Deja Moo
Bush said his administration was stronger for the presence of black officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
Which by extension means that black officials are better than white officials or Indian officials or Chinese officials or gay officials or any other sort of officials. Stronger is a relative term, and the gradations of social interactions and prejudices play into the equation very much. Do I think the administration is stronger for the inclusion of a few non-white-old-men types? Absolutely. I happen to think that both Rice and Powell are great and could be better if not, erm, in the employ of Bush. But there are a number of folks out there that absolutely discredit what either Rice or Powell say simply because they look different. And that’s dangerous. And for the most part (warning: generalization) those people are in Bush’s (and by registration, my) party. And dissent within ones’ own party does not make the administration stronger.
Not sure where I’m going with that one, but I felt like sharing anyway. What needs to be done is to get rid of illogical racism. Wow, this is turning into an ad for Kerry. But it’s not. I think the only reason I’ll be voting for him is to get Bush out of office, but then I’ll be wracked for four years by angst, doubt and guilt for getting a wholly immoral vice-President into office. Edwards made his fortune by suing doctors in dubious mal-practice suits, claiming that babies delivered by C-section were at a great risk for brain damage. This is entirely unfounded in respectable medicine and I’m really sort of wondering how someone with a degree in law (not to mention a judge with a Juris Doctorate) would even entertain the possibility that the cases were valid.
It’s really starting to bother me that everything in the news and everything in the political arena is based on FUD — Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Terrorists are going to blow us all up! But we don’t know when, how, or really why. You’ll become fat, fat, fat if you eat that dish of pasta and no one will love you! You’ll be thrown in prison for downloading a song from the internet! The music industry will collapse if you download a song! You will be personally responsible for the death of the Arts (not to mention the ensuing horrible suicides of all vocalists)! Gas prices will become unbearable! If you don’t plaster American Flags over everything you own you’ll be branded a terrorist and taken to a secret prison!
Yeah… I’m gonna put the bullshit alert level at Orange. But then again, we’ve seen all this before. Deja Moo, as they say.
