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Dr. Jeffrey Young created a form of Cognitive Therapy that utilizes a concept called “Schema”. This is in my opinion a sort of “VIRUS OF THE SOUL”. Now you may be asking what does this have to do with the political process we are facing today! Dr. Young lists about a dozen schemas but the one that is relevant to us today is the “Alienation/Social Isolation” Schema. Like a virus the “schema” hijacks aspects of the host. In this case the individual’s libido and mind to perpetuate the schema! Similar to what some other therapists termed “Behavioral Trans-generational Migration Patterns”.

My own Democratic Party “sometimes” becomes a festering ground for this Virus of the Soul in several ways:

1. Hillary Clinton’s behavior toward winning the nomination: The hell with the popular vote! Full speed ahead for the 2012 Election! Damage Obama so bad he cannot win the general election. This compounded by some who take this as a racial thing! Hell no it is just pure SELFISHNESS on the part of Hillary Clinton. She would do the same thing regardless of the candidate! She supported NAFTA and still supports “H1-b” that destroyed the technology job market! The payoff is we can all feel alienated!
2. Promoting masochistic self hate of America with PC Collective Guilt: Especially among people who rose above the religious collective guilt of Adam and Eve. Having rejected “Apple Theodicy” these very same folks now embrace the PC theory that “America is always wrong”. No that does not mean some things aren’t wrong with our society! It is the masochistic zeal that these PC Liberals, who renounce the Adam and Eve theory of collective guilt, now substitute being white, middle class and Oh My Mother Goddess, “Male” for Apple Theodicy! The idea of trying to improve things is completely vacant. Instead the joys of Masochistic hatred of America are glorified then they wonder why they loose elections to right wingers who covert the center!
3. Jeremiah Wright and the wimpy reaction to his speach: His behavior shows no concern for his so-called “friend” Barrack Obama who is running for the highest office in the land! Oh yes we hear that short sound bytes should not be used to judge a person’s whole career. Well imagine if John McCain were to use the “N” word just once or twice! What is so hard for Pastor Wright to say “look I am sorry forgive an old man who got stuck in a prior era”. Hell I would then even say let him back in Obama’s campaign! We all have a right to a “Mu-tack-a Moment” now don’t we? Listen to the video by Pastor Wright. Ask yourself what kind of friend could he be to Barrack Obama to not recant this? His speech glorifies being a victim! Not to mention racist statements.

Alienation is perpetuated by Pastor Wright’s speech and the lack of forceful repudiation by Obama and the Democrats. Yes I am an Obama supporter and a liberal. Just not a PC Liberal! While Dr. Young may never have thought his concept could be applied to politics, I believe it can, especially one of his concepts called “schema maintenance”. In the video above we witness “schema maintenance” at work! Note some things Pastor Wright says may have truth, but that is how schema maintenance works. The payoff is helplessness, ALIENATION and the protection of the status quo even though such is being argued against by the Reverend!

Let me add a “Transactional Analysis” footnote to the “Alienation Schema Maintenance Behavior” of both Pastor Wright, and the tepid response by Barrack Obama and many Democrats! That footnote is that the behavior of all of the above players could cause the defeat of Obama in the general election or even at the party convention! Ah yes but then we would be “Entitled” to cash in our Politically Correct TRADING STAMPS and engage in payoff game of “Ain’t It Awful” and “Wooden Leg“! Maybe nobody noticed but we have a war raging and the opportunity to elect either a Black or Female President! While I don’t believe race or gender automatically entitles one to be President it would be a nice moment in our history! So Barrack should cut loose from his so-called friend and not get caught up in this “Schema” of Alienation! Else he will be drinking “Bitter Beer”!

In conclusion we Democrats practice the schema maintenance of “alienation” and bitter beer drinking with our

• Use of the DENIAL MECHANISM rather than face dealing with Pastor Wright’s anti-patriotic and even racist statements!
• Then not Moving on to the real issues that face voters! Instead this campaign is turning off voters initial enthusiasm! Rush Limbaugh is laughing!

The Silent Majority must stand up and demand an end to this! We need to take our nation back from the effete snobs of Corporate America who do not want us to have job security and Universal Health Care!

