Just Give It To Obama Already!

grrrrrrr... AAAARGH!

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

i can’t! i can’t do it! i can’t stay quiet anymore...

i have to talk politics!

i tried to be good. buddha help me, i tried. i talked about tits, for chrissakes! but it's just too much... i have to say something.

let's just stop all the bullshit and give the nomination to barack obama! for the love of judy! just give it to him....

clearly, hillary can't win this thing.... how can she fight against obama and all the prostate-massaging love the media is giving him?

how can she argue against all the wide-eyed optimism the obama camp is spooning the electorate and that the media slurps up like amy's non-chicken chicken noodle soup?

i even heard that fucker chris matthews last night bring on pundits arguing that the big wins hillary has won are all due to radio fuckwads on the right asking GOP-sheep to cross over and make her the nominee.

no, no... we can't believe that hillary actually won these big, important states. no... she only won because the idiocy that is rush limbaugh made the republican faithful cross sides in order to vote in hillary.

the media won't even allow hillary to have her legitimate wins without pissing all over them!

oh...and everyone jumping on this geraldine ferraro-bashing bandwagon... accusing her of racism when she was clearly having a discussion over race. not racism... race.

big difference, people!

and i find it sad that two very important - and obviously very relevant - subjects cannot be breeched in this country without someone being called a racist.

race and gender remain a problem in this country.... and both sides are using it.

and both sides should be ashamed at how they are using these issues.

i don't think anyone that is truly paying attention can blame everything on the hillary camp. (although i strongly admonish her for saying mccain's experience makes him a stronger candidate than obama. that was balls-out shitty.)

but i also think the obama camp has been brilliant in playing out the race card and somehow blaming hillary's side. again... big difference between discussing race and making racist statements.

hillary's camp...in all honesty...has suffered most from one brain-numbingly idiotic decision after another. she is far better than her campaign.

obama is probably better than his campaign.

but it's all politics. it's all politics as usual. and anyone who thinks obama and his crew are immune from politics.... well, that's what's driving his campaign, isn't it?

the blindness of hope.

yes, yes... obama has seen some bad press lately.

but after a weekend...possibly a week...of actual tough questions - the press actually vetting obama (saints preserve us!) - they are back in his corner...

for those individuals who have recently returned from pluto where they no longer receive television and radio transmissions since being undubbed a planet.... barack obama gave a speech yesterday.

and it was a remarkable fucking speech.

i won't go so far as to say it's a greater speech than king's "i have a dream" (as some in the obama-lovin' media have declared) but it was a whopper of a speech. one that should probably be examined and taught for years to come.

but the speech would have been all the more impressive had it not been necessitated by recent revelations. had obama’s poor judgment over the past 20 years in blindly following a fanatic not come to light.

or... had the speech not been given by a politician. and obama is a politician. and a special class of politician: one seeking the highest office in the land... an office he seemed inevitable to win before these new revelations have put his candicacy into question.

his speech was filled with the type of moving rhetoric that could bring people to tears. hell, hearing obama say "anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the reagan coalition" made me so proud in it's justified condemnation that i felt a tug in my nether regions.

and who among us can remain uninspired after he uttered the words "this union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."

but the main thrust of his "not this time" message simply boils down to politics: a vote for obama is a vote to show we have made progress in licking the racial wounds of the past. your vote is the gooey goodness of neosporin over our racial bumps and burns.

yes, you too can nullify all your past racist statements and prejudices by casting a vote for barack obama.

and most of the liberal media has granted him their clemency.

the times, the post and many other papers reeked this morning with the pungent aftermath of their editorial blow jobs.

i can only imagine maureen dowd repeatedly and enthusiastically spanking her clit as she watches obama's speech over and over again on her DVR. the ejaculate beautifully composed into her latest edification of the obama campaign.

but just a few channels over, fox news...the hub of republican bile... decried obama had not done enough.

forgive me as i quote sean hannity:

What if Barack Obama, for the entire year that the MoveOn media out there has ignored any scrutiny of him, and they've gone along with the bumper sticker of change and the slogans. What if he really deep down in his heart thinks like Pastor Wright?

