Winning at All Costs

I have often mused about the concept of winning at all costs. I wonder indeed if you have to win at all costs do you really win.?

I have a tendency to browse all kinds of websites, from the most benign to the most extreme. It amazes me what I have read about Barack Obama. I have read that he is a terrorist, taken as a small child by al-Qaeda, brainwashed and trained to achieve high office, and upon doing so, destroy the US from within.

Pretty dastardly!

I have read that he is a Hitler and that the minute he achieves the presidency, he will kill all white Americans because of his intense hate of white people.

Strange, considering his mom, grandparents, and relatives including Brad Pitt, are white.

I have read that he was brainwashed by the Soviets to do the same thing al-Qaeda brainwashed him to do.

Kind of a two for the price of one.

I also read that he was brainwashed by Israel to usher in the final phase of control of the Zionist Occupational Government, which has already weakened America through the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, etc.

It amazes me that people out their believe in all this. But knowing that people do believe in each of these fantasies, but given that, Campaign McCain, in an attempt to win the election, has begun to play into some of these bizarre scripts by characterizing Obama, as "dangerous," or calling him a socialist and a communist.

I am an American. I love my country. I agree with the Constitution, in fact I once took an oath to defend and protect it. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe that Senator McCain has this right and that he should exercise it. But for someone like John McCain, knowing the fear and paranoia that some Americans have to stoke the flames of the unreasoned and unreasoning fear that some have to sanction the things his surrogates have said about Obama is beyond believe.

And what has been the result? Ashley Todd, allegedly a paid McCain supporter, (http://boards.historychannel.com/topic/Current-Events/Attack-Hoaxer-Turns/520018838)
filing a false police report about being physically attacked by a black man. Skinheads arrested, planning to kill Obama and other African-Americans, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702347.html. And now a teen is shot for defacing a McCain lawn sign, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/28/yard.sign.shooting/index.html.

Senator McCain and Governor Palin, you have got to see that when you say some of the things you you have said in recent days, you are stirring people to acts of criminal violence. Senator McCain, to you credit, at one rally you corrected a woman who accused Obama of being a Muslim, but what about all the other rallies Campaign McCain has held in which people screamed, Kill [Obama]?"

Winning can't be worth the damage that is being caused, i.e., leading people to embrace beliefs that Obama will somehow destroy the United States. Winning has got to be about building America and her citizens up, not tearing us all apart. With our problematic economy, things will be tough enough without the added burden of rebuilding the relationship of the American people.