“Only the Good Die Young”

If ever a president deserved to be assassinated, it is George W. Bush. The criminal corruption of the United States Constitution during his administration has done inestimable harm to our civil rights and to our standing in the world. Like O.J. Simpson, Bush and his cronies may eventually face justice, but it will be tragically after the fact and of little consolation to a nation they have nearly brought to ruin.

History, however, proves that those who ought to have been murdered to get them out of office have not been the target of such violence. Three of the four presidents who have been assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley) were Republicans, with John F. Kennedy being the only Democrat. Bush et al are protected by the fact that their adversaries are enlightened people who shun violence and seek reasonable and rational solutions to problems.

This unfortunate truth is what places Barack Obama in increasing peril. The idiots that have supported Bush in the past and McCain now are the very ones whose Neanderthal mentality views violence as the answer. McCain brags that for generations his family has viewed patriotism as “fighting” for their country. An intelligent, compassionate and diplomatic worldview is an affront to such primitive ideology, and the representative of such an enlightened view seems ultimately to become the target of violent attempts to destroy it (see Jesus).

I continue to pray that We the People still have control of our democracy and our country. The next three weeks will tell. There is going to be sore little satisfaction in saying ‘I told you so’ if the neo-cons more fully reveal their evil selves by openly grabbing the reins of power they have so immorally wielded the past eight years.