I have a usual group of folks who forward links to me about every possible thing they come across that suggests Barack Obama might not be the most honest, perfect man who ever lived. They seem to think I've said somewhere on this blog (and often) that I think he is.
As it happens, I agree with a few complaints about the man. I also agree with a few things that didn't bother these people one bit when anyone named Bush or Reagan did them. An awful lot of them are just bogus criticisms…things that never happened or did but have been twisted into ginned-up outrage. If Obama eats a tuna salad sandwich, there's someone out there thinking, "Hmm…how do I get upset about that?" Then they figure out a way and we have Tunagate for a few days until it goes nowhere and they try something else.
The latest horror seems to be that Obama paid a low income tax rate. I feel about this the way Josh Marshall felt about it this morning when Joe Scarborough, one of them MSNBC Liberal Commies, launched into a tirade about that. Marshall wrote…
I'm not sure Scarborough realizes there's a difference between a wealthy person who pays a lowish tax rate and wants to raise rates and one who pays a lowish tax rate and want to make them lower. Seriously, Joe, you're being a moron.
Out of manners and a desire to dial down the personal invective, I'd have left out the "moron" part. But I'd have thought it.