Give Peace A Chance
by digby
Roy Edroso points to an hilarious Wall Street Journal editorial which says that all this hope that Obama is offering is unnecessary because in a country where poor people can be fat and Ann Coulter can snag herself a Democrat for a boyfriend, there are no differences among us after all. Kumbaaya, my brothas.
I guess Obama’s the frontrunner now, because (though the dopes at National Review are still tearing at Hillary’s carcass) the Wall Street Journal is giving him a hard time, on the grounds that “the division Mr. Obama promises to end has largely been put to rest”:
A nation in which the poor are defined by an income level that in most countries would make them prosperous is a nation that has all but forgotten the true meaning of poverty. A nation in which obesity is largely a problem of the poor (and anorexia of the upper-middle class) does not understand the word “hunger.” A nation in which the most celebrated recent cases of racism, at Duke University or in Jena, La., are wholly or mostly contrived is not a racist nation. A nation in which our “division” is defined by the vitriol of Ann Coulter or James Carville is not a truly divided one–at least while Mr. Carville is married to Republican operative Mary Matalin and Ms. Coulter is romantically linked with New York City Democrat Andrew Stein.
Well, Stein and Coulter have broken up, so maybe America’s sorta divided after all. (And you thought Parade fucked up!) But I see their point: welfare queens are pretending to be lynched and stuffing themselves with Devil Dogs while supermodels vomit — we’re in great shape. read on…
It’s an interesting approach. The United Bloomers discover polarization one day and the next the WSJ declares that peace is at hand. By next week I fully expect to hear that the Democratic elites have been running our country into the ground long enough and it’s time for the Republicans to take their country back.
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