Cashews and Coconuts

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein quotes

The deal is sealed. Obama has tapped into the heart of America. He has taken it’s pulse and found it wavering on the brink of death. He is the transfusion that America needs.

The red, white, and blue cells of the American dream are about to be strengthened. A much needed infusion of action coupled with hope will revive the spirit that has carried Democracy into the 21st century. His time is now, and he is just in time to pull America away from the cynicism of hate, division and despair that grips the American landscape.

A new day is being offered. A dream renewed stands waiting.

It is up to us to reach out for the brass ring as we whirl past it. The ring is offered, we can grasp it at the polls.

Tnut.

Vote.

KING RICHARD III:
“A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

Karen Ravn quotes

The vision offered by the Obama campaign is being given voice by voters standing in lines across America. The tide of change is rising. An idea is sweeping the nation. Hope is being whispered and awaited.

Meanwhile, stagnant platitudes and the incense of fear, remains the driving force of the McCain campaign. In desperation, a blame game is being played among the little men who would be kings. Pitiful pundits and “mean stream” AM radio has beens, in an attempt to salvage a sinking ship, hurl blame about wildly without caution. They seized upon a false news story(The Backward B fiasco) like starving jackals. Glenn Beck, a truly foolish, little anal oriented orator of hate, was one of the first to sink his teeth into the rotted meat. Reciting from the Dirge report(Or is that the Drudge Report) he attempted to light the flames of race, thinking that is what the Republican party needs to save its fetid soul. Howling “Marxist” has just not worked like it used to, so Glenn recited his litany of “if”.

“IF” has become the mantra of the right wing. “IF” McCain had only distanced himself from Bush two years ago things would be different. “IF” Lenin would rise from his grave and embrace Obama, “IF” Obama couldn’t find his birth certificate, “IF” Acorn would have not been so successful in giving the disenfranchised the power of the vote. “IF” the Republican lie machine was working properly, things wouldn’t be so gloomy in the halls of hate. “IF” George Bush had a brain. “IF” the turds would only blossom.

Listening to the punditry on any channel and counting the number of “IFs” is truly a daunting challenge . “IF” the Red States “IF” the Blue States suddenly change. IFs and Butts is all you hear. “IF” Palin had never been allowed to speak. “IF” we could only find a cavemans’ bones lying next to a half eaten dinosaur. “IF” a six foot four inch black man would carve a B on the face of a McCain supporter things would change. “IF” Bin Laden would only call, John McCain would save the day. “IF” the tax plan of the Democrats wasn’t better than the Republicans. “IF” McCain could only paint a vision of fear then we would be saved. “IF IF IF”…

“IF wishes were horses the right wing would ride.” “The best they can do is collapse and divide.”

Tnut.

The vote “IS”.

“Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The GOP, currently known as the Going Out Party, is awash in anger and angst.

The false walls they have built are collapsing like the economy, only faster. $150,000 to dress the “WalMart” candidate, is the latest myth shattered by reality. The “Joe the Plumber” tour has turned into a nightmare when seen in the light of truth. The obvious stumbling and bumbling of a tortured campaign, using tired and hateful rhetoric has reached the dead end and has stalled in its own mud.

Out of gas, out of ideas and out to lunch, this travesty spins its wheels as the mud and grime is flung about wildly and without caution. Both candidates are incapable or unwilling to admit that a campaign built on the sands of hate and division will never stand for long.(Just long enough to reveal the architects.)( I may be wrong, look where it got Bush-Cheney.)(8 years of pain).

Like an albatross, Sarah Palin, is bound to the the neck of McCain and no southerly wind can save him. Her grasp of the issues is nonsensical. Her knowledge of history is confined to the days when men walked with dinosaurs and snakes talked people into eating apples. Her pitiful posing as mainstream mommy has evaporated, revealing a mean spirited, vindictive phony.

The AM mean stream radio jocks have adopted her and that is no endorsement. Blame , blame , blame and whine, whine, whine is all they have left. They are attacking their own, as they try to obscure the fact, it is they who have destroyed their own party. The message of hate that has made their careers, has come home to roost and all they can do is close their eyes(Like they close their minds) and lash out in anger at anyone nearby. They have even begun a “True Republican” litmus test, which means, if you disagree with them you are no longer a Republican. Their “True American” litmus test has failed, so now they are resorting to eating their own. The hucksters being hustled is a strange tactic being employed by desperate men and disheartened women as they face the dawn of a disaster they made happen.

The good sailors have abandoned the Ancient Mariner. Sorry, John, you should have had better shipmates.

Tnut.

The vote is the boat. Let us send these frauds to distant shores.

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

Douglas H. Everett.

The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. The huge wave of change is nearing the shore. The clarion call of freedom has been heard and is being responded to, with long lines of Americans waiting to cast their votes.

