You don't think I know
"<em>crazy</em>"? I know "<em>crazy</em>" my
friend! When you have a father like mine who's main passion in life,
besides fixing automobiles and the three decades he honorably spent in
the Navy - was to engage in the most viscous 18 year campaign full of
"<em>You Ain't ever going to be shit!</em>" diatribes and
other garden variety self-esteem killing tactics. When you have a
grandmother who desensitized her own children to violence so much, that
when my uncle waxes poetic about getting hit on the side of his head
with a vase he does so with a glassy eyed affection usually reserved
for Prom recollections - not only that, how many people can say that
their grandmother was once incarcerated for stabbing a guy? The
Kennedy's have politics, my family has dysfunction - and despite the
lunacy that I've already exposed you to, my family still considers me
to be the undisputed belt holder of the "<em>crazy</em>"
title, and believe me that's saying a lot. Based on an extensive
history of questionable behavior ranging from me punching one of those
black "<em>hustle-man</em>" preachers in the throat for
telling his congregation to vote for Bush solely on the issue of
abortion, pulling a pharmacist over his counter and throwing him one
hell of a beating after he made some sexually suggestive comments to my
mother, and that time I rolled a handicapped man into traffic simply
because he refused to admit that Rakim was the greatest rapper of all
time - if being crazy was a contact sport akin to boxing, lets just say
that I'm on  a clear path of retiring undefeated. Forget about the
physical stuff for a minute, I'm a sexaholic germaphobe for Christ
sakes - even the most innocent sexual encounters where the necessary
protection is used, more times than not I find myself having months of
extensive blood work done - me clutching rosary beads, praying to the
almighty that I didn't just have sex with the human embodiment of the
outbreak monkey. Relationship wise, I'm a man with criminally low
amounts of self esteem who goes after women far above my respective pay
grade - the ever flowing motif of those unions not recognized by the
church or my mother, consist of me regularly telling the woman in
question: "<em>Jesus woman, you could do so much
better!</em>" Like I said before, I know
"<em>crazy</em>".



That's why I can't seem to wrap my head around the commonly
regurgitated meme over the past months that Obama supporters are all
"<em>crazy</em>", characterizing us as
"<em>cult-like</em>' - proverbial <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones">Jim Jones</a>
kool-aid drinkers, political <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh">branch
davidians</a>, waiting for some spaceship to snatch us all up as
we wear our <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(cult)">black and
white Nike's</a> while attending an Obama speech. Like I told an
overzealous Hillary supporter over the weekend, "<strong>For
god's sake, Stop trying to 'David Koresh' me!</strong>" This
tactic used by Hillary Clinton supporters bewildered with the fact that
their candidate can't seem to produce the same sort of enthusiasm and
excitement, or members of the media who are too lazy to do their
fucking jobs in finding out why people support Obama so passionately -
is the equivalent of a kid who tries out for his High School hoops
team, fails miserably, then suddenly declares that
"<em>Basketball is Stupid!</em>". It seems to be the exact
same sort of disingenuous petulance here, minus the acne and nocturnal
emissions. Sure, the fainting is a bit much, but then again, I wouldn't
think less of a fellow fan if he/she decided to paint themselves Navy
Blue and Orange while attending a Chicago Bears game - at the end of
the day, regardless how we express our respective passion, we both want
to see our team win. But a cult? I see people's exuberance for the
junior senator from Illinois as something completely different..


As we find ourselves at the tail
end of an administration that gleefully urinates on the constitution
and uses Habeus Corpus as simple toiletry, attempting to make torture
and illegally tapping your phone acceptable practices. A president
who's scandals outweigh his achievements, a Iraq war that should have
never been waged - costing us too many lives and too many permanently
wounded heroes, the outing of a C.I.A agent solely because her husband
was one of the war's first vocal opponents, No Child Left Behind,
Katrina, Black sites, Halliburton, Blackwater, Abu Graibe, etc. It
seems like a 20 years ago now, but it wasn't too long when
intellectually dishonest people were calling fried potatoes
"<em>freedom fries</em>", steamrolling Dixie Chicks CD's,
calling you un-american for opposing this misguided war - I even
remember a website dedicated to outing anti-war actors, asking people
to boycott their movies from that point forward just because they gave
a simple opinion. Because of all that obscene fuckery, all of us
rational people were just left exhausted man, but before the political
landscape drew us into a politically inactive coma - here comes a guy
who seems to be the antithesis of everything that has gone horribly
wrong over the past 7 years. Whenever I see Obama supporters cheering,
chanting, famous musicians dedicating songs to the man - they are the
furthest thing I would characterize as
"<em>cult-like</em>", they have just found the presidential
candidate who enables them to publicly exercise the demons of an
utterly incompetent president that has wreaked habits on our collective
souls. Acting as political exhibitionists as they shower off the
proverbial stink that is George W. Bush amongst thousands of fellow
Obama supporters.



