We're coming to you from the Mixed Messages Department here in the marbled halls of IM Central today. MM is a division of the Cognitive Dissonance Corporation in partnership with Disconfirmed Expectancy, Inc. Truth be told, in our more sober moments we have feared for the future of our great nation, and not just because higher oil prices meant an increase in the delivery fee the local liquor store charges.
No indeed. What caused our concern was the increasingly spittle flecked, bug eyed, off the meds howl rising up from McCain Palin rallies. Now, perhaps this is just a measure of McCain finally finding his base, or perhaps there is something inherently attractive about a septuagenarian and a snow monkey to voters who have given themselves over to the voices in their heads. We'll leave that to the academicians. Or Mental Health Officials. Whatever.
Our point is that with each passing day it appears more and more likely that people who actually tend to vote for their own best interests are going to carry the day and even among the more, shall we say loosely constructed population, it appears that the Moen faucet stem and cartridge puller are beginning to put the squeeze on the Single, Double & Triple Bowl Sinks for the Kitchen & Bar of delusion. Or more simply, when Joe the plumber is to plumbing what Britney Spears is to singing you got a problem even Cindy McCain can't help you with.
With poll after poll showing Democrat Barack Obama widening his lead over Republican rival John McCain in the race to the November 4 presidential vote, conservatives are fretting. "We have a sense of foreboding about what it looks like right now ... It certainly doesn't look good right now," said Barry Creamer, the host of a talk show on conservative Christian radio station WWJD in Dallas. "I mean, Obama wants to help the poor and the middle class. He wants to make education more affordable to all and insists we pay according to our abilities. Where are the Christian values in that?"
"I get this sense from my callers. Some have a sense of resignation but prayerful hope for divine intervention because the last thing Jesus wants is a fair and equitable society. He actually told me that last night when I prayed to him asking if I should go for the Mercedes or the Audi."
Other hosts of talk radio -- a staple of U.S. conservative culture -- have tried to rally the troops. "They're trying to depress you; they're trying to dispirit you; they're trying to make you think ... that the election is finished," talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh said this past week in reference to polls showing Obama with a commanding lead. "But we've been living in our own world for the last eight years, do you really think Obama can make us live in his?"
"I don't believe it's over until it's over," said Ron Osborne, a Southern Baptist pastor in a suburb north of Dallas. "I also don't believe in evolution, gravity or the United States Postal Service."
"I believe it's catastrophic. Obama's leaning toward socialism and Marxism in many, many areas," said Sunny Turner, who heads an anti-abortion rights group in Tucson, Arizona. "I mean just look at the financial crisis. When Obama gets in there he's likely to nationalize the banks. You can't get much more socialist than that." When told that Bush had already OK'd a policy that could lead to partial nationalization of the banks, Turner replied that it was OK for Bush to do that "because he's protecting the womb babies."
"I think that under an Obama presidency, every safeguard of the unborn will go to the wayside under the guise of freedom of choice," Osborne said. "Of course under Obama I'll get to keep my house, so there is something to be said for that."
One concern among social conservatives is that the issues that really motivate their ranks, such as abortion and gay marriage, have taken a back seat to the economy. "Avoiding social issues is detrimental to my employment prospects," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council said.
Now that's reality talking.
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Was it Michelle Bachmann who made an absolute "ass" out of herself saying investigators should look into all the anti-Americans in the Senate? Of course, if you still have Bay Buchanan ranting (with new upscale glasses on trying to look "in"), the sky's the limit.
It is shocking how far the Republicans have spiraled into their hellish games and contortions, and I, along with millions, are thrilled they nailed themselves at the stakes.
Hopefully, as Colin Powell so eloquently stated, the World will have more respect for Americans and through this one token of just voting even "blacK", maybe peace is still a possibility, particularly with Muslims.
Whatever the outcome of an Obama government, Barack is more than human with all his history and flaws and that .alone at the very least, makes for a humanitarian. Mix it with "Harvards" and "Princetons" and all the intellectuals and lifetimes of international experience, the recipe will be a damn great success.
It is absolutely astounding to me that we are 29th in the world for health care to infants! This is not only disgraceful, it shows you exactly where we are on the map of industrialized nations! How hypocritical of all these "pro-life" advocates when they turn their backs on the living babies that are malnourished due to poverty, deathly ill because of no proper pre-natal care, and left to die because "Republicans do not want to share"!
Yes, it is long overdue to put religion aside and practice it "silently". It is your prayer, and perhaps no-one else's....and there are millions of people very capable of living their lives, with dignity, with deep spiritual convictions, and absolute devotion.
Extreme right tactics are boorish, and often violent, (bombing of abortion clinics ) and the beatings to death of homosexuals, beyond barbaric and mentally sane.
I hope to God, (and whichever one I so wish to choose,) that should there be an afterlife, Bush, Cheney, Rove and Ridge, Rumsfeld and Limbaugh along with all of Wall Street and the underhanded Banks and mortgage companies, take a deep dive into the "big black hole of ghastly consumption" and literally blast their guts out from pigotry. There have been millions of these so-called "religious fanatics" when religion was the last thing on their minds. It was for money; for sex; or for power and if this is not anti-American, tell me, what is?
Saturday Night Live is just a "slingshot" to the kneecap when Palin is doing her hand pumps and giddy as a moose is shot to death. This is what truly is called the very "Ugly American" and it breaks more than my heart to know people actually vote for that. What is worse, some women actually wish they were she.
Should Obama be assassinated because of deliberate inciting of hate and race and lies, what will the people of Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, Florida ,Georgia and all the rest of the feverish Bible Belt, say? Will they say "God works in many strange ways.", or will they say, far too late. "We're so very sorry."
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