Free at Last

And I don’t mean African-Americans. I mean white Liberals. Free of guilt. Now you can breathe easy. You’ve paid your debt for slavery and all the other subsequent mistreatments. Well, folks, I hope Barack Obama is all you think he is and not at all what I’m afraid he is. You’ll be the ones who have to watch him, you know. The congress is on his side. The press is on his side. There’s nobody to report out. I’m going to retire from commenting and leave it all up to you. Hell, I’ve got other things to do than document the damage: inferior health care for all, the disappearance of jobs, dwindling revenues as capital leaves … Maybe I’ll disguise myself as a woman and write a novel. I want to thank you all for sticking with me. I know from your e-mails that it hasn’t been easy. But it has been fun. I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.

HH

Hidin’ Biden

“Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here . . . we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

So, what did they do to him, do you think, when they whisked him away after he warned us? I saw Obama today, but I’m Tivoed, so I don’t know when this happened. Obama stood up there and explained Biden, who was nowhere in sight. Do you know that when Biden said that if we elect Barack Obama, we will be tested, what he actually said was that the next president, no matter who he is, will be tested? Oh, you didn’t know that? Gee, sounds almost the same as what you thought you heard. Well heck! That must be it. Makes a lot more sense.

Except that’s not what he said. Potential president-elects and their veeps get briefings by the White House. They’re privy to knowledge that none of the rest of us are. One of these poor buggers is going to have to run the show. McCain doesn’t even look like he wants to anymore. This is way out of his territory. It wouldn’t be if he’d remained pure, but he bollixed himself up with notions from the other party, and now, when he goes to look for answers to questions, he’s got to reach into this mixed-up bin and pull something out. He never knows what it’s going to be.

But let’s see. Are they going to test McCain? Would you? That crazy old “Bomb, bomb Iran” guy? You’d have to be nuts. No, they’re going to test the man of peace. They’ve got to find out where he draws the line.

“He's going to need help. And the kind of help he's going to need is he's going to need you, not financially, we're going to need you to use your influence, your influence in the community to stand with him, because it's not going to be apparent initially, it's not going to be apparent that we're right.”

But what did Biden mean when he said, going on with his gaffe, that what they do will not necessarily look right, and Obama is going to need your support. He wants you to go out there anyway, and convince the rest of us it’s a good idea, just because it’s his, and he’s yours.

But back to Biden. Why did he do it? There could be a bigger frame around this than it even appears.

“And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine.”

It could be he and Obama have cooked it up together to warn the rest of the world that Obama’s got his dukes up, and to prepare those of you who don’t like fights, that it’s coming, so you can shut your eyes. Hell, Bush only said, “Bring it on.” A vote for Obama is a vote to bring it on.

But it’s more likely that Biden went to that National Security Briefing and his hair stood on end when he heard the latest dribble down the drainpipe. He decided he had to do something about it. Warn us. The best thing to hide behind is this notion of his “gaffes”. Do you know what a “gaffe” is, people? It’s a way of saying something, and saying you don’t mean it at the same time. It’s playing the jester. Jesters had brains, you know. They had opinions about their kings. And they knew things.

Biden warned us. Did you hear him? He said, “Don’t vote for my guy unless you want to be attacked.” Didn’t he? Didn’t he say that? What do you think he said? “Vote for my guy if you want to be attacked.”? Is that what you heard, but it’s all right with you?

And you know what? He had to say it twice, because the media caught on right away to what was going on. The Gaffe! The Gaffe! It’s finally come. It could undo Obama. So they tried not to report it. The first time, they just let it go. Then the pressure mounted. After all, it was a public statement; people heard it. They’re reporters. They’d better report.

And now, YOU are going to be tested :

Name one thing you do not like about Barack Obama.

If you could not do this, I submit that you are under a spell. There is nothing that will make you deny Obama, no matter how you have to twist and turn.

But there are still a lot of you out there who don’t have masters on your backs. You get a glimmer now and then that things aren’t right, that your world is being taken over. Let that glimmer grow, folks.

Listen to Joe, if they still let you. Your Joe, not McCain’s Joe. Joe leaked a big one. Maybe there’s more coming. Keep your ear to the pipe. I’m rooting for you Joe – America’s infiltrator. You always wanted to be CIA, didn’t you, Joe?

Hell, maybe you are.

Doesn’t matter to me. I’m sidin’ with Biden. I liked him back in the primary debates, when he told us Obama wasn’t ready. I know the man is working for America. My America. The America of the old white males. And a damned good place it was, too.