Here is a response to my blog post, “Think You Know Obama?” that I received via Facebook:
“Not so much enlightening, as exhausting/overboard…one wonders how long it must’ve taken to go to such great lengths to “correct” or shall I say “nit-pick” each and every one of the claims made. As far as I’m concerned, the “corrections” did not at all redeem the candidate. I think this will be obvious to anyone who read your “politically correct” blog response. I’m so glad I haven’t had to worry about going to such great lengths to defend and justify the actions, etc, of the candidate I support.”
You may be interested to know that the person who wrote that response grew up in the same town and went to the same schools that I did. For more on that topic, read this post of mine.
Anyway, in keeping with the title of this blog, I figure I can best respond with a series of my very own, original one-liners:
“Not so much enlightening, as exhausting/overboard…”
Though the truth is often cumbersome, its necessity can not be ignored.
“…one wonders how long it must’ve taken to go to such great lengths to “correct” or shall I say “nit-pick” each and every one of the claims made.”
In the pursuit of truth, time is of little consequence.
“As far as I’m concerned, the “corrections” did not at all redeem the candidate.”
What hell it must be to live in your world, where the truth serves not as salvation from falsehoods, but as a tool for their reinforcement.
“I think this will be obvious to anyone who read your “politically correct” blog response.”
We’ll never know for sure as very few of my readers bother to leave comments :(
“I’m so glad I haven’t had to worry about going to such great lengths to defend and justify the actions, etc, of the candidate I support.”
Perhaps that is because you have never attempted to form a logical and rational public argument in defense of Sarah Palin.
All of that said, she missed my point. I wasn’t attempting to get her to change her vote, in fact I don’t really care who she votes for. As I said before, I’m sure that her entire county will vote for McCain. I was simply doing what I could to offer her and many others the chance to make a better-informed decision next week. It’s one thing to vote for a candidate because you agree with their stance on issues, but choosing to vote for their opponent solely because you believe a long list of ridiculous and disparaging lies that have been propagated about them is quite another. To twist the quote by Bodie Thoene, “Ignorance is the glove into which politicians slip their hand.”
