Only have a few minutes to respond to Insane McCain's speech, which I didn't watch but learned about from a variety of internet sources. I have to spend the day providing care for my father while my mother, who has leukemia, has a blood transfusion, which usually takes about six hours because she has to have special medication ahead of time to reduce her reaction to it, and they have to go slowly.
I'm taking my computer with me and will catch up on writing there, but have no internet connection, so maybe tonight I can post several more things.
The point I want to make this morning is that it seems clear that Insane McCain, realizing the "experience" thing didn't work (though he and Sarah McNasty are still cynically trying to brainwash the public into believing she is better qualified than Obama) has opted for Obama's message of change.
To believe that Insane McCain and Sarah McNasty are the change candidates requires you to suspend disbelief, as you do when you watch a science fiction flik.
You have to accept that Insane McCain is not a Republican, has not supported Goerge W. Bush on his economic and war policies, has not voted with the president 90% of the time, and has not been part of the one party rule of this country for six of the past eight years. You have to believe a fairy tale (polite term) or lie (accurate term).
To believe that this strategy will work means you also have to believe that the primary concern of voters in this election is corruption in Washington, and not the needs of the people for jobs, health care, unemployment insurance, social security, (you know, things community organizers help with) and a complete change in the concept of government, from that of government that must be changed to work for the people to government that needs to be drowned in the bathtub (as Grover Norquist famously said.)
But the idea of change that McCain promises, a reduction of corruption in government, is not the primary concern of people this year. Most people are smart enough to know there will always be lobbyists in Washington (as well as those running McCain's disingenuous campaign) and it will take more than Insance McCain to stop them. But more than that, they don't want that to be the focus of government when they need help, desperately, and immediately.
Insane McCain and Sarah McNasty have missed the boat here because they are interested in winning with what they believe are clever strategies (giving lip service to fighting corruuption even as they engaged in their own corruption) rather than in really listening to the people.
Their utter contempt for community organizers was all the proof you need that they have contempt for the ordinary people who need help, and are focused only on their biographies, their narcissistic egos, their dysfunctional families to be used as props for their family values hypocrisy, and the power they desperately want.
These are dangerous and despicable people, and their rabid fans in the audience reminded me of people at Nazi rallies. But then the Republicans have been acting a bit like fascists these past few years, haven't they?
If these people manage to fool the people again, our civilization is over.
I will be talking in more detail about this election at my website Outraged Citizen over the next weeks. Check it out if you haven't already.
