I was planning to point out all of the falsehoods and outrageous allegations, and the fact that a man I once admired, John McCain, has lost all integrity he once had in the name of winning (he has turned his back on every "maverick" ideal he once championed, that's not opinion, it's fact, look it up), including nominating the most frightening VP choice since, well, Dick Cheney (she has done nothing but lie about her record and hide from criticism behind the claim of sexism, not to mention her rather medieval ideas on morality and justice).
Instead, I'm going to quote from an Op-Ed peice in today's New York Times:
"GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist?
And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now.
Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too?
I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained.
There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!"
This is such an important election, we simply can not afford to let the falsehoods stand. Obama already has on display the intellect, the charm, the vision, now we need to see the passion! Not blind rage and hatred, but steady and forceful anger at what has been done to him, and to this country.
As the passage says, so what if he appears angry? He has reason! I am both angry and frightened at the prospect of a McCain victory based on lies and deceit. McCain is going to win a Rovian victory, and when the country goes even more to shit — and it will, McCain has shown that he is no better than Bush — everyone's going to wonder why. That is, unless Obama stands up and calls a pig a pig.
They've handed him the knife, all he has to do is have the nerve to drive it home, and then twist the shit out of it.
The election is his to lose.
PS: I sent the Obama campaign an edited version of this post through their contact page. I know, the odds of anyone of consequence seeing it, or caring even if they do, is slight, but I feel like I have to do something.
