Who Pulled the Race Card!

Rush Limbaugh.  You know there is trouble when something starts with that name.  Today he rallied the “Republican Extremists” by saying that Colin Powell (normally a Republican) is voting for Senator Barack Obama because he is African American and that is the only reason. 

• There is no possibility that he could be disgruntled at what he has seen over the past few years. 
• There is no possibility that he really thinks that the campaign tactics that Senator McCain has undertaken were over the top. 
• There is no chance that he actually watched and studied the candidates and picked who he thought was a better candidate. 
• There is no chance that he actually thinks Barack Obama is going to better handle the campaign. 
• There is no chance he has not bought the rhetoric and nonsense of the Republican Party. 

All of those are absolutely impossible.  How is it that all of these things are absolutely impossible and the only possibility is that this man is voting for Senator Obama, simply because he is African American?   It would be different if he were saying it was just a factor or it may have pushed him over the edge but to say that was the only reason is to say in effect that the only way an African American person could vote for Senator Obama is because such a person could not be as Mr. Limbaugh.  Because intelligent African American people could never disagree with the Republican Party.   

Seriously folks?  Who pulled the race card again? 

When the race issue comes up because of this person voicing such stupid ideas I suppose that the (fundamentalist) Republican Party will suddenly cry foul and say the Democrats are pulling the race card.  Let me say this clearly – RUSH LIMBAUGH JUST PULLED THE RACE CARD!

“Would Colin Powell endorse Senator Obama if he were a white Democratic?”  That is the question Pat Buchanan asked on television.   

Let me say this clearly – PAT BUCHANON JUST PULLED THE RACE CARD!

How come nobody ever says that maybe Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh wouldn’t vote for McCain if he were an African American candidate.  It seems like similar speculation to me. 

These things are okay with the “Evil, Right Wing media” that allows such offensive things and thinks that anyone that is not comfortable with such things is somehow oversensitive and influenced by the crazy right wing media.

In the past few weeks there has been racist newspaper adds from the Republican Party, racist publications, outburst of anger, hate and racism at rallies, church and spiritual abuse and manipulation and these incredibly aggravating robo-calls.  I can’t possibly see why anyone wouldn’t see how there is this big plot of the Left Wing to make the Right Wing look bad.  Why do we need a plot when both sides do such a good job of making themselves look bad?

Us real Americans (that miraculously may not only live in the small towns Sarah Palin visits) who serve our country and die, fight in wars, pay our taxes (unlike this Joe the plumber person who we are tired of hearing about – but it’s okay the local plumbers union seems to support Obama), try our best to raise our children here, can read and write.  Some of us are intelligent enough to know when we are being manipulated and don’t stand for it.  Some of us have a little money, a little influence and do vote.  The key is some of us, who Republicans keep calling the unreal Americans (which is very offensive to those of us who do not live in small towns or play hockey consider ourselves to be like pit-bulls) do not feel like people like this can bully us around.  The Republicans may or may not win this presidential race, but they will inevitably lose far more political power than already lost over this campaign.  There are some Republican politicians that I would have normally voted for who have already lost my vote and John McCain is dangerously close. 

The way both candidates are running we now have our own running of the bulls that we must all run from or be killed but it is the running of the “bull.”  Or better put the “Unleashing of the Idiots.”   We are the greatest nation in the world, how do we get such idiots as politicians and then support them as if they are not idiots.

I may only be one voice, but the key is I am not the only one and this has moved from a discomfort to a cause.  It is a shame that as a person who is diametrically opposed to many things that the Left stands for I may become a person who is more diametrically opposed to what the Right stands for than the Left.  I guess that is where the middle is going to be and soon the people in the middle who tend to the Right (like me) and those who tend to the left are going to have to come together and seek our political voice and bring change from the stupidity that both of these candidates and those who support them have unleashed on our nation. 

By the way, could somebody please slap the next person who uses the words “Joe the Plumber” no matter which party that person comes from.  Joe the Campaign Plant or Joe the Liar (who doesn’t pay his taxes, is not buying any business, and the business he works for makes nowhere near $250k a year) is more like it.  All Americans are not plumbers or in McCain-Palin world. 

I’m a rugby-dad and you wanna know the difference between a rugby-dad and a pit-bull?  If you tick me off I’ll never let go and I have a worse temper!

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