Some Things (Are Better Left Unsaid)

 

  John Oliver said no one ever comments on the murder of Japan's president by a cult, but I did just that, the day before he mentioned it: 

   

 Because that's how I roll. I also watched a debate on Israel, which Dennis Prager opened with an easily-debunked lie, despite thinking his every utterance is "perfect":

 

 There, I noticed - if you put their dates in chronological order - you lerarn Israel's entire existence has relied on lies, American "cheating," and mass murder: 

   

 1946: self-proclaimed zionist "terrorists" bomb Palestine's King David Hotel, killing the British, Arabs, and Jews. 

   

1948: every single new historian in Israel concludes that there was ethnic cleansing at the beginning of the creation of Israel. For instance, on April 9, 1948, Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children.

1967: One of the peace treaties had Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and especially Egypt, recognizing Israel, but Israel was supposed to give back the Sinai Peninsula and didn't. That's what led to the 1973 War 

   

 1972: The Palestinian Authority murdered all the members of the Israeli Olympic team in the Munich Olympics 

   

1996: "A Clean Break: A New Strategy For Securing The Realm" is written by Richard Pearl and David Wormsear. This was written to Benjamin Netanyahu, and it was all about how regime change in Iraq will be in Israel's interest because then Netanyahu can break up the peace process 

   

 2000: Israel's acting foreign minister said if he was Arafat he'd have turned the Camp David deal down, too. Bill Clinton threw Arafat under the bus after the negotiations, but Arafat wanted to continue the negotiations. The Israelis said no and the Americans said no. What [Palestinians] were offered had Netanyahu (when he didn't realize he was being recorded) bragging about how much he fooled Bill Clinton because he put all these poison pills in the agreement and therefore they would never really get a state. One of the lead American negotiators, Robert Mali, said this was a fraud, we never really presented a real state to the Palestinians. Jimmy Carter said the same thing. 

   

 2001: Colin Powell told George W. Bush to do a two-state solution 

   

 2002: Benjamin Netanyahu encourages overthrowing Iran 

   

 2023: Hamas killed 34 kids on October 7th. Since then, Israel has killed 15,000 Palestinian kids. 25,000 women and children. They've killed more journalists than all other conflicts this year, combined. They've killed three times that amount of Humanitarian Aid workers.

 

"The Party's Moved Away From Somebody Like Me"

I don't think I'm wrong to suspect - since we're both Republicans, veterans, AND Race Men - Colin Powell and I also share, occasionally, feeling like fools. I called the general "Judas!" when he first endorsed Obama (a position I now regret taking, and that didn't go without notice) but, at the end of the day, we're both still stuck: our American ideals, and political goals, still stand in the shadow of our nation's white supremacy. And (it can't go without saying) it's white supremacists.

My difference with Powell is he thinks the GOP "took a turn to the right" and he'll (presumably) be content to wait the insanity out. I say America's history with blacks, from slavery on, being what it is, the Right's evil is built in and can only be confronted.

Since "our side" is always so concerned with taxation without representation, America's reparational crimes should be as easy to deduce - after reading that blacks had been discriminated from using public facilities since slavery - as asking, "Did they pay taxes?" But logic's not the game we're playing. This is still cold, hard, brutal, murderous, white American slaver self-preservation-at-the-expense-of-others-who-didn't-hurt-you, lynch mentality at it's finest. I'll give them a little credit, though:

Left or Right, they do try to make it look like "Friends",...

Pakistan's Female Prez Didn't Make It's Sexism Go Away

"Sure, Iraq is important but, you seem concerned about events closer to home."

Talking race with whites can feel like conversing with a child: 

  “Crack,



Look at blacks who came to the US from the Caribbean. They came to the Caribbean as slaves much the same as those who came to the US,....



Colin Powell (Jamaican parents), Eric Holder (Barbadan ancestry) are two who come to mind,...



Yet they succeeded pretty well.



How come?



John Henry”

Were Colin Powell and Eric Holder separated from the Civil Rights Movement?

Of course, if whites read more than that one line from MLK's "Dream" speech, they'd already understand how a few blacks succeed in a racist environment while others don't. From Amiri Baraka's 1962 essay “Tokenism: 300 Years for Five Cents”: 

  “There are almost 20,000,000 Negroes in the United States. One of these 20 million has been given a two-dollar raise and promoted to a clerical job that my two-year-old daughter could probably work out without too much trouble. And we are told that this act is symbolic of the ‘gigantic strides the Negro has taken since slavery…."

