Get you hip boots and umbrellas out, America,here comes the shit-slinging republican far right. Now that most conservatives realize they have no winners in this horse race their only recourse is to take to the low road, a path they know so well having paved and repaved it for decades.
The appeals to the ignorant among us, the GOP base, are coming at us at an alarming rate and intensity, destined to increase exponentially should Obama win the nomination.The noise machine was quick to pounce on Michelle Obama's statement concerning her pride in America. For the record, she daid...
"For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country because I feel like hope is making a comeback...not just because Barrack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."

She did not say she was never proud of America, she simply stated she was really proud, a matter of quantity, not quality. The next morning we get Cindy McCain's deliberate distortion of Michelle's statement, no doubt prompted by her hubby's handlers since Cindy has never been known for her opinions on anything. The flap was augmented and spun to distraction by the frothing attack dogs of conservative talk radio, those darlings of the Rovian kennels who take their marching orders from the White House.
Last Friday on the Bill Maher Show we were assaulted by Jack Kingston, a true son of the south, who accused Obama of being un-American because he didn't put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. The idiot should have known that one places one's hand over one's heart when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. He then observes that Obama doesn't wear a "made in China" American flag lapel pin, as if adorning the body with our national symbol automatically imbues one with true patriotism like those magnetic ribbons which displayers claim demonstrates their palpable support for our troops fighting and dying in an unjust and illegal war.
A few days later the Kingston bumbles his way onto the Dan Abrams show to make the same lame claims. As Abrams points out that Kingston is not wearing a pin, the segment evolves into a comedy skit much to the chagrin of the petty plowboy who, had he any sense of propriety should have been embarrassed. He merely whines that he doesn't see the connection between his attack on Obama and his failure to be sporting the much ballyhooed lapel pin. I can only hope that he is not the best Georgia has to offer.
Since the far-right bigots know better than to attack Obama for being black or even "halfrican", they find new fodder by invoking Obama's middle name...Hussein, Hussein, Hussein!! His name is Hussein and his last name rhymes with Osama!! See, America, he's a Muslim plant, an Al-Quaeda operative lying in wait to subdue us.
Sadly, those who buy into this crap have already been subdued by their own ignorance and fear, a fear hand fed them by the Fascist Bushies who have learned from history that fear is the most effective method of influencing and controlling the ill-informed.
Obama is a Christian and anyone who would fear him because of his name is hopelessly mired in the 13th Century.
This won't work this time, Rove, even though you have deceptively urged your minions to refrain from attacking Obama on race or religion for fear of being seen as the racists and bigots you really are.
We are in an electric, high-stakes campaign for the soul and future of the Republic. We will have a Democratic President, presumably Obama, in November. Let us hope that voter fraud will be minimalized and that we will not suffer another "attack" in the form of an October surprise when Bush and Cheney realize their regime is over and that the possibility of accountability will find them in the witness stand and eventually in prison for their numerous crimes.
Only though vigilance and a growing sense of political awareness will we be able to stave off further assaults on our freedoms and the specter of martial law promised us by a cowardly, would be dictator.
Ribet...ribet.