I just don't know where to start with this.
Back in 2008 we were all treated to the lunacy of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He said some pretty stupid things, even if they weren't his words, they shouldn't have been repeated. When he had the chance to repudiate those words, he didn't. Barack Obama repudiated them, and Rev. Wright. Mr. Obama survived the right wing onslaught over someone else's words.
Well, here we are four years later, and guess what, the forces of evil are going to resurrect Rev. Wright's words and a whole other pile of bullshit.
Joe Ricketts and his bottomless supply of money are about to dump not mud, but shit all across the United States.
Want to really see who believe in "G-d damn America?" It isn't Wright, it's Ricketts.
More below.
This morning, I woke up to this story on the NY Times site:
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama
Along with the article, is the story board for a proposed attack on everything possible about the president. To call it slime, would be a complement to slime.
It starts with the Rev. Wright. It brings back the no experience crap.
It blames Obama for unemployment, a risky stimulus that did not work, the foreclosure crisis. And so on.
About the only thing this crap doesn't lie about is the spelling of the President's name.
The entire thing is being funded by Joe Ricketts, who's family owns the Chicago Cubs.
Mr. Ricketts plans on spending millions through his SuperPAC to elect conservatives and defeat the President.
Fine Mr. Ricketts, there is a piece of me that hopes you succeed and your bought and paid for assholes in office put in place all your fascist/Ayn Randian dreams. Go ahead, destroy everyone but the top 1%. You'll be next in line. You are the one who couldn't give two fucks about America. You're willing to dump a shitload of money to destroy the very people who make the economy work.
So what do to do?
Well, first, I wouldn't even watch a Cubs game- even if I was a fan- no less purchase a ticket. It would be nice to see some Cubs players come out against this tirade of insanity. It would be nice for someone to figure out how much public money is spent on the Cubs each year- special police protection, transport, etc.
The second thing is to see what Mitt does. As I sat down to write this diary, I saw this on my Twitter feed:
David Axelrod @davidaxelrod
Stunning! Will Mitt stand up, as John McCaln did? Or allow the purveyors of slime to operate on his behalf?
I cannot find the words to express how sickened I am by what the right wing is willing to do to destroy this nation. Like I said, there is a piece of me that is willing to suffer through their madness in the hope that the reaction against it- when unemployment reaches 25 or 30%; when there is no more Medicare, when Social Security is nothing more than another stock market investment; etc.
If these traitors got all that and more, then there would finally be a reckoning like there was in 1932. Just maybe then, just maybe, we could be rid of these anti-human selfish bastards. The cost might be incredibly high, but they would be gone.
One last word: Mr. Chief Justice, I hope that you get alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation that keeps you in such horrific pain that you have to first step down from your job, and it last a thousand years afterwards.