It's not over simply because laws were made to stop whites from saying "Nigger" in public.

At this rate, considering white's ignorance, it's going to be a long time before they understand where this movement is going,…

 

What's Wrong With The Right & What It Could Be Doing

Behind the "Big Tent" mask the Republicans are desperate to be noticed wearing, are groups who honestly think they don't see race, because they need that psychological cover as a license to thwart history. 

You see, if they don't honestly acknowledge what's happened to blacks, then A) they don't have to do anything substantial about it, and B) they can magnanimously imagine themselves as part of a different and more wholesome, and profitable, future.

The "GOP Hipster" Is a Pampered Babbling Sack of Horse Hockey

But, by directing their attention and ire so vehemently on blacks - and especially on this President and his policies - it's painfully obvious to everyone watching, the Republican Party is, culturally, still firmly stuck in America's rearview mirror. And with their image fading fast:

Endemic Corruption: The Ukraine Is Ex-Soviet, But What Excuse Do Black American Politicians Have?

Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, they're blacks of a different era - one the rest of us, now, only want a peek at on film, and not in our daily lives.

“You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free.” 

And yet, it's here. Dr. Ben Carson - and the adulation he receives from conservatives - could be replaced by Booker T. Washington without even squinting our eyes. American culture's that real. Right down to the Southern backdrop of strange fruit. 

That's because we're a country, with a character, and the sooner we start acting like it, the better. There is no escaping our history. The most we can hope is to learn from it.

None Of These Men Will Ever Be President

How the Republican Party thinks a traumatized and terrorized people - who've never had what they needed - were somehow going to collectively beat the odds, is a question I may not be equipped to answer because, frankly, I don't understand it. But then, I'm not willfully obtuse, as well. 

Unlike the Republican Party (and the other blacks momentarily still in it) I can not look my people in the face and not acknowledge their struggle as a moral one, or frame their plight as undeserving. When it comes to their concerns - vs. the major concerns of even "mainstream" America - theirs wins, hands down, every time. Partially because, as we've seen, freedom and justice for blacks has always had a profound influence on loosening the parameters limiting other's lives as well.

"Where [Mitt Romney] lost was on the question of, ‘Who cares about you?’”

Those slave ships left a lot in their wake. TMR has been calling for reparations and it's time that's on the table. But even more than that, it's the Republican Party that should be calling for a Truth & Reconciliation commission, not only in order to (cynically) assess if, why, and how money to blacks would be warranted and/or distributed, but also so we can get the story in the open and, finally, walk together as a nation.

It is worth noting that it was [Henry] Ford's picture that had pride of place in Hitler's study and not Heidegger's: the origins of nazism and the ideological motives inspiring it were not exclusively German.

The Republican Party freed the slaves.

Ted Nugent Loving Republican Tom Tancredo Getting Crushed in Colorado Governor’s Race

The Republican Party should see to it, as their civic duty, that ignorance on this particular subject will no longer be an excuse for anything.

How the civil rights movement changed black gun culture

These Black Republicans Won't Stop Lying On Whites

Credibility Damaged? Colin Powell Ain't The Only One!

Jesus, it looks like The Black Judas took his role seriously:

In 2008 and then again in 2012, after retired four-star General Colin Powell endorsed and then voted for Barack Obama, the former Secretary of State's sanity was already in question. At least now, after having his email account hacked by high-level security-breacher Guccifer, Colin Powell's besmirching of the Republican Party's "shift to the right" and "identity crisis" finally makes sense.

It seems that for years the mannerly and always professional Colin Powell has been cyber-comporting with a 46-year-old Romanian European Parliament member, Social Democrat, and past spokesperson for Romanian president Ion Iliescu named Corina Creţu. So it's safe to say that Colin Powell was probably the one in the throes of an "identity crisis."

As vice chair of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Corina Creţu, who once called Powell the "love of her life," had, on occasion, spoken out against cruelty to women worldwide. Yet thanks to her progressive mindset, seducing in hopes of 'sharing' someone else's husband must not be a problem for her.

The fact that Colin Powell would associate with a communist sympathizer, never mind carry on titillating banter with a woman 30 years his junior, indicates risky and immature behavior just a notch above Weinergate. Either way, the revelations do put into context Powell's ability to support progressive socialist Barack Obama. General Powell lowered standards within his marriage, which apparently translated into lower standards politically.

