4 posts tagged “muslim”

The end is near!!!  The end of this horrible election and here comes the storm before the calm.  Has everyone lost their minds collectively? 

There is a letter with the state logo of Virginia (boy have Virginia Republicans been in the negative news recently) on it that is trying to tell Republicans to vote on day and Democrats to vote on another.  The day noted for Republicans is election day and the day for Democratic voters is a day late.  Apparently assuming that Senator Obama supporters may not be as educated and informed about the voting process (ideas often associated with minority voters who area registering in droves to vote this election).

In Philadelphia a letter (clearly targeting the same demographic) says that if you have unpaid tickets or outstanding warrants.  Many in the minority communities don’t trust our legal system and would be fearful of such threats even if not guilty of any crimes.

What about the videos warning of he evils of Muslims (hinting to the made up rumors of a mentally unstable gentleman who got rich writing an attacking book with nothing to support what he said) that were sent all over the country. 

The problem is that there is a Muslim population in our country that feels as American as anybody else and hates the terrorists just like anyone else.  At least they felt as American as anyone else until this election.  I suppose that racist or bigoted remarks such as the hinting that Senator Obama could not be qualified for president if he were a Muslim might pass us by as okay if you ignore this fact, but they offend a group of patriotic Americans who have every right not to bear the brunt of the attacks of this campaign as anyone else. 

The First Amendment allows for freedom of speech, but I also have the freedom to vote.  As these stories come out the candidate that seems to be suffering the most is the candidate that most of these things seems to be attempting to help.  It would seem that many are offended by such tactics especially when we are all struggling to make ends meet.

The Republican Party (much of it is the membership and not the leadership, but there have been egregious acts performed by the leadership of the party also) playbook seems to be to make one segment of the nation scared to vote for Senator Obama and the other segments (mostly minorities) afraid to vote or not to vote.   The Democrats just want to flood the media with campaign pitches (which would normally be annoying), but relative to what we have been seeing from the Republican party this suddenly doesn’t seem so bad.

The fact that Senator Obama can make a half an hour presentation with no attacks on his opponent and no offensive statements clearly shows shy a person so far to the Left (in voting record) can get so many middle and Right Wing votes (at least in the polls).   I have said it again and again it is about how terrible the McCain campaign is being run compounded by the fact that the party has done so much craziness in the name of it’s candidate that is a testament to how shaky Senator Obama’s support is that it is not a landslide in his favor.

Senator Obama is not winning Senator McCain is losing with the help of the crazies he and Governor Palin have rallied into a frenzy at the campaign rallies.

The good news is that if the Republican’s lose as much as the polls indicate they will this election we might see the end of the Republican party as it is today and will get to see the dawning of a new day for the party.  Hopefully a better and stronger Republican party that will not stand for such things at any cost. 

Apparently the Republicageddon will be televised in a half-hour infomercial paid for by contributions to the Obama campaign.

1. Challenged The idea that any person who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and saviour is saved (even if that person doesn't properly understand God's desires (as of yet)
2. You have implied that somehow Islamic Law has more authority than what is outlined in the Bible ("according to Islamic Law he is a Muslim." your exact words in opposition to his statement to the contrary)
3. You have demonstrated that somehow a person who has a disagreement with another professing Christian's interpretation of scripture (correct or incorrect) has the right and authority to publicly question that person's salvation.
4. You have called upon the fear of those in Islam to convince us that somehow Senator John McCain is the Godly choice for our nation effectively putting all of God's eggs in the McCain basket - what happens if he becomes president and is nowhere as Godly as we make him out to be (history shows that this could most likely be the case) the church again looks collectively crazy and sets the stage for loosing more political influence than ever before (winning the battle at the expense of losing the war)
5. You have used a page and a half of scary statements to take the worst most evil doctrines of Islam, tie them to a person who proclaims himself to be Christian, and manipulate those easily influenced by such tactics to believe that God wants them to vote for John McCain as God's messenger for the next four years.

Okay, when is this all going to stop.  This really ticks me off.  I just had my hopes up, Senator McCain had calmed down and was trying to stop all of this attack campaigning which not only was dividing the country in a terribly unhealthy way, but was not working.   I was just awaiting the big speech where he would make it clear to all of us that this sort of behavior was unacceptable and he would have anyone doing such things at his rallies shown out (and of course an explanation of the new magical plan to save the finances of the whole planet that we all have heard so much about).

