Mindless Anger

The issue of anger has been on my mind of late, provoked in large measure by the vitriol being expressed toward Barack Obama. Someone I know in the Secret Service says they have thwarted numerous attempts to hurt the man. Well, that’s our history, isn’t it?

More distressing was at a Sarah Palin rally, as she was rousing the rabble with her innuendo that Obama is a terrorist, someone in the crowd yelled out “Kill him!” If she weren’t such a primitive, and perhaps evil, she would have responded loudly and clearly, “No, don’t say that. Don’t think that. That is not what America is about.”

Well, that’s what a true leader would have said. Of course it would have been antithetical to her campaign whose moral foundation knows no depths. Ach, I’m trying to get rid of my anger.

It’s curious to me how entrenched are some of my bright and caring friends who support the McCain ticket, and even Palin herself. They are unmoving. When I respond with facts to their seething epithets against that black-muslim-terrorist, they allow as how maybe they were wrong on that particular point, but they don’t back off an inch from hating – literally – the Democratic candidate.

Is it because he’s a Democrat, or black, or maybe has the most liberal voting record in the Senate, which he doesn’t? Is it that he comes off as arrogant or intellectual? Dunno. It doesn’t seem like any of those aspects would be reason enough to hate the man.

And the flip side, those who despise the McCain effort don’t seem nearly as angry as they are disgusted; despairing McCain’s moral failure, and disparaging the campaign in which he has enfolded himself, the most venal in memory.

It is ironic that the Republican base, the fundamentalists, are so unChristian...forgetting the cardinal rule about hating the sin and loving the sinner.
 

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