Ayers/Dohrn – C’mon Get Happy!

Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist (say it with me) and Barack Obama’s “family friend,” and his equally unrepentant wife, “lawyer” (she doesn’t have a law license, she’s a criminal, duh) Bernadine/dette Dohrn, were interviewed on Democracy Now, and, boy! was it an eye-opener.  For one thing, the reason they are “unrepentant” is that, according to them, they didn’t do anything.  At least, nothing everybody else wasn’t doing too.  It was the sixties, man!  Everybody was against the war!  What they don’t say, is that everybody was against war, period, not “the war” per se.  War is a major buzz kill, dude, and in the sixties and seventies, it was all about the buzz.  Everybody wasn’t setting bombs, either.  Some people were sticking flowers in National Guardsmen’s rifles and not taking the brown acid at mega-concerts.  But, I digress.  Anyway, after listening to the Ma and Pa Kettle of bored rich kid activism spin their revised history Fractured Fairy Tales, I am now convinced that these two spent their fugitive years underground as roadies for the Partridge Family.  Perfect cover, and, after ‘74 when the show went off the air, they could keep all the drugs and Boone’s Farm they scored for themselves.  Remember, the Weather Underground was involved with getting drug guru Timothy (Come Together) Leary out of the country after his escape from jail on (trumped up) drug charges.

C’mon get happy.

The Sexist, Racist, Happy, Hopey, Change Reality

We are a nation of schizophrenics.  Not in the clinical sense; in the popular culture definition sense of happily holding dear diametrically opposed views at the same time.  We are tolerant bigots who elect a black man president while the majority of black voters vote down a gay rights measure.  We support equal rights for all, except when it’s inconvenient.  All men are created equally superior to women.  We champion religious freedom for those who believe as we do.  Those who don’t, have no place at our table.  That’s just who we, as a nation, are.  Deal with it.

At the forum shown in the following video clip, whenever and wherever it was, a panel of men discuss sexism against women in this year’s presidential election.  Seriously.  One of them, outgoing DeaNC chairman Howard Dean, makes clear the case that racism trumped sexism in the Democratic primaries, unfairly marginilizing Hillary Clinton, and trvializing the concerns of women who supported her as fervently as black Americans embraced the historic nature of Barack Obama’s candidacy and ultimate election.  Not that Dean admits personal culpability, no siree, Bob.  Everybody hated his neutrality, according to him.  Somehow, the fact that he has been actively involved with Barack Obama since his Democracy for America (formerly Dean for America) tapped him as one of Dean’s Dozen in 2004, and whose 50 state strategy, DFA grassroots mobilization, and internet fundraising model was used to help him get elected to the Senate and the presidency, just didn’t happen to come up.

The Associated Press tells us that since Barack Obama’s election without Dean’s active participation, (that Florida and Michigan thing was not Howard’s fault as head of the DeaNC) hate crimes abound:

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

Yet, who can forget the Asheville, North Carolina grade school teacher, Diantha Harris, intimidating children for supporting John McCain?

Then there’s the Sarah Palin thing.  Just like nobody but Hillary supporters cared about “Bro’s Before Ho’s” t-shirts, “Sarah Palin is a cunt” t-shirts were perfectly fine with most Democrats, it seems.  And it’s okey-dokey to hang Palin in effigy, doing so might raise the ire of some neighbors and other rabid feminists, and eventually garner attention from the authorities, but hang Obama the same way and expect to get arrested, pronto.  Everybody knows hanging a black man is worse than hanging a white woman. Sheesh, even the L.A.County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said so:

Whitmore said that potential hate crimes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If the same display had been made of a Barack Obama-like doll, for example, authorities would have to evaluate it independently, Whitmore said.

“That adds a whole other social, historical hate aspect to the display, and that is embedded in the consciousness of the country,” he said, adding he’s not sure whether it would be a hate crime. “It would be ill-advised of anybody to speculate on that.”

You’re not supposed to take communion if you’re Catholic and voted for Obama, but 53% of Catholics voted for him anyway, even though the president-elect currently has no church affiliation himself at all at this time.  His rival, John Mccain, couldn’t get the Evangelicals in his party to spit on him if he was on fire, he got 6% less than George Bush of the ones who bothered to show up.  And most of them voted for Sarah Palin, even though McCain claimed to be just as fervently pro-life.  Maybe it was the confusion about just what religion he belonged to that bothered people.  Black churches celebrated Obama’s victory, even though some sources say black churchgoers are more conservative than whites.  It certainly seems that way when it comes to homosexuality.

Yep, we like our prejucices, and do not believe for a minute that whichever one we like the most is nearly as bad as the one you prefer.  Let’s face it, the only use we have for “honest” discussions about various forms of “feel good about yourself by putting down others” hate, is when it comes to assigning blame for our problems to somebody else.