Then I was taken aback by another assault on our reasoning and what is clearly a manipulation of the fears of the people of the Republican base.  I was flipping the channels and there is some man (who claims to be praying) praying at a rally and he says that there are Hindu and Muslims all over the world who are praying for Barack Obama to win and he goes on to say that an Obama win would be somehow perceived as the gods of the Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims (to add effect he didn’t use the word Muslims he used the word Allah) as superior and thus he is beseeching God to make sure that Senator McCain wins the presidency.  The exact request was for God to guard his “own reputation”.

Really??????  This is the campaign????  Where are the people in McCain’s camp whose job it is to stop things like this.

Here we go again…  This man, Reverend Arnold Conrad, just did several things in a minute or two of prayer (if that’s what you would call it).

• Offend Hindus (keep in mind our trouble with allies in the middle east currently and if this is a good public message to send as a country who tries to portray ourselves as above all of this)
• Offend Buddhists
• Offend Muslims (contrary to what is implied at all of the Republican rallies, there are many Muslims in this country and overseas that want nothing to do with terrorism or terrorists.  Some we want to be our allies and many of the Muslims here vote)
• Make dismissing the faiths of others a part of a presidential campaign.
• Offend the sensibilities of many Christians who find such a statement (the implication that he somehow knows that Senator Obama is not a Christian but a Muslim – a rumor started by a mentally unstable man who seems has been prohibited from filing lawsuits because of the amount of frivolous lawsuits he has filed) to be an attack on their beliefs.
• Offend anyone who is a Christian who is an Obama supporter.
• Offend and anger at least one person who is not a McCain supporter (nor an Obama supporter but getting closer) and who is Christian.
• Again been that one foolish person who put a stumbling block in the way of anyone that may have been close to believing in Christianity or may already have been a borderline Christian.

Where are the handlers or whoever?  Where the heck is Senator John McCain? 

Then, I see Senator McCain on television telling how mad he is about comments made by Rep. John Lewis (which I have discussed in two previous posts) and doing his best to show how over the top all of these attacks on his character were.

As you saw in my previous posts, I would totally agree with Senator McCain, if he would do something about what is going on in his own camp (take the beam out of his own eye before he complains about the splinter in the eye of his opposition.

When I hear this man pray I have to wonder if the members of the McCain camp are a trip to Guyana away from feeding us all poisoned Kool-Aid.

If this hits the media in force, we will have found another crazy Christian episode to embarrass all of us who are not on some crazy trip related to elections. 

The crazy part is the guy who a few years age was ranting (publically) about what a problem Christians are in politics, now has people praying for him against a man that is a professing Christian because of rumors and of course the unforgivable sin of supporting abortion.  Lord knows there will be nobody in heaven that ever voted for that assuming God is a Republican of the extreme Right. 

I have heard complaints about the media, about Senator Obama’s voting record, about uneducated voters, and I have my serious doubts (and some fears) about Senator Obama as president, but all of that cannot even come to mind with offensive stupidity like this.

The problem is, no matter who Senator McCain has in his campaign (even if other Republican candidates fired them for similar issues) he is responsible to hire, fire, and direct those that are a part of his campaign.  If something is crazy or wrong, it is his campaign (we will call it an administration for fun) and he is responsible to fix it or at least stop or even apologize for it.

How can the media not ignore Senator Obama’s flaws with insanity like this?  If someone is stealing candy at the grocery store and the security sees him or her.  Right when the security is closing in, an absolutely unrelated person nearby starts shooting people.  Who will the security pay attention to.

I have heard a couple of both Republican and Democratic pundits saying that Senator McCain should fire his current campaign staff in a hurry and try to reign this thing in.  I agree and he should finish what he started this weekend and not allow anyone tied to him to dishonor his party, our country, and our beliefs.

Today Senator Barack Obama was parading around like he had just won an Olympic gold medal.  He was in the public and on television beginning a media blitz.  But, what are the other two candidates from the major parties doing?

Senator Hillary Clinton’s camp was busy writing a letter to Senator Obama.  What, was she finally going to bow out gracefully?  Of course not!

It begins with pleasantries such as things about what an historic and exciting campaign it has been and so on (the sound you just heard was the sound of me sticking my finger in my mouth mimicking what it looks like when one gags one’s self).  Then comes the shovel and the shoveling.  Then comes some dribble about the principles of the party being that citizens should be allowed to vote and that those votes should be counted.  This letter goes on and on and sounds so silly and insincere that I can hardly stand to read it.  This letter is addressed to a P.O. Box and is to Senator Obama.

Here is what really happened:  The letter is an attempt to generate some kind of good press with all of the bad press Senator Clinton is getting right now.  The Hillary Clinton camp distributed the letters publicly, long before it ever could possibly reach the P.O. Box or hands of Senator Obama.  The wording of the letter is clearly not intended to persuade Senator Obama to do anything, the intention obviously a publicity stunt.  The worst part is even without all of the details you probably assumed all of this on your own.

