American Missive

Part of what ordinary Americans talk to me about every single day is their hope and their desire to overcome the polarization and the pettiness and the trivialization… [It's] still possible for us to come together around a sense of common purpose, higher purpose.
—Barack Obama

LONG BEACH— How low can a democrat go? So vicious is this current election cycle and so zealous is Mr. Obama and the Democrats to take a monopoly of the government that they have orchestrated the worst campaign I’ve ever seen.  Sure, McCain is no McSaint and he is an abundantly bad campaigner, but next to this Democratic barge of bovine bowel movements he looks much cleaner.

One litmus test for a democratic candidate is, can the candidate stand up to the “Republican Attack Machine”.  The way this term is bandied about it’s as if the liberal left views themselves as being completely innocent of any and all political crimes. But don’t let this preconceived notion from the left fool you. They are ruthless. Extraordinarily ruthless. And they don’t need a Karl Rove to bring it out of them. They have the collective conscience of corruption ingrained within which acts instinctively to kill the messenger.  Let’s just look at the last eight years.

• State Senator Barack Obama. It has a nice ring, doesn’t it? But it was a close call. Mr. Obama was in a tight race with a Republican. He needed an edge. He needed his Republican counter part to be weakened. Forget all the Democratic demagoguery of Mr. William Jefferson Clinton during the “Republican Witch Hunt.” Democrats claimed matters of sexual affairs are not something to use in politics.  Well, not when an election is at stake.  In Mr. Obama’s campaign for his state Senate seat, with assistance from his liberal base, previously sealed divorce documents were unsealed and used as political fodder. The underlying theme to this was, don’t address the issues. Attack the messenger.

• In the 2004 presidential election another example of this was shown by the democratic presidential candidate himself.  Mr. Kerry had claimed he was meeting with foreign leaders during a time of war. This is not something any member of the US government is to do unless otherwise authorized. Nevertheless, he made his claim. When he was called out on it, his first instinct was… that’s right, attack the messenger:

  SCARBOROUGH: John Kerry‘s credibility is under fire. Last week, he said certain unnamed foreign leaders wanted him to beat President Bush in November. But when he was pressed on the issue by a voter at a town hall over the weekend, he attacked the messenger.

  This is what he said.

  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

  KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders.

  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Recently?

  KERRY: Yes, recently.

  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How recent?

  KERRY: That‘s not your business. It‘s mine. Are you a Democrat, a Republican? What are you? Are you a registered Republican?
  —Scarborough Country, March 15, 2004

• In the current election Mr. Obama left Mr. McCain a huge opening to draw from the nearly 18 million voters who voted for Mr. Obama’s primary competitor. Mr. McCain chose Mrs. Palin. Instead of addressing the issues, Mr. Obama and his surrogates attacked her.  Mrs. Palin’s entire family was drawn and quartered. Even her down-syndrome infant was fair game.  This took American politics to an all new and entirely unwanted low.

• As to the trivialization and polarization of politics, in 2000 54,330,209 votes were cast for a non-democrat. The Democratic response was to find a county they won and sue for a recount. The premise was set. Any loss of an election will be blamed on 0.000011% of the overall votes cast. Democrats never intended to address the 54 million voters they didn’t win over. The intention was to create and blame a conspiracy.  In the 2004 election 62,451,910 votes were cast for a non-democrat. The democratic party began to build another conspiracy, in Ohio this time, blaming 0.24% of the overall votes. In this current election democrats and the liberal left are going to work early on the red herring. Instead of addressing the potentially 40+ million voters who will not vote for Mr. Obama, the ground work has been laid to blame a potential loss on what is best estimated as a 5% to 6% problem. No attempt is being made to address what Americans might actually want in a leader. Simply, a scape-goat is being created which can be used to galvanize and further polarize the American electorate.

• Also in this current election there arose another speed bump. This speed bump’s name was Joe. Very fitting. A simple name. A simple question. The response was appalling to many Americans. Should you succeed in fulfilling your American dream, Mr. Obama intends to punish you and take your rewards away. Instead of addressing this simple issue, the response was to attack the messenger. A common man in America asked a question of a presidential candidate and the response was to drag his family through the mud. To crucify him in the court of public opinion.  There is no excuse for this type of reaction. None.

None of this should come as too shocking. Mr. Obama has stated publicly that this will be at the grass roots of his campaign:

I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
—Barack Obama, Elko Nevada, Sep 17, 2008

Mr. Obama and his surrogates have complained about Mr. McCain’s campaign and the attendees of the campaign rallies. There are reports that the rallies are wrought with extremist. As the democrats would have you believe, these actions are the likes of which would never grace a democratic campaign. It simply is not true (click this link, I encourage you. It has a photo of which the American Missive will not post). After encouraging his own followers to “get in their face” his followers are doing just that. Located here is a report of a supporter of Mr. Obama literally brow-beating a Republican. And not a young, “in-your-face” “oppressive republican” as they are so often described. This supporter of Mr. Obama took a McCain/Palin sign, tore up the card board sign and used the wooden sign post to beat a little old lady across the head.

American’s are outraged for sure. But not for reasons advertised by democrats. This American is upset at the low-brow responses found in both parties. I find the lies especially disturbing coming from the democratic candidate. After beginning his presidential campaign on a promise to put an end to the petty politics of the past, he has publicly encourage a path which leads to these types of actions.  So much for the politics of hope. So much for the politics of change.