I've had some free time this morning and reading some of the posts on the board this morning, I am left shaking my head.
So this is what it's like.
Someone says our candidate is "palling around with terrorists," and we're supposed to ignore it. Just for three weeks.
At one of the McPalin rallies, someone shouts "kill him!" likely referencing the potential murder of our candidate. And we're supposed to just ignore it. Only for three weeks.
Because we don't want to get into a "race war."
Think about the DOMA and ask yourself how and why marriage needed "defending." The conservative argument goes something like this:
Letting the gays get married will jeopardize all of our pure and holy heterosexual marriages. We've got to stop gay marriage!!!!I'm reading
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7379282">Dana Milbank's columns and I can literally feel his growing sense of horror. Now we have a growing underbelly being incited by the McPalin campaign which goes something like this:
Letting this black man become President will jeopardize our pure (white) and holy (Christian fundamentalist) nation. We've got to stop Obama!Now McPalin know that Obama isn't a terrorist or a Muslim or dangerous. Just like the anti-gay members in Congress as well as President Clinton knew that gay marriage wasn't going to do a damn thing except let two committed people enjoy the same benefits heterosexual couples currently have. But acts like Prop 8 and DOMA appeal to the worst segment of American society: stupid people who DO believe that shit. In the same way, allowing McPalin to continue to suggest that Sen. Obama has terrorist ties or that somehow "we don't really know who he is (after two years of campaigning)" without any sort of rebuttal from WE, the PEOPLE, is a mistake.
DOMA was a mistake. And it's something we need to fix. We can't cave again.
I can't imagine someone telling me that loving my fiance is wrong or repulsive and not responding. Likewise, I can't imagine allowing someone to call my future President - a fine, intelligent, caring, and good person that he has terrorist ties or doesn't love America as much as I do.
Maybe I'm wrong, here. Please talk me down.