Squaring the Culture

See-Dubya at michellemalkin.com produced this handy guide to Democratic candidates and their favorite terrorists:

I watched Sean Hannity’s incessant repetition of “I wouldn’t even shake hands with that man,” (speaking of former Weatherman Bill Ayers) and had to turn him off. Hannity doesn’t think deeply, and only sort of intuitively understands the reason Obama’s association with former Weathermen has any significance. It’s not that he’s been on panels with the guy; that doesn’t mean all that much. It’s that Obama has spent his life immersed in politics like those Ayers voices, so Ayers’ politics don’t strike him as anything remarkable. “He uses violence to achieve political ends? Why, yes, my mother and several of my mentors told me that might work sometimes, but I prefer an insider approach. What of it?” Ed Morrissey observes what would happen to a Republican with similar ties. (He doesn’t go far enough; note what’s happening to McCain just because he let an Evangelical pastor endorse him. Pathetic.)

Meanwhile, thanks to a press corps recently rescued from Clinton Catatonia by their new obsession with Rock Star Obama, Madame Clinton faces tough questions from Newsday about her own support for pardons to known, dangerous terrorists, lest she get away with pointing out this latest in an endless parade of chinks in Obama’s Messianic Armor. Read Newsday’s story with this in mind: where was this sort of analysis back when the Clintons occupied the White House? Recall the Clintons laughably claiming “bureaucratic snafu” to avoid inquiry into dozens of scandals, and invoking vast, right-wing conspiracies to destroy the President. Recall the press dutifully chanting their excuses like glazed-eyed cultists. If the press had been doing its job during the 1990s, we wouldn’t be threatened by another possible Clinton presidency now, and the Clintons might be in jail where they belong. Michelle Malkin snorts appropriately about Hillary’s characteristic attempt to lie her way out of a clear contridiction: “I didn’t know anything…” Sure you didn’t, Hillary. Of course you didn’t.

There are still Democrats in America, but the core of the party whose primaries we’re watching these days is actually more Marxist-Socialist than it is Democratic. Their apparent comfort with the violence of radical activists illustrates the point. It’s worth understanding in the current political climate. The liberals of an earlier era would never have accepted these candidates. (For that matter, the liberals of an earlier era are all called “conservatives” today. There are very few old-fashioned conservatives left — I don’t think we should pay them much attention — and the core of the left is now occupied by socialists and neo-Marxists.)

Malkin also has a pretty good collection of discussions regarding Obama’s Weather Underground connection, if you want some more detail.

This is not a non-issue, and it will not go away, nor should it.