Obama gets away with it, and will continue to get away with it, because a sizeable chunk of the American electorate is either stupid, drugged, malignantly narcissistic, or lacking in all curiosity. It gives me no pleasure to believe that a lot of my fellow citizens and voters lack the rational faculties essential to a responsible republic, but that conclusion is inescapable when I watch Obama pass off a string of bromides and canards as a "brilliant speech." The guy is a demagogue or, more prosaically, a slick bullshit artist who appears to have found a receptive audience in the Boomer Baby generation and their spoiled offspring.
The country has changed; what we will learn in November is how much. I remain hopeful that McCain, the warty one, will still emerge victorious and save us from the brink so we can start rebuilding a more vigorous liberty-centered movement.
