Middle Class Populist

While I am a Liberal Democrat and fully support Barrack Obama, I am somewhat amused that John McCain has “harnessed” the winds of “Political Correctness” to reduce Barrack Obama’s lead in the polls! For years we have had to learn the lexicon of Political Correctness, now the Democrats are reaping their Karma! We cannot disagree with a woman else we are sexist pigs!

Barrack Obama while Black is part of a minority group that is only 10% of the population while woman make up over 50 percent! John McCain with one stroke has made the Democrats sink in their own quicksand!

The time has come for Barrack Obama to stop arguing like a lawyer and start kicking ass! Americans like “ACTION FIGURES” not a Democratic Party imitation of Bob Dole! Most Americans feel so overwhelmed by life and their economic situation that they gain a sort of “vicarious sense of empowerment” by Sarah Palin shooting zingers at the Democrats. So what they are undermining their own middle class interests! Oh dear did I say something bad? I used the term “middle class interest”! Dear me I better go and meditate! Oh dear I got angry at the Republicans! Oh Mother Goddesss no, am I going to come back in the next life as a Republican?

<stopping now to meditate and relieve my red karma from my charkas!>

Ok I am back now! But meditate on this:

If our own Democratic Candidates cannot kick ass and defend our goals how can they be trusted to defend America? Barrack Obama better get going and start kicking butt. This is CLASS WARFARE don’t shy away from it! Ok not all upper class folks are bad. Some remember what it was like to struggle and contribute greatly to liberal causes! But the time has come to FIGHT! Damn finally the Democrats are using the term “Middle Class” like Nixon appropriated the term “Silent Majority”! But that is only the start. The disparity in incomes must be advertised! Obama should make McCain be the responder!  SEIZE the initiative Obama or you will Kerry away!

In this era of licentious permissiveness when corporations can shed their American identity, becoming Multi-nationals, even moving their headquarters to remote islands so as to avoid their share of taxes to the nation that gave them birth, succor, protection and profits, America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class demand an end to profits without responsibilty! Stand up for America! Stand up for Social Responsibility for Corporations least we become victims to the new “COLLECTIVISM” which is to say “Corporations”! When Corporate Collectivists get more power Individual Freedom is diminished! Time for Barrack Obama to kick ass!

We hear the whine from these wild eyed advocates of the Neo-con SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq that the Democrats are against our troops! These bleeding hearts of appeasement to Corporate America that continues to trade with Iran, while that nation sends supplies to kill our brave troops, do not even have faith in our troops! The US State Department uses Backwater to protect embassy staff rather than fully using our Marines and Army.  (See Video Below that lists an incident over a year ago that still has not been corrected)

When Democrats point out that this is a civil war and that much of the recent reduction in violence was the result of low level diplomatic talks with Sunni Militias to have them switch sides, the Republicans then said that the Democrats where trying to demean our troops. Yet it has been over a year now since a report from NBC News stated that we are not giving our troops the latest in body armor to protect them! (See the video below)

Not to mention the scandal concerning Walter Reed Hospital and our injured veterans, nor the recent attempts by Bush and his fellow travelers in the republican party to limit benefits to our troops!

In this era of licentious permissiveness where the effete snobs of corporate America do business with Iran, trading valuable technology that can be used against our brave troops, the time has come for the Republicans to learn the lessons of history! Profit must not be allowed to come before our troops!

Yet George Bush, John McCain and their fellow travelers continue to attack Barrack Obama for saying he would first “talk” to Iran. Apparently it is alright for Halliburton to have a subsidiary in Iran while it profits from the War in Iraq and General Electric was not stopped when they sold valuable technology to Iran! The type of “talking” that benefits the effete snobs of the “Corporate Class” is perfectly permissible to John McCain and his mentor George Bush!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority, our Middle Class to stand up and say NO to those who say politics ends at our shores but corporate profits do not!

Barrack Obama said today that our children should learn to speak Spanish! Well why not my grandparent’s language which was Italian? Why the racism that puts Spanish over my grand parent’s native “Italian? My grandparents insisted that no one should learn Italian until the fourth generation as our family would then have been totally assimilated! I am sick and tired of the RACISM that every American is subjected to when we use an ATM machine.

“Press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish”!

Excuse me Senator Obama this is America! My grand parents had to learn English, and they were legal, why should we be subjected to this RACISM that makes Spanish the equivalent of our national language? (See Video below)

I remember when Hilary Clinton was considered the inevitable candidate to win. However the issue of then NY Governor Spitzer’s desire to grant driving licenses to illegal aliens came up in the debate! Hillary Clinton did the classic double speak and she went downward from that movement forward. I believe Barrack Obama has meet his Waterloo if Republicans sieze on this! But then again John McCain wants to fight a one hundred year war while our borders remain wide open and his corporate friends profit from cheap labor!

