Which will be a first for Krugman and I.
One measure of how crazy people on at least one side of the Democratic nomination struggle have become: I’ve gotten a number of complaints that the end of my last — entirely non-political — column, “hope is not a plan,†was a swipe at Obama.Um, guys, it’s a phrase military types use; I started using it a lot when Iraq went pear-shaped. In fact, if you Google it, the first entry that comes up is a book about the Iraq war.
I’m sorry to say that a large part of the progressive movement seems to have lost its sanity.
While warming up the vehicle to go to work, before I pop in a CD or thumb drive into the stereo head unit, I listen to see just how high the Seattle Air America affiliate is pushing the crazy-meter that evening.
As of late, I’ve been rewarded with the anti-Semite, Mike Malloy, confessing to his Troofer beliefs, which may explain why he’s been bumped back to a 2100 start.
In substitution at 2000 I’m getting Randi Rhodes (aka: She who gets falling down drunk, falls down and breaks her teeth out and then gets hailed as a victim of right wing haters).
After this last dust up started by Geraldine Ferraro, Rhodes has given up façade that she’ll support either Democrat candidate and is 100% behind the Obammessiah at this point. Michael Savage couldn’t be tougher on HRC than Rhodes is. She’s in full-on hate mode.
The other night she was making a comparison between Obama and Lincoln, talking about how experience doesn’t matter and paralleling their legislative careers with about 90% accuracy. I made one comparison to myself, and didn’t expect Rhodes to even think of it was:
Lincoln fought a war that helped end slavery.
Obama will make us fight a war to keep ourselves from becoming slaves.