PERHAPS IT'S WHAT THEY WANT

The silence of the right after General Patraeus warned about the dangers of an ignorant, southern, white church holding a Koran Burning assembly on September 11th makes me wonder if they might just want the resulting anger and retribution from the Muslims of the world.  Those who have read 1984 know the campaign of eternal war is one of the ways of keeping a society in line.  Plus, America is really good at trading out hate groups.  Oh, we can handle several at a time but they are on a tiered basis.  Right now, I'd say the top three in order are Muslims, Brown people and Gays.

I'm so sick of hate. I'm so sick of hate-mongers hiding behind freedom of speech with no impediments as they spew their venom and propagate unfounded fear to low information or uneducated members of our society.  They know it works. Put a lie out there and that's the first piece of information people hear.  All the arguments to the contrary, including a confession from the liar that he/she "misspoke" does no good.  The lie is out there and has already been accepted by those thirsting for a reason to justify their prejudice and hatred have taken it to heart and are off to the races.

We need a movement.  We need to get off our asses like we did when I was a kid in the 60's.  Sing, yell, protest, march...not this Glen Beck bastardization of a rally but real discourse and instead of "Hell no, we won't go" (as was the chant during the Viet Nam war) we need to stand against the party of "NO" and shout "HELL YES...WE VOTE YES!"

Obama is not perfect and the great communicator is too often a professor.  That's because he's really, really intelligent and makes the mistake of thinking that the the American public is also intelligent.  When he says that I cringe because I know it to be nonsense.  However, the man has worked virtual miracles with an economy and two wars and more disaster than faced any president since the 1930's.  So will I stand with him and will I vote?  HELL YES!  Enthusiasm be damned.

They say we lack enthusiasm as Democrats.  Well, I have lots of enthusiasm for my Congressman, Ed Perlmutter and will work my butt off to get our house district Candidate, Rhonda Fields elected and I will vote for Michael Bennett. My enthusiasm for him is not what I'd call over the top but, by God, he is Jesus walking on water compared to "Conservative Ken Buck" for God's sake. I'm also sending money to individual candidates across the country. I know $5 isn't much but if everybody sent $5 just think of the grassroots campaign these people would have.

Don't count us out in the election.  As to the book burners...this idiot pastor actually used the non-word "tragical" to describe the idea of a soldier dying because of their church's actions.  I think we ought to raise billboards in this country saying "America loves ALL PEOPLE OF ALL BELIEFS."

We need to shout about how many of us are just fine among our Baptist, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Mennonite, Jehovah Witness, Buddhist, Methodist, Wickin, Presbyterian, Hindu, Church of God, Unitarian, Baha'i, Quaker, Mormon, Agnostic, Amish, and Atheist neighbors.  I'm sorry, I know I skipped a bunch but in the interest of making the point, I hope you'll forgive me, I didn't intend to slight anyone.  Not that an Amish person would even be reading this, but you know what I mean.

And if we're not just fine among all of these, then we'd better get fine.  It was why the Pilgrims came here.  Freedom of religion.  Contrary to all the voices who say this is a "Christian" nation, this is a nation that was founded upon the freedom to practice every faith without persecution.

And, yes, it's in the Constitution.

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