The Audacity of Despair
August 24th, 2008 - 9:04 am
The convention hasn’t even started yet, and already you can smell the hippies desperation — Slate’s Jacob Weisberg argues that racism is the only reason Obama could lose, and that his loss “would be taken for what it would be: sign and symptom of a nation’s historical decline.”
Wow. Who knew?
UPDATE: Maybe it’s the “derisive laughter,” instead.
Since Obama started running for President, there has been an almost creepy, unnatural
( some would say undemocratic) “cap” on any criticism of him. As a rule, people dont dare criticize him, because it will put them in a bad light, because as we continually see and youve noted but one example, there are a great number of vocal folks in the media power centers, who are all too willing, enabled and empowered to say “only racism” when you offer criticism of the candidate, no matter how basic the criticism might be.
But now things have changed a bit. Ladies and Gentleman, The Democrat presidential campaign have just handed us a “proxy” on which criticism may be safely leveled at all times and all days of the week.
You see, now that Obama has picked an old establishment white fellah, decent folks who wish to criticise the candidate may now do so with impunity, so long as they say its “actually about Joe Biden”.
Late night Comedy writers who have been tied to writing the same old jokes about McCain ( apparently hes old and rich, who knew!) and have long since run out of jokes abut Bush and Cheney(boo hisss!), who have long wanted to write jokes about Obama and his campaign, but for the sake of their careers and lives dare not do so; they are now free to write them at will, but only if they say its about good old” what-will-he-say-next-guy” Joe Biden.
Politcal hacks of both parties who have long wanted to get their claws into the Democrat candidate may now safely unleash their worst barbs and pretend that its actually not about Obama( Oh perish the thought!) , but about Biden and therefore its safe.
This will serve two purposes for us on not on the leftist side of the political argument. The first is what naturally happens when you take the lid off of a boiling pot, it spills over and gets rapidly out of control. All of those people who have up till now have been holding their tounge may now speak freely, and speak they shall. Second, any attention spent on Biden will make Obama look smaller, and as such, much more mortal and perhaps dare I say, vulnerable?
VP’s are best for the President when they are invisible. If they are visible, they tend to only do harm. So I ask you, since the Democrat VP candidate is the comedy writers motherlode of cheap jokes, the mining of which will have the natural effect of bleeding the air out of the “Obama Ballon”, how long will it be until the media wing of the democrat party deeems any criticism of “Slow Joe” to also be racist or perhaps even “anti-catholic”, because of course, no criticism of Slow Joe could possibly be about the fact that he is really the biggest potentially flammable gas bag to appear on the east coast, since Dr. Hugo Eckner got out of the transportation business.