http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-_h2OU8RAQ

when she was first nominated i thought to myself, here’s another dan quayle. DQ had the intellect of an ice cream treat — he was someone that no one would take seriously as a president, and thus someone whom other GOP powers had tapped so that the field would be open for their own favorites post-GW I.

that strategy seemed bold but perversely sensible to me at the time. john mccain is not loved by the hardcore GOP. and everyone (except most Democrats) saw how much the Dems were hamstrung by the almost-effective Al Gore — just effective enough to block other democrats who could have sought the nomination, but plenty effective at losing to GW II. so pick a nobody like palin and regardless of the election outcome, the field would be cleared for other GOP candidates in 2012. risky and maybe ruthless.

but just watching the reactions of other people (not necessarily those here in this thread) to her, i’ve accepted another reality. she really is GW II all over again. GW II sucker-punched America for 8 years and the Democrats were worse than culpable for not mounting an effective challenge. and now the least-educated-least-prudent-electorate nightmares of the founding fathers may be proved true, again.

subhanAllah.

why do democrats continue to wonder why obama is now losing? if they would listen to me, i would tell them it’s simple. we see in the recent polls the truth that was always lurking behind the old polls. why could obama alone not shake off mccain? why? because americans have always been susceptible to race prejudice — i am not saying all Americans are racists, i am saying that racemongering is an achilles heel of many people, but especially the American electorate.

the GOP (and HRC and the media) made race such an acceptable topic for public discussion — “is Obama playing the race card?” and “would you look at what his (black) preacher said about America?” then there was very little more that was needed — “Osama, I mean Obama…” — no, the last two examples juxtaposed are meant to make it clear to you. all along the message was do not trust this black man.

and for a long time the polls have shown that many Americans have been praying for an excuse to publicly desert obama for a white guy — an excuse other than race. then their dreams came true when they got to desert him for a white woman — thus standing tall as though they had always wanted to break that glass ceiling. so what if the candidate herself is so unqualified that when she was Mayor of her small town, that was the first time a city administrator had to be hired there! why? to avert the disastrous consequences of her decisions. “that just means that she will have her own condoleeza rice’s and john ashcroft’s and dick cheney’s to keep her finger off the nuclear button. doesn’t it?”

subhanAllah.

perhaps some democrats will genuinely claim that the primary was not about race, but even his supporters were glad that a black man could be nominated.

whether you like obama or not, for the average american this election has always been about race. always. and the average american who votes is white. and i think the majority of them will vote for the white girl.

alhamdolillah alaa kulli haal.

On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security and said that war with Russia may be necessary if Georgia were to join NATO and be invaded by Russia.

The fatwa of 26 scholars quoted above was from 2004. We are in 2008 now.

Yes, the fatwa was first released in 2004, but the scholars never retracted it, so it still stands. Indeed, I know for a fact that several of these venerable scholars have continued to voice their stance on this issue, and they are saying the same thing now that they said four years ago. Also the Association of Muslim Scholars, a council of leading Iraqi scholars has endorsed the resistance against occupation.