MAY DAY Mayday!

May First is a day celebrated worldwide, honoring workers with parades and festivities. But for Americans, this May Day demands a “Mayday! Mayday!” distress call... We are all in distress about things that used to not stress us at all…

The former press corps did not as much mind when high profile preachers and evangelists spoke out and said things that were unkind, or inflammatory about differing religions and ethnicities…

Take the Rev. Billy Graham for instance. In 1972, he was recorded in the Presidential Oval Office, on Nixon’s now infamous Watergate Tapes, talking about Jews and the media. Rev. Graham is heard saying: "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain." Then he went on to tell Nixon: "A lot of Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me, because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth, but they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them."

Well… I am glad Nixon had the temerity to tell Rev. Graham, “You must not let them know.” Or, as he might have said if it were Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “Be cool Jerry! Don’t blow our bigoted cover!”

History records that Nixon's and Rev. Graham’s cover got “blown,” but they both went on to more fame, or perhaps infamy… In November, 2004 Rev. Graham was lining up Christians by the thousands for baptism in the Pasadena Rose Bowl.. All the American Presidents since Eisenhower have called on Rev. Graham’s services and counsel…

In 2000, George W. Bush said he stopped drinking because of a bible study with Billy Graham…

Mayday!

How about the late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was an outspoken supporter of the South African apartheid government? He gave much comfort and support to staunch apartheid advocate, P.W. Botha when he was elected South African President by the white minority... After Archbishop Desmond Tutu received his Noble Peace Prize in 1984, Rev. Falwell said of the Archbishop: "I think he's a phony, period, as far as representing the black people of South Africa."

In 2002, Jerry Falwell raised $1.2 million to push President George W. Bush's agenda through Congress… Approved by Bush himself.

Mayday! Mayday!

I now call the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the witness stand...

We Americans now care about what these preachers are saying in the ears of presidents and presidential candidates... some of them, that is... We want to be sure that you, with your very divisive speech, will have little to no influence on Barack Obama who might become the next President of the United States of America…

What is your verdict “Conservative America?” “Reagan Democrats?” “Crossover Republicans?” “Libertarians?”

Should Obama be banned from the White House for consorting with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and would you be more inclined to vote for him had he joined the Rev. Billy Graham or the Rev. Jerry Falwell crusades as did Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and "The Decider?"

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

GLM

Disfellowshipping Religion From The Presidential Race

Hopefully people can see through much of what is being said in the media these days about Barack Obama and his former pastor Rev. Wright...

How does what Rev. Wright said years ago, or is saying now give insight to the mind of Obama anyway? Will Rev Wright's fingerprints leave as significant a stain on our nation as did Donald Rumsfeld's? Will they overshadow the bloody torture fingerprints of Alberto Gonzales? Now that is something real to think about for a change...

Tell all of the frightened people to take a big "chill pill." Barack Obama will not name Rev. Wright to his cabinet, but McCain just might make Rev. Hagee his "Secretary of Religious War."

Today I listened to a radio interview with Arianna Huffington as she promoted her book, Right Is Wrong. She stated that the "lunatic fringe has not only taken over the right, but has done so with the help of the media" which has become a mouthpiece for it's policies... She believes Democrats have weakly stood by and let it happen for fear that they would be labeled "un-American" for not backing republican war plans and war agendas...

She's right, since everything that is taking place these days is being dictated by the headlines, and the Democrats seem to have an energy crisis when it comes to speaking up for themselves and outing conservative journalists for not being completely truthful in their reporting...

Take today for instance. Obama issued denunciations for Rev. Wright based on the fear that media will injure his chances for his nomination if he did not do so. He had to do it to change the tone of the media's reporting... But why does McCain get to embrace Rev. Hagee and accept his endorsement without a media backlash? Where are the loud mouthed Democrats who need to be trumpeting this fact; this bias?

By the way, Rev. Wright was a pastor when he went on Bill Moyer's Journal, but since he has been making the press rounds and trying to influence the voting process, he is now a politician and fair game..

Quoting Arianna Huffington's article in today's Huffington Post: "Democratic leaders need to re-define the center of American politics." But I'll go a step further, 'Democrats need to fight back and stop being afraid of losing what they don't already own: THE WHITE HOUSE!'

As long as the public sees Democrats in a constant defensive mode rather than in an aggressively offensive one, voters will always have a sense that no-matter what republicans do or say wrong, they must be right since Democrats keep backing down...

Mr. Obama needs to kick Rev. Wright to the curb, and remind everyone that the Pope was once a Hitler Youth back in the day... Does that call the whole Catholic Church into question? He needs to expose Hillary for her double standards with her former ties to Rev. Wright, and point to the flawed theologies of Rev. Hagee, Rev. Dobson and the late Rev. Falwell. Also try throwing in Rev Ted Haggard for extra flavoring...

Mr. Obama needs to remind the public that it was not Rev. Wright who got us into an illegal war in Iraq; a war that both Hillary and McCain voted for... He needs to remind the public that foreclosures are at record highs, and the dollar is at a record low ALL due to failed republican policies... and he needs to say it with A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-Y! Fight them tooth and nail because the public seems to respect politicians who fight for their true beliefs regardless to their outcomes... How else can you explain George W. Bush winning the presidency twice?

The media would go Democratic if there were more Democrats with the guts of Rep. Jack Murtha or Sen. Jim Webb who will show their political teeth, or the politically incorrect Rep. Maxine Waters who would expose a republican lie faster than George Bush would tell the truth...

The media hooked onto republicans because they were/are the most outlandish and the most aggressive. Republicans forced themselves on the American people similar to the Nazis forcing themselves on the German people... Republicans systemically took over all vestiges of government and the federal court system, while infiltrating the media with their partially false neoconistic propaganda and spinmeisters...

Due to the present state of our Union, Democrats have better than a 50/50 chance at regaining the White House, and restoring a veto proof Democratic Congress.

Time for the Dems to shine a beacon light on the truth, and do it regardless to what their poll numbers say... As my mother says: "Truth always rises to the top..."

GLM