In Which This Is How We Lose
Before the election, my friend Roy Zimmerman wrote a song called “How Can We Lose” with the lyrics – “Everybody’s asking/how can we lose?/No – I’m serious – how?”
As with the Red Sox, I was one of the doubters who felt certain that the Democrats would find some ingenious way to shoot themselves in the foot. And they came pretty close a few times. Somehow, though, they managed to scrape by. Theoretically, it should have been an actual landslide, but, whatever.
Now that we’ve won, let the losing begin! Really, party unity is TOTALLY over-rated and we’re just going to let the Republicans walk all over us anyway, right? So, fellow Democrats, pick up your pitchfork and jump on the bandwagon and join in the Alternate Invocation! Nevermind that Obama just picked an openly gay for director of the Office and Management and Budget. THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Again, I don’t like Rick Warren and I think Christianity is pretty silly in general but until such time as the non-religious form an actual voting block then we’re just going to have to cope with the fact that there are plenty of bible-thumpers out there and, sad to say, we should allow them to be under our big tent.
Democrats love talking about having dialogues. I’m going to admit that I don’t always mean it. Some people are just assholes. Rick Warren is an asshole – there’s no doubt about it. But ask yourself what the real significance of Warren giving the invocation. Without googling it, who gave the last bush invocation? Or the first one. Did [name of preacher] who gave Clinton’s invocation stop him from getting a blow job? Or instituting don’t-ask-don’t-tell? bush didn’t really give a shit about the religious right. Why would you believe that this means that Obama is a homophobe and he sold out his base?
Stop sniping. Please. Stop screaming about how YOUR cause has not gotten it’s perk because you didn’t vote for McCain. There were plenty of other candidates you could have voted for. It’s just plain passive-aggression. Sorry.
We have the majority. Let’s act like it and stop fracturing ourselves into infinite, almost indistinguishable sects…like the christians do.
2008 Debacle, Democrats, Grumpy Old Man, Navel (Gazing At), Obama