Remember back before the New Hampshire Primary when Barrack Obama gave his talking points to the “NY Times” saying that he was going to have to ask Hillary Clinton some tough questions! He was criticized as to why he was even telling his strategy up front. Like to criticize poor sweet Hillary Clinton was vicious! If this humble blogger could talk to Senator Obama I would urge him to go at some of Hillary Clinton’s weak points hard!

My first advice would be to quote John Edwards who really pointed out how Hillary Clinton is to cozy with lobbyists and the Washington establishment. (See Video Below)

If I could speak to Senator Obama I would urge him to really push hard on some key weaknesses of Hillary Clinton!

• Hillary Clinton “Our Lady Of NAFTA” talks about saving jobs but she lead the movement that destroyed not only union blue collar jobs but even the high tech jobs market she claims some can be retrained to!
• We hear her constantly talking about how every vote counts and that a “win is a win”! Well why not challenge her to make a pledge that she will not try to overthrow the will of the people? If she looses by even one elected delegate she looses – PERIOD! Today I heard some mild comments by you on that front! But you got to push this more!
• Hillary Clinton in effect says “SUPER DELEGATES KNOW BEST”! Brand her an elitist for what she preaches! She is an elitist!
• Really press the BosniaSniper issue! This is the person who claims you don’t have what it takes to be the Commander In Chief! Hell would you want some one making war and peace decisions if they could not ascertain the facts of a situation? Not to mention the little issue of the “TRUTH”!
• Yes you have to maintain the “Idealist” image rather than the “ideologue” but Hillary Clinton will use your lack of attack to prove her point! She wants to prove she can take on the right wing machine! Give her a fight!
  
• Go after her life boat – Her donations! Make statements concerning how Rush Limbaugh and his fellow travelers want to “use” Hillary Clinton to keep our party divided and how Hillary Clinton by not using a CALCULATOR is really helping the very Right Wing Conspiracy she argues against!
• What about a commercial using paradoxical intention. “Please make a donation to Hillary Clinton! Rush Limbaugh is depending on you“! We know that some of his fellow travelers have even crossed party lines to vote for Hillary Clinton so to extend the bitter fighting within our party!

Those are some Debate Points I would recommend to Senator Obama! But Senator Obama also has some weaknesses that he needs to fix. The remarks he made in San Francisco really hurt him in Pennsylvania! Then there is the Pastor Wright issue. For the life of me I cannot understand how someone can maintain friendship with Pastor Wright when he does not apologize for his remarks! What kind of friend is your Pastor Senator Obama? Yes I know what religious existential anxiety means! I know the need for religion in ones own life! But your so called “Friend” should be out there now on the stump preaching a “God Bless America” speech else he is no friend of yours when you are running for such a high office!

Senator Obama you got away largely with the Pastor Wright issue as you are competing within the Democratic Party. But you will be eaten alive unless your so called friend comes to you aid and says that he was bitter from a bygone era but now asks forgiveness! If not you MUST remove yourself from him! There is too much at stake here. My family has even separated itself from the denomination they grew up in because of close mindedness!

Hilllary Clinton, OUR LADY OF NAFTA, must not be allowed to destroy our party!

Even if Hillary Clinton does win the Pennsylvania Primary tomorrow she cannot win the nomination unless the super delegates over rule the will of the people!

Here are some “Sniper Points” for “Hillary Clinton, Our Lady Of NAFTA” aka “Madame H1-b” to make for her continued candidacy for the Democratic Nomination:

· We should continue till the last primary as the people should decide but then I will spare them from making a mistake by asking the Super Delegates to over rule the will of the people! After all Super-Delegates know best!

· Blue collar workers should not pay attention to those nasty news clips about my husband pushing NAFTA! The nasty Republicans made us do that! How did we know that American jobs would be lost! It is all part of a vast right wing conspiracy and not our fault!

· Again every vote counts, especially when I am the only on the ballot as in Michigan! Therefore they should be seated as the Florida delegation despite the fact that I said I accepted the Democratic Party rules concerning Michigan and Florida improperly moving their election dates!

· If I sound “two faced” you have to forgive me as I suffer from SHELL SHOCK! You see I went to War Torn Bosnia with my daughter because Bill was to chicken to go! I am still recovering from the trauma of being under sniper fire!

