Some Thoughts (Not About Baseball)

I can't bring myself to talk about baseball. The past few games of this ALCS have been painful. Game 2 stayed close, though for some reason I never felt that the Sox really had a chance. Games 3 and 4 can be summed up in a simple analogy: Rays:Red Sox::German Wehrmacht:Belgian Army. I think that's about right.

On to some more pertinent matters, like the future of our country. This election race is slipping out of McCain's hands, if he ever had it in his hands to begin with. He has forfeited any sort of political capital that he might have gained in the short run due to the Palin bounce. Palin, in some circles, is more anathema than George W. Bush, which is saying something. Oliver Stone (I know he's a joke politically) said that "George Bush is an intellectual compared to Sarah Palin" and said that she wouldn't understand the dialogue of his new feature film "W". This, in liberal speak, is calling her a protist. It's pretty unfair, too - we have been publicly exposed to this woman for like eight weeks, and people are frothing at the mouth about her in a ridiculous manner. There is an absurd double standard that she is being held to.

Joe Biden, Foreign Policy Savant, Knower of All Things Foreign, Wisest of the Wise:

"President Bush insisted on elections in the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, 'Big mistake. Hamas will win. You'll legitimize them.'" President Bush insisted on elections in the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, 'Big mistake. Hamas will win. You'll legitimize them.'"

....What are you talking about? Hamas has power in Gaza, not the West Bank. I am not Lord of Foreign Policy, but even I know this. If Sarah Palin had made this error, the media would have pounced. With Joe: maybe a shrug and a "That's our Joe!" Ridiculous.

Another Biden error in the same debate, regarding foreign policy, his supposed forte:

"When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said, and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”

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I am literally speechless at this. Hezbollah out of Lebanon? What universe is this guy living in? Even if he meant that we had kicked Syria out of Lebanon, he would be wrong: we didn't. Soooo....not sure what Biden is talking about. If Sarah Palin had made this mistake, she would be derided as an out of her league dumb redneck hick c*nt (yes, there is a t-shirt calling her this despicable term - what she did to deserve such hatred I don't know, but if she were a Demmie all the lefties would be shouting "Sexism!" But she's not, so whatever).

Biden:Gaffes::Box Factory:Boxes. There are many delightful ones to choose from. But perhaps my favorite, which no one cares about because he is the Seer of Seers and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., the Scrapper from Scranton:

In an interview with Katie Couric:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

I'm sure my readers are intelligent enough to see where the mistakes are in that statement. Hint: There are two of them. If Sarah Palin uttered this absurdity, she would be a Mongoloid retard backwoods inbred uneducated idiot. But Joe Biden said it. "Sooo....let's pretend it didn't happen or, if we do acknowledge it, let's do so with humor as opposed to the unmitigated hatred with which we would tar Sarah Palin if she had made the same remark. Joe Biden is a God." This is over stating it though: if Obama is Jesus, and I'm pretty sure that he is, than Biden is more anagolous to, I don't know, Peter.

This is an inexplicable double standard. Sure, Palin is an upstart and she rightfully deserves a lot of scrutiny. But Biden is sort of just given a pass just because he's been in the Senate since like 1842. If anything, his words should be criticized more because as someone with routine access to intelligence reports and meetings with foreign policymakers and analysts, he should know that Israel did not kick out Hezbollah, never mind us, and that Hamas won an election in Gaza, not the West Bank. And, as a man who has been an American leader for forever, he should know that FDR wasn't President in 1929 and that he certainly did not appear on television, which was not yet publicly available. Not to say that this should cost the Obama-Biden team the election, but the free pass from the media is unacceptable. Unacceptable.

I heard about a segment on the Howard Stern program in which Stern sent out a correspondent to Harlem. He asked passers-by what they thought of Obama, and then intentionally misrepresented McCain's positions as Obama's. Questions were asked such as, "Do you support Obama's pick for Sarah Palin as V.P.?" The passers-by were basically like, "Why, of course." Here's another delicious treat: "Do you support Obama more because he's pro-life, or because he says our troops should stay in Iraq and finish the war." Knowledgeable voter: "Um...I guess, both." This is what I hinted at last post, people. Obama is going to win this election (I am sure of this) because he is a minority, he is telegenic, and a good public speaker. People don't necessarily know his actual policies. The benefit of the doubt he receives from both the media and the public at large is ridiculous.

The race card thing makes me want to explode. You cannot say a negative thing about this man without some asshole pointing at you and whining "Racist! Racist!" Any attack that McCain makes is racist. Racist, racist, racist. Shut up with that. These are scare tactics. Everyone treats Obama with kid gloves, and I can come to no conclusion other than it is because he is black. McCain is being an absolute pussy. The media should spend wisely and invest their money in some knee pads. Otherwise, if Obama gets elected and is president for four or (God have mercy) eight years, their knees will be awfully sore. Other than talk radio and a few dudes on Fox News, who has really laid into Obama? Even O'Reilly, a blowhard who I can't really stand, threw him softballs. Why? Because everyone is afraid of being castigated as a racist. There are eggshells all around. I get so sick of being indirectly accused of being a racist (I say this because conservatives are painted as racists by much of the ignorant public).

Obama, to paraphrase the Beatles, is a real nothing man, sitting in a nothing land. He is a nonentity whose entire persona has been created by his campaign and the media (the same difference). Think about it: we don't really know anything about him, except that he was a "community organizer". The media's lack of curiosity is shameful. We have learned more about Sarah Palin in like eight weeks than we have about Obama over the past few years that he has been campaigning for president.

Make sure that you've really thought everything through before pulling the lever for this guy. McCain is NOT a right wing ideologue like the media is making him out to be. He is a centrist, which is why he used to relish in attacking Bush and the media loved him. He is, in my opinion, not conservative enough. The media is painting him as an out of control, angry right-winger (racist to boot!), which is ridiculous. McCain is pretty independent. Obama rolls with dudes who hate this country and, for you Jews out there, who hate Israel too. If it was one guy, or maybe two, then I give him the benefit of the doubt. Beyond that, it becomes a pattern. It is a pattern. I am not saying that Obama hates the U.S. and Israel, but he is in deep with crowds who do. What does this tell you? I understand: Bush fatigue, yada, yada. But McCain is not Bush. No one is Bush but Bush.

I could be wrong. There is a strong possibility that in his first day in office, Obama will take a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish and feed the multitudes in the Third World. Blind children in Somalia will be able to see. Lepers in Bangladesh will be cured. A man will be exorcised of his demons, who are legion - (we, the United States, are the man - the Republicans are the demons). He'll walk across the Tidal Basin. He will ascend Capitol Hill, where he will be transfigured into a radiant, superior being. All of these amazing things could happen, and more.

But then again, I could be right. This man has a shady past, hangs with shady dudes until it's politically expedient to throw them under the bus, and is, get this, no more experienced to be president than Sarah Palin. Tell me: what has this man done other than talk about what he's going to (miraculously) do? Why is he any more qualified? He isn't - but he is more eloquent and a minority to boot. These are his qualifications - nothing more.