‘Skunkfeathers’ Straightens Out Guardian Writer

Before I had a chance to raise my virtual voice in opposition to an opinion piece by the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland, Mike Bay had already taken the bull by the horns and straightened out the British writer.

Freedland began his piece with the paragraph below (and it didn’t get any better):

The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach. It’s a kind of physical pessimism which says: “It’s happening again. The Democrats are about to lose an election they should win - and it could not matter more.”

Bay is a Colorado-based blogger known as “Skunkfeathers” and a frequent guest blogger at Bob McCarty Writes.  He wasted little time in responding to to Freedland on behalf of all red-blooded, patriotic Americans.  His communique appears below:

Being an American, I reckon I have a stake in this presidential election you suggest pits America against the World, if we don’t do the right thing and vote the way that you and the world insists we must.

I’ve heard some of the same, pithy suggestions here as well:  a columnist at a Philadelphia paper suggested that if America rejects Obama at the polls, we are a racist nation, and will pay a racist price with minorities.  No thought that perhaps the nation might say no to Obama because of his political ideology, voting record and some of the policies he has suggested he’ll pursue; it’s simply about race.  Both with the writer from Philadelphia and his ilk, and with you.

Fine.  Let the world think what it will.  Let Russia tell we imperfect Americans how imperfect we are, while Vlad and his minions saber-rattle former Soviet republics that he wants to reabsorb, by force if necessary.

Let Africa tell we imperfect Americans how imperfect we are, while they have such sterling examples of racial harmony and perfection in so many places across their war-torn, corruption-riddled, black-on-black slavery-rich continent.  Let Asia tell we imperfect Americans how imperfect we are, while they hold down and oppress various ethnic and religious segments of their own respective populations.  Let the Middle East tell we imperfect Americans how imperfect we are, while Arab-on-Arab, Persian-on-Arab, Muslim-on-Muslim, and Muslim-on-Jewish-or-Christian violence continues apace, and Islamofascists continue to claim that their brand of Taliban-style Islam will overrun Europe and the West, destroying all the infidels.

And let Europe — including the venerable UK — tell we imperfect Americans how imperfect we are, while immersed in their own issues with illegal immigration, racism, Islamofascism, economic morass, as well as their history of short-sighted politics that helped drag our imperfect butts over there twice in the last century to help bail them out, and then remain for half a century thereafter, as guardians of the wall against the Soviet Bear.

Will all due respect, fella, speaking as one American to one Briton — one with British ancestral roots, and proud of the alliance our two nations have maintained for longer than we were at odds — you can take your righteous indignation and despair about how we as a nation might not vote the way you want us to, and bugger off.

It won’t stop you from coming crying to us when some disaster hits in one of those other regions of the world, or some bad guy is at the frontier, and suddenly you want us to come provide succor and the military muscle to keep them at bay.  It’s okay when we show up with our help and our might then; until it’s all over, and you’ll be right back accusing us of global ignorance, racism and unilateralism.

Small wonder that I don’t care what the world thinks of how I vote in November.  The world hasn’t shown me that they know better about much of anything.

Mike Bay, Lakewood CO USA

Thanks Mike!  Your nation appreciates your service.

-- Bob McCarty Writes