· I have a back up plan for those blue collar workers who cannot get their jobs back from overseas! We will train them for High Tech jobs. This is the wave of the future. Don’t pay any attention to those nasty news clips (see below) about me taking money from the corporate lobbyists to undermine America’s high tech job market by importing legal lower paid high tech workers from India and Pakistan. The Programmer’s Guild is not a union for computer programmers but a part of the vast RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY! (Do not watch the evil video below)

The time has come for America’s Middle Class to stand up and say “We have had enough of Hillary Clinton”!

Tonight on NBC National News I heard Bill Clinton say “When people are calling for Hillary Clinton to quit they are afraid”. Well gosh Bill didn’t you say she was going to quit last month if she did not win Texas? (See the Video Below).

Can someone PLEASE give Bill and Hillary Clinton a “calculator”!

It’s over! That’s what you get Hillary Clinton for destroying the job market for Blue Collar and High Tech Workers!

The Middle Class has had it with your  NAFTA and H1-b double talk!

Today durning the papal visit to the World Trade Center New York Governor David Paterson knelt and kissed the Pope’s ring! While it is perfectly fine for the “regular citizens ” who preceded Governor Paterson to do this, no elected official and certainly not the “Head of the Sovereign State of New York” should kneel to kiss the Papal ring! I believe he has violated the principle of separation of Church and State!

Please don’t misunderstand me! I believe Pope Benedict is a very good and noble man. I am a liberal Anglican and would kneel and kiss the Pope’s ring if I had the honor of being presented to him! But when you are the Governor you represent a SOVEREIGN people!

Many of you may remember when Mrs. Regan was presented to the Queen and she refused to kneel! Nancy Regan as First Lady may or may not have been under the ban but certainly the President and Governor are banned from doing this as they represent our nation and state respectively!

I was very impressed by the Pope and his warm German accent! He is an old man who has dedicated his life to peace and the betterment of humanity. Governor David Paterson can be forgiven for his lapse but should be reminded by the press!

I am a college graduate who works in a blue collar job. I went to college in a small town in the great state of Missouri! I love Small Town America! Hillary Clinton, OUR LADY OF NAFTA, is out of touch with Small Town America. Well maybe not as much as John McCain! In my prior post I dealt with Hillary Clinton concerning the “Bitter Beer Drinkers Of America Issue”! Now let’s turn to Barrack Obama! After John Edwards dropped out I found Barrack Obama to be the best candidate and still feel that way! But he also has some problems. I love these guys below! I will defer in this post the cutting edge analysis to their good ole boy insights.

Hillary Clinton chides Obama for saying that Small Town Americans cling to guns and religion when feeling bitter, one then has to wonder if Obama was being insulting since he acts like the Small Town Americans he was talking about. Obama clings to his parish so strongly despite the Jeremiah Wright controversy!

Senator Obama’s statements about Small Town America (and this blogger will capitalize those letters) raises some important issues!

• Why is Barrack Obama so tight with his former Pastor!
• What kind of friend could Jeremiah Wright be to say such things then not apologize when his friend his running for President of the United States?
• Obama criticized Small Town America for being hostile to immigrants and free trade? But wait isn’t he against Free Trade? Why did he call Hillary Clinton the representative from the Punjab? He seemed to side with the Programmers Guild to stop the destruction of the computer job market due to the H1-b Visa program. I like that but then why make the statement he did about Small Town Americans?
• Obama, Clinton and McCain don’t seem to understand. Small Town America is NOT against immigrants! They are instead against the flow of ILLEGAL ALIENS crossing our borders and the actions of corporate lobbyists. Middle America is against the undermining of the hopes and dreams of computer graduates by using foreign H1-b Visa workers to under cut Americans careers!

I am still for Barrack Obama but if you watched the video you can join me and get a “Jackie Browles For President” T – Shirt! Pour me a cold one boys I am with you!

Hillary Clinton claims her dad taught her to shoot a gun at a young age!

I guess that is what gave her such a keen sense of SNIPER FIRE while she was in Bosnia! Perhaps she should use her childhood developed gun sniper skills to aim for the TRUTH!

So you want to get ahead in the world and study computers? Hillary Clinton, OUR LADY OF NAFTA, is willing to sacrifice your hopes and dreams to further her elitist agenda. Sure she will give you universal heath care and I do want that. But I also want my career back! Check out both the video below about how wants to destroy American high tech jobs! Also check out the Programmer’s Guild website.

