Derangement Syndrome?

I really don’t like this guy Barack Obama. At first I was like, this guy’s OK, I don’t agree with him mostly, but he is a breath of fresh air in many ways. Wouldn’t it be great at home and abroad to have a partly Black President? Of course it would. It would be great. The war in Iraq is already won. He can’t really screw that up. And he can’t do much of anything else because there’s no money. The worst thing that might happen is that he and the Democratic Congress will raise taxes on people richer than me.

But now? I hate him. I can’t stand to even watch him on TV. I have to flip the channel. It’s just like Bush Derangement Syndrome, which I have had some trouble understanding. What is this? Am I like totally susceptible to the great American political polarization that all the pundits are using for column fodder? Or is Obama really an a**hole?

I’m sorry. I know he’s part Negro and all, but I think he does just happen to be, racial DNA completely and utterly aside, an a**hole. I’m telling you, this guy Barack Obama respects Bill Ayers and the most Reverend Jeremiah Wright (Rev. Wright seems so long ago, thanks to the MSM). I mean I know he was just using them to get ahead in Black Chicago politics, and I understand that, but nevertheless, in spite of that laudable, manipulative, political ambition, I think there actually is some deep sympathy, on Obama’s part, for the “ideals” of the 60’s that Ayers and Wright represent.

He keeps talking, for example, about how guilty we are for consuming so much energy, and, in general, for being so undeservedly rich and powerful, as if America (and George W. Bush) were the primary source of the problems in this otherwise beautiful world of ours.

And now His handmaidens are spreading rumors to the effect that McCain somehow cheated and listened in to His SaddleBack interview, and that he stole his most poignant Hanoi Hilton story from Solzhenitsyn. Just for the record, that anecdote, about the cross in the dirt, does not appear in any of Solzhenitsyn’s works. Questioning the integrity of a man who spent five and a half years being tortured in a Communist prison camp, on behalf of myself and all Americans, seems like a rather desperate tack.

Obama may believe that the American people are ignorant, racist, selfish, whiners, and I’m not saying there is no evidence to support that point of view, but I don’t think it’s a winning message. And I think that, obese and bellicose as we Americans are, we’re not as stupid as the Democrats think we are.