Graham Natural Truth #2: "You'll never explain to people who just don't get it, that the problem is they just don't get it."

As today's Natural Truth quote demonstrates, there are many, many people on the Left who just don't get the Barack Obama/Rev. Wright story at all. They still insist that neither man has done anything that should in any way impact Sen. Obama's presidential bid. And they blame any potential political damage on those evil Republicans.

In today's Boston Globe-Democrat, for example, Peter Canellos, says that, by continuing to support Rev. Wright for the past 12 months, "Obama gave his political enemies a chance to tie him to Wright's statements." Gee, Pete, you don't think the whole "attending his church for 20 years, making him your spiritual sounding board and giving him $50,000 over the past two years in donations" thing might have had something to do with tying Sen. Obama to this racist nutjob?

Scott Lehigh goes even farther. He admits that he would be "more comfortable if Obama had left the Trinity United Church of Christ during Wright's long tenure," but then insists that "it was never fair to read [Obama's] failure to do so as an endorsement of Wright's outlandish views."

So in Lehigh's world, I could regularly attend John Birch Society meetings for 20 years, but it would be unfair to assume I fear a blue-helmeted invasion of the US led by the Trilateral Commission? I could give $50,000 in 2006 and 2007 to Hamas, but it would be unfair to assume I support violent attacks on Israel?

Here's the deal: We have now reached the "eatin' ain't cheatin'" point of the Barack Obama candidacy. Democrats are going to nominate him, period. They can't do anything about his indefensible support for Black Liberation Theology or the ranting Rev. So they're doing what Clinton supporters did during the Lewinsky scandal. They've thrown their "cognitive dissonance" amp up to 11 and are convincing themselves for the moment that they believe the unbelievable.

During the Lewinsky story, several Lefty friends and acquaintances assured me that they absolutely believed Bill Clinton's claim that, while Monica might have been having sex with him, he was certainly not having sex with her. Therefore there was no perjury and Ken Starr was Satan, etc., etc. Today, those same Lefties insist they never said any such thing, that they knew Clinton was lying the whole time, blah, blah.

One year from now, when Barack Obama is NOT the elected Democratic president, liberal pundits will admit without embarrassment that there was never any way to justify the racist, anti-American lunacy of Barack Obama's chosen church. They will acknowledge that voters were completely justified in judging Sen. Obama for his long-standing relationship with this David Duke wannabe.

Until then, the Left's marching orders are: "Honesty in defense of Obama is no virtue, and idiocy in his defense is no vice."

Yesterday, more union stooges hit the streets of Boston to repeat their plan to protect us from deadly fires: "We'll keep sending stoned firefighters into burning buildings until you give us more money."

Do I exaggerate? Here is Scott Salman, spokesman for the Boston Firefighters Union:

“I’m sure [mandatory, random drug testing] will come up in our contract negotiations,” Mr. Salman said, adding that the Boston police received additional pay because of it. “We’d gladly do that if it were a contractual thing, if it were more money.”

Meanwhile, two firefighters with alcohol or drugs in their bloodstream died in West Roxbury; a firefighter was busted smoking pot while in a BFD vehicle; and another was just busted buying Oxy on the streets.

And yet Robert McCarthy, head of the Massachusetts firefighters union, says his union still refuses to agree to random, mandatory drug testing today. Why? "We want to be compensated."

Show me the money, he says, even after he's already been shown the dead, drunk and drugged up firemen.

As I asked of that greedy, gutless weasel Ed Kelly of the Boston firefighters union, "How many firefighters have to die before he will do the right thing? The answer, sadly, is 'more than two.'"

Geez, Graham, how long are you gonna keep pounding Barack Obama for this Rev. Wright thing? The Reverend retired, Sen. Obama has already said he doesn't agree with EVERYTHING the guy said. What more can Sen. Obama do, you racist moron?

Why, Barack hasn't used Rev. Wright to promote his campaign since...last week. It's ancient history!

That's right. Barack Obama was distributing campaign literature as recently as last week, touting his relationship with Reve. Wright.