I do not blame the ILLEGAL ALIENS in our midst for this bi-lingual crisis. The problem lies with an unholy coalition of business interests, some Hispanic political groups and the Roman Catholic Church. I would even grant illegal aliens amnesty so long as:

1. It is called that and not “earned citizenship” as it is not earned when my family in Italy has to wait while these illegal’s cross and break our laws doing so!
2. The borders are locked down and certified as such by a committee headed by Lou Dobbs!
3. Those who hire illegal aliens are prosecuted!
4. English is declared the “Official” language of the United States with special status accorded to Native American Languages!
5. No ballots are printed in any language other than English and no one would be eligible to take the naturalization oath until they can read, write and speak fluent English!

I believe Americans demand an end to the racism that propagates this bilingualism over the culture of other ethnic groups that have come to this country! Senator Obama had better wake up and stop this elitism! He has shown great promise now he seems to be undermining his candidacy! By the way I am a liberal Democrat who was first for John Edwards then for Barrack Obama! But I am 100% percent against “politically correct liberalism”! Senator Obama’s statements give me pause to reconsider supporting him!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of PC Liberalism on one side and Corporate Collectivist Republicans on the other!

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!

I am a supporter of Barrack Obama and voted for him. I find his affiliation with Pastor Wright to be very disturbing. Taken in conjunction with Obama’s wife’s remarks some weeks back concerning “finally being proud to be an American”, my support of him has waned greatly. If my family attended a church where the pastor damned America we would not only leave but leave loudly! Who cares that he married you and baptized your kids? My parents left the church they were married in. Their Lutheran Pastor ran a church that did most services in Norwegian.

While my parents held nothing against this immigrant parish they did not want their children raised in a foreign language speaking congregation. However let me make it clear that this Norwegian Lutheran Church was 100% loyal to America. The members just did not know English well enough to enjoy services in English, at least not THEN! - Note if they were speaking Spanish instead would that be ok? But then again the Norwegian Lutherans now speak English and my bank ATM does not say “press 2 for Norwegian”!   -  Just a side thought.

Listen to Pastor Wright above and then check out his fellow traveler in the Christian right from the Westboro Baptist Church below who also hates America but for conservative reasons. When we re-examine Senator Obama’s wife’s remarks about America in conjunction with his Pastor’s remarks, I as a prior Obama voter have to thank God for Super Delegates!

I think when the dust settles from this Senator Obama is going to wish he were mainstream Muslim as that would be more acceptable to mainstream America rather than a member of a HATE America (so called) Christian sect. Yes I understand you can have a close relationship with a pastor. My family did. But not when the pastor preaches hate America. In addition this Church is not a liturgical Church where the sermon takes second place to the Sacraments.

The sermon is the core of the church service in a non-liturgical church. Thus one has to wonder about Barrack Obama’s judgment if he continued to maintain a relationship with Jeremiah Wright and his church!

As a member of a liturgical Church (Anglican) where the sermon is less important, I would still walk out of my parish if the priest said “God Damn America”!

Pastor Jeremiah Wright may have brought Barrack Obama to Jesus but one has to wonder what type of Jesus he brought him to! Perhaps the same Jesus as ultra conservative Fred Phelps of West Boro Baptist Church in the video above! By the way Obama is half white! Look at both Obama and his Pastor! Doesn’t Pastor Wright look like he is three fourths WHITE! Really check him out he is could be called “Pastor Bleach”!

Could this be some type of self hate by Pastor Wright for being half or more White?

I personally don’t like Spitzer as Governor though he did a good job as Attorney General investigating Wall Street. Unless he used state money I believe he should not be forced to resign. Putting this on the nightly news was appropriate but he did not do anything that Bill “Bubba” Clinton did not do.

Well Bill Clinton did balance the budget and this frugality even touched his sex life! He did not let sex interfere with him doing his job in the oval office even if an intern was doing a “FREE” job on him! Elliot “John” Spitzer apparently spent thousands of dollars on his extra-marital flings! But then again he wasn’t preaching “family values” though he did go after prostitution rings. Elliot next time balance your budget! - GET AN INTERN!

I don’t take this lightly but the real issue is how his wife and family view him and his acts. He screwed his wife not the people who elected him! While I wonder about some of his political activities that made the news in the early part of his administration, I do not believe we are the ones to punish or forgive him. That is his wife’s arena!

Perhaps we should all say:

• Bad Bad Bad Governor!
• You naughty naughty naughty boy!

For penance he should be locked in a bathroom stall next to Senator Larry Craig! while Rosie O’Donald sings the national anthem!

