Glass Heads and Glass Houses

Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin today announced that her 17 year old daughter was pregnant, and that she would eventually marry the father of the child. It was also announced that Palin has hired a defense attorney to represent her in an Alaska State investigation regarding allegations that she misused her state office to fire her ex-brother-in-law from his Alaska State Trooper job…

Palin’s spokesman Steve Schmidt issued this statement: "Life happens in families. I think that if people try to politicize this, the American people will be appalled by it," Schmidt said."The fact is that the American people, who are decent people, don't appreciate intrusions into the private space of good families -- of families who are dealing with real problems."

Was Bill Clinton's family dealing with a real "Lewinski" problem?

Now let’s be real… If you have been an Evangelical Republican for the last 10 years, as Sarah Palin has been, you cannot claim that exemption, “life happens,” when you miserably fail your own code of moral ethics; the same code you harshly imposed on the Clintons and others of their Democratic Party... You cannot be an Evangelical Republican, that has shown little compassion towards the poor Black unwed mothers of America, and expect to hear nothing when your own Republican-Vice-Presidential-Candidate's teenage daughter comes up pregnant with no husband…

Unfortunately, when you live in a glass house you are always repairing broken glass. It is unavoidable. Truth is we all live in glass houses. Our lives are filled with see-through panes that are easily shattered once we start throwing stones. The problem for Republicans rests in their belief that they are the only ones entitled to launch stones without return fire.

Republican policies are generally geared towards blaming the victim. They preached this false gospel that the victims of Hurricane Katrina were either being punished by God for their lack of morality, or because they were too stupid to get out of New Orleans before it was too late. Republicans threw those stones from church pulpits, and conservative talk radio shows. Those stones came back to further shatter Bush’s image and the Republicans who supported him in Congress. Pictures of President Bush and Senator McCain eating birthday cake while the people of New Orleans were drowning in 2005 eventually surfaced.

Bush is now in Texas coordinating the efforts for Hurricane Gustav victims in an attempt to make up for his Hurricane Katrina failures. But his glass house is broken beyond repair...

Republicans have shown little compassion for women issues in the last 8 years. They are run by older White males who want control over the bodies of American women by reversing Roe vs. Wade. The Republican Party has been hijacked by the “Christian Right,” therefore the Republican party has become intolerant of issues that go against what they consider “Christian Values.”

Enter Sarah Palin, a relatively unknown quantity that has risen to prominence within the male dominated Republican Party. She is the female equivalent to Alan Keyes; a token who is willing to be used by those in power who would do anything to keep power… presenting a false choice...

Apparently McCain does not realize that by selecting Palin he has exposed his own judgmental weakness. In throwing her out to the public McCain has exposed his own head, and those of the entire Republican leadership to a barrage of hard hitting questions that ask, “Is McCain fit to lead this country?” Are Republicans serious in presenting John McCain and Sarah Palin as their answer to Barack Obama and Joseph Biden?"

"Thee shouldst not throw Stones, who hast a Head of Glass thyself " [1754 J. Shebbeare from Marriage Act II. lv.]

GM

To The Moon and Back

In an age of rocket science and planetary explorations, our high water mark for American space travel is still the successful transport of Americans to the moon and back… Since, there have been noble deeds performed by American astronauts in space. But “One small leap for man. One giant leap for mankind” still trumps any machine that digs into the soil of planet Mars…

We have gone to the moon and back. We have conquered centuries old myths surrounding planet Earth’s moon. Now, we embark on a journey just as terrifying to some, and mythical to others: Electing a Black President of the United States of America…

The presidential launch of Barack Obama has potential to be one of the most spectacular events of American history, or as divisive as the Iraq War itself. It could unmask the collective American spirit for future success, or could cause the nation to consciously take a giant leap into the dark past.

Where were you when Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface of the Moon? How about when Obama won the Democratic nomination? If you were like me, you were in a state of disbelief and celebration. I was able to fully appreciate the words of Martin Luther King when he said his children would "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

It was content of character that took Armstrong to the moon and back.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, an American man, went to the moon and gave identity to a space program that began as a simple dream of mythical proportions. On June 3, 2008, Barack Obama, an American black man, won the Democratic Presidential Nomination that was once a mythical dream of his black ancestors, and gave simple hope to future generations of Americans that ALL men and women are created equal.

If Barack Hussein Obama proves himself to be worthy, then Americans of all colors and creeds should take a giant leap forward and elect him President... Character, and not his race must determine his fitness to lead.

It will be content of character that takes Obama to the White House. A feat as difficult as going to the Moon... and back.

GLM