Posted on 5 September 2008 by Will O' in Politics
Move over Family Guy, Umeruhca’s got what it really wants: a sitcom based on the family values of genital erasure (except for the production of fast faith Christians), chuckleheaded creationism, nationalistic hubris, anti-intellectualism, and guns for one and all.
Alaska’s pistol packin’ mama, Sarah “Annie Oakley” Palin’s address to the Repuglycan convention was a winner on all counts. She’s no fool, that’s for sure. And her aim is that of a sniper. She got Obama between the eyes with her observation that he “has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform”. Lofty vision? Hell, that’s for elitist commie-sympathisers. Her feisty speech showed that Obama is not the only orator in town.
Can you imagine the anxiety and dread being felt by Hillary Clinton just now? If Sarah Palin were to pip her and be the first woman president, the humiliation would likely be terminal. Let’s face it; John McCain could easily drop dead during his first term. And taking his place? A lipstick-wearing Pit Bull who makes Mike Hukabee look like a bleeding heart Liberal.
The November election is now wide open, but if there is to be a landslide, it will be the GOP who wins it. Like most people on this woeful planet, Umeruhcans are basically conservative (a synonym for cowardly). And if they get a candidate with pizzazz, oomph and chutzpah who coincidentally believes in preserving in formaldehyde a past whose cumulative blindness has brought the world to its knees, then that candidate may well be a shoo-in.
The only thing that matters to most Umeruhcans is being able to shop at the Safeway without being shot at (and if shot at, the right to shoot back), and the freedoms their forefathers fought for, namely the freedom to switch on the television with a TV tray chock-full o’ new! improved! pre-packaged goodness.
Anything else is elitist claptrap.
So let’s sit back and watch the cartoon unfold (or unravel). No matter who wins, Umeruhca is stuffed. The trouble is, so is everyone else.
