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Monday, November 03, 2008

The Rules are Different There


As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he
Matthew 15:10
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Seattle's alternative paper, The Stranger (Seattle), ran a piece last Thursday entitled, Hell house, outing those homes on Seattle's Eastside who were so unsaavy as to place McCain signs in their yard (via Lt Nixon.) Claiming to spoof Christmas articles which list homes with the best lighting displays, the editors allowed the article to run the addresses of the homes that dared to earn their ire.

Seem like a slightly off-base foray into ridicule? A poor attempt at Saturday Night Live level humor? Really, it is not-too-shy of Brownshirt strong-arm tactics. The Left seems every bit as deranged as their hardcore Right brethren. This was not an invitation to friendly ribbing. The readership of this paper is skewed hard Left. Running the addresses says, "These people are Other; they are the enemy."


Problem is, in a democracy, no one who participates freely and fairly in the electoral process is the enemy.


The Doonesbury comic strip this weekend ran a bit from their "correspondent" in Kenya who warns, "There will be rioting in the streets if Obama wins" or if he loses; "It could turn ugly." Thinly veiled warning?


In our neck of the woods, people are getting Obama yard signs to place out as precaution.
Enough of the slams against the madness of the Right, and their very real insanity. The Left press has whipped up enough of its own to make things scary. The whispers have been circulating for months: Obama is the second coming of RFK, JFK, MLK. Will he be assassinated, preempting our second shot at Camelot?


If you say something often enough, it becomes true, at least to you. The biggest fan base for Obama does not seem to be swirling around the message of conciliation or harmony, or any of that One World stuff. The biggest thread drawing them together is their neo-conspiracy theorizing.


Whenever people rally around a savior there will be trouble. The message should be larger than the man, for mortality is the guarantee in life, and any number of similarly aligned people should be able and groomed to take over the reigns as necessary. Instead, we see a cult of personality surrounding Obama, an almost angry challenge to start a fight.


As mentioned in the previous piece, racial discord is the overriding misery in our society. The anger surrounding the candidacy of Obama symbolizes the unresolved anger simmering under the fractured surface.

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