Morning gents,
The beat goes on and on and on and oh well you get it. Even with an average IQ of about 110-120 depending upon what format you choose to asses it by, GW and seemingly those relentless supporters still cannot add. George Bush did not win against Al Gore. "Say it aint so Joe" types refuse to accept.... that under any scenario, Pathagrian, Chaldean, Greek, or even for those really into fiction,(Romulan or Klingon) mathamatics, Al gore won in 2000 and it's soooooo pointless to keep rehashing it. I have been ill a few days this week and have lost some time with Fox and MSNBC and even a little CNN would have been okay. But in reading many posts here this morning I see I missed a few goodies.
We still seem to be mired down in the mud. We have a media this season that is out for blood and Jonah Goldberg, one of my favorite editorialists whom has been helping us and myself keep on our "right thinking" righteous toes for much of GW's two terms. Laments the worst of the left and only the best of the right(that doesn't mean correct) Jonah couldn't be more against Obama than anyone I have ever read or heard during these past couple years. And, importantly so, even he cannot justify the claim that Obama is not a US citizen. You have to be hiding under a rock at this juncture, not to have been able to come up with even the slightest proof, not suspicion or wonderment, that this man is anything other than a US natural. As far as his youth? in control of by his gardians, he could have been taken to a TRILLION churches, temples, synagauges, masques, or a horse barn to worship or not. Again if Jonah isn't on it then it isn't there. But...... as a youth I was taken to places of worship I didn't get "the feeling" for. Didn't understand nor felt correct. I spent the better part of three years at St. Joseph's, four or five years under Baptist theology, those Penatcosts scared the demons outta me, and even one with an agnostic ire. Then at about twenty one, I found that just being a christian was enough. So it goes for millions of us who may at one time gone to a place of worship we didn't espouse, especially in our youth, without a say as to whether or not we wanted to be there. God Knows who we are, once he feels our faith. Thank heavens they have not said they "Think" he went to a madrasa once.
I did see that John McCain has gone into a conciliatory mode and Gov. Palin has been quiet about those muddy points at least last night. It was comical when a guy shouted that Palin wasn't qualified, she rebuffed him saying that her son is in Iraq so that he, that man could come out and shout the way he did, then he was hauled off. But on the same token when not one or two, but several shouted VERY NASTY negative remarks about Obama, she remained quiet while smiling and MORE IMPORTANTLY, those shouters were left alone to continue. That same activist type shouting that any other US citezen shouting the same remarks against her, (Democracy under Bush)? would have been hauled away for. I felt bad for John and welled up a little bit with what he said about Obama, "No he's not a Muslim" nor should we be "Scared of him as president, that he's a good family man". Mac simply disagrees with him and feels he, Mac would be a better president. Finally the John McCain I always respected and could vote for came back to the lens. He hasn't been able to say much about his plans to repair our economy and war-torne defenses by having too much fun in rabble-rousing, so he just focused on Obama...period. Now even as Mac spoke to calm the feerful about Obama, the McCain commercials were still driving the very same fear Mac spoke to quell. He needs to pull them immediately if he hopes to get those in the middle to step his way the 4th. John's a good man. He's a little off regarding Iraq and the Afgan. missfire. But even though he did engage in some scandal w/Charles Keating, his character hasn't been destroyed nor should it after all this time. Though I'm certain he didn't want it to come up now.
You have to be running on battery power not to know that Pailn abused her authority in Alaska though the second issue,.. firing his superior wasn't a crime. The first thing she should have done was recuse herself in that mess, being that the trooper was her sister's husband and a potential conflict of interest and a real mess for her. Come on now, take that scenario and apply it to anyone in authority other than Palin and see what happens. Passing the buck at times can work smartly. Just not if you are running for the second highest office in the land. Also what's good for the goose is good for the gander here as well. The talking points in part were,"If he has nothing to hide or be ashamed of, then tell all, tell all now. Palin's troops have been stonewalling that investigation, THAT in fact started before she was tapped for VP by the way, though she agred to cooperate in the beginning. Then they say "we are not now going to cooperate in this partisan witch hunt" after Mac asked her to run. In spite of the allegations that he was a threat to her and her family. How does a man like that get such a job anyway? That's a Hollywood plot. PA LEEEEEASE. No. I do not feel she has the character nor gray matter enough to be so close to the oval office. So now since the finding is that she did in fact abuse her authority in allowing her husband to try and affect a governor's dutiful criteria, she could be impeached as Alaska's Gov. This silly plan of the Repubs just might not work. I really wish Mac had chosen Romney or Paul, even (Mr. 911, Rudy) would have given me a much better sense of the much needed dignity the RNC had touted.
In spite of littrally EVERYTHING we could and should cry about, I think that regardless of the winner next month, we as a nation can, and BY GOD should pull together and fix all these messes created by perhaps some of us, and certainly our leaders, lenders, brokers, corporate wheels, greed and apathy abroad. One nation undevided and focused as we have been exhaulted for through most of our relative short history.
God bless us all.
