I received a forward about Barack today:
My fellow Americans:
As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and fi guratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote in the primaries, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me.
Thank You.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
I lament the reality of politics: we commit to a two party system out of fear that the candidate we are more afraid of might take office.
To be frank, I don't find any of the slights to be substantive; prima facie, they are not necessarily reasons not to vote for him.
What is the number one most compelling reason to vote for Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.?
He will talk to our enemies. Our tendency to brand our enemies as terrorists or insurgents, and the subsequent policy of not "negotiating" with them is horrifying to our enemies and potential enemies. The first principle taught in negotiation is that you must separate the problem from the people, then focus on the problem. When we refuse to talk to them, it is sending the message, "We don't want to talk about the problem, we just want you dead." That is a terrifying message that does not provide enough leeway for us to win over the hearts and minds of our enemies. They are compelled by the fight-or-flight reflex because our policies preclude the possibility to settle it like civilized people. It is extremely counter-productive to conflate people and problems; it is foolish, expensive, and inevitably not in our best interest to attempt to kill the people rather than talk through the problem.
The above is the complex modern explanation for the beautifully simple principle, "Turn the other cheek." Organizations (such as Nations, "terrorist" groups, etc.) are macro analogies for people, and all of the principles that work best in interpersonal relations also work best in international or other inter-organizational relations.
The prudent action is to discontinue failed policies and strive for peace by following the simple and vastly misunderstood example of that dude from the first century A.D. named Jesus. "Do to others as you would have them do to you." I certainly wouldn't want to be hunted down like a dog. Would you?
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