Crazy Uncles
J. D. Pendry
“An influence which cannot evade our consciousness will not go very deep.” – C. S. Lewis
I had several of them. One had a missing eye. There was a skinned over hole of an eye socket where one would expect to normally see an eyeball. He never wore a patch over it. He talked through one of those gizmos implanted in his windpipe. I was sent out of the house to play more than once by my Mother for staring at that empty eye socket or trying to mimic his bull frog like voice. Kids do that. He was ornery and a little bit nuts I was told by my older brothers, those injuries and that nuttiness all courtesy of the Nazis and World War II. Another uncle was quite the sot. The family joke was that if he was around, you must keep an eye on the after shave lotion, vanilla extract and any cough syrup remnants lest they become cocktails. My uncles were not that much of an influence on me mainly because my Father was a better counter influence. Besides when I was a young Soldier, the docs stopped handing out GI gin cough syrup that was 40 percent alcohol and the favorite cold cure of Soldiers.
Senator Obama tried to account for Reverend Jeremiah Wright by describing him as the old uncle who says a lot of things that the rest of the family does not necessarily support. I cannot speak for everyone, but personally I did not endure a weekly indoctrination from my crazy uncles for 20 years. My Mother would have certainly shooed them away if their visits were that frequent. Maybe there is a strong counter influence out there for the Senator that he is just waiting to spring on us at the right political moment. I do not expect that crazy Uncle Jeremiah’s influence on Obama will have much impact on an election that is months away. There are more important reasons than his nutty pastor why he should never be president, like for example his positions on national defense or better named national suicide.
Senator Clinton has crazy Uncle Saul Alinsky, a radical anti-war “community organizer” from Chicago in her closet. Another left wing community organizer from Chicago, now that is interesting. She kept Uncle Saul locked away for many years, at least for the duration of the Clinton Presidency. She does however have Bill who is known to enjoy an occasional intern with his after dinner cigar as the counter influence to her radical left Alinsky indoctrination. My spell checker tried to change Alinsky into Lewinksy, but I do not know of any connection there other than maybe a cosmic one.
I am sure that I was not the first to think of this, just to wander away from crazy uncles for a minute, but did you notice that anti-war Senator Clinton like anti-war Senator Kerry was quick to point out her heroic exploits in a war zone. That is the John Kerry that allied philosophically with the likes of Uncle Walter Cronkite to support Uncle Ho Chi Minh’s strategy of defeating America in the media and on our city streets as he had no prayer of doing so on the jungle battlefields of Vietnam. The difference between Clinton and Kerry is that Clinton was man enough to admit that she “misspoke”, uh, several times. In ideology, there is no difference.
Senator McCain does not need a crazy uncle influence. I think that is because he is one himself. Granted he is a better choice in my opinion to secure our country than are the others, but when he starts making those global warming treaty and listen more closely to our socialist leaning democratic allies speeches, I cringe a little. Uncle John Sydney, may I offer you some valuable yet free campaign advice. While the community organizers on the other side are hacking and slashing one another, smile, wave, look presidential and do not make any more doggoned global warming speeches.
The crazy uncle influence is alive and well in America. Our nation’s capitol has 535 crazy uncles (and aunts) at last count. There is everything from bathroom stall toe tappers to people who hide their bribery money in the home freezer to people who like to leave their girlfriends in the river while they stagger home to sober up and cover up to people who like to molest their boy pages. You know, Mark Twain was correct when he said that, “The only true criminal class in America is Congress.” Our crazy uncles are pulling the country in 535 different self-serving directions most of which fall into an ism category. Atheism, Darwinism, Moral Relativism, Environmentalism, Defeatism… We must like it because we keep sending the same pack of scoundrels back there to do that to our country.
The only deserving uncle we have that needs our undivided attention and protection is not getting it. That is our Uncle Sam.
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