Will she say and do anything to win? She says she is against elitism:

• But feels “super delegates know best”! She believes this while talking about counting every vote and finishing every primary.
• Hilary Clinton supports Universal Health Care yet she cohorts with lobbyists to increase the H1-b Visa Program that is destroying the job market for electronics and computer professionals!
• She claims she is for the blue collar worker and talks about “retraining” for today’s high tech job market yet she and her husband undermined blue collar workers with their support of NAFTA and so called “free trade”!
• What good is “retraining” when she wants to import foreign H1-b Visa workers to destroy the job market computer and technology graduates?
• Our Lady of NAFTA wants to seat the Michigan delegation yet she was the only one on the ballot! Talk about elitism!

Yes Hillary Clinton is better than John McCain. At least she wants universal health care! I don’t fully fault her for the Iraq War as I still believe it was good we overthrew Saddam. But then we should not have involved ourselves in a SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT! Most of our casualties came as a result of our staying beyond our welcome! I also believed Saddam had WMD and certainly Saddam toyed with us like he really did! That Obama “GUESSED” correctly is not a result of keen insight but pure luck! Saddam really acted the part. History brought together two idiots! George Bush and Saddam Hussein! President Bush would have been fine if after his “Mission Accomplished” statement we set up a friendly Iraqi General and left!

I just wish Hillary Clinton would stop destroying our chances to take back our nation from these Republican Elitists! Either way let us hope this primary contest ends soon!

John McCain has now done a flip flop on the mortgage crisis! Fearing the wrath of the Middle Class because banks are getting bailed out of the crisis they put themselves in and not wanting to appear a hypocrite, the “straight talking” John McCain has done a flip flop. But then that just adds to his already great record of “Straight Talk”! Dan Abrams in the video below speaks to an issue I have raised in this blog for months! The issue is PRO-CONSERVATIVE NEWS MEDIA BIAS! That’s “right” folks! The news media is just as frequently distorted to the right as it is to the left! I believe even more to the right than realized!

In the above video we see how McCain wants to commit us to a “One Hundred Year War” yet he still cannot make out the differences between Sunnis and Shiites! Meanwhile back at the corporate headquarters, American Companies are getting the itch to invest in Vietnam! Yes you know that is the nation where it was so imperative that we win so the likes of Adolf Hitler loving General Ky could continue to rule!

Gosh golly when there is a buck to be made these very same CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS have no problem investing in the enemies of freedom. Be it in Vietnam or Communist China. Yo Straight Talker McCain! They want to invest in the nation that tortured you! If your orientation where as “straight” as your “talk” well I guess your favorite color would be lavender!

McCain’s fellow travelers, these Iscariots who preach “free trade” invest for profits but they will want you to invest your son in the future war when China becomes a military giant. They sing the “Corporate Internationale” with allegiance only to their class interest and the hell with the nation that gave them birth, incorporation, protection and profits!

While I respect John McCain as a person and even admire him for his prior campaign against the corporate lobbyists, I wonder if he would support a law to ban investment in Vietnam! I guess when American companies were making bucks to support the prior War in Vietnam then it is good business (oops) but now that we don’t have a large military industrial complex we better go aid the enemies of America in Vietnam and especially China so they can build up their industrial base!

Guess who will be there to make a buck when Communist China becomes a world super power and we need to rebuild our military industrial complex? You guessed it these very same CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who will “rediscover” their “American identity”! Oh they preach freedom for the individual yet seek to destroy employee’s economic freedom and make us servants of their “CORPORATE COLLECTIVE”! They preach against sharing the wealth yet wish to redistribute the world’s resources with themselves as the real estate agents gaining a controlling commission!

John McCain, along with his fellow traveler Hillary Clinton should take a deep look at their fellow travelers in the so called “free trade” movement! But then again as a friend of mine said, “How bright can John McCain be as he not only got shot down but captured”! While my friend is sometimes overly cynical I think he has a point as McCain cannot tell the difference between Sunni and Shiite nor give some “straight talk” concerning investing in the very nations whom he preached are the enemies of America!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority – our great Middle Class to stand up and be counted!