We Need a Voice

My girlfriend Valerie had to represent both of us last Wednesday at the Healthcare Candlelight Vigil at Tower Grove Park. She took this photo. Note the high percentage of elderly folks.

I believe the fight for universal healthcare is the single most important civil rights issue we face. It has become the line in the sand between reason and the redneck mob.

While the mob exercises its first amendment rights by denying them to others and making a mockery of peaceful assembly, the rest of us need to be heard.

The mob practices brown shirt tactics at Town Hall meetings while ironically calling Obama the next Hitler. They need a history lesson.

These people are being played like a fine violin. They’re calling reason conspiracy.

In 1948 the American Medical Association hired an ad agency that came up with the phrase “Socialized Medicine.” This worked like a charm considering our cold war paranoia. These people don’t know what socialism is. I spoke with a Tea Party conservative who was trying to teach me the Nazis were socialist because the word socialist was in the acronym NAZI.

In 1914 they called universal healthcare a plot of the German emperor.

The news this week is Obama talking to school kids about the importance of education. Parents are outraged that Obama is trying to indoctrinate their children with his socialist views. These are the same people who want prayer in schools. Go figure!

I doubt they realize the words “Under God” was added to the pledge of allegiance in the 50s during the Red scare.

Secret Service agent Ronald Kessler’s new book “In the President’s Secret Service” details a 400 % increase of death threats to the president. He says almost all are racially motivated.

I’ve always been afraid for Obama. I relaxed a little after the election but the mob is beginning to look dangerous.

The redneck with a gun strapped to his leg at the Obama healthcare rally had just come from a church service. I heard a recording of the sermon. The preacher was praying for Obama’s death.

We need a voice of reason that’s just as passionate as the redneck mob. It looks like it’s not going to be the Democrats.

Kiss and Tell

I wasn’t a big Clinton supporter. He was better than the alternative but he was a corporate puppet like most politicians. I think he helped us get into our current situation. In my opinion Reagan started all of this with his deregulation policies. Republicans will insist there was a lot of oversight during his administration but he made sure regulators were too weak to catch, let alone do anything about abuses.

My skin crawls when I hear people talking about what a great president he was.

I remember Ted Kennedy getting together with Danforth (a Republican) to reverse Reagan’s anti compassion policies. I’m not going into detail but it’s easy to research. The real reason for this entry is hypocrisy.

Obama is inconvenienced with talk of accountability in the previous administration. I’m not looking for revenge. The abuses have to be exposed and there has to be accountability if were ever to stop them from happening again.

There are still people who think Clinton should have been kicked out for lying to Congress about his sexual indiscretions.

I believe these are the same people who want to keep big government out of their Medicare.

I don’t care how high the court is. If they pry into my sex life I’m going to lie.

I like the way Gore Vidal put it, “a southern gentleman never tells.”

White Power

The partisan divide has been set in stone in this country. It will kill us. The Republican idea of winning the health care debate is to retain the status quo. Nothing will change. They’re spreading lies about death panels, outlawing private insurance, and covering illegal aliens. Warning us that deficit spending will bankrupt the country. If health care is left the way it is it will definitely bankrupt the country.
When I hear Tea Party conservatives yell, “Give me back my country!” what they’re really saying is, “I know white folks won’t be the majority by 2050.” “We have a black president now.” “We’ve lost control!”
The national nightmare of the last administration isn’t over yet. Obama won because even the bigots couldn’t deny the damage from the Bush administration. It’s amazing how short the public’s attention span is. When gas hit $4.00 a gallon, car dealers could only sell fuel efficient cars. The minute prices went down pick up trucks led sales again. What’s that about? Prices will go back up you idiots.
Hey, I never said I was non-partisan. Let’s divide the country so we don’t even have to look at each other.

To Whom It May Concern

If you don’t think Jesus was a war mongering, greedy, intolerant, xenophobe stop calling yourselves Christians.

Why is the messenger the message?

Birthers

I suppose this week my blogs will focus on racism.

The 14 amendment states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Even the conservative National Review says, "Much foolishness has become attached to the question of President Obama’s place of birth, and a few misguided souls among the Right have indulged it."

Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii Department of Health has released her second statement (the first was made last November) saying that state records show Obama was indeed born in the U.S.A. This one states unequivocally that he is "a natural-born American citizen."

Birthers insist a birth certificate hasn’t been produced. It has! Nothing can appease these idiots. This is the same stubborn hate focusing that denies the Holocaust, the moon landings, global warming, and evolution. If people would stop trying to reinforce their fear and loathing we might actually get something done.

Hey we’ve got health care, the economy, our environment, education and 2 wars to worry about.

I know no one reads this blog but if you’re a birther and think you have a legitimate argument please---- bring it on!!!