The flag-waving has begun, if it ever stopped:
After so many years of fear and loathing, we had almost forgotten what it's like to feel good about our country. On Thursday night, that long-dormant emotion came rushing back, like an old dream that pops out of the deepest recesses of memory, suddenly as clear as light. "They said this day would never come," said Barack Obama, and yet here, right before us, was indisputable evidence that it had.
That was the red-white-and-blue lede in
Frank Rich's column on Sunday, as though Obamarama-cum-Huckababy could flush the
BananaRepublic down the drain with, he adds, a "palpable sense that our history was turning a page whether or not Mr. Obama or his doppelganger in improbability, Mike Huckabee, end up in the White House." Please, Frank. Cut the
bullshit. The winds of change don't smell all
that good. Just read
what George McGovern says in the
Washington Post about impeaching the
Bullshitter-in-Chief and
Attack Dog, the chief's partner in high crimes and misdemeanors. Or have a look at Norman O. Mustill's collage, above. Maybe it will pop the nightmare instead of the dream "out of the deepest recesses of memory." For all your shiny prose, dear Frank, and all your anti-establishment chest-thumping about the willful Beltway stupidity of mainstream political journalism -- as though a polished reference to "fear and loathing" could channel Hunter S. Thompson -- your column sounds a helluva lot like
that old-time religion.
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Moreover, "media" and "mania" only differ by two letters-- mass media not only gloms on to any form of "mania", but incorporat
Thus, in the course of a single week, Mr. Obama becomes the Feel-Good Hit of the new year.
Do the lemming-li