Obama, Oral Sex and Cocaine - None of Our Business from Planck's Constant

John baptizes Christ, while the dove descends in rays of light and two angels hover overhead.

Beverley, St Mary, North aisle, West
window, Baptism of Christ
Flickr Photo by: gordonplumb.

I will not put the links here directly, but if you google "Obama, Oral Sex and Cocaine" the first few entries link to blog posts that show a YouTube video accusing Barack Obama of allowing a gay man to perform oral sex on him and of using cocaine. Unless Obama is a stone addict, I don't care about his drug use. Unless he is a sex addict, I don't care if he's gay or a Clinton-type womanizer. It's none of our business. If we continue on this path of demanding that our leaders be perfect, then one day we will be forced to elect a bona fide Saint, and that road leads to Hell.

When Monica Lewinsky's sword-swallowing skills first stirred the airwaves, I told my wife that this kind of political attack would backfire on the Republicans. I don't mind if we make jokes about Presidents but if we try to remove one for what he does in private then one day the opposition party will ask for impeachment for even more trivial reasons. And yes, I know that Clinton was impeached for lying about the affair rather than the affair per se, but lying about a personal matter is not the same as lying about matters of national security.

Indeed, we see calls for Bush's impeachment every day simply because the Left feels he lied about the reasons we attacked Iraq. Republicans should never have even considered Clinton's impeachment unless there were some gross abuse of public trust involving the very survival of this nation. The next President may well see calls for impeachment simply because the President's cousin was arrested for drunk driving while having anal sex with a dwarf and nothing directly to do with the President himself.

Psychologists see this all the time: parents who spank their children for minor "infractions" eventually spank them for the most trivial of matters, as say, putting the wrong color socks on, or spilling one single pea off their plate onto the table. Because Republicans went nuts over the Lewinsky affair, the public now feels it right that any action of the President they disagree with is an impeachable offense. The fact that 2007 polls have shown public support ranging between 39 and 45 percent in favor of impeaching Bush indicates how weak the reasons can be for impeachment. If this trend continues, no President will ever be able to commit to a policy that might even in the slight degree be controversial.

What should be important to all Americans is Obama's stand on the issues. If he were Jesus Christ personified but wants socialized medicine we should reject him. If he were a mere mortal with all the faults of everyman but stood for the great principles that made this nation great, then we should embrace him. Let's leave the quest for the perfectly moral candidate to the college of cardinals.

For those who are new readers here, I am opposed to almost every single policy issue of Barack Obama. I don't care that his wife was not careful in her remarks about being proud of America only recently, even if his wife is a racist who harbors ill-feelings toward this country, he is not his wife. What is important is his stand on the issues, not hers. Although I have bashed the church he belongs to for its racism and anti-Americanism, I did not say he shouldn't be President because of it.

I have previously written an article hoping that Obama would be elected President so that we could see what a mistake it would be to elect someone soft on terrorism. Better to do it sooner than later when our enemies would be much stronger and much more dangerous. I lost a few dollars once by leaving my wallet in a public restroom. I have never forgotten that and because I had the lesson early in my life I never again left my wallet when there were much more valuable items to lose. America apparently did not learn its lesson on 9/11, and we probably need to have terrorists dirty-bomb a few cities when Obama goes around negotiating with our enemies instead of confronting them. If we don't learn our lesson while Islam is still weak, there will be no lesson to learn when a nuclear Iran decides it's judgement day. For those of you who believe that mutually assured destruction will prevent Iran from attacking us:

Planck's Constant,
August 22 - End of the World -12th Imam - Muhammad al-Mahdi
A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. "I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours."

In this context, mutual assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead--hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD is not a constraint; it is an inducement.

Obama in 2008, yay.

Blue Star Chronicles,
Obama Exposes His Ignorance of the Military
Two things about that bothered me the most. The first is that anyone who aspires to be Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces should have at least a rudimentary understanding of the structure of our Armed Forces and how they operate. Actually, they should have much more than a rudimentary understanding, but Obama didn’t even exhibit the most elementary understanding. Someone with that little bit of knowledge and obvious lack of respect for the military has no business being Commander in Chief.

Boxcutter in Quran
Photo Credit: FoxNews

For those of you who are shocked that I say we have forgotten about 9/11:

Woman Honor Thyself,
BoXCutteR and a Kooran..Nifty.
A security officer at Tampa International Airport found a box cutter hidden in a hollowed-out book on Sunday. TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book
Officers found books in the backpack titled "Muh-ammad in the Bible,” "The Prop-het’s Prayer” and "The Noble Qu-r’an.” He also had a copy of the Q-uran and the Bible.
Bai-nes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in jail……

Someone with Islamic literature tries to get on a plane with box-cutters and gets 30 days - yeah we remember 9/11, right.