Let the Games Begin!

The arduous Democratic primary season is finally over and Barack Obama will be the standard bearer.

The Republicans don’t have a leg to stand on with any real issue so I expect to see a flood of pseudo issues making the rounds almost immediately. These will consist of positive issues for McCain and negative ones for Obama and all of them will either be untrue, irrelevant or inconsequential.

Most will simply shore up the support of those who are going to vote for McCain anyway but the Republicans always hope they can persuade a few voters whose primary characteristic is either ignorance, stupidity or both.

Already I’m seen quotes from Obama’s books taken out of context and used to argue that he’s everything from a Muslim Fundamentalist to a Black Radical. Ann Coulter, when referring to Obama, likes to use his middle name which is Hussein. She calls him B. Hussein Obama.

I also expect Michelle Obama to continue to be attacked. I’ve also seen quotes from her thesis taken out of context to make her appear like a black racist.

Then there is the ever popular Gay Marriage distraction. I’m certain this will be a big issue in California with the referendum to overturn the California Supreme Court’s ruling and I’m sure the Republicans will try to parlay it into an issue elsewhere.

Ask yourself this question? How would it hurt you if gay couples were allowed to marry? If the honest answer to this is it wouldn’t, then why should you care?

On the plus side I have already seen, and I’m sure I will continue to see, much ado about McCain’s war record and the fact that he has a son in Iraq.

As far as McCain’s war record is concerned, the man deserves all the praise and honor possible but, and here’s the big but, that was a conflict of the 1960’s and we need a man prepared for the conflicts of the 21st Century and I don’t believe McCain is that man.

As for his son serving in Iraq, again, the young man deserves all the praise and honor imaginable but it does not change the fact that this is an unnecessary war placing all the troops in Iraq, including McCain’s son, in harms way based upon a lie foisted upon the American people by the Bush Administration. Do we really want to elect a man committed to continuing the policies of that failed administration?

Please tell me that we’re not that dumb.