Civil War
Except there’s nothing remotely civil about it.
You have to read all of Michelle’s post—these are just a few highlights:
When Clinton’s surrogate finally showed up he was… Sean Astin??? Yes, the man who played Samwise Gangee in Lord of the Rings had flown up to rally the Hillary Clinton troops. Which made very little sense, given that the type of people who show up for legislative district caucuses on a Saturday don’t really need a celebrity (or semi-celebrity) to motivate them to take political action.
Astin’s speech was most memorable for this line: “Should Obama get the nomination I will become a massive Barack Hussein Obama supporter.”
Sure, that’s his name—but Harpo Marx’s given name was Adolf, and do you think anybody called him that?
There was some time to kill as multiple tallies of the delegates and alternates were done, and when the time-killer of taking audience questions had run its course and the idea of teling jokes had been nixed, someone suggested doing the Pledge of Allegiance to pass the time.
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At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which there was only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hat) was shouted down.
Thus saving the left-wing loonies the effort of saluting the flag in their traditional fashion: with their raised middle finger.
Aunt Agatha has brilliantly likened the Obama movement to Jimmy Carter’s insurgency—but I can only say I hope she’s wrong. Carter won (once), after all, with disastrous consequences for America.
Please God, let him be McGovern.