Hilarious Posting on Huffington!

Jeffrey Shaffer has an absolutely hilarious (and spot on) posting on his blog on The Huffington Post. I urge you to read it!! Thinking the Unthinkable

Kennedy Cowardice

Caroline Kennedy declares that Obama will resurrect Camelot. Ted Kennedy says Obama will resurrect Camelot. The infotainment media dreams that Obama will resurrect Camelot. Crap.

I was an Obama supporter until the weekend before the New Hampshire primary. I even donated money to his campaign, ($25- not a lot for most of you, but it was a significant contribution for me). However, as the sudden adoration among the Talking Heads for Obama exploded that Friday and Saturday, I began to realize that I had been a victim of the bandwagon effect. I had bought into the hype. So, I asked myself: Just What Has Barack Obama done that Qualifies Him to be President? Three years in the US Senate? Two years in the Illinois legislature? A member of the South Chicago political machine?

John Kennedy had fourteen years of experience in Congress before he ran for President. Robert Kennedy had a decade as counsel for various Congressional committees, four years as Attorney General, and three years in the Senate. Obama can make a rousing speech.

It was opportunistic cowardice for Ted Kennedy to endorse Obama at this stage and it is in the tradition of his brother Robert. In 1967, anti-war Democrats were begging Bobby Kennedy to enter the ‘68 race against Lyndon Johnson. He hesitated, refused, demurred. Finally, in frustration at Kennedy’s ambivalence, Eugene McCarthy entered the race as the anti-war candidate. It was not until McCarthy’s showing in the 68 New Hampshire primary that Bobby Kennedy entered the race, enraging those people who had put their political careers on the line to work for Gene McCarthy. Bobby didn’t enter the race until McCarthy had knocked LBJ out of the race. This was, of course, lost in all the Camolot-nostalgia mythologizing after Bobby’s murder, but it is exactly what Teddy did this week. He waited until Obama had a big win in South Carolina before endorsing him. It would have been courageous to do so weeks ago when Hilary was the undisputed leader. That would have meant something. Now, he’s just jumping on the band wagon and not risking anything. Teddy’s a coward.

Huckabush, Bestiality, and Reality

Governor Huckabush has done it again. In a speech declaring that the U.S. Constitution should be brought in line with Biblical law (stoning adulterers to death? not wearing mixed threads? selling disobedient daughters into slavery?), “I-Like-Mike” has declared, with a straight face, that permitting gay marriage will open the way to legalizing pedophilia, bestiality, and polygamy, (a nice swipe at Mitt Romney and underhanded way to pander to the backwoods evangelicals in the South who are prejudiced against Mormons), . This campaign didn’t work for Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, but the collective IQ of South Carolina residents is probably quite a bit lower than that of Pennsylvanians. After all, South Carolina is the state where Huckabee’s supporters are promoting the Confederate flag (the symbol of the greatest treason in American history and a symbol comparable to the Swastika, the hammer and sickle, and anything Al-Qaeda might use). South Carolina is also where Huckabee’s supporters are accusing John McCain of collaborating with the North Vietnamese when he was being beaten and tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp. It is also where Huckabee’s supporters are accusing Senator McCain of fathering a mixed-race daughter (an obvious lie, but one which carries great strength in the first state to secede from the Union in 1861).

I used to think Rudy Giuliani was the most dangerous candidate running for President. No one has profited from 9/11 more than Giuliani with the huge speaking fees he was charging, the huge book royalities he received, and the secret customers of his alleged consulting firm. However, now that he has made himself impotent in this campaign, I must say that Governor Huckabush has become the most dangerous man in the campaign. He can say the most heinous things with a disarming smile and a chuckle and make even the most moderate Southerner comfortable with his outrageously un-American pronouncements. He refuses to disavow the filthy tactics of his supporters, and he panders to the ugliest prejudices of people to gain votes.

 If there are any Republicans of conscience in the Confederacy, they MUST stop Huckabush from getting the nomination.

Huckabush

So, the Republicans have a front-runner for the nomination who is a Southern Governor and a fundamentalist Christian who thinks Pakistan is in Central America and claims he has nothing to do with the followers and supporters of his who make anonymous phone calls and send out mailings trashing his opponents’ character and religion. Is this 2008 or 2000?

I have a frightening sense of Deja Vu. Mr. Huckabee’s ignorance of foreign policy and his pandering to the evangelical wing of the Republican Party are a repeat performance of Texas Governor George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, when Bush said he thought the leader of Pakistan was General General, couldn’t saywhere Iran was, and claimed he couldn’t control those organizations in South Carolina working for him that were spreading the lies that John McCain had illegitimate black children.

Some parties just never learn.