I'm laughing my ass off reading Jeromy Brown trying to explain away the hypocrisy of Barack Obama lying about taking public financing.
What's so funny--aside from Jeromy (and Mike Ganzeveld, as well) drooling about Obama's awesomeness--is finding myself agreeing with Thomas Tallis, who seems to be the only person at Iowa Liberal not so drunk that he sees Obama is just another politician in the Bill Clinton mode.
Because, seriously, you have to be drunk to make arguments like this:
So let’s run you through this again: You’re being a drama queen whining about Obama changing his method of public financing. It wasn’t a betrayal, a stab in the back, or a step backwards. You said you sent the guy a check, so just like me you own a piece of him. This connects to FISA, because given the non-shockah that he’ll make inappropriate decisions that vary from the principles of people like you and me who made his campaign possible, we have the power to push back and get him back on course.
Get him back on course? Because you sent the guy a $75 check? That really defies logic. Worse yet, when Obama doubles back on the rhetoric, the same useful idiots believe it time and again.
Jeromy has argued that Dana and I haven't "the slightest shred of principle." That's pretty hard to believe, coming from a guy who actually thinks that Obama piously saying he's gonna try real hard to change the FISA bill has some meaning.
The problem for poor pups like Jeromy is that they must not remember what eight years of parsing the meaning of "is" was like. Maybe he just spent too much time at the university dive to have noticed what electing a guy willing to say anything (and, believe me, Barack Obama is willing to say anything) just to be president is like. Well, I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 and defended his triangulation strategy for four years before I finally got fed up with it and became Republican. Not because Republicans are perfect, but the principles (yes, Jeromy, principles) for which the GOP stands for are closer in line with individual rights and liberties, which I consider the bedrock of freedom. So, while McCain can flip-flop on drilling in ANWR or some other non-issue (I love the argument about McCain violating campaign financing laws from people defending Obama), I can be reasonably sure he isn't going to nominate judges that offend normal sensibilities about the Constitution or pull the troops out of Iraq.
But when you have entertainment like this to read, it's gonna be a fun election season.
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