Amused Cynic

No, that’s not a typo….I meant for my reference to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story to reflect the fact that the Obama campaign is now offering us TWO empty suits. No, wait…..

That’s not really fair to empty suits, and not completely true to the fairy tale. The Democrats gave us two empty suits last time in Kerry and Edwards. What they’re giving us now, as their “convention” begins, is a classic rendition of the old tale, times two. Obama and Biden don’t even have suits. As the wise little child pointed out: “But….they don’t have anything on!” So true.

I won’t get into too much Obama today, ’cause I’m still playing late-summer hooky, and looking to get back out there, away from my computer, but as you know, I think the entire concept of an Obama candidacy is ridiculous. Ridiculous, and transparently so. Always has been, always will be. But as for Sen. Joe Biden….

It has become fashionable for many who should know much better to mouth words about Biden’s “formidable” foreign policy expertise, all of which comes from the fact that, as someone said the other day, everyone is good at something, and Joe Biden is very good at getting people from his three-county state to elect him senator, time after time. As a long time observer, I belong to the camp that uses such descriptives as “buffoon” and “clown” when speaking of the supposedly illustrious senator from Delaware. I use the word “imbecile,” as well. In fact, he is a poster-boy for exactly how trivial American politics has become.

He and Obama are perfect together, and I again have a sense that I’m going to be the one winning the lunch bet.

RELATED: Byron York on people beginning to wake up…

American Thinker has already been thinking similar Andersen-American thoughts, so it seems….

Obi’s Sister thinks the jokes will write themselves, and yeah, she’s so right….

Iowahawk is back from the races, too….

The Anchoress remains in post-retreat mode, apolitical, but that doesn’t stop her normally apolitical husband from noticing the ridiculousness of Obamania. (I will be making the same college drop-off myself in a day or two….glassy-eyed and bored on the NJTP, and on into the New England Thruway…)

Then we noticed the same thing at each rest-stop; all sets were tuned to CNN, and CNN was Only Obama. I supposed that since the Democrat Convention was gearing up and Obama had just named Biden as his veep, the excessive coverage was to be expected – somewhat – but when we stopped for coffee the next day and he saw yet another set, tuned to CNN and discussing “why does Europe love Obama so much,” he shook his head. “I understand about the convention and all,” he said to me, “but this just feels almost unseemly, to me. It’s non-stop to the point where it feels like political idolatry or something. I don’t remember ever feeling like any one politician is just being lobbed at me incessantly, like this.”

Neo-neocon thinks that the arrogance of the Obamakins could have the Democratic party heading for a realignment that they really didn’t see coming….I agree.

When I read some of the PUMA comments, I was struck by the fact that some of them mention their disillusionment with the entire Democratic Party, and especially with the reactions of friends who are Obamaphiles. They’ve found themselves under vicious verbal attack by some of the latter, and they’re shocked. I guess they haven’t been reading neo-neocon, or seen my descriptions of what can happen when one crosses the line with formerly open-minded-seeming liberal friends.

Here’s one of the PUMA comments:

I had the same experience with a friend. I don’t think this is unusual. When I said I was voting for McCain, she shouted at me, “Whose side are you on!!?” Then she told me, in all seriousness, that I must be racist.

And this:

I was at a party two weeks ago where politics came up. When I explained that I would not vote for Obama because I had issues with his lack of experience and disagreed with many of his positions, and named a few, such as FISA, such as his questionable comments about mental illness and partial birth abortion, the guy looked at me with a straight face and told me that my problem was that I was looking at Obama only through the prism of race…seriously…

I was so shocked that my mouth dropped open…and then he went on to explain that the only reason Democrats like me aren’t supporting Obama is because we are hung up on his race. When I pointed out the obvious, that my own skin is about the same color as Barack’s, the guy went on about how even though he is white, he doesn’t look at Barack through the prism of race and I should get over it.

It was one of the weirdest experiences I have ever had.

It is indeed weird to experience firsthand the intolerance of those you previously thought allies, and to be the object of the intensity and illogic of their attacks. It’s no fun to be considered an apostate. My guess is that, for at least a few of these women, this might even be the beginning of a long slow process of political change of greater magnitude.

[Note:  P.U.M.A is an acronym, standing for "Party Unity, My Ass."  Or not... ]

The Hans Christian Andersen story is available here…as are similar, multi-cultural parables….