The Black Republican

These cretins are why people hate politics - and more specifically, why Republicans continue to be regarded as a bastard ideology by so many people, compared with the saintly liberals, who can do no wrong in some eyes.

I don't care what party or ideology you support, this concept of "losing to win" is pure, unadulterated bullshit. I strongly encourage Democrats and liberals to vote their conscience right alongside Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and everyone else. We're not going to get America on the right track by voting against ourselves anymore than we're going to make her strong by ripping each other to shreds while the enemy laughs at us.

A note to the curious who might trip in from Body and Soul: I haven't heard Obama's speech, and don't plan to listen any time soon. It's not that I don't want to - in fact I really do, because I can foresee a possible future where a man like this could provide all Americans with hope and offer the hand of friendship needed to dispel bitterness and unify a divided nation in true brotherhood.

But I see neither hope nor brotherhood in the Democratic Party of 2004, and I certainly don't see America. I can't listen to men who may very well be patriots when they consort with traitors. I cannot believe the honest when they shelter and support the liar. I see a group of people with vicious hatred for their countrymen, unyielding contempt for the land that bore them, and total disdain for her values - values which on the whole they feel are beneath them. Whenever I've thought I've seen the rational and the virtuous among them, my hopes have been utterly dashed, so I dare not hope any more this season.

Please, please, reject the devisiveness and understand that we do not wish to be your enemy. Support the Party of Robert Byrd if you must, but know that the Party of Lincoln stands ready to work with you, come what may, to "bind up the nation's wounds".

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Listen closely to the blood in the stones of Iraq and hear the cries of the dead you so hypocritically have refused to hear. "I am my brother's keeper," - and I consider you the lost sheep I choose to run after, turning away from the rest of the flock to find you and bring you home. Please stop running so I have a chance to catch you.