No, it isn't Malcolm X. Jimmy Carter right now is the most hated man by the right wing, who by their own statements ARE America. This morning Jimmy Carter said that America was still a racist country and that many who attend these right wing rallies are motivated by racism against the idea of a Black President. Often they paste Obama's face on other pictures, like an African witch doctor. And of course they say he's really a Kenyan citizen and he "hasn't produced his real birth cirtificate". Even Judy has hopped aboard this band wagon. But then there is the idea mentioned by a caller to the Ron Reagan show that "the thing they hate most about Berock Obama is that he is half white and half Black. It's this mixing of the races they object to. Another idea that isn't as often stated as a reason for not liking Obama is that he is from the poor inner city. He is the first one of those candidates we have had in a long time. Of course we've had poor frontiersmen such as Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. (Though if I were a Cherokee, I'd have just as soon that Jackson stuck to fighting the British rather than destroy Cherokee culture) This whole idea of racism against Obama is an idea on my mind throughout the previous two postings, almost on a subconscious level. Carter says he knows about the South and how they often use euphamisms for "nigger" rather than just come out and say it, but also this racism has now spread to other parts of the country. Some like Ruch Limbaugh seem to almost put forth the idea that merely being born Black automatically makes you a racist. Rush Limbaugh is much more of a reactionary flame thrower than he used to be when I listened to his show fifteen and twenty years ago. I can't say for sure just what has made him so bitter. People used to say that it was the "uppity Nigger" they were afraid of, like a Sydney Portier type. But President Obama is the farthest thing from that. This reality that a large portion of the US Population does not respect or even aknoledge Obama as President of the United States I find disturbing. I think the President has to address this racism somehow, but I am fresh out of advice as to just how he can best do that.
Jimmy Carter already had three strikes against him before this latest incident. First of all he was a victum of Paul Volker's economic activity at the Federal Reserve who jacked up interest rates way up, thus feeding inflation and giving our economy the worst of both worlds. The same thing would have happened to Ronald Reagan were he elected in 1976. Strike two is the Iran hostages and that botched rescue mission of April of 1980. One preacher has even alluded to demonic activity botching this missing. The rescue hilocopters ran into a fierce sand storm. The third strike against Jimmy Carter are these new charges of being an anti semite, because of that recent book he wrote when he said that Israel practiced apartite. Actually Carter says it was only Arabs outside the borders is Israel who were treated with second or third class status, and indeed there are Arabs within Israel that have full rights. In fact Israel is now afraid that there may be an Arab majority soon and that "We Jews will lose our Jewishness". Of course while Carter was President he brokered the Camp David accords between Begin and Sadat in 1978. Every year Chuck Smith decks out the church in black drape and declairs a Calvary Chapel day of mourning. Peace is a horrible thing when it spoils all of your plans. But of course in reality, Carter is one of the most thoughtful, moral men we have ever had as President. And no, I did not vote for Carter for President- - either time. One preacher used to spare no invective when referring to President Carter calling him "A man with more teeth than brains". Carter has done a lot of good service since leaving the office of President. But now that he has resurfaced, the Right has new-found vigor in their hatered for him. Jimmy Carter understands the problems and hardships of the Palistinians. And as you know from Rush Limbaugh, anybody who shows "compassion" instantly becomes an object for their scorn. I think if I were an Israeli citizen I'd be thinking "I have no problem with embracing the Palistinian, the moment he begins thinking like a Jew". I should amend that. It's not Jew verses Arab but rather Westerner verses Moslem. The Moslems believe in Jihad or a struggle to the death. The idea of compromize or co existance is culturally alien to them. As you know the Federation in my writings has much the same view of warfare. We need a bridge. Someone to span the cultural divide. It is my prayer that Jimmy Carter will continue to meet with both sides in the Mideast conflict.
Despite what Mike Harrison said today, political civility has never been in a worse state. I would not have mentioned Joe Wilson at all except for something I just heard today, and that is that he has used his outburst during Obama's speech to rally the forces of hate, and in the past few days has raised over a million dollars. It is a most disturbing thing when negativity drives a political group. That's what they feed on. In the movies they used to talk about savages in other lands that feed on fear, hatred, suspicion and ignorance. But I never thought we'd be facing these same forces here. The atnosphere for constructive conversational exchange and honist debate - - is hopelessly poisoned. The media needs to acknoledge this current reality.
And now we have this Bauccus health bill without a public option. I think this is the bill sponsored by the "gang of six" with three republicans and three conservative democrats. Of course on the "Frangela" radio program today, they said that insurance premiums have gone up 89% since 2002, and that the profits of the top ten health insurers have risen a whopping 427 percent! Some have offered alternatives to the public option. New York's ex mayor has talked about competetion among health insurers in different states. Others have mentioned that we routinely "over treat" patients in this country putting patients through procedures they don't need as part of "defencive medicine". Some people are afraid that is the uninsured are suddenly financially able to see the doctor that they will all become hypochondriacs. The truth is that those who are whining the loudest about the superiority of medical care in this country may well be the very ones who are running up medical costs for all of us. My first driving goal would be to put the insurance companies out of business. Once this was accomplished, a lot of the other problems would take care of themselves.
There seems to be times on soap operas where "All Hell is breaking loose". On today's episode of "Days of our Lives" we have the prospect of an unmarried teenager falsely believing that she will never see her baby again and it will be ripped from its current rich family and shipped off to a sub standard foster home. And also a husband who if he knew the truth about what his wife was doing would probably have her murdered and maybe her teenage friend murdered, as well as probably never speak to his own father again. In addition to this a woman wakes from a Coma only to learn that her long lost lover had just been murdered by her mother in law. Also two hospital employees - both quite young - may get arrested for murder - and cops and the DA realize - all too late - that they have made a horrible mistake in administering justice.
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