Birthers, Deathers, and Cretins

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Birthers, Deathers, and Cretins. I wonder if it is even possible for Republicans to descend even further into their mindless desperation. For weeks now we have heard them talking about Obama’s birthplace, whether or not he is really an American, and whether or not he is qualified to be President. Then when a recent vote was taken in the House everyone, including the truly goofy Michelle Bachman, voted that indeed he was a citizen. So why did they so relentlessly pursue their theme that he was not when they obviously knew better? I suspect it was because they didn’t want us to hear about anything more important, like health care, the stimulus, and so on.

Now that the Birther argument should be settled, except I guess for Lou Dobbs who seems unable to understand even the simplest facts, they have started their new conspiracy notion, the health care plan is really designed to kill old people. So where we had Birthers, now we have Deathers. Both of these campaigns, if you want to consider them that, are absolutely nonsensical and have no purpose other than frightening people and causing a great deal of unnecessary confusion with respect to the issue of universal health care. It seems they will stop at nothing to destroy any attempt to provide adequate health care for all Americans and insure that the current dysfunctional and inadequate system will continue to provide obscene profits for the Insurance and Pharmaceutical giants.

But these cretinous jerks don’t stop with merely this nonsense, now they are on a campaign to label Obama a racist (if this is not projection a la Freud I don’t know what would be). Glen Beck, that intellect out of the comic strips, just said, “Obama has a deep-seated hatred of white people,” followed by less than two minutes later, “I didn’t say he didn’t like white people.” This is just one example of the absurd claims they make with no evidence whatsoever. It’s like whatever pops into their little minds they just spew out without any further thought whatsoever. They are pushing the benefits of free speech right to the margins of hell with no regards for decency, fair-play, or honesty. I think they must feel that if they are going down anyway, they can say any ridiculous thing they want, as somehow it just won’t matter and won’t come back to haunt them.

Nothing Republicans have done in recent weeks seems to make any sense whatsoever. They criticized the stimulus bill with nothing of their own but four pages of nonsense, now they are doing the same thing with health care, just criticizing but offering no plan of their own. They are opposing Sotomayor on grounds that are simply petty and ridiculous, and will certainly not help them with Hispanic voters in the coming elections. Without Hispanic votes they have no chance of winning much of anything, they just don’t seem to care, as they are without much hope to begin with. I think all their frantic and irrational behavior has to do with our having a Black President for the first time, a situation so foreign to their beliefs about white superiority it is driving them crazy. A Black President and now a Hispanic Supreme Court Justice has caused them to become completely unhinged, even to the point now that they no longer even pretend they are not racists (and sexists).

Interestingly enough, the fact that they (and, indeed, most everyone) continues to routinely refer to Obama as Black is in and of itself nothing but pure racism. Obama is half white, so why don’t we refer to him as white, or even black and white? The reason, of course, has to do with our belief that if someone has any black blood at all they are black. But this is utter nonsense. We would never say that a black person with a little white blood was white. In this view black blood is considered contaminating in a way that white blood is not. Racism, pure and simple.

LKBIQ:
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
Solomon Short

TILT:
It’s true, you cannot herd cats.