Twisted Spinster

Kathy Shaidle is right — this article, or whatever it is, by Kathleen Parker, seems to have been written while she was three sheets to the wind. It’s more not-so-disguised drooling over Obama, but it also reads like she has just now noticed this cool guy running for Prez and she’s putting his photo up on her Myspace page as we speak. He’s “more Reaganesque than Reagan”? His recent Sham-Wow!-esque infomercial “presented real-people stories and real-people solutions with the voice and demeanor of Mr. Rogers”? And she sneers at the “right-wing blogosphere” for pointing out his hypocrisy concerning the situation of his elderly relatives, despite the fact that his entire campaign is focused on making Americans who dare to make more money than they “need” guilty? How insulting. And this is a doozy:

Four years ago, Obama famously described his vision of America as neither liberal nor conservative, neither black, white, Latin nor Asian.

“There’s the United States of America,” he said. “We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

Should he win on Tuesday, let’s hope he meant it.

Um, no, Kathleen, I can not see that he “meant it,” not after a campaign whose racial message basically boiled down to “if you don’t vote for me, you’re a racist.” He didn’t have to say this out loud — he just let everyone else on his team say it for him. Does this woman live under a rock most of the year? Hasn’t she noticed one goddamn thing that’s been going on? I used to be a regular reader of the National Review, online and in print, but that hasn’t been true in years; this is one of the many reasons why.