Enough Is Enough

Here's Barack Obama's 'pig' quote:

"Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. And so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out, George Bush. Except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we're going to really shake things up in Washington. That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing something different. But you know, you can't, you can put, uh, lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."

Obviously, any rational individual can see it isn't about anybody, it's about John McCain's policies and tactics.

What does the McCain campaign do? THEY LIE ABOUT WHAT OBAMA SAID. Everybody knows what is happening. Sure there are a few ignorant people who actually believe it, but all the 'Conservatives' know that it's a lie. They tell the lies so they can have a framework in which to build the appearance of a platform.

Think about this: the conservatives all know it is a lie. The ones who start the lie. The ones who pass on the lie (you've seen the emails -- try telling the sender it's a lie), and the ones who 'believe' the lie.

Here's the thing: they don't believe the lie. The lies in the system of philosophy that William F. Buckley created and has been largely hijacked by greedy people, the lies serve a fundamental purpose -- they allow reasonable people to maintain completely erroneous beliefs to achieve an end.

It gives a perception that they believe the BS -- but the problem with perception is that it can mislead. They tell themselves they believe the BS. They wink and nod and give it the eyebrow-raised you-and-me-know-what-this-liberal-idiot-is-smoking look, and pretend to know something. But they're just people. They don't know any more than the next guy. They don't have a hot-line to God. They don't even have a hot-line to Buckley.

This coat-of-many-lies has worked in the past, sometimes with a positive outcome for society. But the coat is threadbare. The lies are wearing thin. It is tedious and sad to see a great man like John McCain stoop to deceiving himself while he tries desperately to win an election in what would most likely be his last chance.

I remember when John McCain went to the dark side. Base-jumping is a description he gave John Stewart. President Bush trotted him out on Air Force One and had Mr. McCain lie about his agreement with Bush and his endorsement of George.

It was beyond sad to see McCain grovel at the feet of the man who had allowed his campaign to smear McCain about having a black child, among other things.

Let's examine that: To say that the child that the McCains adopted was an illegitimate love child. Who was black (why throw that in? to play the prejudices of the Carolina people -- PLAY THEM FOR FOOLS).

There was McCain, his family smeared, his wife, his kids . . . and he stood there and extolled the virtues of George Bush. It was like watching a slave say great things about his master.

Now, I watch McCain do the same things to Barack Obama.

Come on people -- join something. Call somebody. VOTE. Let's turn the page.

Enough is Enough.