Not for nothing, but it is kind of ironic that Colin Powell, whom many believed voted for Barack Obama simply because he's black, cyber-cheated on his African-American wife Alma with a blonde Marxist from Romania.

Colin's connubial infidelity and cyber-flirting was going on during the time the general was hitting the talk show circuit, calling Barack Obama a "transformational figure." That right there proves that the former Secretary of State's ability to discern right from wrong had already been severely compromised.

Yes, I do remember when Colin Powell was talking like a cult member.

I also remember my Republicans then tried to elect a cult LEADER,...

 

Events Like This Are One Problem With America

A serial adulterer (Rudy) a scam artist (Zigler) an Obama-supporting RINO (Powell) and, apparently, a drug user and dealer, is not the kind of sterling line-up I'd pay see, in hopes of straightening out my life, unless they're being used as examples of who not to emulate. But, for some reason, Americans today attend these large gatherings, only to be pitched on some other way to fuck everything up - and they can't tell that's what's happening: that their own gullibility - and worship of celebrity - is probably why they're in so much trouble they thought they had to attend this thing in the first place. And not only that but the rubes will do it over and over again, until they've got nothing left to give.

Then they'll claim to have found God and attempt to boss other people around - for their own good, of course.

If you ask me, the whole set-up - from the brain-dead attendees (and the craven presenters) to the brain-dead culture that would encourage it - is sheer and utter madness.

There, I said it. That is all.

Hat Tip: The Daily Beast

It's Not Too Hard When You're Against An Ass

"The Republicans are, for the moment, winning a fight once thought unwinnable."

-- Peter Roff, observing what all the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only, like Colin Powell) swore couldn't happen - that the GOP could fight and win, without changing it's character, and on it's own terms - in the U.S. News and World Report.

Our Impression Is Colin Was No Longer A Man

"If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd choose Rush Limbaugh. My impression was that Colin was no longer a Republican."

-- Dick Cheney, on which celebrity Republican sees the GOP mandate more clearly, from The Hill.

Questions For The Cowards

Why didn’t Colin Powell and Co. jump ship in, say, June or July, and endorse Obama after many months of campaigning when his positions were already well known? That is, why wait until late October when, after the financial meltdown, Obama surged in the polls? Had Powell come out even in the first week of September, he could have demonstrated that although Obama was down by three points, he was willing to stick his neck out with a principled endorsement that may well have made him persona non grata in a McCain-administration Washington.

Why didn’t the media or McCain just ask Obama a few of the following questions: Why did you keep emailing and phoning Bill Ayers for three years after 9/11, when the country was gripped by fear of terror, and Ayers, like bin Laden, said that he had not done enough bombing, and had no regrets about the terrorism he had committed?

Why did Obama say in 2004 to the Chicago Sun-Times that he went to Trinity Church every Sunday at 11AM, and then later claim he had not been there that regularly once Rev. Wright’s venom was disseminated to the general public? Is Obama for, or not for, a simple yes or no, missile defense, nuclear power, off-shore drilling, and coal-powered electrical generation? There might be legitimate answers, but surely the public could profit by them, rather than worry over the Palin pregnancies, wardrobe, or Tasergate.

Why did the greatest furor against Palin originate with women, both liberals like a Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd, or Sally Quinn, or conservatives such as a Peggy Noonan or Kathleen Parker?

So far, none of them has adduced the necessary arguments that would justify their venom against Palin: they have not demonstrated that Vice Presidential nominee Palin has less government or executive experience than does Presidential nominee Obama; they have not shown that she has said anything in two months as disturbing as what Joe Biden says almost any day, and, in that vein, they have written few columns about Biden’s lunatic assertions, such as FDR addressing the nation on television as President in 1929, or that our nation’s enemies will test Barack Obama, and his reaction will so disappoint the American people that his polls will immediately sink; they have not shown that Palin’s ideas about shrinking government and keeping taxes low are less sound than Obama’s in time of economic downturn to raise aggregate taxes and expand government. So whence the vitriol, especially the frequent invective about Palin’s family, education, accent, or mannerisms, or the rather sexist suggestions that her looks bewitched either McCain or others?

Why do so many conservatives think that an Obama-elect might be prove a centrist, and so why do they use phrases like “I pray” or “I hope” that Obama might turn out, well, not to be Obama?

Jimmy Carter did exactly what he promised: raised taxes, grew the government, told the world he had no inordinate fear of communism, trashed our allies as retrograde right-wing authoritarians—and we got the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian hostage-taking (have we forgotten that the “Great Satan” originated as a slur against Nobel laureate Carter?), communism in Central America, the Cambodian Holocaust, and spikes of 12% inflation, 18% interest, and 7% unemployment.

