God Willing, We Will Prevail!

What a stooge. What a horribly set-up event. And what a queer command of language and grammar. Both Lenin and Mao were quoted. And what was that nonsense about the European Union being made up of peoples whose cultures have nothing in common? You don’t need to be a woolly pro-European to understand that Europe’s people’s have very much in common and that their histories have been very closely tied for centuries, and not just in some ideological surge of emotion after WWII.

He’s a queer fish, George, there’s no denying it. I think the sad thing about folks like him who seem to understand the reverse of everything which is true and see conspiracies where there is none is that their whole world view must lead to great inner turmoil, for he believes the world is actually a far nastier place than it really is, or at least, sees nastiness where there is none. Then this desperation to see victimhood and exploitation everywhere makes him hateful and pukingly conceited. I agree his views are dangerous, or at least deranged, but I don’t know if he - the man - is that dangerous, is he? I mean, does he have that much influence? I know he’s an MP and pops up in Syria every now and again, but I think most folk must see him as a buffoon, a British Zhirinovsky. Bonkers and in the public eye, yes, but his star will surely wane soon enough.

Joe, the vagaries of the British system mean that you don’t necessarily need THAT much support (at least numerically) to win a seat in parliament. I’ve just had a quick shufti at the BBC election website and he got 15,801 votes and 35.9% of the vote, beating the then incumbent by under 1000 votes. The campaign for the seat was famously vicious, nasty, personal and even violent, and in a part of London with all the problems of a pretty grim inner city area with which, to my knowledge, Galloway had no particular connection (he had previously represented Glasgow constituencies). He went for that constituency because it had a large Muslim population, mostly poor, and the incumbent was pro-war. (I don’t know how much the fact that she was also black and Jewish figured in his logic.)

As to how his rise to prominence reflects on Britain, I couldn’t possibly say. Politics is always bound to throw up this type of demagogue once in a while. He is the one representative in parliament of one small, freakish party (68000 votes countrywide in the 2005 general election, 0.3% of the overall vote) of no great significance. He gets far greater coverage than he deserves.

George Galloway: Not anti-war, just on the other side

Proof here….

Hawks vs. Doves

People have called George Galloway a “dove”.

Is his “Arabia uber alles!” speech cons…

Well, we do live in the day and age of hyperbole, so I can see why people like him! And as a wise woman I once knew said “it looks very good to appear generous”. How kind Galloway is to stick up for those who have been ravaged by the infidels!

It seems many people have forgotten that one can complain about George Bush, issues in the U.S. etc. and still see darkness outside of the U.S. and may be also a bit of good in America. My Galloway supporting friends try to convince me that the world would be just peachy keen if it weren’t for the horrible United States. And indeed, I’d love to have an intellectual discussion about the destructive education policies of the Bush administration, etc. I’m just afraid that references to Hitler will come up if I do!

“A politician like Galloway wouldn’t ever be able to rise to prominence in this country. It just couldn’t happen.”

Imagine a white Al Sharpton?