Katherine Mangu-Ward has a blog post on yesterday’s presser, with a bonus link to The Onion.

All the President’s creeps.

[Update a few minutes later]

I liked this comment:

Obama distrusts and/or despises the U.S. military, so he takes a job as Commander-in-Chief when two wars are ongoing.

Obama has little positive to say about America, so he takes a job where he is the Head of State of a nation he largely abhors.

Obama despises capitalism so he leads a nation that has a reputation as a paragon of capitalism and which built its prosperity on this economic system.

Obama, who perceives himself as black, is an academic racialist and sometime racist who wants to lead a nation that is two-thirds white.

Obama, who believes Western Civilization is ultimately the cause of all that is ill in the world, takes a job as chief executive of the nation that is preeminent in the Western world.

Obama, who is neither Christian nor Muslim and who attended an anti-Semitic church for 20 years, wants to lead a nation whose citizens are mostly Christian and whose history is steeped deeply with Judeo-Christian sensibilities.

Obama is thin-skinned and overly sensitive to criticism, so he takes a job where he is criticized every minute of every single day, all across the world, for some reason or another. Much of the criticism is ill-informed, but some of it is well-informed and cuts right to the bone.

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What could possibly go wrong?

The irony is amazing.

Why won’t the press stand up for Molly Norris?

Freedom of speech and press are in deep trouble when the American government thinks the best it can do to protect a journalist from death threats is to counsel her to go into hiding, and when the elite voices of American journalism can’t be bothered to say anything in her defense. But it’s actually worse than that. The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof thinks Muslims are owed an apology. “I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you,” he wrote Sunday. “The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you.”

Instead of telling the rest of us that we’re all bigots, shouldn’t Kristof and the rest of the journalism profession be outraged by what has happened to Molly Norris? And shouldn’t they be angered that her government believes it cannot protect her? Imagine what they would be saying if white-hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan were threatening to kill Norris in Selma, Ala., instead of radical Muslims in Seattle. Would the FBI tell Norris she had to stop being a journalist and go into hiding? And would ASNE and SPJ look the other way as the First Amendment and freedom of the press were symbolically turned to ashes by flaming white crosses?

Cowards.

…for Chrissie Matthews.

[Update a while later]

Chrissie’s not the only one.

“In Delaware, we have an avowed Marxist against a witch. The only question: is she a good witch or a bad witch, because there’s no such thing as a good Marxist.”

That’s what I say, too.

They hire incompetent and idiotic brown shirts.

I’ve only voted for one presidential candidate in my life who won (Jimmy Carter, and I’d like that vote back), and most of my political life has been out of step with the country. You know those (misleading) “right track/wrong track” polls? I’ve never thought that the country was on the right track. At best, there have been times that the train on the wrong track was slowing down a little, but in the past couple years it’s been speeding up to the point that the boiler is about to blow (not sure how far to stretch this metaphor…).

Anyway, I’m gratified to be among the majority of likely voters (note, not “adults,” or “registered voters,” which are useless for determining election outcomes) whose views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than Barack Obama’s. Note also the disparity between the views of the political class, which still loves The One, and the serfs.