Yolks & Yokes

I put a McCain/Palin sign in my yard a few weeks ago. Two days later I awoke to find the sign removed and an Obama/Biden sign in its place. The thoughtful Obama supporter who did this also left breakfast for me….eggs all over the side of my house. I later found out that the Obama sign was stolen from my neighbor’s yard and placed in my yard – I like to think of it as the “redistribution” of yard signage. What an effective way to garner support for your tolerant positions.

A friend of mine experienced more love from the left when she went to vote last week. She made the mistake of brandishing a McCain bumper sticker on car (how insensitive of her). Our friends, the tolerant Democrats, shouted obscenities at her in the parking lot while one of the well-wishers actually walked over and spat on her vehicle. I guess she had it coming…

Now, I’m sure Mr. Obama is a congenial sort. He certainly presents himself as the perfect gentleman and champion of the common man. But somewhere, in my childhood, I was taught that “birds of a feather flock together” and that we are known by the company we keep. Apparently, that’s not a regarded theory in the current political landscape. I’ve tried to imagine the media lynching that would have occurred had we learned, early on, that John McCain had been a member of a white supremacist congregation for twenty years. What explanation could he have offered to redeem himself. His own party would have abandoned him in droves. And yet, when we learned of Obama’s twenty year membership in a radical Chicago church that espouses Black Liberation Theology and blames the white man for creating the AIDS virus in order to wipe out the black race, then all it took for Obama to lay the matter to rest was a statement claiming that he never heard such racially charged and ludicrous remarks. Forgive me for attempting to awaken a sleeping issue, but I feel we must have missed something.  The "plausible" conclusion offered was that Obama (luckily) missed those rare Sundays when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright momentarily lost his mind and spewed hatred for all things American. Other than those few isolated rants, the right Reverend Wright was apparently a peaceable teddy bear in the pulpit. That’s how it was read on the nightly news so it must be true. But what bothered me more than hearing Wright screaming, “God d*#n America” was hearing the shouts and laughter from his faithful flock. As the camera panned to the congregation, most were on their feet and cheering him on like a gladiator at a blood bath. That spoke volumes to me. They had heard it before and wanted more.

So let me get this straight….Barack Obama sat, Sunday after Sunday….for twenty years….shoulder to shoulder with brothers and sisters who have a palatable hatred for this country and for the white man. And let’s say he never actually heard one of Reverend Wright's tirades. Fine. But did he really have to? Did he ever speak to anyone sitting around him? Was he clueless to the pervading sentiments within his home church? One is left to conclude that he is either lying, or that he was completely detached from his house of worship. I’m not sure which conclusion is more troubling.

And the birds just keep on flockin'. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of the most dangerous men in our hemisphere, just voiced his support for Obama today. The terrorist group Hamas has officially voiced their support for an Obama presidency. Jessie Jackson, while in France, stated that Obama will help heal the wounds that America has inflicted on the world. That’s right – blame America first. Did I mention that Louis Farrakhan backs Obama? Of course Michael Moore, Rosie O’Donnell, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and most of Hollywood supports Obama. That’s all the reason I need to vote the opposite way.

Obama's church affiliation and questionable friendships speak to much deeper issues of character and judgement....issues the compliant media has determined we have no right to explore. They would have us believe that anyone who questions Obama questions the need for change and should be disregarded as ignorant and woefully out of step. The truly sad part of this story is that young Americans want to be cool and current and The Tube defines that for their generation. It’s definitely not cool to vote for the old guy. I get it. But I don’t care. Bring on the eggs. Let's make omelets. My one fear is that America may get the president we deserve rather than the president we need.