The House is Burning Down
Mark Steyn on a roll:
That's what a lot of these smart guys thought when they saw Obama: "He looks like me. I can imagine myself sitting across from him at dinner and enjoying it." Whereas Dean Barnett talked like Sarah Palin marinated in a vat of chowder for a year and a half. Nevertheless, Dean looked past Obama's tailoring and "temperament" (elite-speak for "cool"), and listened to what the guy was saying. As for Stuart Taylor, he still doesn't quite get it:
The house is burning down. It's no time to be watering the grass.If only. The house is burning down. And Obama's soaking the neighboring buildings in Exxon-Mobil's finest. Fortunately for Mr Taylor's fit of the wobbles, the alternative to the Obama Fire Department is a GOP "dominated by such hard-right conservatives as Rush Limbaugh". Twenty-five million people listened to Rush last week. Millions of them have listened to him for 20 years. That makes them "hard-right" extremists. Whereas being one of a few thousand who listened to Jeremiah Wright every week for 20 years makes you a mainstream moderate.