THE NEW BARACK OBAMA

I like him. I hope he stays around and continues to call the Republicans out on their hypocrisy.

H/T to Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin.

HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT?

James Fallows writes in the Atlantic of the latest Republican debate sponsored by Fox/Google:

You have to wonder: is there such a thing as a party going too far? This is one of "our troops," whom politicians of all camps promise to "support." He is on duty in Iraq. And a crowd is booing him ... because he is gay? This is like booing black troops, because they were black, after Harry Truman ordered that the the military be desegregated in 1948. People who would have done that in those days were out-and-out bigots -- people who let color prejudice turn them against fellow Americans who were sacrificing on their behalf. And their successors who booed tonight

My question: Why was Fallows still wondering? Hadn't we enough evidence before latest line-up of blathering GOP candidates that the Republican Party has gone too far? During a previous debate, when a question was put to Ron Paul about a hypothetical case of a 30 year old man without health insurance who became gravely ill, and Wolf Blitzer asks Paul, 'But, Congressman, are you saying the society should just let him die?', and audience members shouted, 'Yeah!', wasn't that enough to make Fallows wonder? And when the crowd at the GOP debate applauded wildly when Rick Perry said he did not struggle at all with the 234 executions (now 235) which took place during his terms as governor of Texas, didn't that make him wonder if the party had gone too far?

H/T to Counterlight for the link.