For his first two years (until 1994 Gingrich’s ‘Contract with America’ revolution, and Dick Morris’s ‘triangulation’), Bill Clinton, as promised, raised taxes, raised spending, tried to ram through socialized medicine, and by fiat wanted to force the military to accept those openly gay.

So why would any conservative think that Obama—friend of Ayers, Khalidi, Meeks, Pfleger, and Wright, veteran of mysterious campaigns in which rivals in 1996 and 2004 simply dropped out or were forced out, erstwhile advocate of repealing NAFTA, controlling guns, stopping new drilling and nuclear plants, zealot for bringing all troops home by March 2008, advocate of a trillion dollars in new spending, and raising the tax burden on the 5% who now pay 60% of the aggregate income taxes, supporter of more oppression studies and racial reparations—would not likewise try to govern as he has lived the last 20 years?

Why would anyone think that an Obama would not wish to enact the visions of those who first backed him—the Moveon.org crowd, ACORN, The Huffington Post, Sen. Reid, Rep. Pelosi, a Chris Dodd or Barney Frank—rather than the late pilers-on like Colin Powell or Scott McClellan?

— Victor Davis Hanson, asking the kinds of questions the journalistic pack will soon be out of work for not asking, while working for Pajamas Media

Charles Krauthammer Certainly Ain't No Cultist

Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The "erratic" temperament issue, for example. As if McCain's risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

McCain the "erratic" is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.

Nor will I countenance the "dirty campaign" pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports "cutting Social Security benefits in half." And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.

McCain's critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What's astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.

Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama's most egregious association -- with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.

The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?

There's just no comparison. Obama's own running mate warned this week that Obama's youth and inexperience will invite a crisis -- indeed a crisis "generated" precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?

And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he's been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.

The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.

Today's economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I'm for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.

— Charles Krauthammer - endorsing the McCaintosh - even on the Washington Post

Charles Krauthammer understands everything - even:

Traitor

Better Take A Powder

"Powell spent far more time saying what he didn’t like about McCain than he did identifying what he liked about Obama.

...While everyone is asking why Powell is backing Obama, perhaps the more interesting question is: why does Obama welcome his endorsement? Obama responded to the news by saying he was ‘honoured and deeply humbled’, and indicated that Powell would be an adviser of some kind in his administration. It may seem obvious, given the potential electoral benefits already mentioned, why Obama embraced Powell’s support. But one of the central arguments Obama deploys during his campaigning is that he had the foresight to oppose the Iraq war, and yet Powell was intimately involved in that war and the entire Bush foreign policy. Powell is the one who put forward the case for war to the United Nations with his speech on bogus weapons of mass destruction.

Obama’s welcoming of Powell’s endorsement – and suggestion that he would use him as an adviser – indicates that he really will not represent a decisive break from Bush, as he claims. Obama’s main criticism of McCain is that he follows Bush, and yet here we have Obama aligning himself with one of Bush’s main lieutenants. In fact, with regard to Afghanistan, if anything Obama outdoes both Bush and McCain in bellicosity.

...During the interview in which he announced his support for Obama, Powell said a key objective for the next president is ‘restoring a sense of purpose, a sense of confidence in the American people, and in the international community in America’. But it was notable that, in his brief list of Obama’s attributes, Powell did not elaborate upon the new ‘sense of purpose’ Obama would introduce, or how Obama would go about restoring a ‘sense of confidence’. He could not, because Obama has not."

— Sean Collins, giving a "there there" to liberal illusions, in Spiked!

Barack Obama Has America Living A Lie

"Obama’s real, quite verifiable and public religious background (and mentor) was not even mentioned by the Secretary of State - namely, the execrable Reverend Wright. That is far more disconcerting than some vague Muslim association (whether by birth or otherwise) and indicates a lack of judgment on Obama’s part that any person of gravitas (like a Colin Powell) should find difficult, almost impossible, to defend. Yet the racist Wright, we all know, was Obama’s chosen minister for twenty years, married him, baptized his children, gave him spiritual guidance and provided the inspiration for his memoirs - even the title of the second one. It’s hard to imagine a closer relationship with a pastor, except perhaps a spousal one.

