Is That The Best You Can Do?

Sen. Obama’s new politics is increasingly looking slimier rather than cleaner. More interesting is the total irrelevance to capability of the candidates. While they whine like the younger brother being teased by sis whenever the Messiah’s inadequacies are pointed out, they seem overly eager to throw manure at any wall nearby to see if it will stick. The problem might be that it will splash back on them.

Digging For Dirt

The innuendos earlier in the week that VP candidate Sarah Palin had faked her pregnancy to shield her daughter was almost too disgusting to be believed. Then the detailed discussions of amniotic leakage and premature delayed delivery after a long flight home leading to Down Syndrome was so puerile that even some Democrats noticed. Now, we’ve got the factual announcement of Palin’s teen daughter actually being pregnant. And, gloating by the press and the left while somehow demeaning the idea of the young man marrying her and the couple having the child. Wow, this sets a new low even for them.

The basic truth is that it would be difficult to find a family in America that hasn’t experienced a similar situation. The way that the Palin’s are handling it seems more commendable than condemnable. Might be that moderate Americans will respect it.

Now we’ve seen the startling revelation that Sarah’s husband at the age of 22 had a DUI arrest! Is this somehow indicative of a deeply flawed character in the candidate? Why is this news? Please somebody give me a rationale so I will understand why I should care.

And then did you get that cloaked phrase in the Politico piece linked above, “and a nasty child custody battle involving a family member.”

Do you remember what that is about? It is about the Governor of Alaska firing the state’s Director of Public Safety for corruption, part of which was his defense of a state trooper who was threatening and abusive of his wife and children. The trooper was so far off the reservation he Tazed his 10-year-old son. The wife divorced him and sought custody of the child. Seems reasonable to me. The wife happened to be the sister-in-law of the governor, but that hardly seems to rise to the level of Bill Clinton’s employment of Arkansas state troopers as go-fers to bring him women he took a liking to on the trail. Is the implication that there is abuse of gubernatorial power when demanding appropriate behavior of government employees if you are related to a victim?

If this is the level of political discourse that the Democrats bring to the table this election cycle, we seem to be in the final volume of a Gibbon’s style history of “Decline and Fall.” I’m depressed.