Ignorance is strength
By Capt. Fogg
Although the news of her written response to a questionnaire that was part of her 2006 gubernatorial campaign has been out for a day, little seems to have been made of it. I think that's a terrible mistake.
Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not? asked the form.
answered the Republican Party's candidate for vice president.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first published in a children's magazine in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. For you Republicans, that's over a hundred years after the Constitution ( which deliberately avoids mentioning God) was ratified. Bellamy had the decency not to include his God so vainly in his suggested pledge of patriotism. In the late 19th century, being a Christian Socialist like Bellamy Seemed natural, Jesus having stressed the communal life and demanded that his followers give all their property to the poor. That was of course when history was still deemed relevant and many ministers and Christian leaders were more interested in their flocks than in political insurgency.
I was aware of this in 1954 when Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to insert "Under God" as a response to the rise in political power of the Christian Right and serve the need to differentiate ourselves from the Russians. it was discussed in my 5th grade social studies course. Of course the pledge is not and may legally not be an official government statement or requirement, and is hardly the property of the State, so he was free to do it.
In America the Stupid, that's not widely known. Teachers still harass children who refuse to recite the doggerel and the public defends Eisenhower's unofficial inclusion ferociously. Obviously our current high level political contestants are less educated than a 5th grader in the 1950s. Fox News even lists Palin's blatant ignorance as strength possibly assuming you never read 1984 and won't gag at the reference.
Today, nearly all of us believe that the pledge was part of the literature left us by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Franklin. That includes particularly the Republicans. That includes Sarah Palin, the woman whom John McCain insists is ready to have her finger on the button and her black leather mini skirt on the president's chair.
Frankly that degree of ignorance coupled with the willingness to fight for it and against the constitution, makes her appointment not only an egregious mistake, but a deliberate act of treason and sabotage by a party more loyal to falsely fabricated history, more loyal to their own parochial ambition than to the United States of America.
It's time we recognized that John McCain, Fox News and their mini skirted marionette Sara Palin are following a secret aganda and are enemies of America. These people have the obvious priority of outlawing all abortions and they place it far ahead of any priority that concerns our country including attack from abroad, government incompetence and corruption or economic collapse. They don't care about anything else and they have just proved it. There is no time to lose and it's easier to vote them into oblivion that it will be to start a revolution if they win.
Although the news of her written response to a questionnaire that was part of her 2006 gubernatorial campaign has been out for a day, little seems to have been made of it. I think that's a terrible mistake.
Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not? asked the form.
Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance,
answered the Republican Party's candidate for vice president.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first published in a children's magazine in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. For you Republicans, that's over a hundred years after the Constitution ( which deliberately avoids mentioning God) was ratified. Bellamy had the decency not to include his God so vainly in his suggested pledge of patriotism. In the late 19th century, being a Christian Socialist like Bellamy Seemed natural, Jesus having stressed the communal life and demanded that his followers give all their property to the poor. That was of course when history was still deemed relevant and many ministers and Christian leaders were more interested in their flocks than in political insurgency.
I was aware of this in 1954 when Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to insert "Under God" as a response to the rise in political power of the Christian Right and serve the need to differentiate ourselves from the Russians. it was discussed in my 5th grade social studies course. Of course the pledge is not and may legally not be an official government statement or requirement, and is hardly the property of the State, so he was free to do it.
In America the Stupid, that's not widely known. Teachers still harass children who refuse to recite the doggerel and the public defends Eisenhower's unofficial inclusion ferociously. Obviously our current high level political contestants are less educated than a 5th grader in the 1950s. Fox News even lists Palin's blatant ignorance as strength possibly assuming you never read 1984 and won't gag at the reference.
Today, nearly all of us believe that the pledge was part of the literature left us by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Franklin. That includes particularly the Republicans. That includes Sarah Palin, the woman whom John McCain insists is ready to have her finger on the button and her black leather mini skirt on the president's chair.
Frankly that degree of ignorance coupled with the willingness to fight for it and against the constitution, makes her appointment not only an egregious mistake, but a deliberate act of treason and sabotage by a party more loyal to falsely fabricated history, more loyal to their own parochial ambition than to the United States of America.
