Queer · and · Loathing · in · America

Jeremiah Wright? Really? I have a question for you, Madam Governor: does the Reverend Wright believe in witchcraft? Does the Reverend Wright's church espouse the doctrine that Illinois is where everyone will come during the Final Days? Does the Reverend Wright's church espouse the notion that you can 'pray away the gay'?

And while I can certainly understand the 'outrage' good white Christian people in this country felt when some of Reverend Wright's sermons were made public earlier this year during the primaries, the very fact that they are willing to give Sarah Palin's minister and church a pass on FAR MORE SUBVERSIVE AND EVIL BELIEFS tells me only one thing: that outrage was based in racism. Period.

Pundits and analysts are always very quick to claim that racism in this country is a complex issue. It's not. It's very simple. Racism exists in this country because some people prefer to have a scapegoat to blame all of the ills of this society on, because it certainly can't be any of OUR fault, right? And whether those scapegoats are black, Muslims, or illegal aliens really doesn't matter--all that matters is they can't be white. And frankly, hatred of an entire group of people primarily based on soundbites from people who choose to exploit that hatred is ignorance in its purist form.

As I watched the news last night and coverage of this monster's lack of originality in baring her fangs and going after Senator Obama, ignoring what really matters to a minimum of 59% of American voters, I shook my head in disgust at Georgia Wallace's attempt to salvage the trainwreck that is the McCain/Palin ticket. Paul said, "You know, I'd have a little more respect for her if she would just come right out and say, you can't vote for the n*gg*r."

By fanning the flames of racial tension, this monstrosity of a woman is showing the entire world how frightfully wrong she is for any elected office in this country.

Her church thinks all Jews should be converted; considering her deep and impassioned long-held love for Israel (from her comments at the debate last Thursday) one can only assume her long-range goal for that nation is a conversion to Christianity. Good luck with that, Madam.

While going on the offensive about the incredibly tenuous 'friendship' of Senator Obama with Bill Ayers, she also opens up questions about the First Dude's membership in the Alaska Independence Party, a secessionist group whose founder hates the United States. She herself taped an address to this party's convention. (Oh, and for all of you moronic right-wingers who have no grasp of history or the language, 'secession' is what the Southern slave-holding states did which resulted in the Civil War; talk about treason! So, Madam Governess, when you talk about 'country first'--do you mean the United States or a sovereign Alaska?)

Senator McCain's own brother referred to the heavily populated northern counties of Virginia as 'communist country.' Any surprise he is now down 12 points in Virginia? And again, as I cruise the internet and read comments on news stories and blogs from those ultra-America-first right-wingers, they are very very quick to throw out the Communist accusation.

That's right, Communist.

In the right wing brain, such as it is, there are no greater insults than 'liberal' and 'Communist'--and in that pea-shaped smaller-than-a-brontosaurus' organ, the words are interchangeable.

These same idiots manage to get outraged when they are compared to Fascists or Nazis, but how is that different from calling liberal Democrats Communists? It isn't, and when you throw out words like that--be prepared to defend yourself with something more than outrage when someone on the left (in particular, ME) calls you a Fascist, because that is what you are.

And while you are at it, you can drop the cloak of Christianity. You aren't a Christian, Madam Governess. To God, the ends do not justify the means; that is a man-made concept and does not appear in the Bible anywhere. By uttering these baseless lies and smears about anyone who disagrees with you, who questions you, who DARES ask a question about you, you aren't making yourself right with the God you claim to be so devoted to.

I doubt you will convince anyone with your carefully scripted lies, insults and smears. You might win cheers at rallies of people who wouldn't vote for the black man under any circumstance, but you aren't convincing the swing voters.

You, Madam Governess, long to turn the clock back to a day when the blacks knew their place, gays and lesbians hid in closets, and women had no choices or control over their lives.

That's not change. That's not reform. That isn't forward thinking.

Here's a challenge from a liberal faggot in Louisiana: Say something, anything, of substance that you can actually defend without resorting to name-calling.

Madam Governess, your entire campaign is based on nothing more than "Oh yeah? Says you."

May God have mercy on your soul.

And as for you, Senator McCain who said yesterday, I don't need lessons in how to tell the truth to the American people. And if I did, I wouldn't turn to a Chicago politician.

Okay, Mr. Senator. Tell me the truth. Why did you leave your first wife who waited for you all those years you were in the Hanoi Hilton, while she was recovering from a terrible accident, for another woman?

Why did you vote 90% of the time with George W. Bush?

Why did you support deregulating our financial industry and Wall Street, since your OWN involvement and support of deregulating the S&L industry in the 80's led to a similar meltdown and bail out? What exactly IS your economic plan?

Why are you supporting cutting Medicare?

As a proud supporter of the military, why do you always vote against veterans' benefits?

I didn't think it possible, but I hold the McCain/Palin ticket in almost as much disdain as I do the Bush/Cheney team, if not more. Bush and Cheney never hid who they really were after the 2000 election.

Oh, and Senator McCain? I want to thank you for choosing Governor Palin as your running mate. Thank you for showing this country and the entire world what the living embodiment of the far right extreme of Republican thought looks like in all of its ugliness, hatred and evil.

And when the American voter wakes up and sees through all of these desperate shenanigans you are resorting to win an election, I pray that this will be the last time this fight for the soul of a great country takes place.

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