GordoZone

The current state of political affairs disgusts me on levels I’ve never encountered before.  While I may still have my personal politics, as we all do, I am choosing to withdraw from public discourse for the time being.  I absolutely refuse to further engage the issues of the day in the current atmosphere.  The Left is repulsive and has lost the privilege of my further attentions.  I shall post several last thoughts and then retire to non-political issues for a good long while.

TEABAGGING

Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.

I am repulsed at how many mainstream media talking heads have referred to the Tea Party activists as teabaggers.  This is in no way an error or done out of ignorance.  I have heard it used on morning television repeatedly (with my children watching, no less) as well as seen it in print in numerous once-noble online publications.

Anyone who uses this term to describe the opposition is a rude and pathetic bigot who shall be permanently erased from my sphere of concern.  Any organization that allows it (i.e. Time, Alan Colmes, TalkingPointsMemo.com, The Huffington Post, etc.) is also to be written off.  This is just as bad as the N-word or any other of the perjorative epithets that no longer have a place in public discourse.

PATRIOTISM v. RACISM

During the Bush administration: Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism (for example)

During the Obama administration: Dissent is the highest form of Racism (for example)

Former president Jimmy Carter has declared that the ‘overwhelming’ majority of opposition to President Obama’s policies is race driven, up to and including calling the president a liar.  His proof?  He lives in the South.  Of course.  No polls, no interviews, no data.  The man just knows.

All sorts of Left have jumped on the bandwagon declaring that what they’ve heard said behind closed doors proves it, and that every operative term the Right uses in public discourse is actually a racist code word.

Those of us who oppose actions of the Obama administration are not afraid of an African-American president, or black people in general, at least I’m not.  Me, and everyone else I know who is a conservative, by the way.  In fact, I don’t personally know anyone who fits this image, and I live in a conservative Southern town.  Fairly, this doesn’t mean we don’t have racism against African-Americans.  Sure, I know that it exists, and I’ve even witnessed it.  Some people are just bigots.  You try to help grow them up, but sometimes it doesn’t take.

On the other hand, racism against white Americans is plenty prevalent, too.  Take this characterization, for example: to disagree with a black president is racist.  That, my friends, is racist to the core.  That, and it’s the last refuge to the dying Leftist idealogue.  Is the Left so impotent in their arguments that all they have left is the race card?  The your mama of modern politics?  Well, know this: I’m not afraid of anyone — white, black, red, brown, purple, yellow, or plaid — but if you’re in power, I sure as hell am going to speak truth to you.  If you can’t take it, then step aside.

Please keep in mind that more white folks voted for President Obama than for anyone else ever.  And I do have to give major props to the president for not even remotely joining in this racial-fest, and pro-actively rejecting it entirely.  God bless him.  But let’s keep going, shall we…

BARACK OBAMA IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

I’ve had enough of the so-called ‘birther’ movement (a much smaller movement than you may be led to believe by the media, by the way).  I know this is strictly an opinion generated from my own head, but here’s my bottom line: the man was born to an American citizen.  The end.

If a child of foreign parents can claim American citizenship simply by being born on American soil, even by parents who are on that soil illegally, then why on earth is a man born to a mother who is actually an American citizen not considered a natural-born citizen of the United States of America?  The man is a natural-born citizen.  Who cares at that point whether the birth took place in America or Kenya?  Really.

I have no issue, either, with taking his statements and evidences at face value that he was born in Hawaii.  If others wish to chase this windmill, then have at it.

Thus, Barack Obama is the duly elected president of the United States of America.  He’s my president.

 ACORN, VAN JONES, AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Now, I’m not going to dwell too much on ACORN or Van Jones.  The Right has targeted ACORN for years as being a corrupt organization who has benefitted from federal monies.  Notably, they have been accused of massive voter registration fraud, and most recently aiding in teaching people how to avoid getting caught committing crimes such as tax evasion, prostitution, child prostitution, and sheltering of illegal foreign nationals.  Van Jones is the former(?) self-proclaimed Communist ex-con whom President Obama placed in a so-called Green Jobs Czar position in the White House.  This was an appointed office invented by President Obama that neither required confirmation nor oversight from Congress.  Come to find out, Mr. Jones has been on record believing that 9/11 was an inside job, and also stated this past February, for the record, that Republicans were “a**holes”.

Both Van Jones and ACORN have been rocked by scandal of the most monumental, and nationally significant, proportions in the past couple of months.  Van Jones was forced to resign.  ACORN has gone from screaming “YOU LIE!” at its accusers to issuing statements saying they are conducting internal investigations and re-educating employees, as well as needing to regain public trust.

If it weren’t for FoxNews and the so-called alernative media (and, I must say, CNN did their part, if half-heartedly), we’d never even know these things had happened.  Who hasn’t seen a half-dozen church sex scandals paraded across the media for weeks at a time?  Who doesn’t know about the recent killing of an abortion doctor?  Did you know, though, that a prominent anti-abortionist was shot and killed last week?

Also, when an abortion doctor is gunned down by some crazy nutball, the entire Right gets villified as somehow having whipped up this killer into a frenzy by talk radio, Christianity, and just any conservative thinking in general (those ideas are bad, you know).  We’re all guilty by association.  Kill a non-violent prominent anti-abortionist?  Tragic, but some crackpot acting alone.  Sorry.

