David Frum and Amy Holmes already starting the memes... [View All]

[misanthrope]

...on CNN tonight.

Frum said McCain should hit Obama on his stance regarding immigration. Frum also noted Barack drawing attention to McCain's age by thanking him for his half-century of service, then characterized it as condescending and demanded Barack apologize for his ingratitude to this war hero. He said it will anger and alienate older voters, you know, the ones least likely to vote for Obama anyway.

Holmes hit on Michelle Obama's ingratitude toward her country, a nation she said made Michelle's good fortune possible.

This will be the likely tack from the GOP should Obama get the Dem nod: the pair of upstart--dare I say "uppity?"--ingrates who refuse to fall on their knees and thank God for being Americans and who don't show the respect due a true war hero and his "war mother" bride.

I was born the same year as Michelle Obama, but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. It was smack dab in the middle of the civil right era, just a few months after four little girls were killed in bomb blast at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a site not too far from our house. Believe me, with the crap I've seen in my lifetime, I completely understand her sentiment about reluctant patriotism.

And there's still a lot of racism out there, it's just more publicly covert, disguised in code words and the like. Should Obama win the nomination, we'll get to see it all on display once again in all its stealthy glory.