I'm disconcerted with all the fabrication about Barack Obama in Sarah Palin's speech tonight. The average person will believe anything if it is said with conviction and she certainly seems comfortable in her conviction to lie, or at least tow the line of deception the Republicans want her to tow. Today on MSNBC, I heard a very profound statement by a bystander. Before she was questioned by a reporter, there had been a lot of discussion about whether Palin should concentrate more on being a mother given the fact that she is the mother of five--one with special needs. Many people passed that off as being unfair to women and questioned why they weren't asking Obama the same question. Others brought up the idea that "kids are off limits." The bystander simply ignored the situation and stated frankly that she was troubled, not by the fact that Palin had the five kids and was a working mom, but in the fact that Palin would deliberately bring national attention and scrutiny to her pregnant teen-aged daughter. I found that a very fresh approach because, I do believe, as Sen. Obama does, that children are off limits; however, this calls into question, not the daughter's discretion, but more importantly, her mother's for exposing her own, under-aged child to this storm of press and pressure. Finally, I want to make my feelings clear, and I've said it before: There is a very scary trend happening in the Republican party. When your politics is your religion is your culture, there is a problem. Separately, each evokes passionate followers but, put the three together, and you've created a deadly combination. The middle east is a hotbed of zealots, and I define zealot as those people who have embraced the concept I mention above. Our forefathers were very smart--as if they had a crystal ball to the future. They put, in to place, safegardes that keep us away from that. The current president has done all he can legally (perhaps illegally?) to march the American people closer to a very scary reality: that we are beginning to combine these things. I love my country, but I do not like it sometimes. I do not like that there is a seated president who trounces, with almost no regard, on our constitution. The Democrats have taken blows from the Republicans in office based on their religion--or lack of, according to the Republicans. It is NOT that we are not religious, it is that religion has NO PLACE IN OUR GOVERNMENT and the Democrats seem to be the only ones actually reading the documents of our country. Yes the country was founded, clearly, by a Christian population, but the forefathers knew, because of the problems with England and their state religion, that we must keep religion out of politics. People say "there are two things you should never talk about in public: religion and politics." Why? Because they are very polarizing topics about which people are extremely passionate. Sen. Obama must be clear about this. Religion in politics is shaky ground that we cannot tred. The Republicans seem to be lining up for a conga line along this ground toward governing through religion and religious ideals. We cannot. It's too dangerous.
Thanks for reading my first blog. I just had to get some things off my chest!
