More Tuesday Musings

In the wake of the July 23 CNN/YouTube Democrat debate, we have learned some important things.
Number 1: Edwards has actually been right on one thing - they need to thin down the ranks of candidates. He was wrong, though, to include himself in the short list of competitors. Not even the best-paid hairstylist on his staff could add volume to his dismally low numbers. Although, Gravel and Kucinich do add comedic value. And poor Biden - bless his heart - has come to realize that his numbers are so low that he can actually say what he really thinks.
Number 2: Republicans should not go near this debate format with a ten-foot pole. To paraphrase Mitt Romney, we don't need political discussions mediated by people dressed as snowmen. For that matter, why even go near any debate sponsored by CNN or MSNBC? Democrats won't do a Fox News-sponsored debate. In all fairness, though, the questions from this last debate were about on par with those asked by Chris Matthews.
Number 3: Democrats all support broadening the draft to include women. What? While I am sure that the militant feminists herald this move as breaking down one of the last bastions of the stifling patriarchy that dominates this country, is your average mother or young woman going to be gung-ho for this plan? War is all hell. Is that what we also want to subject our young women to? And what happens when both a husband and wife/father and mother are drafted? I don't claim to be any kind of a political strategist, but I don't think it would take a Harvard degree to create a homerun campaign commercial out of that tasty morsel.
Number 4: Obama really is all form and no substance. Does this guy have anything even remotely resembling a reasoned strategy regarding leading this country? What was with that comment about how he would grant face time immediately to all of the sociopathic dictators of the world? What's next, inviting Ahmadinejad to come spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom? This was such a major screw-up, even Hillary pounced. This approach to foreign policy has all the insight as Kucinich's "Department of Peace." So far, all this guy has in the way of combating worldwide islamic terrorism is to talk with the leaders of rogue nations that sponsor terrorism and make sure that our first responders have good health insurance. He literally does make Hillary Clinton look downright hawkish.

In other liberal insanity, it looks like, in the name of art, you can immerse a cross, a holy symbol for much of the Christian world, in urine, and you are hailed as avant-garde. If, however, at Pace University you toss a Koran into a toilet, you are arrested on the charges of perpetrating a hate crime. The only religion liberals seem to show any respect for is Islam, and yet, should the Islamic extremists take over the western world and topple the great Satan, who do you think stands the most to lose? Social conservative Christians, or feminists and liberals?
But just ask Rosie O'Donnell. Fundamentalist Christians are just as dangerous as these fundamentalist Muslims. That's why when Madonna made a video to her "Like a Prayer" song where she cavorted about with a Christ-figure, or when she staged her own crucifixion on stage in Rome, or when Sinead O'Conner ripped a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live, we saw the whole Christian world erupt with violent protests as people rioted and killing was widespread, as well as death threats against musical entertainers. No wait, that was what happened when a Danish periodical published cartoons about Mohammed. With Madonna and O'Conner, I believe the response from Christians was either ignoring them and their fading careers, or by writing some very strongly worded letters, or even boycotting their music. It got downright scary at times! Contrast that to Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who had his throat slit for working on a film critical of Islam.