The Great Debate

John McCain's surrogates are having a very hard time figuring out whether or not Barack Obama is a patriot. It's a pity they can't settle on an answer. On one hand, Charlie Black was recently forced to concede that Obama's a patriot. But Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney say no, because he's popular in Europe. In that case, hang Jerry Lewis for treason! I think REM had a hit over there too, put them on the Terrorist Watch List!

This comes out of the great outrage of Obama suggesting that bilingual education might be a positive for American children. The scoundrel! He wants to educate youth! Doesn't he know what America's all about?

I'm going to outsource further commentary on this to Alex Knapp.

Frankly, all this seems to be is a pathetic attempt to feed the ‘Barack Obama is Unamerican’ narrative. A narrative that, I might add, has the result of making Americans sound like ignorant hillbillies. ‘He’s got a funny name!’ ‘He likes food that tastes good instead of crap that’s fried in lard!’ ‘He likes foreigners!’ ‘He wants to speak other languages!’ ‘He’s educated!’ ‘He played basketball instead of football!’ Embarrassing, really.

Your modern conservative movement: embarrassing. No wonder even some of its elected officials think it would be a good step to lose a lot of elections and "clean house."