Disgusting.

In all fairness, I have seen some exceptions.  In spite of the fact that it is my opinion that MSNBC appears to be the official news outlet of the Obama White House, I have to give credit to some of the reporting and interviewing that Matt Lauer has done on the Today show.  He seems to try to give a fair shake to all sides.  I’m sure there are other exceptions, but the trend is stunningly clear: Bury the bad news on the Left. Blame the Right for everything else.

LEFTIE OUTRAGE

I’ve had enough of the Left being outraged that the Right is even hinting at acting like the Left when Bush was president.  Enough.

The Left was absolutely a wretched abomination in so many ways.  Bushitler?  Dissent.  Obama is a Nazi?  Racism.  Now, I think basically all comparative references to Nazi Germany are entirely misplaced.  I’m merely pointing out the clear double standards.  Let’s have some more, courtesy of Victor Davis Hanson’s writings:

Is the anger against Obama different from what we have seen leveled against presidents in the past? Americans not only know that this is not true, but that some who now charge unfair play were themselves well beyond the bounds of decorum in their own attacks. In the Bush years, “hate” was a favorite word of liberal critics, from both officials (cf. Howard Dean) and mainstream publications (cf. The New Republic). “Assassination” was the rage among liberal culture (cf. Alfred Knopf, the Toronto film festival, the Guardian). “Liar,” “Nazi,” and “brownshirt” were casual slurs from high-profile Democrats (cf. Gore, John Glenn, Robert Byrd, Harry Reid, Pete Stark, etc.). True, shouting “you lie” is more serious than booing the President (cf. 2005), but whereas Rep. Joe Wilson has apologized, none of the booers at Bush’s State of the Union address, I think, felt that ”I’m sorry” was ever necessary. (Questioning Barack Obama’s birth certificate is infantile, even unhinged, but not de facto racially motivated — perhaps analogous to something like Andrew Sullivan persisting in spreading rumors [complete with purported photographs] that Sarah Palin did not deliver her last child and engaged in an elaborate cover-up of a faked pregnancy and delivery to hide her daughter’s own stealth unwed pregnancy.)

Is Obama the only minority high-profile figure to have earned real anger?  No. Clarence Thomas had his character destroyed for partisan purposes, and liberals were enraged when he attributed it to a “high-tech lynching.” Alberto Gonzalez was reduced to a caricature of an affirmative-action beneficiary. Former HHS Secretary Louis Wade Sullivan’s race was explicitly cited by Representative Stark in a particularly nasty attack. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was caricatured in state-run Palestinian newspaper cartoons as a pregnant monkey, few on the left rushed to denounce such virulent racism. The sad truth is that if a Pres. Condi Rice or Pres. Colin Powell were now in the midst of pushing a controversial conservative agenda (e.g., a federal ban on abortions, cuts in federal spending, keeping open Guantanamo, etc.), the liberal press would be as aggressively hostile as conservatives are today against the Obama plans. The only difference would be that all in the liberal camp would be furious over suggestions of racial motivations to their own anger over conservative African-Americans pushing controversial policy. This is self-evident.

In addition, the folks on the Left have to actually make up stuff to accuse the Right of racism.  Case in point from Jonah Goldberg yesterday — one example of many I could draw from:

Maureen Dowd of the New York Times hears Rep. Joe Wilson shout, “You lie!” And her instinctive response is: “Fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!”

It’s the “fair or not” that gives Dowd away. She admits to hearing racism whether or not it’s warranted. That’s called prejudice. And unlike Wilson’s foolish outburst, Dowd’s was carefully considered. Dowd, Carter and Sharpton can’t grasp that conservatives are less hung up on race than they are and that we can get past Obama’s skin color. “Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it,” writes Dowd. She’s right. She’s one of them.

Amen, brother.

I LIKE BARACK OBAMA, AND STILL THINK HE CAN HELP RACE RELATIONS

I like the man, even if I oppose many of his policies (I support his shutting down of the Third Site missile defense plans, by the way.  It was a prudent move and not the appeasement that folks on the Right are making it out to be).

Please note what I wrote in October 2008:

If there is one thing that I will be supremely proud of if Obama is elected is the very fact that he is an African-American…  I have dreamed of this day for quite some time (though wishing for my political terms, of course).  This will be a momumental healing moment for the nation.  It will shine a light on numerous ills in society — oddly enough, more on the Left than the Right is my guess.

Words of a racist?  No.  I still basically feel this way.  In fact, it is the moral vapidity of the Left coming to light that is causing the bulk of my disgust.  It’s hard to be the victim when you’re in power, but it’s hard to be in power when all you know how to be is a victim.

TUNE IN TOMORROW

I have one other thing to say before stepping away for a while, but its length and subject matter honestly warrant a separate post.  I’ve said enough for now, but here’s a preview:

CHRISTIANS WHO USE THE FAITH TO PUSH THEIR SUPPORT FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA ARE MORALLY INCORRECT

Yes, that’s right: morally incorrect.  You need to turn away from your actions.

I defend my position tomorrow.

Peace, and Happy New Year!