The Neo Republican anger is also rising as they see their death grip on the throat of the American Dream slipping from their hands. These narrow minded and narrow focused neocons are nearing the end of their tenure and are reverting to form, in ways that are harmful to America. The slurs and accusations are becoming taunts. Outright lies are spewing forth from the mouths of desperate bullies bloodied in the arena of conscience. The panic is palpable as they thrash about looking for a new slogan (”Joe the Plumber”, “Barack the Commie” “Socialism and UnAmerican”) to distract the people from Republican failures and lack of moral dignity that has guided us on a horrific journey for 8 long years.

Two more weeks of divisive and disheartening rhetoric will sweep across the country like a cold wind. A chill will be cast over the body politic in vain attempts at vote suppression. Motive mincing pundits and the hate jocks of AM radio will be screaming non stop to drown out the bell of justice that now rings loud and clear. All to no avail.

The American people have seen their dreams dashed on the rocky shores of greedy men. They have seen their children’s futures being sold to the highest offer in a no bid neocon world. 8 years of lies and sleight of hand have injured our military as the likes of Rumsfeld and Cheney have profited from the bloodshed. The political agenda of usurpers like Rove and his minions of deceit have allowed the rape of the American economy to be their priority and they have failed. They have sullied the honor Americans have fought and died for by allowing torture to be accepted into the lexicon of hope that America stands for. 8 long, long years, 4000+ dead and an economy in collapse is their legacy and the people can stand no more.

Follow the light and stand in the wave as it washes these little men from the sand castles of fear they have built. The hard rain will pass, leaving the light of the American Dream undimmed.

Tnut.

The vote nears the shore.

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” Hermann Hesse quotes

The endorsement of Obama by Colin Powell is a call to honor. It proves that the power of truth lives on.

A man of respect and knowledge has stepped up and challenged the slurs and oft repeated deceptions of a campaign that is seeking to divide and destroy the heart of the American Dream. A campaign born of hate and low expectations of the American people. Colin Powell has stood up and denied the scurrilous tactics being practiced by desperate men who will do anything to keep their stranglehold on the soul of America. A horrific campaign has been dismissed as narrow minded and divisive. A campaign much like an open wound seeping onto the body politic.

Colin Powell in his eloquent and humble manner has shown that truth trumps hate, that honor demands justice and that America, with all its foibles, is the still the standard bearer for all the good that we the people hold dear.

I applaud you Colin Powell, and I applaud the Dream.

Tnut.

The vote is the hope of America.

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”

Robert Fulghum quotes

A cold wind is blowing across the political landscape.

It is the chilling last breath of a dying ideology as it thrashes and lashes about for final victims to take to the underworld in a last fit of hate. The neoconservative spectre of false conservative values, coupled with the blind rage of an angry schoolchild is caught in its own web of deceit and is about to expire from its own inspired fears. Its bloated ego and disturbing libido is rotting and melting before our eyes.

These little men, with the hubris of giants, have woven a path of lies and division as they despoiled America as willing dupes to a Military Industrial complex that eats little children( Like the little neos) for breakfast.

These jesters think they have been in charge, since their foolish, flawed, fraudulent and phony King Gingrich led them from small time city councils into the halls of Congress. These Religious fanatics and right wing ideologues(Who listened to Rush Limbaugh and his ilk) were willing fodder to the bright lights and vast treasures of Washington D.C. The lust for power to advance their Biblical agenda and childish power lust easily surrendered on the altars of greed, yet a flag pin and a cross gave them a disguise to act out their repressed fantasies, withheld from them in their Churches and bedrooms back home.

Now in their last throes, blinded by their own filth, of lies, slurs and false witness, these tiny fish must return to the small pond, gasping for air made fetid by their ignorance and nurtured by the schoolyard bully ethic they embrace.

They are incapable of going quietly because they are still the willing victims of a cabal of corporations that want America divided and twisting on the pike of fear. These small fry are being directed to their graves by the likes of men that have used them up. But they have been ordered to hurt America as much as they can before they go. One last insult and then it is the end.

Tnut.

p.s. The vote is the sunshine that runs darkness from the field.

“You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” Stanley Kubrick quotes

The final phase is at hand. The end game has begun and it is not an easy victory.

Obama plays chess while his opponent plays checkers or tiddly winks, or any game that seems to catch his handlers fancy. Sen McCain is so confused and bewildered (He thought he was owed the White House) that all he can do is hit below the belt and lie to the referee. His handlers have done that for 8 long years, as Bush lackeys, and see where it has got them and America.