I fully sympathize with the Bhutto family concerning the death of the former Prime Minister Bhutto. But she cannot “will” the leadership of a political party or that of a would be democratic nation to her son! I find his statement below almost laughable.

The best revenge is “democracy” but party leadership is achieved by internal party elections not a “political testament” from mommy! True the former Prime Minister was the heir to her own father but a college freshman cannot lead a nation that has nuclear weapons and claims to be a democracy!

Well gosh golly that must be one of my silly American bourgeoisie middle class hang-ups!

Do you remember the laughs we had some years back when some Christian fundamentalists groups objected to bar codes on grocery items as this was a mark of Satan? The joke was, “They see Satan everywhere”! Well it seems NBC News saw the “Cross” in a recent Huckabee Commercial where he wishes all a “Merry Christmas”! This reminds me of the “Anti-Masonic” Conspiracy theorists who see strange Masonic symbols in the street map of Washington DC.

Brian Williams should take a nice deep breath and just relax! I am an Episcopalian not a Baptist. But I do know that many Baptist Churches don’t even place crosses on their steeples as per the anti-imagery demand of the Ten Commandments. NBC should note that book cases usually do have right angles! Yes it is true! Perhaps this is an example of the Freudian defense mechanism of “projection” and a need to “punish” Governor Huckabee for not conforming to the negative stereotype of a devout Christian. That is to say that having a book case implies that Baptists actually read! What next NBC, did you do a close look at his book case! Maybe there was a “Bible” in his living room bookcase!

Did you notice Huckabee was wearing a “Red” sweater?

• Was the red just an accident or was it because that is the traditional color for Christmas? (Oh my God).
• No wait was his sweater red because he is a Red State Republican?
• Perhaps a more cynical view is that Huckabee is a Christian Communist! After all Fred Thomson said Huckabee is a closet liberal! What better way to undermine America than to hide a communist RED wolf in sheep’s clothing?

What next NBC? Are we going to play Huckabee’s ad backwards and see if we hear a message saying “Mitt Romney is dead”! For those of you not old enough to understand this humor, back in the 60’s the Beatles produced a song, that when played backwards, produced a audio message “Ringo is dead”!

Here is an EXCLUSIVE item that the news media has not even picked up on!

Did you notice the “anti-Unitarian” twist to Huckabee’s ad? That’s right just look next to the “Cross” and you will also notice “THREE Christmas Balls” with the cross! What are they doing there? Clearly this a battle call for “Trinitarian” mainstream Christians against both “Unitarians” and even Mormons! The latter believe God also has a wife who is the “Divine Mother”. Thus Mormons are not trinitarian! Is this ad a sinister “In Hoc Signo Vinces” subliminal battle cry to Gov. Huckabee’s core Christian Right constituency? What next?

Let’s join NBC in their paranoia! What about some computer programmers who produce those notorious hidden joke messages in their programs? Now what are those things called?

Oh yes they are called “EASTER EGGS”! Oh my God a sinister Christian Conspiracy!

Mitt Romney gave an excellent speech in Iowa concerning the relationship of Church and State. In prior posts I was critical of his political flip flops and still am. However in this post I want to focus on his speech concerning religion and freedom. Romney’s speech was beyond excellent in this 60’s hippie’s opinion! I am not an atheist but still break out the old 1960’s style incense and practice meditation! Like Romney I am religious but not mainstream! But there are issues here to be addressed.

When I was a teen in the 1960’s prayer was banned from our schools. In my senior year in high school we used the auditorium for the whole senior class as our home room. Our high school principal went around the prayer prohibition by making us say (not sing) the words of the last stanza to the song “My Country tis of thee”. As this occurred, almost every day it seemed, some in the class refused to rise but sat during the recitation. They would then be literally dragged out screaming and kicking to the words below! Somehow the word “freedom” in the prayer below just did not seem right!

Our father’s God to thee.

Author of Liberty to thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright,

With freedoms holy light

Protect us by thy might

Great God our King!

My religious beliefs are anything but conservative. I have a separate website (rather neglected) concerning my liberal off beat religious beliefs.

www.AquarianFreeThinker.Com

With the above in mind, even though I never want any atheist to have to endure alienation at school or in the political sector, I believe this nation needs to retain some sense of “Divine Providence”. This is a term that I feel is traditional yet free of particular churches. The problem is if you throw God all together out of public life you make the nation “atheist”. Like Mitt Romney, I follow off beat religious beliefs and his speech moved me greatly! If you did not hear it you can see it below.

Some commentators did not like Mitt Romney’s saying that he believes in separation of Church and State while he also added, “I will not separate us from God who gave us liberty.” If you listen to the You Tube video above you will note he believes that religious symbols should not be removed from the public square especially for holidays. Mitt Romney also spoke how some in this nation want to throw the Divine out of all aspects of public life.

