Barack Obama gave his speech to school kids this afternoon. There's an elementary school down the block from me and I guess they heard it because all the students are out goose-stepping and wearing little Hitler mustaches. They're even demanding health care for all because as we all know, that's the first thing Nazis care about. And it's such an easy slippery-slope from "Stay in school" to "Don't be stupid, be a smarty…"
I'm not mad at the crazies. If anything, we should be grateful to them for driving the moderate voters towards the Democrats. I guess I'm a little disappointed in the "have it both way" statesmen like John McCain who want to preach sanity to their party but not in any way that's going to alienate the insane.
They remind me of those sixties' politicians who didn't want to side with the separatists and racists but also didn't want to lose their support. A lot of them learned to pronounce the name they used for the African-American race as "nigra." That way, they thought, the Equal Rights crowds would hear it as "negro" and the Klan voters would hear the other "n" word. It was like that scene in that Red Skelton Civil War movie where he walks between the warring troops with a two-sided flag — Union on the side facing that army, Confederate on the side facing them. John McCain thinks all this talk about "Death Panels" is nonsense…but of course, Sarah Palin is still a woman of great integrity.