They have mishandled a war costing 4000+ lives and still deny reality, saying an end is near. They have done our military a terrible disservice and must face the American people for their lies and propaganda tactics. They have allowed the American economy to fall into the hands of greedy, corrupt men who despise honor, for they have none. They have despoiled the environment with the help of a complicit AM radio cabal of mean spirited, little men, who are cast crumbs of gold for their lies and  praise to pump up their frail egos, and who will be discarded after this election cycle.

The debate and the “Joe the Plumber” gambit, has imploded in front of Johns’ eyes, as a fraudulent set-up inspired by Rove and the White House minions of deceit. The guy looks like McCains campaign manager, bald head and all. They are probably brothers and think the Dems. are stupid enough to fall for any goofy trick they pull from their sleeves. They hold the electorate in disdain and it is costing them the election.

Anything the McCain Campaign touches, turns to dust by dawn, and they find themselves plotting some new attack ad or sleight of hand to throw into the public arena and see if it catches any flies. They have no message, nor do they have a shred of honor. They just stumble down the path groping for anything that distracts from the fact they are an empty vessel. An empty bottle adrift in Obamas’ Ocean.

These final 18 days will not be easy. Be aware, for these guys will not just go quietly into the night.

They intend to leave a White House without respect and in disarray. They are leaving an Economy in shambles and an exhausted military. They are trying as hard as they can to inflame the passions of the American people and intend to leave behind a country divided and near flames in order that they may plot for a while and ponder their return. These tiny men must never return, they must be relinquished back into the slime from which they have arisen and be anchored there with the weight of their hate. The “Hockey Mom”  as their albatross and Bush and McCain as their Ahab and first mate.

Checkmate, Mr. McCain. Out of the Castle, Mr. Bush. The game is over.

Tnut.

p.s. The vote is the winning gambit.

Obama is surely a musician, he played Sen. McCain like a violin.

Obama took an out of tune and out of sorts man and tightened the screws and straightened the strings and then played a solo. He pretended not to notice a clearly agitated, constricted,and scripted McCain, as Obama faced the issues and refrained many times to openings he could have ridden an Elephant through.( The Pallin invitation was stunning.)

But tonight Obama was playing for the people. He cleverly dodged the bait offered by McCain,(Who obviously had a smart remark scripted for him.) and played a song of hope for America. The tune was too much for the old violin and it almost burst into flames several times and if not for the talent of Obama the stage would have probably burned up. But cool fingers prevailed and Obama not only set the tune he set the tone.

Tonight, set up the bleachers, I think Obama is going to the White House.

I can sing that tune.

Tnut.

p.s. The vote is the note.

“Look, until everything’s done, nothing is done, and everything isn’t done yet. So I don’t have any announcements for you on that. Work continues,” he said at a separate venue. “We are going to continue working on the SOFA.”  State Dept. Spokesman Sean McCormick on negotiations about keeping US troops in Iraq.

There are 154,000 U.S. forces in Iraq. $10 Billion a month. 4,000+ dead and thousands wounded. Iraqi dead, still unknown and being kept from us. We have been asked repeatedly to leave but have our fingers in our ears.

How appropriate. These neocon diplomats are working on the SOFA while our troops are dieing on the pavement, and our money is being flushed down the toilet.

Couch potatoes in charge.

Mr. Bush, look what has become of your grand scheme. What ever happened to your slogans “Iron Fist”, “Shock and Awe”, and “The Interminable Winningness”, or was that “Victory Someday”. Mr Bush, the cowgirls were right, you are an embarrassment. “SOFA” is the best that you can do? Arrogance has painted you into a corner.

You should give that skulking heap you named Veep, Dick Cheney, a good talking to about family values and the Constitution. He has clearly led you down the skunk hole of history and he will leave you there. His name will be forgotten, yours will never be. “The Dupe” will be your nickname. A complicit accomplice to the whims of Neoconservative hubris.

Karl Rove and the bunch of bananas that surrounded his “Genius” have slipped away. Conveniently out of the light, they are now casting dispersions on your competence. These chameleons and flatterers have dropped you like a hot potato. All you have left is El Rushbo and a foxy propaganda wing that will desert you also. Well, maybe not the golden miked El Rushbo, he has made a fortune defending your stupidity and we all know that it will continue long after the election. AHH, but there stands the hockey mom, she rivals your ignorance, so the Rush will be drawn to her like a roach to rotting meat. He will probably write a book in her defense. All I Didn’t Know About the World and Was Afraid To Ask would be an apropo title or maybe for the Rushies he will just title it Moose-jawing. His slurs and innuendo will live on in her name. OH, but he can still blame it all on the Clintons for you.

You are doomed to vacation with McCain, Palin and Lieberman, after this election rinse cycle washes you from the White House. The four of you can have a Sofa party.

Tnut.

p.s. The vote is the detergent. Use it wisely. Know its urgent.