I know I’ve said that I am trying to keep politics out of my posting and podcasting, and I have failed miserably.
I try to stay out of politics because I do not consider myself to be a partisan; I don’t identify with either of the two parties. But after the last eight years, I am finding it absolutely impossible to understand the Republican position, or anyone’s endorsment of it outside of a religious context.
That religious context makes it apropo to this blog. Therefore, I get to talk about politics.
First, let’s talk about John McCain. Here is a candidate courting the religious right. He knows that the Republican base will not get motivated unless there is some powerful Jesus in the room. To that end, he has tried to portray himself as the defender of morality. The man who, after his supermodel wife was disfigured and crippled in a car accident (while remaining faithful to him for over five years while he was a POW), left her for a rich heiress fifteen years younger than himself.
This is the guy that says he is the candidate of the working man. But John McCain owns eight or nine homes. Whenever you start using generalities when you talk about the number of homes you own, you are no longer in touch with normal Americans.
Let’s not forget that when McCain was asked what constituted a wealthy American, he said that anyone making under five million dollars a year would be considered middle class. His representatives later said this had been a joke. Now I ask you, which is more horrifying; that he is so far out of touch, that he doesn’t even know what an average income is, or that he might have been making a joke at the expense of poor people?
So, we have a rich, legacy Annapolis graduate, with over twenty years in the senate, who says that the self made, son of a single mother, food stamps raised, community organizer from Chicago is an elitist, out of touch with the needs of average Americans.
What McCain really means to say is that Barak Obama is an uppity negro. Let’s not mince words about it. He wants every American voter to remember that not only is he a different color than they are, but in all likelyhood, he is smarter than them too. This tactic is just another example of Republican fear mongering.
This brings us to Sarah Palin. She is the perfect choice for the McCain ticket for two reasons; she is a woman, who can diffuse some of the white guilt for not voting for the black guy, and she is a hyper-religious, gun toting housewife.
Some of you may have seen the recent video of Sarah Palin and her cult – I mean, church. It seems that the Republican VP pick believes in witched, and generational curses. She also believes that faith healing can regrow limbs. This is a group of fundamentalists who truely believe they are forming an army in preparation for the End Times. They make no bones of their ultimate goal to infiltrate and subjugate the federal government, so they can twist it into their own theocratic vision.
John McCain is a self serving hypocrite. He shows no shame in pandering to an undereducated base to win the presidency by mod rule. He and Sarah Palin have repeatedly lied to the American voters, even after their lies were exposed.
The bottom line is that John McCain thinks your an idiot. I’d say that Sarah palin thinks the same thing, but I think she is an idiot herself, and actually believes the crap she spews.
Quite frankly, I can not understand how a self respecting, intelligent American could actually believe that these people are good for America. Please, if you are a McCain supporter for any reason other that the religious hot button issues, please explain to me why you see him as the best choice, and how you justify the things he has said during this election.
