Saturday, March 15, 2008
Surrogate Court: Pastor Problems
OK, so everybody's got pastor problems. Let's move on.0 comments
Ummmmm, can we get a little separation of Church and State goin' here, boys and girls?
Obama Disavows Pastor's Remarks
Reporters and editors are REALLY bored with this campaign season, and they are very tired, like Mary Ann Akers at WaPo. They simply don't have the energy to actually cover substantive issues anymore. It's all they can do to take peripheral things like endorsements from people who don't count or matter, and puff them up into an "Oh! Some Important Story, Boy!"
Just think: we've only got another EIGHT MONTHS of this kind of crap to go through.
Do we really HAVE to watch the rest of Jonathan Alter's hair fall out on Countdown as he continues to blow smoke? I sat and listened to him pontificate about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the candidacy of Barack Obama. Very nauseating.
OK, Gotham will explain it all for Jonathan and Mary Ann and the entire beleaguered press corps. It's very simple. Here's the skinny:
Obama:Has been endorsed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Older, VERY PISSED OFF black man, who comes from a generation where it makes perfect sense to be angry. His generation all have reasons aplenty to be very pissed; you'd most likely find many of his peers feel exactly the same way. Take Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam" and fast forward it forty years, and stick it on cable. Same buzz. Plus, Obama has been very close to Wright for over 17 years, has a close personal friendship with the pastor; Wright officiated at the Obamas' wedding. Distancing himself from Wright comes with a high personal cost and, we can only imagine, heartache.
John McCain:Endorsed by two different bat-shit crazy religious nuts, John Hagee and Rob Parsley, who think that everyone else but them is going to hell in a speedboat; who are already on-record as wanting to impact U.S. foreign policy to assist their aims; who have already deeply insulted Catholics, Jews and Muslims—who, of course, are a whole lot of people; and are actively working to foster the coming of the Rapture and the torching of everyone else but their "faithful." We assume that next on the menu for these maniacs are the Unitarians, after which they'll go after the Methodists. After that, the Lutherans are toast.
Of course, McCain doesn't believe any of this crap, mind you, he was barely paying attention during the press conferences for these whacks. McCain just wants their congregations from the Ultra-Right. In a very callous and desperate manner, he's trying to prove his Wingnut bona fides.
McCain has decided that these numbers work for him—so, his soul and his worldly self-esteem be damned.
Hillary Clinton:Has Geraldine Ferraro. While not a pastor, exactly, the Surrogate From Hell IS holier-than-thou, so Gotham feels comfortable dumping her into the vat.
As you may have gathered, none of these folks have any impact on the ongoing Republcan wars our soldiers are dying in, or on healthcare, or on the coming Depression or on the general political life of America in 2008.
So, Jonathan et al, move on! Find a substantive issue, and report it. Or go home, and take a nap!
posted by Gotham 12:52 AM
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