Puffin’s Place

Just heard Elizabeth Dole’s ad calling her competition “godless.” I am a North Carolinian, and Elizabeth Dole is beyond a cipher. She is something like 93rd on the list of competent senators. She is the most empty of the “southern woman” stereotypes, and except for the raised brake light in cars from long ago during her stint as Transportation Secretary, she has done nothing at all to advance to country or its people.

For her to suddenly appear with a series of ads–one of which takes Kay Hagen’s comments badly out of context and the recent one which prattles about the godless–is grotesque.

And my question is, why are we not impeaching public figures who play the god card? Have they not read the Constitution? Is it now coin of the republic to cast aspersions on another’s religion, or disinterest in same?

These are interesting times. If we do not soon put some folks capable of thought into positions of power, consider how attractive Canada will become. And consider how diminished will become this country, once the world’s ideal. We do not need to be the world’s ideal, but, by god, we do need to become again a country where one can breathe, think, dream, and realize something more than power and money.