Is that dangerous for this country? I think that would be dangerous. That would mean we would have -- if he agreed with Wright, and I don't know that he does, but if he did, that would mean a racist and an anti-Semite would be president of the United States.

the right-wing media has shown no inclination towards letting this story go, my friends.... fox news has been repeating the reverend wright on a continuous loop since the ego that is sean hannity claims he broke the story.

and yet the sycophantic followers of obama will eagerly gobble up any pabulum the campaign continues to lactate into their gaping pie-holes and blindly ignore any of the real problems that face their moveon.org messiah.

this unquestioned loyalty towards obama may very well win him the democratic primary. liberals are obviously willing to accept him at his word over the reverend wright... and accept his rejection of the "offensive phrases."

and we should.

let me be clear on this. i do not condemn obama for any relationship he may have developed with his pastor. i firmly believe religion should stay as far away from politics as fox news stays away from the truth.

i do not believe obama is a secret muslim who believes the ludicrous claims of his "old uncle" that have been circulating youtube over the past week.

liberals are smarter than that... and are more willing to be caught up in his soaring rhetoric than divisive innuendo.

and all this may usher obama towards his coronation in denver.

but the rest of america.... the republicans and the independents... the working class white men. they will not forget the reverend jeremiah wright. they will not forget michelle obama’s "for the first time in my adult life i’m proud of my country."

they will continue to circulate the emails that claim obama doesn’t pledge allegiance to our flag and refuses to wear an American flag lapel pin... and these symbols mean more to certain individuals than the constitution upon which the freedoms we have to express ourselves as we see fit have been created...

and they will vote for mccain. "the true patriot." "the american hero."

and obama will lose the election for the democrats in november... and the old idiom will once again ring true: the democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

rezko, wright... these are two examples from an unknown candidate’s past that now play 24 hours on fox news and taint every headline on every conservative blog.

it's time the democrats put their feelings about each candidate aside. we have two spectacular candidates who differ infinitesimally on the issues.

the dems need to look at what’s best for the party as a whole.... no more surprises for the republicans to swiftboat our candidates with.

take mccain's foreign experience away from him as a benefit by matching his with hillary’s time on the senate armed forces committee and, yes, as first lady.

take away the argument from the republicans that "if obama had been president saddam would still be in power." yes... hillary’s vote hurts her in the primary election, but it takes away a republican talking point in the general.

is any of this fair? fuck no! but it’s politics.... and if you think anything between hillary and barack has been ugly... just wait. your delicate, little heads might burst come the fall.

unfair, rovean tactics will be used against the democratic candidate in the fall... and it will get nasty as the GOP attempts to cling to the power they now hold in D.C.

at least with hillary, we know what’s coming... we’ve been fighting it since ’94.

she's tested. she's a scrapper. she's ready to fight the republicans and needn't worry about tipping the pedestal created by the liberal literati that has thrust obama into prominence.

remember that just because obama wants to change washington doesn’t mean the republicans will happily fall in line.

with all things being equal... with both candidates possessing so much talent, compassion and similar, progressive ideologies.... why risk a given inauguration with the unknowns lurking deep (or not so deep) in a non-vetted past?

and one other point I’d like to make... obama spoke in detail about blacks and whites understanding each others anger and resentment and to accept the feelings of both sides as holding some level of legitimacy.

(personally... i think the african american community has a fuckload more to be pissed off about than us honkies...)

but obama and his flock must also hold that true to themselves... there are legitimate claims and arguments against his candidacy. they cannot backhand bitch-slap, ignore and write off all debates as racist or "politics of the status quo."

you have weaknesses, sir. and there are differences...

and you also have strengths. and hillary has strengths.

and i think it is important to all democrats to accept the point and not argue the fact.

please, senator obama... tell your followers.

coda
as i'm about to click the button to publish this post... i fear bias. i fear unfair attacks. fuck... i fear i sound like a republican.

but i submit these arguments not as a hillary supporter... but as a democrat. and a member of the blue party living deep in a red state. a red state that turns more and more scarlet every day... just as washington has glowed as red as mars over the past seven years.

i want what's best for the party... and i do feel that is hillary.

so all bias aside.... i want obama to be president....in 2016. after some vetting. after some experience.

after hillary.

hillary 08!

e.