Likelihood of Success

I guess it’s just so much easier to find a label for someone, no matter how idiotic the proposition is, than to articulate meaningful criticism.  It wasn’t all that long ago that we were hearing that Obama, who is merely big-government liberal, was a Red (click the picture).  This morning it’s even better:

DAVE KOPEL EXPLAINS: President Obama Is Not A Jihadi. “There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that our President is a jihadi.”

Kopel seems to see it the same way; as he explains in his own short piece,

Jihadi, Commie... whatever

My view is that there is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that our President is a jihadi. . . .

One portion that didn’t make the cut was my equating the allegation of “jihad?” with the earlier claims of some mean-spirited extremists that President Bush was as evil as Hitler.

True that, but of course no one’s surprised about that “editorial” cut.  It’s still depressing that “our side,” or what I once thought was “our side,” has descended to this.

I am telling you, I was there, as a small-time activist for my state GOP and on campus as well, during the Reagan years.  Despite what they said about us, we were occupying the moral high ground — and the intellectual high ground.  It was the professors and so forth who were sputtering with epithets about us, but we were promoting ideas, not labels.  We took pride in that.

Depressing to what it’s come to, but, again, not surprising.