I’ll apologize up front for the overuse of quotation marks as indicators of sarcasm. That said, it has been disappointing to watch the level of “outrage” amongst “conservatives” these past few months on any number of “issues,” most recent of which is a back-to-school speech by President Obama that will be broadcast Tuesday across the country.

Our own local paper reported that school officials will provide alternate activities for students whose parents don’t want them watching Obama’s speech. Which is fine, so far as it goes — one wonders why schools don’t make it so easy for parents who don’t want their children immunized, for instance, or subjected to all manner of “tolerance” seminars — but what possible reason would one have for not wanting their child to see it? The same talking heads who are denouncing the speech are the ones who claim superiority on most issues of “patriotism”; since the presidency is set up by the Constitution, it would seem they’d at least let the guy tell their kids to do their homework and not play so many video games.

Some people, it seems, are so bent on finding anything wrong with Obama that, in turn, they’re forced to find everything wrong. The whole thing reminds me of one of the wiser comments I heard during the Sotomayor hearings a couple months back (it may have been Larison who said it, but I don’t remember off the top of my head). In her now-infamous “wise Latina woman” comments, Sotomayor was roundly accused of being racist — a charge that Republicans have long claimed was being leveled against them all too often, unfairly and generally with no regard to the context of what they were saying. Yet, instead of prove their point by holding their tongues, they simply decided that what was good for the goose was good for them, and hence lowered even further the amount of dialogue allowed where issues of culture/heritage/class are considered.

The equation seems to be this: Liberalism is socialism (it’s not). Obama is liberal (well, on some things). So Obama is a socialist. And since socialists like Hitler and Kim Jong Il sometimes speak to their people, the fact that Obama wants to give a speech shows just how socialist he is.

Tags: cranked to 11, Kim Jong Obama

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