Obi’s Sister

Since the college kid was home this weekend, I took an enforced break from TV/news/blogs. I heard rumblings about Clinton’s red face, his finger pointing and adolescent justifications for his many shortcomings. More on that later.

Colbert King writes in the WaPo about his couple of days away from Washington. From a distance, he could really see what it was all about – POWER, nothing more, nothing less.

Self-regarding members of Congress, intent on keeping their jobs, have forgotten all about enemies who are so convinced of America’s evil and their own righteousness that they can justify making everything in this country — its national treasures and its people — targets for destruction.

Listen closely to the huffing and puffing on Capitol Hill. It’s all about criticizing each other on the war. They work themselves into a lather arguing about which party can best represent Americans in the hallowed halls of Washington. Watch as they strut and brag about how their party is, because of a surfeit of patriotic zeal, best able to hold terrorist-harboring countries accountable.

But then this …

Unless I’m mistaken, the Sept. 11 hijackers didn’t ask the doomed passengers if they were Democrats or Republicans. They didn’t care one bit if the people strapped in their seats for takeoff were liberals, conservatives or neocons.

When I read those words, this memory flooded my mind …

It’s not conservative or liberal,
However they’re defined;
It’s not about interpretation,
Or the judgement of the mind;

It’s the opposite of politics,
Power or prestige;
It’s about a simple message,
And whether we believe.

It’s still the cross,
It’s still the blood of Calvary;
That cleanses sins,
And sets the captives free.
It’s still the name,
The name of Jesus,
That has power to save the lost;
It’s still the cross.

(It’s Still The Cross / The Calvarymen)

The Anchoress reposts “The Art of the Painless Coup” – one of my first readings that lead to the thought that “I can do this…” But this time around, what strikes me is …

It is true that there are many illusions in the world. And on the world stage there stride some masters of the sleight-of-hand and the misdirection – you can recognise them because they are all of a mind, and of a piece, and they are all working different parts of the same trick.

But if you can recognise a trick for what it is, you can prevail against it.

Outstanding.

They (the politicians) just don’t get it. In a nutshell, they’ve returned to the 9/10 mindset. The enemy understands the sentiment in the song above more than any politician. It is why they hate us and vow with their last breaths to kill us all.

“From hell’s heart, I stab at thee…with my last breath, I spit at thee” (Moby Dick and/or The Wrath of Khan, depending on your generation)

America has an enemy, evil and determined to wipe out all we hold dear. Just like a spider.