I try to avoid this topic, as there’s enough on the internet about it already. But I have to say something, after listening with horror to:
- parochial, misguided, trivial, uninformed comments from voters;
- so-called “analysis” from the media that treats the election as a sport;
- sarah palin
ARGHH!!!
Obama would be a pretty right wing candidate in less of an ideologically warped nation, where the idea of making sure people can see a doctor without going bankrupt is treated as tantamount to communism, and the word “socialist” is a pejorative.
How did this bible-thumping bunch of weirdos end up with so much power?
I am equally appalled at the ‘bible thumping weirdos’ as I am the bleeding heart, tree hugging weirdos.
Last time I checked – you don’t pay taxes in America, your family members have not served in the armed forces in America, your family members haven’t died in service of the United States. Keep your opinions to yourself. This is one of the most disrespectful posts I have seen.
Why should I show respect? This is my blog and I will say what I want, thanks. I wouldn’t care if you criticised either of the nations I’m a citizen of – Australia and the UK – they are also pretty crap in a lot of ways.
Patriotism is only excusable from small and embattled nations … from big nuclear-armed ones it’s ugly and dangerous.
How did this bible-thumping bunch of weirdos end up with so much power?
Maybe the question is the answer…then again, maybe not.
Good point! I hadn’t considered that. They do call it “God’s country” after all. The vengeful god of the Old Testament, I would imagine, rather than the New, who is clearly a liberal, palling around with prostitutes and revolutionaries :)
Well I *am* a citizen of the us, and I *do* pay taxes, and I wholeheartedly concur — Obama is a centrist at best. After the last eight years, I’ll take it, but it chaps my ass to hear people call Obama a leftist. I’m a leftist; I read leftists, know leftists, respect leftists. And let me tell you, Obama is absolutely, positively no leftist.
The bible thumpers ended up with so much power because the church is one of the last social institutions our culture hasn’t completely obliterated (give us a little time). The republicans did under Clinton what the democrats did under Bush — went back to the grass-roots and organized support from the ground up.