At last count, AmericanDad’s “Open letter to Conservatives” had accumulated 778 recommends on TPMCafé, a site where the most recommended diary typically accumulates 20, and it isn’t hard to see why.
I was ready to cheer as soon as I saw AmericanDad’s Christmas-card of an avatar…
“Me and JonBenet on Her Fourth Birthday”
Hurrah!
And Russell King, aka “AmericanDad,” isn’t just any kind of dad!
He’s an American Dad!
Cue the music from Grand Funk Railroad, and try to memorize the inspiring chorus, America!
He’s an American Dad!
He’s an American Dad!
He’s an American Dad!
He’s an American Dad!
He’s an American Dad!
You get the idea.
Or maybe you don’t, because reading AmericanDad’s diary wasn’t much different from hearing a Grand Funk chorus 778 times in a row, and by the time you had read one of approximately 778 links in it, you might just as well have read them all, because the very same awesome idea appeared and reappeared in all of them.
For example…
You can’t fight against your own ideas just because the Dem president endorses your proposal.
Don’t criticize Obama for doing exactly what conservatives already did!
And likewise throughout AmericanDad’s almost unending litany.
You can’t call for a pay-as-you-go policy, and then vote against your own ideas.
Are they “unlawful enemy combatants” or are they “prisoners of war” at Gitmo? You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t rail against the bank bailouts when you supported them as they were happening.
You can’t enjoy socialized medicine while condemning it.
Forget that Obama acts almost exactly like a neo-con!
Forget that Obama also “enjoys socialized medicine while condemning it.” Single-payer was off the table from the get-go!
Forget that Obama also supported and continued humongous bailouts for the mega-banks, while millions of American families went into foreclosure with almost no help at all.
Forget that Obama also wants to “have it both ways” about enemy combatants/prisoners of war, and waffles all over the map about how and where to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Forget that Obama also endorsed “pay-as-you-go” and capped domestic spending while unemployment soared and millions of American families lost everything.
That’s not the point!
The point is that neo-cons criticize Obama for acting like a neo-con!
The point is distracting Democrats from the miserable hypocrisy of their corporate-conservative sell-out of a President!
And they love it!