This whole stunt seems a little desperate and childish doesn’t it. 

Dear Senator Clinton’

We can all hear, just say whatever you want to say to the senator and to us out loud.  What’s with the stupid letter? 

Wishing you would drop out to remain respected;

Alethinos Paradoxos

P.S.  I think it may be time to bow out gracefully, you are starting to seem desperate and you are beginning to look more like a sore looser than a great and determined political mind.

Wow, maybe her letter is not so bad after all, that feels pretty good.  This letter writing thing is okay.  Which leads me to the next tasty tidbit. 

The next question?   Drum-roll please?

The question is:  “What is the Senator John McCain camp doing?”

Answer:  “Writing letters to Senator Obama, of course.”

Next we get news of a letter from a certain Mark Salter.  Author, coauthor of books with Senator McCain, and long time employee of John McCain. 

Let’s backtrack a little.

In an interview earlier, Senator Obama said that Senator McCain had “lost his bearings.”  This explains why “Mark Salter, Senior Advisor” (exactly as his name appeared on the letter) starting by saying something about this being an attempt to point to Senator McCain’s age.  When I heard this my first thoughts were:  “Is Mr. Salter, “Senior Advisor,” implying that the only people who “loose their way” are people who are old.  I can honestly say that I did not even consider age when I heard the comment. 

The letter attempts to condemn those sorts of attempts to say things that elude to something that you cannot say directly, but if you can get into the minds of voters will affect how they vote.  I agree totally.

Then it happened.  By “then,” I mean in the same letter to Senator Obama.  Mr. Salter goes on to say that Senator Obama is specially protected by the media and the public because he has a “protective barrier” which “declaring serious limits to the questions, discussion and debate in this race.”  Hold that thought…

Then comes a couple of paragraphs about “Hamas” and how the political adviser to the leader of Hamas thinks Senator Obama could bring change and would make a good president.  The “kicker” comes with the statement, “The McCain campaign has never suggested that Senator Obama supports Hamas' agenda, but…”  Did you notice what word I stopped at.  Senator McCain may not, but clearly his “Senior Advisor” is about to.

Then he goes on to evoke the names of every scary person on the planet only leaving out “Freddy Kruger” and “Jason” probably because they do not really exist.  He used the names of “Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” “North Korea's Kim Jong II, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Raul Castro” in discussing who Senator Obama has stated he meet with to try to make deals with our enemies. 

Okay, have you been keeping score? 

1.      Senator Obama has something about him that makes him especially protected from questions, discussion, and debate.  What exactly is that something he is getting at?

2.      Senator McCain or his camp would never try to say that Senator Obama supports Hamas (is this a good place to type the letters “LOL”).  Why then does the word “Hamas” appear five times in six successive sentences.  Hmmmm?

3.      Also, I cannot see any hidden attempts to bring up the past rumor that Senator Obama is secretly Muslim here.

4.      Then came all the scary names:  “Iran,” “North Korea,” “Kim Jong,” and “Hugo Chavez.”  No hidden messages here.

Let’s see, why would Senator Obama get a special “protective barrier” around himself that nobody else gets.  Hmmmm, what’s different about Senator Obama?  Wait a minute?  Could it be?  I think Mr. Salter, senior advisor to Senator McCain may have just pulled out the race card and slammed it on the table.

What about evoking such names as “Hamas” and “Hugo Chavez,”  could that be the fear card.  Oh, how childish the Clinton and McCain camps have become.

It is good to know that we may have found the lesser of the evils; at least Senator Obama would not sink to this level.  Writing a silly letter, disguised as a letter directed at talking some sense into another candidate, hoping the public will hear about it and be swayed by its hidden messages. 

Oh my, how not true that is.  Senator Obama’s camp responded to Senator McCain’s letter with a short response.

Beginning with “Clearly, losing one's bearings has no relation to age…” the response takes a turn to the retaliatory.  There are descriptive words like “bizarre rant,” “distract,” and “attack..”  Talk about a third George Bush term, about continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies, and failed strategy in Iraq. Then there’s “it's not the kind of campaign John McCain has promised the American people that he would run.”

Are these children and their playmates really the best candidates we can drum up from this entire country?  Come on!  All these people and there is not one more, somewhere in all these people that is better than these three?

Is this what any of these three would look like as president?  It would be like putting a four year old in the Whitehouse as president.

I see that in looking for the lesser evil, we are going to have to dig real deep.