Idiot Wind

‘Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.’
- Hurricane, Bob, 1975

The statement by Sen. Obama’s wife, Michelle, that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” has been invoked by Republicans in an effort to portray Mr. Obama as culturally unlike the people he is asking to vote for him—a historically potent line of attack.

This will continue, no matter if the Rev. Wright controversy dissipates.

“What pathetic, little, delicate flowers Americans and political pundits are," wrote the Liberal Street Fighter.

Amen.

Obama, an American success story if there ever were one, gets skewered for being associated in any way with anyone who ever said anything critical of American society.

But Obama need not apologize for anyone, or be on the defensive.

Obama needs to get on the offensive and challenge every moronic pundit that unity, rights, equality, liberty and freedom from economic want comprise the foundation upon which American society has progressed the last 75 years.

And fighting for this foundation ought be the basis of his campaign for the presidency.

A major address laying out a vision is called for as the corporate media remains obsessed with trivia, but not in front of a staid audience, but rather a loud, lively crowd of 1,000s of Americans to whom Obama presents his ideas for approval.