Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, January 10, 2011 4:19:04 PM
Such as it is. At least the Green family and the Gifford family are maintaining a ring of dignity on their own. All around them, a flock of moral reprobates are pursuing a new narrative. Pieces of it were coming out while the engine on Congressman Gifford's ambulance was still warm.
The narrative comes from two directions. One, an acknowledgement from both sides that Bill Clinton's recovery from the Republican tsunami in '94 began in earnest with his response to the tragedy in Oklahoma City. And how did that response start? By painting a picture of talk radio, militias and anti-government types as the incendiaries that set off that bombing.
The other part is that it is in the interests of many on the left (at least they have made it obvious) to bag the bodies of Sarah Palin and the tea party people and lock the lid on the dumpster they put them in. So what if it is all a tad unseemly to do it while the dead are still being mourned and the victims recovering? It will help Obama get re-elected. Never let a tragedy go to waste, right?
I apologize to everyone for not maintaining a stoic silence in the interests of the dignity I would hope for in all this. It was the hope of at least some of these miscreants that the targets of this diatribe would allow the children to roam the nursery school halls alone for a while, until their spray paint dried into something that could no longer be erased.
Welcome to the new world. I am simply following Senator Obama's advice to be sure to bring a "gun to a knife fight". You want to bring a shovel to a public discussion? I'll shovel it back in your face. I'm sorry it has to come to that, but I did NOT start this.