Relax and Enjoy

We believe that for the last three years we have maintained a firm grip on matters of US security, predicting not 9/11 certainly but the Afghan, then Iraqi initiatives, and long before most observers had even a clue. This is key; it is a track record spelling success in this business - to close the pattern early on. But everything we have done in the past is freighted with sobriety, connoting the gravity of the situation. It’s been too much. So we figure we need a break; we need to relax, have a good time, amuse ourselves. What better way than to observe the left?

First and foremost there are the average Democrats, duped into thinking that at the margin their vote counts, blissfully unaware that the anointed of their party decided after the McGovern debacle that the elders should make the final choice, hence the super delegates. Now that’s grass-roots democracy!

Then there’s the spectacle of Obama’s accumulation of hard-left embarrassments, his obsequiousness towards the special interests of the Democratic left for example, enabling the lobbyists of the AFL-CIO when they demand card-check legislation to take away the right of workers to have a secret ballot in unionization efforts, or when they oppose trade deals. Or his incestuous romp with trial lawyers even when they demand the ability to sue telecom companies that make it possible for intelligence agencies to intercept communications between terrorists abroad.

Ah, cannot forget Michelle Obama who says that until her husband’s good luck she’s never before been proud of America. Whoa now! As a reporter from the Boston Herald wondered, "We wouldn’t have one of those insufferable, holier-than-thou, Blame-America-First types who lecture the unwashed from the rarefied air of Cambridge and Brookline would we?"

And then there are the O’Bambi Monies, which ABC’s Jake Tapper called the "Helter-Shelter types of Obama worshipers". From Obama’s Super Tuesday victory speech: "We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek." Yes! Yes! The Obama campaign is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is. No one knows what Obama stands for of course, even his supporters. "I can’t wait to see," said actress Susan Sarandon, declaring full support nonetheless. Too much. This is fun. It really is. A re-living of Trudeau, "... who as the 1968 candidate was completely nonspecific, avoiding policy questions and depending entirely on style and panache," as the Oscar-nominated film maker Lionel Chetwynd draws the parallel. Put away your troubles said the silver-tongued candidate. Enraptured Canadians followed, without ever learning where he intended to lead. Trudeau mania was the elixir that blotted out a newly complex world. It was also, by any intelligent measure, a disaster, one Canadians are only now beginning to understand.

How about Chris Matthews, just days after reporting experiencing "a thrill going up my leg while listening to Obama speak the Hardball host asked Texas legislator Kirk Watson, who had come on the show to do his part in support of Obama’s campaign, "What has he accomplished? You say you support him. Sir, you have to give me his accomplishments. You’ve supported him for president. You’re on national television. Name his legislative accomplishments. "Well, I’m not going to be able to name you specific items of legislative accomplishments." Matthews pressed on: "Can you name any? Can you name anything he’s accomplished as a congressman?" Watson: "No, I’m not going to be able to do that tonight." Poor devil.

And now we have the NYT’s self - immolation with a story that even the Washington Post called "fatally flawed", a story which questioned more the paper’s standards than those of McCain. "All the News that’s Fit to Print." Hah! Change to All the News that Fits. Here is the paper which supposedly sets the agenda for the left whose staff are either dimwits or extremely naive or extremely phony, falling for the Tawana Brawley hoax, soon after the Duke Univ "rape" hoax, and then the several hoaxes cooked up by their own reporter Jason Blair, and then last month cooking up their own hoax about war veterans becoming killers upon returning to the US. It’s a pleasure to observe this paper’s descent into the sewer.

And finally there’s Hillary. As Mark Steyn notes, the supposed master of "the politics of personal destruction" can’t turn up anything better on Obama than some ancient essay from his Jakarta grade school, a few limp charges of plagiarism," and recently a pic of him dressed up in Kenyan garb. (She missed his pastor’s adoration of the racist Farrakhan, that talented individual who claims he was inspired to do the million man march we aboard a UFO, and the same individual who has provided a de facto endorsement for Obama) She can indeed turn up the heat on the networks however as MSNBC’s David Shuster found out the hard way. Shuster must not be a Letterman fan for if so he would have heard the following exchange between Letterman and Clinton’s press sect Dee Dee Myers, Feb 16, 1993 (courtesy the Weekly Std):
Letterman: "Are you enjoying your job there with President Clinton?"Myers: "I am; it's been great." Letterman: "And his daughter of course, Chelsea. How do you get along with her?" Myers: "Chelsea is wonderful. She's a really good kid." Letterman: "She seems like a very nice young woman." Myers: "She really is. Dave, don't ever make any Chelsea jokes!" Letterman: "I'm not making Chelsea jokes." Myers: "I know; I'm just warning you."

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