God Damn America!

Sällan har väl ett politiskt val gett så stor betydelse, så enormt mycket medial bevakning men samtidigt handlat så lite om politik. Det märks även när man ser svenska kommentatorer diskutera personvalet i USA.

Det handlar om taktik. Drillade personligheter. Catchy slogans. Skandaler. (Dubbel)Moral.

En skandal blev det när två meningar rycktes ut ur ett tal levererat av en viktig Obama supporter: pastor Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright anklagades för att vara det värsta av brott. Opatriotisk. Denna sjukdom spreds då vidare till Obama. Man ryckte ut "No, no, no. Not God bless America; God damn America!” ur sitt sammanhang. Skandal! Obama blev tvungen att ta avstånd. Samtidigt gick Hillary ut och förklarade sin patriotism. (I ett annat läge talade Barack Obama om vapenfanatiker i Pennsylvania. En mindre skandal bröt ut. Hillary började då berätta historier om hur hon som barn lärde sig skjuta av sin farfar eller om det var morfar.)

Här ett utdrag ur talet

"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into position of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no. Not God bless America; God damn America!”

Den käre pastorn har naturligtvis sagt andra dumheter. Han har vad som annars går under namnet anti-amerikanism haft fräckheten att prata om övergrepp från USA. Att det som hände elfte september kanske hade sina skäl. Vilket inte betyder att han dansade och sjöng av glädje vid ruinerna av World Trade Center.

"We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arawak, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism! We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism! We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel. We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard-working fathers. We bombed Gadafi's home and killed his child. "Blessed are they who bash your children's head against a rock!" We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy. Killed hundreds of hard-working people; mothers and fathers who left home to go that day, not knowing that they would never get back home. We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye! Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after school, civilians - not soldiers - people just trying to make it day by day. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans, and now we are indignant? Because the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yards! America's chickens are coming home to roost! Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred and terrorism begets terrorism."
Från Counterpunch.

Såna här kommentarer fungerar inte i det intellektuella klimatet i "the land of the free, home of the brave." Du stämplas som anti-amerikan. Det är över. Ridå! Det blir ingen akt två. Media har släckt debatten. Från högerprästernas håll ansågs nine-eleven var Guds hämnd för de homsexuellas leverne och existens i USA. Vilken förklaring verkar sundare? Vilken är lättare att arbeta med?

DN: Pastorn slår tillbaka. Obama slår tillbaka mot pastorn.
Ps! Kan det här personvalet ta slut någon gång?