Heavens to Betsy – Obama Skips Church!

By Lindsey, PolitiPorn Religion Editor and Author of the new novel Honest Conversation available HERE

Recent reports show that President-Elect Obama hasn’t attended a
church service since the election.  This news, showing that he goes to
the gym and then stays home on Sundays, has small pockets of people
concerned.

With Deep Gratitude, Thank You

These Two Idiots, Should Stop and Thank a Veteran.

Before getting into the meat of this article I’d like to stop and thank all of the veterans out there for their service to our country.  Yes, that sincere and heartfelt “thank you” is extended to MSSC54 and The Fallen who both served this country and post here regularly.  While we disagree quite frequently, please know that we are brothers-in-arms and that tie binds us forever.

“So why the picture above PolitiPornster?” 

I posted that picture because I beleive it to be emblematic of what everyday citizens owe to our veterans.  Were we any other country, the two idiots posted above could be lined-up and shot.  But the good ole US of A was founded on many freedoms granted to citizens including the freedom of speech.  This freedom is protected by those that serve in uniform now, those that served in the past and those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Our veterans in Vietnam fought for the rights of hippies to conduct marches in our major cities and for those same hippies to accuse them of being baby killers and worse.

Our veterans fought to preserve the freedoms of all Americans, even the same idiots that would burn a Cross and spout hatred.  Even the idiots today that protest veteran’s funerals hoisting signs that say “God Hates Fags!”

Why?  Because that’s America, the land and ideals that we protect.

“How is all that crap ideals of America?”  You’re correct, those aren’t our real or true ideals but we allow even the village idiots to spout hate, stupidity and anti-Americanism.  The reason we allow it is because as Americans we are not afraid of their ignorant ideas.  America is bigger than that.  Time and time again, loonies from the far left and the far right have put forth crazy ideas that would destroy the American ideal.  Time and time again, those crazy ideas have been beaten back and overcome by the grand and virtuous American ideal.

It’s that American ideal that veterans preserve with their service and sacrifice to the country.  Never forget that, even whilst you scoff at the notion of serving in the military, curse our democracy or try to run old Glory down.  We will forever hold these truths to be self evident and we will fight to protect them.

Hail to the Bride’s Maid

We often hear the phrase “may the best man win.”  The incredible thing that shouldn’t be overlooked in the Election of 2008 is that this country didn’t have a bad choice at the top of the ticket.  No matter which man won, Obama or McCain, we were getting one of the better people this country offers in abundance.  How incredible is that? 

This election wasn’t 1988 where we were faced with Bush, Sr. and Dukakis, folks went the polls and chose a president on the principle of which dude was the lesser of the two evils.

This election wasn’t 2004 where our selection was Bush and NOT Bush.  It wasn’t Ford vs. Carter.

Nope not this time, I sincerely believe that no matter which of these great and honorable men would have been elected, our country would be the better for it. 

In the coming days, we’ll all sit back and consider how did McCain lose this election.  I still maintain that it was indeed his to lose.  Without getting too snarky, I’ll say that McCain (the real McCain) didn’t lose this election.  His only fatal mistake was being sold a rotten bill of goods from the Bushies that managed his campaign.

The folks that had built up the goodwill inherent in the McCain brand were no where to be found.  They had been tossed aside for Bushies and Rovites. The Old McCain’s brand was bipartisanship and country first.  That all got lost in the divisive message that the Bushies crafted for him.  The Maverick John McCain of the 2000 GOP Primaries would have won this election. 

Republicans had their chance to elect McCain president but they decided instead to go with the kid back 2000.  Imagine what this past 8 years would have been like under a McCain adminstration.  Really, stop for moment and contemplate that.

After 9/11, Would President McCain had asked Americans to “go shopping” like Bush did or would he have called the nation to service?  Would President McCain been talked into a war with Iraq and have his attention diverted from Afghanistan?  Would President McCain bring ill repute upon this country by setting up the gulag at Guantanomo or allowed the honor of America to even be questioned because of the use of torture?

Republicans know the answers to the questions posed above, just as any honest Democrat does.

John McCain could have gone down in history as one of the greatest presidents had he been elected in 2000.  The Bushies put a knife in his back when they destroyed his chances for that election and then they twisted that knife in 2008 by ruining his image.

Yesterday Americans rose up not just to vote for Obama, although voting for him alone was enough incentive, but Americans also repudiated the divisive politics Bush, Rove, Cheney, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly and yes, Palin.

God speed Senator McCain, I really hope to see your resurrected image soon because the country will need it.