...Powell ignored this, although Obama’s initial reluctance to separate himself from Wright was evident to the entire world - not to mention the candidate’s bizarre assertion that he had not until then realized the reverend’s extreme views. It was at that point many of us knew that Obama was not, to use Powell’s words, 'a transformational figure,' unless by transformational you meant dishonest."

— Roger L. Simon, noticing the cultish way Barack Obama's lies get a pass - seemingly everywhere - except at TMR and Pajamas Media

JUDAS!!!

UPDATE: I didn't have a chance to get my thoughts down about this when I posted it (I was getting ready for work) but you can be sure, I am writing. For now, I'll just say I don't buy a word of Powell's lame excuses for this latest betrayal. For Colin Powell, this is about race and nothing more.

Considering the contradictions littered amongst his reasons in the press (I can't watch the actual broadcast at work) and being familiar with his history, both as a towering military figure and an extremely whiney politician, race is the only reason this can make any sense. If you can call it that.

And, like all racially motivated thinking, that's a mighty big "if".

Stay tuned,...

"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with.

I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush making him a four-star [general] and secretary of state and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures."

— Rush Limbaugh, who can also see through this race-based sham, and mentioned it to Politico.com

The Republicans were going to make Colin Powell president once - whew! - dodged that bullet! (Ha-ha!) Actually the only people on the conservative side who were afraid of the assassination of our potential black candidate were Colin and Alma Powell. That says a lot. It says, like Barack "guns and religion" Obama, there's a certain mindset that certain blacks hold, where they can't get over themselves, or the past, and they're going to hold the country hostage to their vision of that past, no matter what obvious changes have occurred. They've simply refuse to change with it. I mean, neither Colin Powell, or Barack Obama, will ever be confused with Martin Luther King, so what are they afraid of?

Let's be clear: Colin Powell, and Barack Obama, aren't "Americans", or even "black Americans", but "African-Americans". They're both a silly hyphenated formulation Jesse Jackson came up with, oh, so many years ago in an effort to make as much of a claim to this soil as he could muster. You either bought it or you didn't - I didn't - but most blacks did, and whites have gone along out of politeness. But it's a half-assed Americaness, at best; one of those sorry hugs you give to someone when you're forced to by circumstance, without the necessary bigness of heart one needs to make it real. (Or like trying to offend someone by calling them "the 'n' word" instead of "nigger".) And just as Colin Powell couldn't endorse Obama without taking a swipe at the Republican Party for imagined racial animosity, Barack can't get us to be "One America" with Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pleger, and Louis Farrakhan standing behind him. It just don't work like that, folks.

And that's one of the funniest things about Powell's endorsement of Obama: didn't he notice all those race-baiters Obama's hooked-up with? Of course not - this isn't about race - that's probably why he didn't mention any of the boogie men as he spoke of Obama's wonderful "judgement". Considering Wright and Pleger's over-the-top performances during the primaries, Barack Obama - or even the late Sam Kinison - could appear to have a better "temperament", too.

CP never mentioned Bill Ayers either, except to dismiss him, because Powell was "troubled" by his ever being mentioned in the first place. Imagine that. The potential President of the United States works hand-in-hand with a communist murderer and his friends, for decades, and it's those who bring it up that are put on trial. The fact the Barack lied about Ayers, repeatedly - especially in the last debate where he denied the easily provable fact of starting his political career in Ayers's home - is never mentioned as "troubling" by Powell or anyone else. And that's the most troubling thing about this whole charade: the cultism.

I know, I know: I'm supposed to be writing about Colin Powell and race. But multiculturalism is as NewAge as crystal gazing, so fuck the bullshit, I'm going there: "there" being the fact there are so many topics surrounding Barack Obama that have been deemed off-limits to polite (or hostile) conversation it's crazy. Everytime somebody white tries to discuss some unpleasantness or another, Obama screams "racism" (there - you happy?). Mention Obama has done things that hurt blacks, and even black people scowl at you. He's the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of black culture.

So let's see: On one side we've got John McCain and the Keating Five Scandal, in which he was exonerated - with even the Democratic lead investigator saying "John McCain is an honest man." On the other side, we've got Barack Obama with a cavalcade of sins that are now so long, and so weird, I hesitate to start listing them for fear my fingers will be stubbed out by the time I finish - if I ever do finish. That's how long it is, and, considering I discover a new lie daily, that list is probably getting longer by the minute. And still, two weeks from election day, people insist he's a viable candidate. People, if this isn't a political cult, then I don't know what is. Either that or I'm trapped on Zombie Island.

Please don't eat my brain.