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It must be nerve-wracking sharing a common roof with a Democrat — actually, as I recall, in one of those forgettable marriages I did, and by now my therapist can afford to buy back AIG from the government.
When associating with a Democrat, I have learned it is safest to walk around with a kiss in one hand and a clenched fist in the other. One cannot be sure which side of a Democrat will emerge in public.
Democrats are smart. They are clever. They are insightful. But so frequently that it is common, irony glides right by them. Subtlety invariably turns into mystery.
When an event happens that you know even shallow persons comprehend, influential Democrats tend to freeze in their tracks with their top lip pointed up and their bottom lip pointed down.
Marc Cooper did it just last week. One of Southern California’s sharp liberal commentators, he wrote an essay for the L.A. Weekly that makes you wonder if the guy was ingesting a foreign substance when he crafted it. He narrated a lovely family story about how he and his wife, for authentically noble reasons, encouraged their daughter, now in her mid-20s, to become a community organizer.
Tell Me You Weren’t Fooled Again?
Without an ounce of common sense evident, Mr. Cooper said with a straight face — that many of the incurious will embrace — that judging from recent harsh Republican criticism of community organizers, obviously he and his wife erred in supporting their daughter’s career choice.
By golly, Murgatroyd, Mr. Cooper only left out one part. Led by Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, Republicans said that serving as a community organizer does not automatically qualify one to be President, contrary to what Barack Obama steadfastly has maintained.
Being a community organizer is an honorable profession. It can lead to a beautiful life.
But this often amorphous position does not fit the job description of Presidential qualifications. Most candidates would not even mention it, much less billboard it. Can you imagine a stock clerk arguing that responsibility makes him eligible to run the supermarket? It is an exact analogy.
Times Goes on Defense Again
Tell us, Mr. Cooper, that you were putting us on when you said community organizing had been besmirched.
Perhaps the gentleman’s cleverness has been overrated.
This very morning, the Los Angeles Times —which may not survive in business long enough to recover its integrity — donned its Obama cheerleader outfit again.
Eschewing subtlety once more, the Times dispatched a veteran reporter, who knows better, to Detroit to redraw the case for an Obama Presidency based on his experience as a community organizer. It is the type of piece that school newspapers do for their April Fool’s edition. This is how far the newspaper has sunk.
The joke was so broad and so coarse that it likely put off any independents or fence-sitters.
Meanwhile, the nakedly partisan daily rants by the Times, by The New York Times, by the Washington Post, under the guise of news rather than opinion, has led to the low-grade of reporting historically associated with unsupervised community newspapers.
Five years ago in the Illinois legislature, Mr. Obama voted for a precedent-setting kindergarten/sex education bill that would chill the spines of many, perhaps most, parents. Now that part of his life story has become public, his vote is an embarrassment, one of many he has sought — pretty successfully — to obviate, with the cooperation of a sycophantic media.
On the grounds of “how would it look,” the blushing Mr. Obama denied the assertion. Reporters covering his campaign shrugged. Must not be true, they said in unison, because the candidate said it isn’t, and he is not disposed to fib.
Since sensible Americans did not allow themselves to be led to the polls by the nose by a 95 percent liberal media in1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2004, perhaps sounding reasoning will again prevail on Nov. 4.
