What the hell is wrong with Democrats?
The coverage leading into the Democratic Convention in Denver is overwhelmingly focused on a very bizarre breed—mostly former supporters of Hillary Clinton—who claim that they will not vote for Barack Obama. I just heard an NPR report on anti-war voters who now feel that Barack Obama is not anti-war enough for them. I then turned on MSNBC to find Chris Matthews talking to a group of Clintonite protesters spouting off about a “17-page congressional investigation” which found that Barack Obama had attended a Muslim school in Indonesia. (Pressed for details, it turned out that a “former Congressional investigator,” whom these psychotic bitches would not or could not name, had written this report, which claims that Obama was “registered as a Muslim” at the school he attended in Indonesia. They claim to be part of an 3-million person organization that is going to deny this election to Barack Obama by voting for John McCain. Even Matthews couldn’t resist calling them insane by the end of the segment.)
Do you really want to do this again? Do you really want to nitpick the Democratic candidate again? Have you learned nothing—NOTHING—from the last two elections? Do you have any idea how fucking childish and dangerous your behavior is? I, for one, wish there were an atheist candidate—or at least one that didn’t feel obligated to sit down and answer absurd questions from Rick Warren like “When does an adorable little baby named Johnny get the human rights that will stop a doctor from sucking him out of the womb with a combination vacuum/wood-chipper?” (What does God think about obesity, Rick?) That candidate isn’t available right now, so I have to settle for the one who only panders to the Christian right. I wanted Joe Biden to be at the top of the ticket, but guess what…HE LOST. Poor me. As it happens, the guy who won happens to be a highly intelligent, deeply progressive, liberal Democrat who is more interested in getting me health insurance than in bombing Iran.
America has looked at these two candidates and split evenly as of today, give or take a percentage point or two. Obviously Republicans are going to vote for McCain—although I’d like to think that many of them are ashamed enough to at least stay home on election day. What disturbs me to the core of my being are the so-called Independents and, even worse, the Democrats who can’t bring themselves to support Obama. I am disturbed because there is only one plausible explanation for their mindset: good old-fashioned bigotry. No clear-minded non-Republican could look at these two choices and come to the conclusion that John McCain is the man to get America off the track that 80% of Americans believe is the wrong track—unless they harbor, somewhere in their persons, a distrust or dislike of an African American man with a funny name.
If are anti-war, McCain is clearly not your man. If you are a feminist, McCain is clearly not your man. If you are pro-choice, McCain is clearly not your man. If you make less than $5 million per year (and own less than seven homes), McCain is clearly not your man. But even if you are all those things, if you don’t like black people…well, McCain might just be your man.
If high turnout among non-bigots is the only factor that can put Obama in the White House, I’m afraid that America has already lost, whether Obama wins or not.
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