Politics

Politics: the art or science of government.

Politics is supposed to be about government, how people are organized to deal with various problems of state, defense, budgets, infrastructure, education, stuff like that.
So tell me, if you will, what does this have to do with Obama’s mother being “trailer trash,” which is of course not true, or his wife saying “whitey,” which is also not true. What, actually, does it even have to do with Obama being a Muslim (which is also not true), or the fact that he is half black (which actually is true). I submit that none of these things have anything to do with politics. One would assume that when two people are running for President of the United States we would hear about unemployment, national defense, the budget, the recession, education, infrastructure, and so on. But in what I believe may be an unprecedented move the Brafia has already announced that we are not going to discuss things of government, but, rather, Obama’s past relationships with whomever and whatever, his wife’s behavior, whether he wears a lapel pin or not, or holds his hands in the proper manner during the flag ceremony, and on ad infinitum. There plan is apparently to avoid any serious discussion of any of he serious problems that presently confront our nation. Now, you might ask, why would they do that? The answer, I believe, is simple, they don’t dare discuss any serious issues because of their total failure to govern for the past eight years. Actually, for more than that, because they abandoned any attempt at government when they decided it was more important to spend all their time trying to impeach Bill Clinton for a consensual sex act between adults. In other words, they have not even tried to govern our country for the past fifteen or sixteen years, preferring instead to waste our time and money on frivolities of their own making. The results of this I believe are pretty obvious. Failure, as far as the eye can see. A failed “war,” a recession, a huge budget deficit, millions without health care, veterans abused, infrastructure decaying, education a shambles, the constitution abandoned, scandals rampant, and so on. Now, with their candidate, McCain, they propose continuing this exercise in greed and non-government. The only way they could conceivably pull this scam off is by roviating Obama in every way possible. So look forward to another five months of the most scurrilous, disgusting, negative campaigning you can imagine. This is going to make anything that came before look like child’s play.

I had the misfortune to accidentally see Bush on television making a speech of some kind. Before I turned it off I heard him say something about how he did not agree with the Supreme Court decision restoring habeas corpus. Some speechwriter must have put these words there for him to read as I seriously doubt he knows anything about the issue or even what habeas corpus means. If he did, he would never have allowed it to be destroyed in the first place. You have to give him credit for chutzpah. Any normal person in his position would be too embarrassed to show his face in public, let alone make a speech. Indeed, if he were in any other line of work he would have been ignominiously fired long ago. A hopeless nincompoop, like the energizer bunny, he just keeps going and going, “catapaulting the propaganda,” and deluding himself that forty years from now history will somehow prove he was not an idiotic war criminal and the worst president in American history. He is devoid of shame, delusional, and has no sense of decency whatever. If he had any he would have done the honorable thing and resigned long ago. He, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the others have long been far past all dishonor. I sincerely hope that Kucinich, Wexler, Waxman, and others will continue their efforts to bring them to justice and they will ultimately get what they deserve (and what they deserve is not very pleasant).

LKBIQ:
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly,' meaning 'many,' and the word 'ticks,' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
Larry Hardiman