It's time we recognized that John McCain, Fox News and their mini skirted marionette Sara Palin are following a secret aganda and are enemies of America. These people have the obvious priority of outlawing all abortions and they place it far ahead of any priority that concerns our country including attack from abroad, government incompetence and corruption or economic collapse. They don't care about anything else and they have just proved it. There is no time to lose and it's easier to vote them into oblivion that it will be to start a revolution if they win.
Labels: ignorance, Pledge of Allegiance, Republicans, Sarah Palin, treason
3 Comments:
Do you have a point? Why all the wailing? Are you claiming some sort of moral high ground? A compare and contrast might be better. Hold McCain (war veteran and maverick) and Obama (law school professor and community organizer) up to the light and see who looks better. It's not light on experience and without any plan for actually doing anything - but proclaiming he is the "ONE," Obama. There is a huge difference between time tested integrity and Obama's political sleight of hand.
And then there is Palin and Biden. That comparison, in spite of your attempt to bash her about referring to God, is no contest. Biden could not spend a day in her pumps or Sorel's.
By Anonymous, at 8:14 PM
Just becaue McCain has been around for a long time doesn't mean he's qualified to be president, or, to put it another way, that he's the right man for the job. And he's hardly the "maverick" you say he is. He used to be bipartisan, at least on some issues, but in his quest for the presidency he's morphed into a hardcore right-winger and a rabid partisan. And, if you know anything about him, you know that he has always been a staunch conservative. The whole "maverick" thing is a myth.
And so what if he's been around so long? What does that tell us? If that's what qualifies one for the presidency, then President Byrd should take over next January.
The point about Palin is that her presence on the ticket destroys McCain's whole "experience" argument. She's not qualified for the national stage, let alone for the Oval Office. Let's put aside the fact that she's a hardcore social conservative who appeals to the theocrats of the right. She basically doesn't seem to have a clue. She's ignorant. Obama may not have a lot of experience, but at least he's been in the Senate for a few years, at least he has a long and distinguished career in politics behind him (community organizer, activist, state legislator), and at least he's spent the past year and a half proving himself on the national stage. I had concerns about Obama a year and a half ago. Go back and read my posts from the time. I was highly suspicious of Obama. I thought he was all style, no substance. But he grew immensely on the campaign trail and, over time, I came not just to respect and admire him but to see him as an incredible leader who is indeed the right man for the presidency.
By Michael J.W. Stickings, at 10:05 PM
Ok, You want my point over again? I'm not bashing her about mentioning God - I'm bashing her for not having the knowledge of American civics that a fifth grader should posses while being willing to go to war to support a lie. I had to pass a constitution test in Jr. High School that included the duties of the VP - something she apparently isn't aware of either.
You're deliberately misreading and I'm sure it's because you have only the bag of canned responses you got from the Republican machine.
McCain is a maverick only if Maverick means being in the pocket of lobbyists and caring more about abortion that the country's future. He's a maverick if Maverick means that his opinion changes with the wind and reflects what he thinks people want to hear. You're calling him that simply because you're parroting a commercially produced argument with no desire or ability to see facts as they are. You're in no position to be cynical if you believe the things you believe.
Yes, Hold them up together. McCain's personal life seems reprehensible. He's been having serious memory lapses, he nearly flunked out of school and only got in through political connections. He got elected only becauyse he dumped his wife for a wealthy woman young enough to be his daughter and nearly everyone he surrounds himself with is a lobbyist of one sort or another. Yes, he spent 5 years in prison and yes he crashed several airplanes. I know many prisoners of war - none are qualified to be president either because of it or in spite of it.
It's possible that from your viewpoint, the disparity in intelligence isn't apparent, or it's possible that your obvious lust to support this party hack who supports all the failed policies of the last three Republican administration has skewed your perceptions, but McCain isn't qualified by virtue of education, intelligence, honesty orby any other measure.
You're entitled to your opinion, but it's a biased and in my view a stupid, uninformed, and probably dishonest position based on nothing but bigotry and class warfare.
Is it clear to you now? Are you still going to call this "whining" or have you exhausted your bag of tricks?
By Capt. Fogg, at 8:59 AM
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