One of the joys of reading far right wingnut blogs is the abundant affirmation this activity affords me: I am, after all, a sane and balanced human being and not a barking moonbat. Did you know that Obama's cousin had signed a secret agreement with Kenyan Muslims to institute Sharia law if he was elected President? And that furthermore, Obama himself has signed a secret agreement with US Muslims to make at least 10 changes to the Constitution if he's elected President? Well, maybe you'd heard this, but I hadn't.
No links, I won't direct traffic to these people or give them any linkylove. You could probably google it up if you're interested.
Anywho, a wordy and mostly inapposite introduction to the other joy of reading these people -- I end up in corners of the web I'd never thought to look for, such as this article by a Kenyan [a country where there has been a bit of *cough* election shenanigans] who decides to visit Florida [a state where there has been a bit of *cough* election shenanigans] --
It is a critical state for both Obama and McCain, and in fact McCain has no chance of winning the election if he loses Florida. So this week I am visiting the state to get a better insight on what Obama and his team are doing to win the state. The headquarters are located in Tampa Bay, a medium size city that is in the heart of the territory that is most contested, and after strenuous efforts I managed to get invited to visit and learn about the operations there. As I enter the bland brick building I am shocked that there is no security at the door, and I briefly wonder if I am at the right place as what I am used to in Kenya is walls, security and sense of importance in these sorts of operations…
Emphasis mine. Obama may not read blogs, but surely he reads the African papers. ;)
An end note, if you're ever in the Tampa area and in need of a Kenyan cafe, stop in at Cafe Kili. Hmmm... it's been a while since I've had any Kenya AA coffee....
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I'm Not Sure I Get the point.
I must have missed something. What's the topic and/or question?
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
point?
eh, make of it what you will.
I'm not too comfortable with the point of this being so abstract
This post could be taken in a very bad way (need I elaborate?), and I'd like to see some rationale for it, please.
fair enough
ok, one link -- if ever you want to know what the far right wingnuts are pushing, just check out this guy, my favorite rightwing parrot. the meme du jour is apparently obama/kenya/sharia/muslims/u.s./zomg! we gotta save the constitution! that last bit struck me as funny [and not], coming from a bunch of rightwingers.
following the various links landed me at the website where, after randomly clicking some of the headlines, i found the article about obama's florida operations. it's heartening to read the open admiration of someone coming from a more repressive system and seeing ours up close and in person, but at the same time it's still disheartening to watch the authoritarians here [and their enablers] working on dismantling ours.
obama doesn't read blogs and howard dean doesn't have cable [or so we have been told], but one hopes they do actually read newspapers, including foreign ones, and one of the messages i'd like dean and obama and the dnc and [fill in the blank] to take away from reading those foreign papers is that they [the ordinary everyday people living in other countries] really do admire us for our freedoms [and not for our military, or financial, might].
the point of inflicting abstract uncomfortableness on people is to let them wander through the deserts and jungles of their own minds and make connections themselves [well, that's one of the points, anyway]. of course, it's easy to be too abstruse, but in my defense, i can only say that you should meet the artists, poets, playwrights, musicians, et al that i hang out with irl.
living in miami, and to a lesser extent orlando and tampa, really is like being a citizen of the world, or of a wider region at least. i miss the caribbean food, music, and culture [heavily influenced by african food, music, and culture] in south florida, so i stuck in that semi-gratuitous link to the kenyan cafe that was mentioned in the article.
i think i had some other meta-meta in mind too, but those were the main points.