January 26, 2008

Politics of Division: Barack Obama, You Own It.

Never mind that Saint Barry didn’t dare breathe the word “gay” alongside “young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian” in his South Carolina victory speech tonight (and why should he, when it’s our backs bearing his muddy bootprints as evidence of the way he trampled us in order to win SC in the first place?).

Rather, I am compelled to quote what he said about religion in his speech, which caused all three residents of my home to emit spontaneous shrieks of incredulous laughter (and two of us to shout something a little less polite than “Baloney!” at the television):

And what we’ve seen in these last weeks is that we’re also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation. It’s the politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon.

That just takes the cake. How quickly Saint Barry forgets the names Donnie McClurkin, Kirbyjon Caldwell… et al.

Forget the Republicans — you, Senator Obama, made religion a wedge among Democrats in this campaign. You used gay Americans as a wedge to woo rabidly homophobic Southern evangelicals who would have voted for you anyway. You opened a fissure the size of the San Andreas Fault between black fundamentalist Christians and gay and lesbian voters — a fissure that may never heal. You continue to employ the politics of division.

Also worth noting:

There are those who will continue to tell us we cannot do this. That we cannot have what we long for. That we are peddling false hopes.

There he goes again, with the meaningless “hope and change” rhetoric — as he steadfastly refuses to tell us what he hopes to change, and how.

Empty words, empty rhetoric, empty suit — all held afloat by the politics of division.

(And no, I’m not bitter about Obama’s SC win; I knew that was going to happen, and I don’t care. What’s important is Super-Duper Tuesday, when the big states vote. And, unless something unforeseen happens — like some crazed Obama supporter dropping LSD in the nation’s water supply — February 5th should fix Obama’s little red wagon, once and for all. I certainly hope so, anyway; I’m sick of hearing his empty promises, and sick of writing about his ruthless steamrolling of the American gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community.)

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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