Mindless Tripe and Star Studded Glamour Appeal

I doubt that these will be my final comments about this particular election cycle, regardless of who wins what office.  My observations about Election 2008 are being written on the eve of a truly historical presidential election, one that will likely have a profound impact on where our nation will be headed for decades to come.

Barack Obama as our nation’s first African-American candidate (okay, he really is half white) and Sarah Palin as just our nation’s second woman vice-presidential candidate have heightened interest in this campaign, perhaps well beyond what we could have ever expected. Then again, how many of us thought that Hillary Clinton would represent the Democrats this November and that someone else, besides John McCain, would win the Republican nomination? This year has certainly had its share of surprises!

This particular election though has bothered me considerably, especially as the Democratic candidate’s obvious shortcomings have not been fully vetted by the media which has been openly supporting his candidacy throughout. What we have here is an attractive candidate, one with star-studded glamour appeal, a top notch orator — at least as long as the teleprompter is working!

But, we also have a candidate who holds some dangerous views, a person who is sending out strong signals that he’ll be spreading the wealth (your wealth) around, sitting down with dictators, and ushering in what will likely be a new era of repression not seen in this country since the McCarthy era. With the Fairness Doctrine rising up out of the dust, abortion on demand implemented across the board, and the likely appointment of at least two Supreme Court justices who devalue life, the spiritual darkness ready to descend on our land is thick and heavy. That is, if Obama wins.

My other beef with this election is the mindless tripe I constantly find online. Certainly, online access to the news and the blogosphere have impacted the way news is disseminated tremendously, but it is clearly one-sided.

Worse, is the public’s willingness to embrace a candidate whose mantra of Change, Hope, Believe says absolutely nothing, giving warm touchie-feelies to millions of adherents. Mindless and empty platitudes combined with dangerously vapid hyperbole from a throng of hysterical supporters who you dare not cross.

On the Republican side, we have John McCain — a centrist candidate who admittedly did much damage to the conservative movement. Until Sarah Palin came along, his chances of winning the election were quite small, but by pulling in a charming, but quite unknown conservative from Alaska, his campaign received new life and the conservative base has been energized to a level not seen since Ronald Reagan was president. Credit Palin, not McCain with this energy, but I’m not about to be too hard on McCain who truly fought for our country, suffered the consequences, and has a track record that Obama can only dream of.

The media has done their best to rip apart Sarah Palin but for those of us who love our God and our nation, respect life, and prefer minimal government intervention, Governor Palin is the right tonic for a political party that has taken its lumps. True, we know of her shortcomings as we do know Senator McCain’s, but Obama (and Biden) have quite a few of their own, difficult as it has been to learn of through the newspapers, network news shows, and other sources controlled by the left.

As for me, I’ll continue to share what I believe to be important on this blog as well as on other sites that I manage. I would hope that relevant news would be disseminated by the mainstream media, but we’re not likely to see that happen regardless of who is in the White House or what political party controls Congress. That leaves this responsibility to bloggers and online journalists who have a passion for the truth and don’t want our nation to sink into one party obscurity where their thoughts are your thoughts or else!