J. D. Pendry

J. D. Pendry

I catch the 6 o’clock evening news when I can. However, I long ago gave up on the evening news with Brian or Katie or with whoever it might be on the major broadcast networks. Their too often condescending fashion of delivering news combined with the clear biases that only they appear unable to see got to be a bit much for me. I tune into the Fox News 6 o’clock report when I can. On Friday, I was particularly interested in what the program’s panel discussion might offer up on the selection of Governor Sarah Palin by Senator McCain as his Vice Presidential running mate. I was not surprised to hear Morton Kondracke express some contempt for the choice. He cited her lack of experience to assume the duties of the President as if he fully expected McCain to drop over dead on inauguration day. Why, he’s had two bouts of melanoma declared Mr. Kondracke. Morton is prone to say some dumb things, at least in my view, but following his comments about Governor Palin’s lack of experience he added to his nuttier than a squirrel turd opinion by saying that Senator Obama was more qualified to be President simply because he had been running for the job for the past 3 years. Morton actually had a pained expression on his face. Perhaps you need more fiber in the diet Morton. And just for the record, Obama is running against McCain or maybe it is Bush. I am not always sure, but he is not running against Palin.

Do you know what Morton’s problem is? Intentionally or not, John McCain just kicked down the door to the country club and invited in an ordinary outside and I mean way outside the beltway American. Morton may have to someday soon grit his teeth, furrow his brow in further consternation and admit that there is a blasted commoner in the White House, even if it is only as Vice President. Moose stew on the menu, my, my. Morton and the remainder of likeminded beltway bandits cannot fathom the concept that a former member of the serfdom could ascend to the ruling class. It is not a glass ceiling that needs broken, it is the country club strangle hold on our country that does.

I look back throughout my lifetime and the first President that I acknowledge is John Kennedy of the millionaire Kennedys. Fast forwarding from there, I reckon that I never felt a true connection with any of them. Most of them were wealthy, Ivy League educated and from families who made politics their family business - the American aristocratic class. This is what they do. Take care of the little people. Heaven forbid the little people should want to care for themselves. Morton speaks their language, lives by their rules and pays due homage to their perceived royalty. He does not know what to say to or about a person who speaks and lives in ordinary America. Morton, in case you may have forgotten, real America is that part of the country that exists outside the boundaries of the Capitol Beltway.

When I look at the Palin family, I see people who could just as easily live next door to me. I saw some pictures of her on a commercial fishing boat plucking salmon from the nets. I am wondering what the political women of the San Fran Nan class have to think about that. That’s cold, wet, hard work Nan. Your hands chap and crack and fish stink. I saw pictures of her shooting rifles at the range, a picture of her sitting on her sofa with a bear skin on it. She has five children, the oldest of which enlisted in the Army to serve his country the newest of which has Down’s syndrome. Her husband is an oil rig worker, a fisherman and a snow mobile racer. These are people who know what an honest day’s work provides and how much of their money is wasted by Morton’s more qualified friends.

I cannot speak for any American and would never pretend that I did. But here is what I can tell you. There may be someone in the White House soon who actually understands working class America from the perspective of one who has lived it more so than anyone else that I can recall, at least in modern history. Whenever the pundits, like our friend Morton, or his more qualified beltway politicians attack Sarah Palin, they are attacking me and you and the way of life most of us cherish. Sarah Palin is the American dream personified.

Senator McCain kicked open the door. Now, it is up to us voting class Americans to decide whether or not we have the courage to truly rock Morton’s world by rushing through that open door with Mrs. Sarah. Do we have the courage to start taking our country back?

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