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Turning Over A Wet Rock

By Rob Schultheis

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What's wrong with this place, anyway?

It's a time of war, our nation is still skidding on the edge of a total economic breakdown, and if you want to play that old semantic game, that's the Good News. Ever since Barack Obama was nominated to run for the Presidency, there's been a rising tide of ugliness in America, a tsunami of sewage, of vile effluents, atavistic bile, toxic waste left over from long-forgotten lost causes, and hatreds as nauseating as the stench of charnel houses, abbattoirs, disemboweled monsters, and the death breath of malignant afreetts and arch-daemons.

Sadly, the Republican Party, that once stood for principles like rugged Individualism, staunch anti-totalitarianism and love of country has become the haven of the one-eighth of Americans (most of them, blessedly, in the 70-years-old-and-over category) whose worlds rotate around fear and hatred, hatred and fear. (Mis-) led by Daddy Warbucks-types like the Mellon family and their paid Goebbles hacks like Limbaugh and Beck, these treasonous Yahoos (what else would you call people who call for the violent overthrow of the elected government and yowl thinly-veiled appeals for lynching and assassination) have violated every standard of politesse, decency, and rational discourse. What can you say about armed buffoons picketing Presidential appearances with signs depicting our President as Hitler, or bearing slogans like "Death To Obama, Michele

And Their Two Ugly Children"? Or demagogues saying "I hope he (the President) fails," referring to Obama's plans for economic recovery? (This from the odious Limbaugh, who is on record saying that African-Americans can't play quarterback. As for the corpulent pustule's expertise on athletics, I recommend viewing Limbaugh's hilarious speech about why our health care system is breaking down: it's not due to morbidly obese drug addicts like Rush, but all those runners, bicyclists, hikers, et. al. who overcrowd our emergency rooms with their sprained ankles and bruised knees. No, I'm not joking.)

Well, Republican leaders like Congressman Baynor have the answer for why all this lunatic dreck is befouling the air: "The American people have had enough." Oh, really? Funny thing, Barack Obama was elected by a gigantic margin of something like five million votes (in contrast to our last Republican Chief Executive, who was elected by - let's see - hmm - well, never mind. But when opponents of the Bush Presidency dared to (peacefully, politely) question the Great One's policies and decisions, they were slandered as traitors, anti-Americans.

(If hippies and Commies weren't extinct, they probably would have been lambasted with those epithets as well.) Look, I'm a JFK-style Democrat, who voted for Reagan twice because he stood up to Soviet aggression: the "Evil Empire" was the "Evil Empire" back then - anyone who saw the burned villages, refugee hordes and scorched farmlands and orchards of Afghanistan firsthand had no doubt of the fact. One of my major reasons for voting for Obama was because I thought he had a coherent strategy for winning the "War on Terror" (better called "The War for the Future of Islam"), and for restoring America's place as a respected and loved (not feared) nation.

I figure my opinion is worth something, after decades in Afghanistan and seven months in Iraq, on my own most of the time, trying to help destroy our enemies in the global terrorist movement . . ..

And now a bunch of pin-headed trailer park nimrods, bloviating talk radio trollops and corporate goniffs are trying to tell me my vote for President doesn't count?

Sorry, bud, but them's are fighting words; so get out of my face with your brainless jive, and until you have something sane to say, please, shut the f#$% up.

Rob Schultheis is the author of eight books. His most recent is The Devil's Teahouse.