We Hate To See You Smile

The AFA, a “family-oriented” association, is choosing to boycott McDonald’s for donating money to a Gay and Lesbian organization.   The AFA is boycotting Mickey-D’s because they feel that McDonald’s should not take one side or the other in this “culture war.”

What I find absurd is that the AFA wishes some people to objectively rise above their squabble, while they themselves want to stay in the trenches.  If this “culture war” is about one side being right, and the other wrong, then shouldn’t everyone take sides, even fast food restaurants?

I guarantee you one thing, though: If McDonald’s had donated money to the AFA, the AFA would be applauding McD’s for choosing the right side and endorsing the God-sanctioned institution of marriage.

Once again, it’s not about the cause, it’s about the money, the politics, and the power.  I don’t think the AFA or anybody else concerned wants this “culture war” to end.  They’re all getting a lot of press that they otherwise wouldn’t get. 

But again, I guarantee you that if McD’s offered the money to the AFA, they wouldn’t have turned it down.  So their real objection should just be that the money wasn’t offered to them. 

A lot like the jaded kid in elementary school who didn’t get a tootsie roll like the kid beside him.

Stop your bitchin’, AFA.  Grow up. 

And buy a double-cheeseburger.

You know you want it.

Mmmm…

Action Jackson

Did you hear what Jesse Jackson said when he thought his mic was off?  Ohhh, the things we say when we think our mic is off. 

But it shows you one thing:  For people like Jackson, Sharpton, and all those other political clowns (white, black, yellow, or red), it’s not about equality, hope, justice, or any other quaint word we can all believe in.

It’s about politics and power.  Special and personal interests. 

When Imus made a remark about black basketball players, he loses his show on MSNBC and is publicly chastised.  When Jesse Jackson makes off the cuff remarks, thinking his mic is off, he expects everyone to be okay with it. 

I am not okay with it.

He’s one of many individuals who spend their careers criticizing and judging other people when they make a verbal slip, but doesn’t want the heat when he himself makes one. 

Do you see how political this is?  We see what he really thinks of Obama when his mic is off.  But he’s asking us to ignore the candid remarks and listen to what he says when the makeup is on, the lights are ready, and the camera is rolling. 

It’s all politics, my friends. 

Not a person on the top really believes in what they’re doing.  They believe in more money, and more power.

They’re all as corrupt as you or me.

Ain’t one of ‘em got an ounce of hope, or change, that we could ever believe in.