Sarah Palin is a phenomenon. I’ve been wondering when and who would rise up from the ashes of the burning embers of Freedom to speak up and speak out. To make a difference.
I have only mentioned her name a couple of times in previous articles in reference to the last political campaign. Specifically because she was the only candidate who mentioned the word “freedom” in her speeches. I never even heard John McCain speak the word. His phrase was “love of country.”
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SARAH PALIN – ON A MODERN DAY MIDNIGHT RIDE – WHY SHE’S THE TARGET OF ATTACKS (ISSUE 308)
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Back in Ancient Greece, there was a group of philosophers called Stoics, commonly referred to as the front porch philosophers. They would gather on someone’s front porch and discuss many topics–attitudes, beliefs, human behavior, politics—plus other subjects relating to the happenings of that time. Many of the subjects they discussed are similar to the issues Americans face in today’s world.
Back in that time, there was a lot of discussion about political issues and voting in particular. The Greeks adopted a particular method of voting. Balloting back in those times was accomplished by dropping various colored beans into a receptacle. The Stoics motto was “Abstain from Beans.”
When I suggest politics operates precisely like cancer, here’s why.
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Politics Operate Precisely Like Cancer (Issue 79)
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The presidential campaign seems to have taken on a new life after the conventions and selection of vice president for each presidential candidate. But despite the spurt of energy and interest, it has not spawned any new or different ideas. Except one thing . . . a lot of rhetoric and interest in lipstick. A lot of lip service to lipstick. A ping-pong game with a tube of lipstick.”
Sarah Palin began the lipstick trend by mentioning it in her convention speech. Then Barack Obama paraphrased the famous saying, “a rose by any other name is still a rose” by saying, “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
One might be interested in checking back and reading the article I wrote a couple of months back about wild hogs in the Okefenokee Swamp and how to capture them by enticing the little pigs. But not with lipstick.
It might be more apropos for the candidates to talk about piggy banks in relation to how the economy has gotten so bad. Americans are losing their homes and scrambling through their piggy banks to meet the rising cost of groceries. More talk about “mess kits” instead of makeup kits in what has become known as “lipstick politics.” Wow! What a diversionary tactic away from the real bread and butter issues today’s Americans are facing.
Taking their campaign issues from the ridiculous to the sublime, it seems as though both candidates have so mired themselves into a makeup issue, they have steered themselves away from the real makeover issues of change both were so hot to trot about.
I’m reminded of the fact that political government is a con game. Keep your eye on this ball while they are juggling with something else. Never has this been more glaringly apparent than this recent round of wrangling over words, back and forth, dominating the news over pigs with lipstick. Not even a Hollywood scriptwriter could have come up with anything better to point out the con game of diversionary tactics than the candidates themselves . . . a tube of lipstick.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive.” This is not fiddling while Rome burns, but painting lips, to disguise what falls out of the mouth. If it were not for the seriousness of the matter, it would be downright comic. And no doubt fodder for the late night comic scene.
On the other hand, it offers nothing in the way of solutions to the problems this nation faces on the fast track to socialism and the erosion of individual freedom and dismantling of personal property rights . . . faster than the Democrats and Republicans dismantled all their fancy props at their convention sites.
If I were a songwriter looking for a title to a new song I would seriously consider, “How Dumb Thou Art.”
Now I don’t think the American people are dumb, but very smart, just being led down the wrong path in the frenzy of hype now so pervasive in this campaign. We are still free, able and capable of thinking. Our memory seems a bit short, as we listen to so many political speeches absent any discussion about our most precious possession, which is individual freedom. The question is, why are we tolerating the domination of talk about pigs with lipstick, ignoring any discussion about freedom? Is all the talk about lipstick on pigs just a diversion away from all the pork in Washington?
Let Freedom Ring!
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Let’s Do The Twist With Lipstick (Issue 71)
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