Enjoying the Right Wing Freak Show

THE ATTACKS BEGAN against Barack Obama even before the first pitch was thrown, even as it did against Bill Clinton, and now, Hillary. The pillory Hillary has isn't even warmed up yet, and already we see the viciousness. In 1993, the right wingers protested by grabbing their Bibles and automatic rifles, putting on camo fatigues, and heading out into the woods, for whatever purpose. Timothy McVeigh put an abrupt end to that. No such luck for H. Rodham and B Hussein; no McVeigh in sight - yet. Just for the record, no, Obama is not a Moslem. If he were, he would probably tell us, straight up. And, to boot, Hillary Clinton most likely has not used her personal computer to sell state secrets to foreign powers. Whatever her lapses in good judgment, they are probably less severe; she did, after all, graduate from high school. Don't count the right wing crazies out just yet; there's enough insanity among them to go around. It may well be that one among the Jesus,Guns, and Money crowd will try something stupid, and all the acrimony will take a turn for the mild. None of this is new. In 1800 Thomas Jefferson was accused by his opponents of being an adulterer and an atheist, both charges of which were at least partly true. Since then we've descended into a less rigorous standard of truth; never let the facts get in the way of a good slander. Obama is not a traitor, and he does not hate America. Hillary has involved in no cover ups, as far as we know. If she has, they are still well covered. Not to worry; the attempt to slander members of the Democratic party into submission trudges on, and one can only hope that the fascinating spectacle of hatred based vitriol will continue to keep sane people sufficiently amused to keep laughing, and to keep brushing it aside as the garbage that it all is.