Racist or Mysogynist?

Thanks to all the harshest liberal voices for taking a vacation from making those charges daily of Republicans and turning them on your fellow Democrats.

They're equally ludicrous, but at least now we all know what it feels like.

So which button should a Democrat push?  The "I'm a racist button" (with Geraldine Ferraro's picture on it) or the "I'm a misogynist" button, with Elton's sneer on it?

Good luck.  See you later this summer when you've turned your condemnation back on us.

sharp

I finally understand why I "cling" to religion (apparently like a dumb fool).  Why, I thought it was because I believed in Jesus.  All that study and all that time in prayer and service were just a facade.  It was all just my bitterness over losing my job.

It is a messy detail, I suppose, that I haven't lost my job.  But let's not get confused here.  Because so much more is explained by Mr. Obamas sermon on my problems.

You see, apparently I believe that we should control immigration because of that, too.  I always thought that any reasonable country had to control its borders, though this country desperately needs immigration.  But it must have just been because of my lost job.

And my beliefs about gay marriage and gay adoption must also have come from the same depth of fear over my job. 

I never knew.

All this time I've been nothing more than an emotionally-driven caveman who responds to outside stimili with bitterness and responds with mysogyny (thanks Elton) racism and Jesus.

At least it's good to know what Obama really thinks of us.

sharp

It's beautiful here today in the mountains of East Tennessee. It's just after 5:00 a.m. and the birds are singing and the air is crisp and clean.

I look forward to another trip to the West Coast soon and to the Gulf in June.  My son and I were in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago and I am still moved by the stone chiseled words of greatness that we were immersed in for a few days.

This is an amazing place to live and I'm blessed to be able to see so much of it.

sharp

From the outside, it's hard to understand how the Democrats could be anything but giddy about the upcoming election.  But when I hear them say as much, they seem to be trying to convince themselves.  I hear the word "right?" after each sentence.

Such as, "it doesn't matter which one wins, Democrats like them both"  (right?)

"They'd both make great Presidents" (right?)

I don't know how to say it any better than that, but I think you'll understand.  The level of animosity has risen to outright hatred between the supporters of Obama and Hillary.

In the end, the winner won't be worrying first about capturing the all-important swing voters, they'll have to run left first to soothe the savage base. 

Meanwhile John McCain is looking statesmanlike and has occupied the independent middle for years.  It will be very difficult for whomever wins the nomination - unless the loser is #2 on the ticket.  I'm not sure that's even possible now.  But I'm wrong with striking consistency, so....

Bottom line: Politics is never dull.

sharp

We've all had them.  Those moments where your true feelings are exposed by your choice of words.  It's hard to know how your words sound until you've heard them out loud and then it's awfully hard to take them back.

I don't mean to pass judgment on things I know little about.  I can't see into the hearts of Obama or Hillary or McCain (though I've registered an overwhelming sense of nothing from these choices).

McCain has been criticized for his 100 years comment about our presence in Iraq.  He compared it to our presence in Japan and in South Korea.  He said that as long as Americans aren't being shot at or harmed, that we should have a presence in the most volatile area of the world.  Interesting thought.  It begs a few more questions, but for the sake of this discussion, does that mean he's not going to pull troops out of Iraq at all?

Obama had his wife's comment about never having been proud of America until now (poor paraphrase on my part) which could be easily put aside except for the parallel anti-Americanism of the pastor whose been such an influence on the Obama's lives.

Now Barack himself, in his usual publicly conversational state (read: unrehearsed) told an audience that a young person who makes a mistake (sex without protection or marriage) should not be punished with a child.  This is one reason he will have trouble in the general election.  He's too unrehearsed.

I know he loves his daughters and he loves children.  Let's get that out of the way.

But he also may view the unborn as less than human.  Many people do.  There's a poignant note in a column on the "National Review" website about the movie Juno where a young teen is planning to have an abortion until a school-mate (I think) tells her the baby already has fingernails.  That seemingly tiny fact destroys the comfortable notion of procedure and puts all the humanity of our creator in that most vulnerable and precious human being. 

Has Obama thought that through?  Maybe not.  He's the most liberal candidate with regards to abortion rights that the Democrats could find.  Against the ban on partial birth abortion and harshly critical of the Supreme Court upholding that law; against the ban on killing a child who was not successfully killed in an abortion, etc.  These are exreme positions which, when taken with the slip of the tongue about a baby being punishment, make you wonder how far he is from mainstream thought about abortion.  And whether the slip was truly telling.

sharp