Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, July 14, 2008 9:48:14 PM
What is it they say? Journalism is literature in a hurry. I often get ideas for things at times when development is not an option, so it ends up on my non-time stamped index cards. I've been told there is a Limbaugh monologue out there on this subject. And two or three people invented the telephone, but Bell got his to the Patent Office first.
So call me a plagiarist, but this must be said. I'm getting pretty damned tired of the parameters of conversation that Obama is trying to muzzle us all with.
The July 4th speech was pretty clever. After taking a few moments to honor McCain's service to the country, he declared BOTH of the candidate's patriotism off limits. So we can't talk about his flag pin or his patriotism.
We can't talk about his wife. We can't talk about his ancestors. We can't talk about his Preacher. We can't talk about his religion, because that's code for us labeling him as some sort of closet Muslim.
We can't talk about his friends, no matter how wacky and reprehensible they are. We can't talk about the guy facing prison time who sold him his house and property at such an amazing price.
We can't talk about his middle name. And we certainly can't talk about race, which he bounces back and forth between being past and obsessing about how others are using it against him.
Which leads this former New Yorker to one question: Obama, who the hell died and left you in charge?
This is where the rubber meets the road for John McCain. Lee Atwater would not put up with this crap. Neither would Karl Rove. Or James Carville. I certainly won't. If McCain loses this election because he allows this arrogant s**t to walk over him, there will be hell to pay later- for both of them.