Unapologeticsouthernliberal’s Weblog

I was devastatingly wrong. I am so embarrassed for America right now. The entire world is watching. This nation is supposed to be the greatest nation in the world. We are supposed to be leaders, progressive, and intelligent. THIS is what we look like to the rest of the world. I, for one, do not support McCain & Palin and I most definitely do NOT support ignorance, racism, and xenophobia. When people get their information about candidates from chain emails, this is what happens. Wake up people, don’t be one of the ignorant embarrassments. This is 2008, not 1958. Oh, and BTW, Muslim does not equal terrorist. Obama isn’t Muslim, but if he were, it should NOT matter. There are millions of Muslim Americans in this country, perhaps you know a few. Al Qaeda is a group of RADICAL Muslim EXTREMISTS. Kinda sorta like Sarah Palin is a RADICAL Christian EXTREMIST. Extremists from ANY group have the potential to be dangerous. Just because someone calls themselves a Christian, doesn’t mean they’re good people. Remember, Jesus said love your neighbor as thyself. I don’t see any evidence of this happening in the Palin rallies, do you??  I am scared of what I’m seeing happening.  I’m scared some of these angry, ignorant people will hurt Obama or his family.  He is a human being.  His little girls are exposed to all this hatred.  It’s not fair and I’m pissed off about it.  I saw an old friend yesterday who was shocked I support Obama.  He assumed that I would vote for McCain because I’m white.  There’s been talk of a culture war after the election.  Am I in danger for supporting Obama?  Will I be labelled a “baby killer” or a “terrorist lover”?  Dammit, this is beyond ridiculous.  I don’t profess to know what Jesus thinks, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s shaking his head and saying “You guys are doing it all wrong, that is NOT what I said.”  If I were Jesus, I’d be pretty pissed off.  Jesus didn’t surround himself with people just like Him.  We shouldn’t either.  Christian means “Christ-like”.  Remember, Jesus hung out with tax collectors, prostitutes, lepers.  I think Jesus was pretty liberal.  I didn’t read anything about Jesus telling anyone they weren’t good enough for him.  I’m tired of this attitude that white Evangelical Christian = good American and everything else is wrong and bad and evil or “terrorist”.  Get it together, America.