I’m So Angry I’m Spitting Fire

So I’m lying on the couch with bad stomach cramps from my meds…stomach cramps that almost had me in the hospital at 11pm last night. Since I can’t take the meds for awhile my fingers are extra sore. Every keystroke is like pushing a knife into my joints. I say that not to be all “oh, pity me”, but to make clear that I am angry enough to go flying down two flights of stairs and pound out my thoughts, even though I’m so blindly infuriated I’m making more typos than a drunk monkey.

I got an email from Bill Hobbs because I think I’m on some mailing list of his. I get these emails occasionally, which keeps me in touch with the goings-on of the party I left in the dust. It’s sort of like letters from an ex-boyfriend or the pastor of a church you used to go to. Anyway, I just got this email highlighting the wisdom of some complete and utter ass.

“Maybe [Lincoln Davis doesn’t come out in favour of Obama] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” [FRED]Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Why oh why do you blamed idiots keep making me defend a man on principle whom I think would be a bad choice to lead this country? See, the thing is I think he’d be a bad choice to lead the country because he wants to regulate everything and use the Executive and Legislative branches of government as tools for redistributing wealth. That’s not what I believe will keep America economically healthy into the coming decades.

See, that’s how you say you don’t support someone. And why. This cowardly, vicious poison–this treacherous bullying of the American people ABSOLUTELY MUST STOP RIGHT NOW.

It is bullying, pure and simple. There is no other word for it. Preying upon folks’ darkest (ha!) fears. To say that Obama may have terrorist connections is absolutely heinous. (No, I know that word is spelled kind of funny but it isn’t another one of Obama’s secret middle names, for Pete’s sake.)

I cannot believe I’m forced to live through this. Nor can I believe, quite frankly, that a born-again Christian man for whom I have a great deal of respect and to whom I owe a great debt would have a hand in perpetuating this nonsense. [I need to make clear here that FRED Hobbs, who made the statements, is different from Bill Hobbs, who sent me the email.  I understand from a subsequent email conversation with BILL Hobbs that he, too, was offended by FRED Hobbs’ statement and meant his email alert to convey that.  Unfortunately I misunderstood the tone of what he wrote and inferred that BILL found FRED’s statements to his liking. ]I mean, for crying out loud. This has become an evil poison that will rot into the platforms of those who perpetuate it, eating the planks like termites, like vermin like the sick, sad wretches who are forced to bargain for power with rumours of war, half-truths and the venom of bitterness and discontent.