Get Your Nuts Here

The older I get, the more I realize that pretty much everyone is out to get you.

Including god.

Well, maybe she's not, but the people who claim to represent her sure seem to like having a firm grip on you.

The latest round of this country's screwball obsession with things religious has to do with consistently tasteless stuff Barack's preacher likes to say when he's getting people riled up.

Contrary to where you might think I'm going, I could care less what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks about anything. He's a harmless sort of fellow who's probably had a net-positive effect on the city of Chicago, despite or because of his little eccentric streak.

I never fail to be amused, though, when one "believer" tells another that a certain preacher is crazy.

So let's get this straight. A bunch of people who believe that they are eating the actual flesh, and drinking the actual blood of some dude from 2000 years ago think that that colored feller in Chicago is off his rocker for comparing the headcount caused by our dropping of the bomb on Japan to that on 9-11.

But the people I really have a problem with, as usual, are the jackals in the Clinton campaign who are almost certainly behind the videos circulating today of the Rev. Bill knew what he was doing when he pushed some racial buttons in South Carolina but, as has been noted here and elsewhere, the Clintons learn from their mistakes. Making the claims themselves turned out to be costly. So this time, the movies are mysteriously showing up in media outlets today without clear attribution. Methinks the Nomination Fairy left them.

The Second Oldest Profession

Ronald Reagan used to have a line to the effect of, 'They say that politics is the world's second-oldest profession, but the longer I'm in it, the more I understand its similarities to the oldest.'

No reasonable person can argue that people running for office, particularly the highest office in the land, have to whore themselves out, but Giuliani's Robertson endorsement really puts the nail in the coffin.

I don't have a particularly hard time dealing with rational people of faith who like to speak about their faith publicly. I don't mind that they argue for, for instance, public support of religious-based organizations offering certain social services. While I am no legal scholar, I think it's hard to justify Medicare payments to religious hospitals or student loans to people attending religious colleges. Reasonable people can disagree on these points and it's worth at least debating.

But Robertson is an outright nut. His decision to demonize members of our society and encourage assassination of foreign heads of state, while cloaking it in religion, sickens me.

He has every right to his opinions and to mobilize his flock to vote in lock step with him.

But I really get turned off by the pols who kiss his holy ass.

Unfortunately, this was a big power grab for the Rudy campaign and it's going to pay off for him big time.

Now I'm off to search on Monster for jobs in Canada.