Matter of fact, I'd respectfully contend that you'd see more
instability in your garden variety Hillary Clinton supporter. I mean,
miraculously wanting the Florida and Michigan delegates to count after
your candidate primarily agreed that they would be inconsequential is a
bit nutty. Isn't it? What level of madness causes a <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">well
respected economist and author</a> to carelessly gamble with his
credibility in the name of Hillary shilldom? How demented do you have
to be, knowing that the delegate math is damn near insurmountable - to
rely on the super-delegates to come to the rescue in the final hours,
thus severely fracturing the Democratic party? I'm not saying that
Rosanne Bar has ever been a shining example of mental health, but what
possess a person, who was once a household name - to let her rabid
support of Hillary <a
href="http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/">turn her blog</a>
into a prime example of what slipping into madness feels like? How
unbalanced do you have to be to suggest that Obama simply saying that
Hillary was "<em>feeling down</em>" was a f<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-stabiner/the-change-candidate-need_b_87104.html">rontal
assault to femisim</a>? Only a complete whacho would even hint
that its somehow Obama's responsibility to <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/silence-is-assent-what-_b_86827.html">apologize
for the media's sexism</a>. I have to really question if padded
rooms and glass licking is in your near future, if you applaud Hillary
using the fear card to scare up votes - your sanity must also be
questioned if you co-sign Mrs. Clinton's habit of suggesting that John
McCain would be a better president than Barack Obama.


For more hysterically extreme
verbal examples of someone smearing their own fecal matter against the
wall - one must not go any further than the blogs of Taylor Marsh and
Larry Johnson. Marsh, a woman who I characterize as the Yolanda
Saldívar of Hillary Clinton supporters - spends most of her time
pushing Rezko non-stories, feigning outrage over Michele Obama's
supposed <a
href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27044">lack of
patriotism</a>, proping up that nonsensical Sean Wilentz "<a
href="http://taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27107">Obama is
playing the Race Card" article</a> that my people over at
halfricanrevolution mercilessly <a
href="http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-all-out-of-violins.html">took
out to the woodshed</a> for its proper discipline - and other
classless smears that would make the Swiftboat vets collectively want
to take a shower after reading her site. Forget about the fact that she
once <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/obama-electric-in-las-ve_b_50390.html">sang
Obama's praises</a>, but after dedicating all of her energy to
smearing the guy and trying to prove how unfit for office Obama is - in
<a href="http://taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27161">this
post</a> she almost sounded giddy when contemplating the
possibility of him being Clinton's vice president. Seriously Taylor,
Fuck you.  Johnson's blog is of a similar vein, clumsy character
assasinations that read more like a gossip column than the words coming
from a guy who actually served in the C.IA. - this guy's low point, and
there are many, is when he became the only person on the face of the
earth who <a
href="http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/13/why-not-johnson-for-president/#comments">applauded
Robert Johnson's</a>(<em>BET</em>) ill-advised
remarks about Obama.

A funny sidenote about both Taylor Marsh and Larry Johnson's blogs,
I've noticed that when they provide music clips - more times than not
the <a
href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27076">artist</a>
<a
href="http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2007/12/29/johnny-guitar-watson/">is</a>
<a
href="http://taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27236">African</a>
<a
href="http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/19/bigger-than-life-chicago-blues-great-otis-rush/">American</a>.
(<em>You can't make this shit up</em>) I don't know, It
just makes me think that deep down they are fully aware of the steaming
piles of excrement they've become with their gleeful embrace of the
"<em>smear merchant</em>", and this is just their way of
making everything right with the world. Nice try.



I don't know, call me crazy - but I think that Obama supporters are the sane ones here.