Also, for clarification, ANYBODY from the south knows that a goober pea is a peanut.

I knew that too - but needed reminding.

Ed.

Pardon me for interrupting your deadly serious conversation and conservative love fest on our host Rick Moran’s blog. My grievous mistake, a thousand Mea Culpas, may my chest grow raw as with head bowed, my fist beats its penitent tattoo.

It was my really foolish supposition that the Web was a bit like the old time Public Square. A place for discussion, a local where minds could collide, and learn from each other… It was in that sunny square that ironic political speech was born. Or are you going to argue that Mr. Moran’s post of 06/01/08, titled: A LITTLE ALTERNATE HISTORY: ‘HOPKINS SLAMS FDR IN NEW BOOK’ is a marvelous and insightful exposition of a book describing the FDR Presidency?

In view of the fact that it is late at night, I will answer the question that the man with handle bar mustache posed:

(1) I do believe it was John McCain who apologized to the Great State of West Virginia for implying that their state population did a tab bit of “interbreedin’ ”. Obama never made such a statement, as most high school students could tell you…

(2) I do believe Mr. Moran’s finger slipped at the key board when he wrote “that we are a bunch of red state goober chewin’…(etc). There we have to go to middle school, for that age group has an affinity to body parts and body function jokes. Check out Urban Dictionary, or a Web search engine. If you are from a red state, you really do not want to chew on a goober, I do believe Mr. Moran’s magic finders meant booger… Ah yes, from such transpositions are fun bones tickled…

I remain hopeful that Mr. Moran will discuss Health Care. Surely he knows that if he drags a box into the Public Square and mentions Health Care, with a sneering glance to Hillary or Obama, he has to present some solution to the problems we face…

1. I do believe it was Dick Cheney who mentioned incest in W. VA. But that’s alright since like members of another race, all Republicans look the same to you.

2. A “goober” is a pea - as in “Eatin’ Goober Peas” which was a famous Civil War song and as in “pea brain” which describes the exact amount of gray matter you carry around in your skull. And where in God’s name you see “body function jokes” in the post above, I can’t imagine - unless your body works a little differently than the rest of us.

3. As for health care: http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2008/02/12/mandate-me-baby/

ed.

Really? He’s not even president yet and he’s already angered the Palestinians for declaring that Jerusalem “must remain undivided”. And he also recently changed (again) his policy on Iran. Now it’s indistinguishable from Bush’s. Despite what your liberal heart and mind might tell you his words and lack of experience and lack of judgment will matter more in how he’s seen internationally than the color of his skin.

Is it worth celebrating that a black man is the nominee of a major political party? Sure. But if that’s all he’s running on and he wins then we’re all in trouble.

Rick Moran on Hillary. A quote:I will fight her hammer and tongs over what will be an effort to pass national health insurance regardless of who wins in November and her other schemes. But I will do it with a new found appreciation for her tenacity and…

This is about “content of his character,” not his race, and the fact that he is being nominated by the Democratic Party speaks loudly that a lot of Americans are ready to practice what Martin L. King, Jr. preached.

Another reason I’m happy she lost.

She knew she could never seal the deal with anyone other than uneducated racist senior citizens, and so she went about deliberately trying to alienate as many Democrats and independents as possible, so that only the die-hard identity crusaders would care enough to stick around and vote. It would have been the only way for her to win.

We face unprecedented challenges. Our young creative classes are saddled with unheard-of educational debts, the housing crisis, the near-certainty that we have already passed Peak Oil, and the looming end of longstanding political / economic entitlements such as Social Security, pensions, and retirement. With that in mind, it is folly to try to reorient politics around the sensitivities of of 80-year-olds. They’ve already had their lives; they already have their homes; their children are already fed; their Social Security payments are assured. They don’t understand modern problems, and it would be little less than perverse to give them a disproportionate voice in picking the one who will have to deal with those problems. Speaking of senior citizens, let’s not forget it was McSame who actually boasted of being “a 20th-century kind of guy.”

And what’s so bad about the 50+% of Americans who live in urban areas?