It's Because I'm A Racist

The Anchoress linked to a Bookworm post which is evidently so popular that it took Bookworm’s site down. But I can see why – it’s just fabulous.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and because it’s entirely possible to think someone is dead wrong and even dangerous in their political positions but still hold no personal animus toward them – even to wish them good will, and believe it or not, pray for them. And oddly enough, I pray for the likes of Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and others on the left more than I do those on the right. I’ll just say it outright: I pray for them more because I think they need it more.

I think they are misguided, sometimes corrupt but even when they are not corrupt, they are puposely or due to a willful blindness a party to great evil. It’s not just the abortion and the embryonic stem cell research. It’s the burning food while others starve. It’s the trying to restrict free speech. It’s the way they are quick to ascribe innocent and pure motives to those who would gladly see them dead, but not to their own countrymen and especially not the military. And more than anything it’s the willingness to ignore the long, well-documented, terrible results in other countries of the policies they espouse today.

Yes, politicians on the right need prayer. But their faults, while of the same degree, tend to be of a different kind. They are typically not interested in taking away your freedom.

So here’s the list of reasons why I’m a racist. Although for me, it’s an “if I vote against” rather than a “when” the reasons listed are fabulous. Enjoy:

When I vote against Obama on November 4, 2008:

* It won’t be because Obama wants to withdraw from Iraq, which I think will weaken America’s interests beyond repair, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama thinks that a nuclear Iran is no threat to the Western World, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I think it’s an incredibly stupid idea for the most powerful nation in the world to approach evil totalitarian dictators as a supplicant, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I hate the idea of a President who will subordinate America’s interests to the UN (as he inevitably will), it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama has the thinnest resume ever in the history of Presidential candidates, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I think Obama’s Leftist connections (Ayres, Dohrn, Soros, Pfleger, Wright, etc.) show him to be either stupid about or complicit with an agenda antithetical to basic American values, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama consistently chooses as advisers people who have opted for the wrong side in the completely binary debate about Israel’s right to exist, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to socialize American medicine, which I believe will destroy the high quality of medical care available to most Americans, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the military and reduce us to a nation with a big target painted on our collective backside, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the Second Amendment and destroy Americans’ Constitutional right to protect themselves from foreign and domestic enemies, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama has already announced loud and clear that he will support activist judges who place their “feelings” above the law, it will be because I’m a racist.