Race vs. Gender


If you listen to what the people have to say, nobody today is neutral: everyone has a theory that they don’t mind sharing with you.

What is rather frightening, though, is that the feelings they are anxious to express are not just disagreement or agreement, they are more like “rip out her face”==”tear out his tongue” kind of extremes.

There have been disagreements in contests before with maybe one side not agreeing with the positions of the other side.

But it is different today.

What we see expressed is not just disfavor but anger and belligerence on a scale that absolutely staggers the mind.

We see it here on our message sites, sites that normally treat disagreements with a modicum perhaps of polite disdain; but now, it’s run for the hills, the other guy is coming loaded for bear.

Nobody seems to be neutral; nobody seems to be middle of the road.

It’s the reaction to Obama’s minister saying “God damn America” and
Hillary’s three o’clock in the morning ad which seems to be more of an Alarm company commercial warning of the penetration of the voter’s household; it is Obama’s wife saying that for the first time she is proud to be an American; to Bill Clinton’s talking about Hillary and John have so much in common as patriots, inferring that Obama is not a patriot…. These represent codes to a very hypersensitive voter base.

No, we were wrong; the negativity and the racial overtones have not left us; nor has the prejudice against equality for women….

Surely, ever passing week, new charges emerge and the antagonisms ratchet up a notch.

This leads one to wonder what will happen if one of the candidates emerges after the rigors of the Convention to uphold the Democrats.

Will the damage be so severe that everyone will steer clear of “those crazy democrats” and vote for John McCain not because he attacked either Obama or Hillary, just because he had the good sense to say nothing.

The dirty work, of course, will be left to the 527’s who have already had their work done for them. It’s all been said already, all the 527 “dirty tricksters” need do is run tapes of all of the bad-mouthing that seemed to know no end in the Primaries of 07—some of the bloodiest on record.

McCain may be stupid on most things but he is smart enough to keep his mouth shut and just walk into office in January.

Then, too, the democratic party will show that it’s not incapable of running a good primary but that it doesn’t even have enough brass to get the blood-letting to stop.
It will be the end of the Party as we know it.

The Democrats will have lost by then have lost all but two elections between 1980 and now; no party with that kind of track record can go on without fundamental changes.

What is sad, is that this primary season started with such hope and such great candidates.

Next time around, the Primary should take place on one day nationally and the hell with all of the big egos around the States.

Most of them haven’t done a single thing to make this a better Primary.

We also need to toss this whole Super Delegate process and give the Primary to the candidate who’s pulled the most delegates.

End of story.
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Something to tell our kids when they ask “Whatever happened to democracy, daddy?”

(PS. Let’s hope that this whole scenario is wrong; that the democrats pull it together and clobber the other side….and the democrats hold power for the next twenty years and find solutions to the job loss, the economy, the War, Global Warming and corruption at the highest levels!)

Les Aaron