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Sometimes it seems that all the world is insane
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on June 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM
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Re: cpklapper
There was a fair amount of insanity in the election, itself, in that Obama is not ethnically "black" in that he is not descended from slaves of color, his family not subject to that crucible nor raised in that ghettoized culture, as Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson were, so that the Obama kind of "black" is the "black" of Democratic racism, the "black" of skin color. Yet, the Democratic Party played up his candidacy as "historic", thus reinforcing their myth of racism and ultimately proving that the election was fundamentally racist. Obama was elected because the racist Democrats considered him to be a member of a "black" race in an attempt to atone for the atrocities that party has committed against any such who would dare to speak their own mind against that party.
Those who were not members of or offshoots of the Democratic Party -- "the party of white supremacy" in their own words -- were then slandered and libeled by the Democratic Party, accused of the racial sins of the Democratic Party. Yet it is precisely those non-Democrats, non-Dixiecrats, in considering Obama on the merits and rejecting him on the basis of his meager experience, superficial reasoning and disdain for Main Street, it was those who showed the most hope for the country finally rejecting the Democratic Party's myth of racism. Among my own friends and acquaintances, the critics of Obama come in all skin colors and heritages, including many descended from slaves of color. That we did not carry the day shows that America has a long way to go.
posted by
cpklapper
on June 28, 2010 at 8:47 PM
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cpklapper
It seems to me that from where I sit the insanity comes as the result of American voters unhappy with having elected a black president..........
posted by
WileyJohn
on June 28, 2010 at 6:17 PM
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This country too
But I love the way you put it!
posted by
lionreign
on June 28, 2010 at 7:49 AM
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Yes the country has gone start raving mad for almost a decade as I see it, and I lament it as well. It has been bitter for me to watch , but the majority rules.
posted by
mariss9
on June 28, 2010 at 7:31 AM
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I don't know about the Americans Carl but insane it is all over the world from what I see..thank you for the visit. Great poem.
posted by
shobana
on June 28, 2010 at 4:04 AM
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m] The subject’s timely. BC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on June 28, 2010 at 3:46 AM
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great poem; great subject; we do live in an upside country
where everything good and right is labeled bad and wrong...and everythig that is bad and wrong is now good and right....
posted by
Tzippy
on June 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM
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It's so hard to find sanity these days.
posted by
numberonemcfan
on June 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM
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Re: Insane
I guess I am hoping the insane fix themselves first.
posted by
cpklapper
on June 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM
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Insane
A lot of crazy stuff has been going on for awhile, the question is ----can the insane fix all of the crazy stuff?
posted by
csherloc
on June 27, 2010 at 6:03 PM
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I guess it comes from decades of pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth instead of studying the fundamental document of our Republic. I say "instead of" because, even when I was going to school, civics classes were a distant memory.
posted by
cpklapper
on June 27, 2010 at 6:01 PM
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Re: allusion
It was a harking back to a time when the "rights" of a "sovereign" country were viewed in a dimmer light. And yet this same "sovereignty" is used to justify the thoroughly anti-American and unconstitutional restrictions on immigration.
posted by
cpklapper
on June 27, 2010 at 5:57 PM
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Bravo Carl... A cry to think if not to battle :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on June 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM
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Am interesting allusion to 1776.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 27, 2010 at 4:49 PM
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