Even this guy occasionally gets it all

1 comment May 8th, 2008

 

George Will, for all his vaunted brilliance, doesn’t often write columns that make good sense all the way through, which is why I don’t often link to him.

THIS COLUMN, however, has merit from beginning to end.

How about a Constitution lapel pin?

14 comments May 8th, 2008

 

Excuse me for being more logical than emotional, but I’ve always had a greater affection for the U.S. Constitution than the American flag.

Don’t get me wrong. I respect the flag, and I think everyone should.  But the flag doesn’t give us the freedoms we enjoy as Americans.  The Constitution does.

So, why are we supposed to treat the flag with almost religious reverence, but nobody’s going to get upset if I carelessly throw a copy of the Constitution in the garbage?

The answer, I think, is that the flag is about emotion, while the Constitution is about complicated concepts. 

The flag is great for raising goosebumps at patriotic parades, but it’s the Constitution that gives us the right to speak our minds, to embrace the religions of our choice, to be tried in courts of law by juries of our peers,  and to enjoy our many other hard-won freedoms.

That’s why I think it’s wrong to say American warriors have fought and died for the flag. I’d rather think that they fought and died for the principles embodied in the Constitution.

Every nation has a flag. Only America has the U.S. Constitution.

Where can I get one of those Constitution lapel pins?

NBC’s Williams and Russert skewered

6 comments May 8th, 2008

HERE’s a tale of intrigue from inside your so-called liberal media.

Hillary quits by this weekend?

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Freeport’s own Dan Balz, writing in today’s edition of the Washington Post, reported THIS about Hillary Clinton’s grim prospects of winning the Democratic presidential nomination:

“I sent a message to one of her most loyal supporters early Wednesday morning asking what are her realistic options? ‘She has only one option,’ he replied. ‘Gracefully exit and help unify the party to beat [John] McCain.’ How quickly, he was asked. ‘I would advise them to figure out how to do it as soon as this weekend,’ he replied.”

This is but one example of how the media narrative and the prevailing political winds have changed in the past two days from according a bit of lingering viability to Clinton’s candidacy to declaring her hopelessly out of the running.

Another sign is the cover of Time magazine (above), which hits newstands tomorrow.

And then there’s the abject desperation evident in Hillary’s REMARK yesterday that she enjoys greater support than Obama ”among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans…who had not completed college.”

Make what you will of that coded language, but it’s not the kind of stuff you’d expect to hear from a viable presidential candidate in the Democratic Party. She sounds like George Wallace, circa 1968.

She’s finished.

UPDATE: Pollster John Zogby WRITES that as many as 30 super-delegates will endorse Obama “probably today, but certainly within 48 hours.”