Image by Getty Images via @daylife… Speculations on barking madness (and other epidemics)
I don't know what to think anymore. The Tucson madness seems to have catalyzed a runaway barking-madness of inextinguishable proportions.
I am not normally a fan of conspiracy theory, which ordinarily is the first refuge of those who bark. But these no longer strike me as normal times, even by today's hyperbolic standards. So … What if the obsession to demonize Palin, a run-of-the-mill flawed individual (as most of us are) of a certain charm and abundant baggage, is an emergent attempt to drive the right into spitefully nominating her to challenge The Obama in 2012, anticipating a likely landslide-victory for the latter? By today's standards of conventional wisdom, that no longer sounds that implausible to me.
One of the most outlandish things I have heard in recent weeks is that The Obama's eulogy for the victims in Tucson, which by many accounts that I respect was very well prepared and delivered, somehow has been hyperbolically elevated to the rarefied heights of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address! Such a comparison is the very essence of barking madness.
In this great Nation's grand history of two and a quarter centuries, one might expect to have had two and a fraction Presidents who qualified for "hundred-year greatness". And as luck would have it, such has, indeed, been the case — George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and, arguably, though by no means universally acknowledged, FDR. Any speculative musings, by people prone to tingles in their nether regions, about The Obama's claims to our pantheon of greatness is barking madness.
I could go on, but then I would probably need a double dose of anti-depressant …
Post 1,538 If you feed it, it will metastasize
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