Reductio ad Obamum

Yeah, I know, this must be Beat Up On The Liberals Day. But hey, they are being such easy targets these days, who can resist? There are so many liberal chickens coming home to roost right now that they're going to have to build an addition on the henhouse. The latest facet of this saga to be held up for all to see was described by Pat Buchanan in today's paper: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_564349.html

He points out that the 2008 Election is the Democrats' to lose, and that they are showing every sign of wanting to do so, in a sort of frenzy of self-destruction. (I call it "political Darwinist altruism" -- a species that has no right to survive does itself, and everyone else, a favor by going extinct.) Obama is getting "outed" on a daily basis -- by both parties, but especially by fellow Democrats -- as the radical elitist that he is. But what I say is this -- radical elitism has been the heart and soul of the Democratic Party since at least the 1960s... and just plain elitism for longer than that. Oh sure, they win because they manage to fool some of the people all of the time, and... you know the rest. But do they really _believe_ in the "common man"? Hell, no. All that is typical, average, and common in America and in Americans is anathema to liberals, and to the Democrats. They know better, and there's an end on't. The only difference between Obama and Hillary is that he is less abashed (or more clueless, or less hypocritical) about showing his true, um, colors (liberal, that is). But she is no less an elitist, and her particular brand of elitism reminds me of no one more than Eva Peron... except maybe for Elena Ceausescu... or Chiang Ching. Whereas Obama is more the Salvador Allende type -- the "nice guy" backed up by a bunch of thugs.

What's extra-crispy about this particular election is that the Democrats have been caught in a snare they set for everyone else. Political correctness and racial "sensitivity" have served as their blunt weapons for decades now. But all of a sudden we have a charismatic black man running against the establishment liberal. Where's good old-fashioned bigotry when we need it? Well, it is alive and well in the person of Bill Clinton, who has emerged as the ascended (if only!) master of all the "code words" you need to declare an opposing candidate black, and therefore unqualified, without using either term. But guess what, it's not working. Americans have been beaten into submission by the liberal thought police for so long that all of Bill Clinton's whining is falling on deaf ears. No, that's not right -- it's actually backfiring. And it would probably have scuttled Hillary's campaign long before this, except that Obama just can't help being -- well -- himself. Rural white America for him is populated with primitive, superstitious, childlike creatures who need the higher wisdom and guidance of a superior, um... race? Wait a sec, isn't that what the colonial powers (the more benign ones, at least) always used to say about Africa? And isn't Obama half African? Ah yes, truly a house of mirrors, and truly a meltdown of all that is liberal, and John McCain must be getting more relaxed and mellowed out by the minute, as he sees this orgy of exploding liberal heads. Yes, truly this election is the Democrats' to lose, and they seem to be intent on following the way of the dodo. This is one species that will most assuredly not be missed.