GUT CHECK

Ever wonder how the war party, greedy multinationals and the self centered rich keep the vast majority of us working stiffs and unemployed from rejecting their "rich get richer" and endless war political philosophy? Simple. They toss a "red meat" wedge, or more accurately, hate issue to the masses to keep them stirred up about anything but the wholesale theft of America's treasure, and unchecked militarism which is our only growth industry.

Since the election of a President trying to reverse that self destructive path practiced by the Bush Administration for eight years, here a few of the red meat morsels offered up to an apparently very gullible public:

National health care equals death panels

Obama is an illegitimate President because he was born in Kenya

Obama is a secret Muslim sympathetic to Islamic Jihad against America

Hordes of nearly full term illegals are crossing the border to drop their baby to improve chances of staying in US

Acorn is not a nut falling from a tree but a massive criminal organization trying to steal elections

A decades long courageous civil rights activist and dedicated public servant is nearly destroyed by a transparent racist smear

A Muslim educational center planned two blocks from the World Trade Center site is an unacceptable expression of religious freedom

Maybe the chunks of red meat hate issues placed on our daily menu by the extreme right won't cause colon cancer.....but they sure leave a sickening feeling deep in the gut.