Imagine you go to the polls and choose Mitt Romney on an electronic machine, but your vote comes up Barack Obama.
With a birth date of October 9, 1937, I tell people that I was born in the midst of the Great Depression and have lived long enough to be in another one. There are other similarities because, as oft been noted, history does repeat itself. Only the faces, names and places change.
The one thing I have never understood is the way Americans seem to refuse to accept the fact that the worst attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor was planned, funded, carried out by Muslims, and was celebrated by Muslims around the world.
The question concerning the relationship between faith and politics is one that has arrested the attention of many an American. But it is during election seasons, particularly presidential election seasons, that it assumes a larger than usual importance in the American consciousness.
Ah, the left-wing capacity for rationalization knows no bounds. While we’re told that even substantive criticism of Barack Obama is driven by the hatefulness the left has dubbed “racism,” a racial attack by three black teenagers on two white men in Philadelphia this past Monday is, somehow, not.
Sometimes, we get a lucky break. The same Supreme Court that routinely tramples the Constitution once in awhile stops mid-stomp, as if by dint of some atavistic recollection of the liberty it was charged to uphold — kind of like a wife beater who realizes he maybe hit the old gal once too much this time.
So, here’s what happened:
Is a rose still a rose if it calls itself a petunia?
Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole is a Nigerian immigrant also known as Jerry Thomas. His alias has inadvertently highlighted absurdities in several of the charades America’s tyrants foist on taxpayers.