Fear and Loathing On the Right

The bigoted wing-nuts supporting John W. McBush for president are beginning to realize Obama's 11 point lead in national polls (the lead would be double that in a better world) cannot be overtaken in the three weeks before Election Day barring an Obama meltdown. The candidate himself has even been forced to rebuke the rabble for their increasingly vituperative hatred of a half-black man that is likely to be the next president of the United States. McBush's magic bullet populist, Sarah Palin, has shot herself in the foot over "Troopergate". A bipartisan investigating committee has concluded that she abused executive power when she fired her public safety commissioner after he refused to dismiss a state trooper involved in a messy divorce with her sister. Documents recently released show her husband, Todd, had been engaged in a year long vendetta against the trooper. Unfortunately for McBush all the fear and loathing coming from the fringe right will impact negatively on his chances to become president. The latest attack is against ACORN (Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now), a liberal community action organization whose offices in Las Vegas were raided. Apparently fraudulent voter registrations forms were discovered there months ago. ACORN officials said they fired a number of workers and turned over evidence to Nevada officials after they discovered the phony forms. No actual voter fraud was committed. The GOP is attempting to tie Senator Obama to the organization since he did work for them as a lawyer in Chicago. I have nothing but praise for ACORN because they helped my tiny consumer group take on the nuclear power behemoths in Texas. Their voter registration efforts generally deserve praise, not hysterical condemnation. McBush must share in some of the blame for the vitriol since he decided to go negative in the last weeks of his uphill battle. The election of Barack H. Obama will be the culmination of a century and half struggle for civil rights, so that we may "form a more perfect Union".