Enough Already

Barack Obama's campaign has been to the National Review Online what a baby is to a shaky marriage- the breaking point. Is the NRO's nervous breakdown a reflection of the current state of the GOP? Or proof that tiny minds think alike?

We've selected five posts which prove that the NRO and reality are headed for a nasty, post-election divorce.

5) Obama pronounces things correctly. Kathryn Jean Lopez (or K-LO as she's known to friends and enemies alike) accused Obama of running for president of Europe (which we're pretty sure doesn't have a president), because he pronounces Pakistan "Pock-i-stahn." Mark Steyn followed up with an inexplicably titled post ("The Hunched Pak of Notre Stan") condemning Obama's "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation and praising Sarah Palin for saying "Eye-raq."

4) Obama is descended from Communists. Lisa Schiffren, former speechwriter for Vice President Dan Quayle, and current NRO blogger writes that "for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics." Andy McCarthy follows up a few months later to clarify that the radical son is really more "Maoist than Stalinist," in case any of you were worried.

3) Who really wrote Obama's book? Black people can't write books, so it must've been a ghost-writer. The obvious conclusion? William Ayers. Yes, Obama not only pals around with terrorists, he lets them shape and edit his life story for public consumption.

2) Sarah Palin gives Rich Lowry a public erection. Word for word:

I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.

Before he wrote this, Rich Lowry was best known as a FOX News contributor and Clinton-polemic writer, but the term "little starbursts" prompted Keith Olbermann to name him the worst person in the world.

1) What if Obama had been aborted? In NRO's version of "It's a Wonderful Life" Barack Obama dies in the womb, which is their way of both oddly threatening him, and condemning pro-choice America. Weirdos.

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