive experience than Obama, but he doesn't acknowledge that they are older, and had military or business experience that Obama does not possess. The republican candidates listed are part of the problem the US currently is facing with their misguided foreign policies and deregulation mantra.
So, you "Progressives" that are voting for Obama, you support the NOW, the Bilderberg Group, the CFR and Israel's apartheid government suppressing the rights and freedoms of the Palestine's for decades.
You are behind the War Of Terror Crusade being waged both domestically and abroad, even willing to open new fronts with Iran.
You support all the wire-tapping and government intrusion into innocent people's lives.
My not voting for Obama has nothing to do with the color of his skin, everything to do with his flip-flopping of positions.
You want real change in Washington this November, vote Mike Gravel.
P.S. My 1st comment I neglect to include that "he is not the candidate I'm voting for. It appeared that I said he is not a American of African decent. Please excuse my error.
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Stanimal (0 articles, 4 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 668 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 2:58:57 PM
Damn, I hate it when I miss a tongue lashing but maybe you can re-tongue last me. As stated on my bio page I live in a resort area and there are few black people living here. One of the many things i do not like about it. Fred has lived here almost as long as I have and is a friend of mine. he also happens to be black. I have lived a good many years in Indonesia and had lots of Moslem, as well as Hindu, and Buddhist freinds and tend to be more Buddhist in my own thinking. I am supporting Obama as I think he is the epitome of the American story but also I like his stand on taxes, R v Wade, health care, education, and enviroment. Enough said. The fact he is black, is just reaon for celebration.
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virginius "gin" arnold (11 articles, 3 quicklinks, 19 diaries, 205 comments)
on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 6:30:48 PM
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