Thoughtless for the Day

Today on the Soapbox, Charlie has posted An Open Letter to America, which is not nearly as insane as I'd hoped it might be. Basically, he's telling his readers that even though Barack Obama has a commanding lead in the polls, they shouldn't get all freaked out and...um...you know; kill him. There's been a lot of this backpedaling going on the Right lately and I'm sure it's not for altruistic reasons so much as the fear mongers saying to them selves "Hey, if anything does happen to that one, angry mobs of dem thar darkies might come looking for the folks who called him a terrorist." Quid ergo. Here are the "highlights" from Charlie's letter:

"My friends and neighbors, my brothers and sisters, my supporters, my detractors, Democrat, Republican, Baptist, Catholic, sophisticates and fellow hillbillies, lend me your ears, or rather your eyes for a few minutes."

Wow, Baptists and Catholics? Charlie is really drawing a diverse crowd these days. Still, it was nice as Charlie to call us "sophisticates" instead of his usual "filthy over-educated unpatriotic liberal scum".

"Upon reflection I find myself guilty lately of falling in with the bad news crowd, and goodness knows there's plenty of it to fall into, but since I've been guilty of accentuating the negative and ignoring the positive lately, I'd like do something different."

What follows is nine paragraphs of Charlie telling us how great America is. But we already knew that because America is getting ready to piss all over Charlie's parade by electing a colored fellow.

"We are still the freest, the most prosperous, the most powerful, and the most technologically advanced nation on Earth."

It's actually a sweet little post. Something to hang on to in the coming weeks when Charlie goes back to accusing Obama of being the Antichrist and blaming the ACLU for his erectile dysfunction.

"But I thought that John McCain was a decent man. I have altered my opinion of him considerably. First of all, he claims to be a republican which he is not. He is an opportunist who is actually running against his own party and doesn't seem to care if he tears it apart as long as he can keep riding around on that chartered jet."

- Charlie Daniels on John McCain in 2000

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