I‘m pretty sure I’ve detected the left’s new meme that has arisen out of the ashes of the Pennsylvania disaster: In short, America is not worthy of Barack Obama. In his Time Magazine column, Joe Klein elaborates:
On the one hand, liberal whining of this sort serves a useful purpose, as it sprouts up reliably every four years. It can help the rest of us keep track of time. It’s sort of like the Summer Olympics, but without the stupid stuff like synchronized swimming. But on the other hand, this kind of pouting is awfully annoying. It eventually acquires the flavor of an acorn plummeting to earth and carping about gravity. Politics is and always has been an ugly, full-contact sport. For goodness sakes, the politics of an earlier time were so “low” that Andrew Jackson’s wife was pretty much driven to her death by the antics of his political enemies. It was fortunate for Old Hickory’s foes that he wasn’t the grudge bearing type. For more reading on the subject, I commend to you Edward Larson’s highly entertaining book, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign. Predictably, the whining takes on a particularly grating character when attached to the Obama campaign. If Obama really is so determined to run an unprecedentedly high-minded campaign, why does he insist on mischaracterizing John McCain’s comments about “100 years in Iraq?” In truth, Barack Obama understands that politics ain’t pretty. Even Joe Klein probably knows this. They just want the other guy to have to deal with all the ugliness.
