Every morning these days, I am angry before I even get out of bed.
Why?
Because every morning I have the teevee turned to MSNBC and I listen to Mika, her fained concern and premeditated and careful cadence, an acting skill crafted and honed to give the illusion of giving an off-the-cuff narrative, but to the trained ear, betrays her allegiance to her corporate scriptmaster.
And then, before the sun rises over my town, blinking and maniacally alert African-American "Republican strategists" explain to me why Barack Obama is destined for failure and would be a disaster if elected for president. Which won't happen, so don't even get worked up about it.
But for the first time this morning my ire truly shifted. This morning I wake up to see the fascist monster John McCain't McSame McBush Part III is "rising in the polls" for his "first significant lead over Barack Obama."
FOOLS! IDIOTS! IGNORAMUSES!
For the first time in weeks my IRE truly shifted from being directed at Senator Hillary Clinton to the archaic and bumbling FOOL who sees foreign countries as nothing but target practice! A fool whose time and ability to reason have been long gone, a man who, thanks to Granny Doc, I understand has a mind that has crystallized its memories into a block of cement he would glady chain to the ankle of America and throw into the Hudson River!
This, THIS is what Americans would choose? THIS is what Americans would PREFER? Why isn't it PATENTLY OBVIOUS that if you line all these f**kers up, McCain, Cheney, Bush, etc. and so forth, all you get are the same old corporate thieves, rapists, and warmongers? They don't give a f**k about you, Joe and Jane six-pack, they just want you to go to work, vote for 'em, and be cannon fodder. And that DEMOCRATS would threaten to vote for McCain over either one of the Democratic candidates? Do these people pull their heads out of their asses much?
No, this morning my IRE shifted from that of our female Democratic candidate for president to the googly-eyed relic who needs JOE FUCKING LIEBERMAN for EDITORIAL BACKUP and moral support! And lo, how the spark'ling pundits hammer it in during an endless cycle, their hypnotizing loop, that Barack Obama did NOT in fact disown his pastor; and as I write this rough draft yet ANOTHER African-American male pundit explains to me how Obama is suffering, and will suffer, perhaps beyond repair. Oh, the hope in his eyes as he utters these words!
On the teevee the ticker scrolls, the heads bobble, pithy comments are exchanged, and as segments are wrapped up with a witticism and a smile, having come to no conclusions at all but are left aborted or like an amputee, bombs drop off in a desert to which most Americans will never travel, and President Bush sits smugly, perhaps preparing to call his bookie.
Yes, my IRE has shifted. My mother has proposed that perhaps Barack Obama is too good for our country. I propose he is not too good for people like us Kossacks, but I might agree that America as a whole is too beligerent to understand what is happening to itself. Everything is beginning to crumble around us.
I usually am angry before I get out of bed. But this morning I just woke up sick to my stomach.
Democratic leaders, get your shit together.
And on the teevee, I hear the name "Monica Lewinsky" prattled over and over again. This is how dumb it is, folks.