Jesus hates Obama and insists you vote McCain-Palin

Wokay, having run my errands, dumped hot coffee in my lap (thank you so much to the asshole in the junky mini-pickup up who cut me off in traffic), and having listened to yet another long, totally-misses-the-point bit of white racist cluelessness on MPR, I guess I’m ready to blog. 

And then some.

I’d like to start with some items in the Strib, but that seems to be complicated by burstnet.com’s complete inability to deliver an ad from their server. Seven refreshes into my attempt, I guess I’ll just google up Ted Stevens to see what that was about since the Strib is again held hostage by overly Java-scripted ads. 

But in other local news that did load, it appears the Rev. Gus Booth has decided that his church’s longevity and IRS status is completely secondary to his deeply Republican need to unzip his morality in front of his congregation and share with them his poorly researched beliefs as to which candidate for President most accurately reflects the teachings of Jesus Christ, an historical figure the Rev. Booth seems to know very little about. [Strib]

Unlike John McCain, the Rev. Booth’s savior believed:

Jesus Says God Loves You and Is With You

Jesus Says Love One Another

Jesus States Immense Value of Each Person

Jesus Gives Good News: the Kingdom of God has Come to Earth

Jesus States Reality of Judgment to Heaven or Hell

Jesus Says God Forgives You if You Ask

JesusCentral.com

That’s not actually a precise summary of Jesus’s teachings, but I thought I’d stick with a source the Rev. Booth could agree with. Now I think it’s up to the Rev. Booth to reconcile those beliefs with Sen. McCain’s bellicose attitude towards Iran, his warmongering in Iraq, his betrayal of Afghanistan, his failure to safeguard the Treasury, and his willingness to repeatedly bear false witness.

I also seem to recall that when our side engages in civil disobedience, we usually end up getting arrested, and not always before interacting with police dogs, water cannons, tasers, police batons, etc. 

When the Left stands up to power, the establishment beats us down with all the force at their disposal. When the Right stands up, the establishment protects them, nurtures them and lets them do as they wish right up until the moment in time when they come face to face with an honest judge (something that doesn’t always happen).

The Rev. Booth is not a Christian, he is a Christianist, a vile follower of a secular path that owes nothing to Jesus Christ, and everything to Rome and the rule of law. I sincerely hope the IRS taxes the fucking bejeezus out of Booth’s little brownshirted church in the Red River Valley. That, btw, is something that most Minnesotans agree on:

And, again, this is but a temporary irritation. Eighty percent of all children raised in evangelical households quit the fucking second they come of age and move out on their own. They may remain Christian, but they seek a more mature Christianity, one based on faith and good works, not hate and bile.

Speaking of which . . . Norman Bertram Coleman and Al Franken go at it in the Strib today in one of those puzzling moments in the history of the free press where the incumbent says one thing, the challenger says another, and the other challenger gets no say. The Strib, meanwhile, refuses to arbitrate even though one of the two men HAS TO BE LYING.

Really, read the statements. Either Franken or Coleman is lying, but the Strib can’t bear to tell us which man is the fibber. How does that smell, J-School wise? Commenters divide up into the usual camps but this is just a he said/he said muddle. An “F” to the Strib for this pointless exercise in pseudo bipartisanship.

Getting back to my opening graf, Keri Miller aggressively bypassed any effort at resolving an accusation from a caller this morning on MPR when she turned over McCain’s cultural racism to a guest whose Civil Rights authoring experience permitted him to say, “I don’t see that.”

I don’t remember this turkey’s name, and frankly I don’t care who he is because I didn’t value his opinion. All I know is that growing up TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AFTER McCAIN I WITNESSED CONSTANT EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMIC RACISM, and I lived in all-white northern Iowa. McCain, otoh, was growing up in places like Annapolis and Pensacola which, back in the day, were some godawfully racist places that had very rigid rules about race and caste.

Does McCain refuse to make eye contact with Obama because he’s culturally unable to see black men as equals? Frankly, there is nothing in McCain’s history that says otherwise. 

Just for the fuck of it, I put “mccain african americans” into google images. Wow, not what I expected. 1) I didn’t realize how hard it would be to find pictures of John McCain with African Americans — I tried several google search terms with little luck. 2) LOTS of people see McCain as being racist, 3) there is a seriously large amount of racist crap online, and absent any specific denunciations by McCain, a casual observer would have to assume that he’s OK with that shit.

Wow. I’m still amazed by that search. Not only are pictures of John McCain with non-leadership type African Americans exceedingly rare, they’re usually in the context of an article disparaging his inability to work with the black community.

Related, but mostly too good to pass up, here’s a video that spells out how evolved white America’s attitudes towards race are in the 21st Century:

[h/t Ed Kohler]

There are days when I wish all the baby Jesus stories were true, and that there is a  Heaven and a Hell waiting for us. I don’t care where I go, just so long as those briar fucks aren’t a part of my afterlife. And, if it’s not too much trouble, I’d prefer to go wherever Sarah Palin isn’t, as well.

 

 

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