I do not want to divest atheists, nor require a religious test for them to run for public office. However I applaud Mitt Romney fully! I am tired of the “more rational than thou” attitude by some of my own fellow liberal Democrats! I am tired of atheism being asserted as our national religion! I would not require anyone to pray but I do support nondenominational public prayer when Congress and the Supreme Court start their sessions.

Now I am really going to do it folks. Yes I even support the recent act by the Governor of Georgia to publically pray for rain! So long as the prayer is inclusive I support it. What I do not support is Governor Huckabee talking like Pat Robertson! I get scared when I hear folks say “The Lord told me…….”. Cool aide anyone?

One final thought by this Non-PC liberal Populist Democrat who was a 60’s college hippie and should know better but:

Have you noticed that as our society took God out of the public square and out of our class rooms the drug pushers and drug addiction came in?

YES THIS IS A LIBERAL TALKING FOLKS. Back to Mitt Romney! Beyond excellent speech Gov. Romney! Now do you believe water boarding is torture? No that is not “just” a political question but also a religious one!

Yes I am a Democrat and a progressive liberal. But I am glad to see that our military has successfully tested another instance of Star Wars technology. This time it was from the ocean against two incoming missiles and both incoming missiles from outer space were destroyed! Yes I am against the War in Iraq. But I am for taking aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life against the bad guys out there! This may come as an Inconvenient Truth to some of my fellow Democrats, but there are people out there who do not care what kind of karma they are sowing!

Life has more than two choices! One can be against the “War in Iraq” yet still support aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life! Oh dear now I did it! Am I part of the Military Industrial Complex? Hell no they don’t even exist much anymore! Those companies have turned into CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS. They are now transforming themselves from “American” corporations into “Multinationals”. They ship our jobs and technology overseas, frequently even to the enemies of freedom for the buck! It seems no one is minding the store anymore!

Politically Correct liberal Democrats are to busy apologizing to the enemies of America! Republicans see things differently! Republicans see the enemies of freedom and our way of life not as enemies but as “Investment Opportunities”! These Cut and Run Capitalists don’t care about “Port Security” but rather “Portfolio Security”! Halliburton’s CEO now has his headquarters in Dubai.

You remember Dubai! That’s the nice country our CIA asked to stop a shipment of centrifuges that was routed through their port to Pakistan! But Dubai would not comply. Now Pakistan has nukes and is about to meltdown with Al Qaeda at home in Pakistan’s mountains. So how did the Republicans react to Dubai? Why they wanted to let these nice folks in Dubai have control of our major ports! Thank God the Silent Majority of this nation said “NO” to Bush and his fellow travelers!

Well at least Bush pushed for the testing of an Anti-Missile Defense system. Problem is they want to place it in Eastern Europe where it gives political ammunition to Putin. Most Europeans don’t want this system! Even worse, look at the message Bush sends to Iran! We say we will not tolerate Iran having nukes but then that is the whole presupposition to building this system in Eastern Europe, that Iran will have nukes!

What is this masochism that both political parties seem to exhibit? Politically Correct Democrats argue against a missile defense system saying it is too difficult. Yet these same folks were arguing some years back for the creation of massive orbiting solar collectors that would beam a concentrated beam of energy back to receiving stations on earth. God help us if the angle was thrown off by just a fraction! Strange you can shoot a Star Wars type concentrated beam down to earth but not up at an incoming missile! Are we to return to the days of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) when China rises to a global nuclear power? China could even be an enemy if she turns democratic as her population is so large and their middle class is growing. They will also want access to Middle Eastern oil. Isn’t it time we develop, on a massive scale, some sort of alternative energy? We must place “National Security” over “Corporate Security”. We need to see things beyond the “liberal - conservative” dichotomy!

In this 21^st Centruy, rugged individualism is being threatened by the Neo-Collectivists of the Corporations. They place their corporate profits over the national interests even divesting themselves of their American identity. Guess who will discover their “American” identity when there are profits to be made in the build up against China? The very peril that they helped to create they will seek to profit from! The “Programmer’s Guild” has sent an alert to it’s members concerning an amendment to a Border Security Bill that would raise the number of H1-B Visa holders. Thus destroying further Middle Class jobs and dreams in the interest of the Cut And Run Capitalists! What jobs these Collectivists cannot ship overseas they will undermine at home. Thus even the recent success of our anti-missile system is undermined by the loss of our technological advantage!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class, to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of the corporate class! These same effete snobs who want to reduce our Middle Class freedoms to serdom in the Neo-Collectivist dream of Multi-National Corporationism! They scream at Universal Health Care and “Fair Trade” they prefer we surrender our Middle Class dreams to sing their new Multi-National Corporate Internationale! I say no! God Bless America!