McCain for President — of Russia!

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.

Change.org – News & Discussions.

I guess when I get disgusted about McCain’s neanderthal attitude toward the fairer sex, I should take some consolation that it could be worse. Apparently there are countries where women have no legal recourse against the most offensive workplace behavior. The above article from change.org shocked me when I learned that the judge in this matter did not say that the plaintiff failed to prove her case. On the contrary, she WAS harassed but that is just part of the male procreative process and therefore completely legitimate.

Of course, I suppose if McCain were asked about this Russian incident, he’d reply that we Americans need to get a sense of humor. That was his attitude when Hillary was referred to as a bitch in his presence. He’s taken the same approach with the detestable book by Jerome Corsi that has just been published.

We all just don’t know funny when we see it.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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John McCain – Biker-in-Chief

In his latest bid to look presidential, John McCain told an enthusiastic biker gathering in South Dakota:

As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day.

I’m sure this greatly increases Germany’s anticipation of his election. McCain – a true statesman!

Considering this quote plus his endorsement of his wife for Miss Buffalo Chip, I can see McCain one day following in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy, addressing a German crowd with the immortal words:

Ich bin ein sexist motorradfahrer!

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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The Obama-Moses Ad: God is Dead

Last week we entered Silly Season in presidential politics with the McCain campaign publishing two ads that look like audition tapes for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote an op-ed on Saturday discussing the black man, white woman taboo exploited by the Britney Spears ad. To the modern eye (including mine) this subtext went completely unnoticed but to the American bigot who has not emerged from the pre-civil-rights era, the message was there, albeit subliminal. On “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, David Gergen made a similar analysis, this time citing the “Obama thinks he’s Moses” ad and indicating that the message clearly understood by traditional southerners is that Obama is an “uppity” black man.

I don’t need to go to those arguments. Lots of reasonable people didn’t see what Gergen and Herbert saw. I did see one thing that I am shocked no one else is talking about. The Obama as “The One” campaign ad is an affront to faith. I am not religious, but if I were, I’d be insulted by this ad. The ad says that the high aspirations, lofty goals and faith that we can have a better society, represented in Obama’s soaring rhetoric is a joke. It is something to be mocked. In attempting to ridicule Obama, they ridicule all that is positive about Obama’s message. The ad is an exercise in detestable cynicism. The ad is shorthand for “Vote for McCain because God is dead.”

The McCain campaign makes the very bad mistake of ridicule by comparison. In the Spears-Hilton ad, the comparison is odious but logical. Spears and Hilton are perceived as mindless celebrity burnouts. The implication that Barack is a fad, soon to burn out, is obvious. However, in the “Moses” ad, Obama is compared to Moses who led his people to freedom with the help of God. This means either that Obama is a truly great man or that Moses himself is laughable. If we cannot believe in Obama, who asks us to appeal to our higher callings, then by extension, we have no reason to believe in God or faith in anything at all.

It is one thing for a campaign ad to attempt to destroy a man, it is quite another for it to attempt to destroy hope, idealism and the lofty goals for our country.

A man who tells us to abandon our dreams is not fit to be President of the United States of America.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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