Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

However, she did want the $400 million granted to Alaska in a kind of bridge tradeoff, so Sarah could use that windfall, possibly for more practical purposes.  

Following the last Obama-McCain debate, David Gergin praised John McCain for not resorting to the distasteful witch hunting style of Sarah.  

In any reality check, Gergin should have recognized that McCain didn't have to because Sarah Palin was taking care of the dirty political tricks, reminiscent of that undisputed dirty tricks master Richard Nixon, but with plenty of Joe McCarthy's witch hunting style thrown in with good measure.

Sarah has proven to be effective as McCain's attack dog.  Sarah delights in using McCarthy's guilt by association trick to smear Barack Obama.  Dredging up the name Bill Ayers has achieved plenty of emotion.

With hypnotic skill, Sarah starts her not so subtle attack by saying in effect that while there are always things we might not like about our country, when we choose terrorists for our friends, is that what we want in our president?  The audiences howl with emphatic agreement.

It so happened that at one point in Bill Ayers' life, when he was a young man, he was involved in the Weather Underground, an anti-Vietnam War protest organization that had on occasion resorted to bomb violence to get its point across.  However, a reality check reveals that later in his life Ayers rejected all violent forms of protest.  He is now a respected professor at an Illinois university.

Barack Obama was only 8 years old when Ayers was actively involved in the Weather Underground.  The only association Barack Obama and Bill Ayers had was when they were involved in an educational project.

That project was funded by an organization with solid Republican roots under the sponsorship of the Annenberg Foundation.

Sarah is apparently trying anything negative that she can think of to link Barack Obama with a terrorist image, almost like a heated up evangelical preacher.  Sarah lashes out with the question, "Do we want someone like this for president?"

Sarah is utilizing the same fear tactics used so skillfully by George Bush in his infamous State of the Union Address.

Bush dramatically declared the fright and fight pitch in launching the U.S. into the Iraq War debacle, "We have knowledge that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and we know Saddam Hussein is developing nuclear power to threaten the United States" or words to that effect.

Sarah's comments concerning Barack Obama's friendship with a terrorist (delivered with such dramatic perfection by the former beauty queen, you wonder if she has been rehearsed for this skillful performance) is followed by triggering the darkest imaginings of her faithful followers of "Obama is a man of mystery.  Do we really know him?"

Arising in the minds of some sick race haters are such wild imaginings that the very suggestion of a future president having a close friendship with a terrorist actually in one audience where Sarah carried on, prompted someone to call out in a rage, "Kill him!"

Is this the kind of vice presidential candidate that the U.S.A. needs now?

Any teacher who steps across the bounds of inspiring racial hate, as Sarah's absurd linking of Obama to terrorism, could be suspended or fired.  With the high school massacres and recent campus killings, enough is enough!  

We don't need any more Joe McCarthy witch hunt slime.  No more of these cunningly devised political hate festivals are needed.  Sarah can cool off in Alaska.

On Keith Olbermann's MSNBC program we heard about the pastor of the church Sarah attends.  This pastor, who of course has every right to believe his view of religion as religious freedom is one of the most fundamental U.S.A. tenets, holds interesting beliefs.

It was explained that this pastor had gone to a village in Kenya where the villagers were having quite a problem with numerous accidents.  He visited the troubled village and made the determination that these accidents were caused by someone among them who was a witch.

The pastor located this allegedly accident-producing witch and the villagers ran her out of town.  Whether or not the accidents ceased or diminished was not revealed on this television segment.

However, a film was shown with this same pastor in the Alaskan Pentecostal church placing his hands over Sarah Palin's head and offering prayers before his congregation.

When I hear some of the political audience's response to Sarah's suggestion that Barack Obama is associating with terrorists and hate flashes through the political gathering until someone cries out "Kill him!", I think the pastor of the Alaskan Pentecostal church should in all humility and honesty ask the church congregations to pray that Sarah Palin will stop the witch hunting to obtain votes.

We are all in the final analysis accountable for our words.  

If we tell the truth this is all we need to guide us.

Truth holds the ultimate power to set us free!