Andy McCarthy writes over at the Corner and as usual for those people over at that formerly great Magazine, he misses the whole point. 🙄
C’mon folks, let’s not be a bunch of mirthless wusses here. Mark Steyn’s cover story for NR’s April 21 edition on Mrs. Obama’s America was laugh out loud stuff, and we all howled over the unintentionally hysterical New Yorker cover that depicted Michelle as a militant. First families and their eccentricities, real or imagined, have never been off-limits. What Obama said, whether you think it was funny or not (I thought it was kinda funny) was not offensive — it didn’t come close to John McCain’s infamous joke (at a 1998 fundraiser) at Chelsea Clinton’s expense, and I don’t recall too many protests around here about our candidate’s occasional low-brow jape. Let’s not act like a bunch of Lefties just looking to be aggrieved over this or that slight. This is likely to be a tough stretch, and we’ll need to be able to laugh — at ourselves and at the other side — to get through it.
Andy, that is not the point. The point is that the man was elected President; with that office comes some great responsibilities and one of them is the respect the Presidents that came before you. So far, B. Hussein Obama has demonstrated that he lacks the class of a true statesmen. I happen to think that Ronald Reagan was one of the Nation’s greatest Presidents, outside of FDR. Ronald Reagan had more class than this jerk will ever have.
If this is the start of utter stupidity to come, I tend to believe that we Conservative writers will have plenty to talk about, come the next four years.