Ben Smith at Politico.com has posted a flier paid for and distributed by the Obama campaign during last week's Pennsylvania primary. You can view the actual flier for yourself by clicking here.

The flier, handed out at black churches in the days before the primary, describes Sen. Obama as a "committed Christian," and specifically reports the following:

"So one Sunday I put on one of the few clean jackets I had and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. And I heard Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope."

Why? Why re-print and distribute this specific text from Sen. Obama's book to black voters at the same time that Rev. Wright is denouncing the "U.S. of KKKA" and claiming that America's soldiers are just "Al Qaeda under a different flag?"

Does Sen. Obama believe that Rev. Wright's idiocy appeals to black voters? Is this why he refuses to reject Rev. Wright and his teachings as a whole? Does Sen. Obama see a political upside that he's trying to quietly exploit in the pews of black churches?

And--more importantly--when will the sycophants at CNN and MSNBC finally call Obama on this? When these same fliers show up next week in Gary, IN and Greensboro, NC?

I love this cartoon, which says so much about the big-government-types (think a certain junior senator from Illinois) who are far more focused on making themselves feel better than they are actually making the world better.

The "let's spend billions turning third-world food into ethanol for my Prius!" program is just one example of many. What makes this eco-stupidity stand out is the self-righteous arrogance of the greenies pushing it. They are literally taking food out of the mouths of poor people--and spending billions of tax dollars to do it!--and then accusing those of us who oppose them of not caring enough.

"If you really loved Mother Earth, you wouldn't mind a few food riots in Haiti..."

Right.

Speaking of fools, another person who belongs on the eco-idiot list is Newsweek's Evan Thomas. This is not news to anyone who's read more than a paragraph or two of his turgid prose and junior-high debate club rhetoric.

I was stunned when I saw a Newsweek headline today, "Global Warming's Curious Absence."

What? Was Newsweek finally going to report on the real climate change story of 2008, namely that global temperatures have either been flat or falling for a decade now? Were they going to report on the Nobel laureate who wrote the IPCC and urged them to read their own science instead of promoting global warming panic? Were they going to confront Al Gore with the question "Is the theory of global warming worth the price of real starvation in the world?"

Was Newsweek finally going to report the rest of the story?!

Uh....no.

The "global warming" Mr. Thomas is marking absent is the political issue.

National polls show that the environment ranks fairly low as an issue that moves voters. In the Pennsylvania primary global warming was such a peripheral issue that exit pollsters did not even bother to measure voter attitudes toward it.

Gee, you think maybe 10 years of NO WARMING might have something to do with that?

To his credit, Mr. Thomas does make the key admission that Gorons like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Deval Patrick will not:

President Bush talks about cutting the rate of growth by 20 percent or so. But that won't do much to keep the temperatures down or the seas from rising....The only way to get from here to there on slashing greenhouse emissions is by massively enforcing limits on consumption, which means heavy regulation, or much higher taxes. Or by developing breakthrough technologies, like a way to cheaply recapture carbon emissions or safer nuclear technology. (The technology has to be so cheap that China and India will buy it.)

Cutting emissions by 20% (imagine unplugging every 5th lightbulb in your house, or firing every 5th co-worker) will do nothing. Got it? The greenies will only accept massive, draconian measures that will cost, by their own estimates, trillions of dollars and cost millions of jobs.

All based on the theory that our ever-changing climate, which regularly cycles between sunny grasslands in Greenland and ice cover in Germany, is changing the "wrong" way this time, and it's all our fault.

Is there anything liberals won't do in the name of guilt?

We all know that old trick from what Lanny Davis calls the "Republican Noise Machine" (another great techno band from the '80s). You take a candidate, point out his church attendance or his participation in the Million Man March, etc., then smear HIM for things that were said at the church or by some minister recently returned from a conference on an alien spacecraft.

So unfair!

And now here it is, happening again.

Tony Zirkle is a longshot candidate in the GOP primary for Congress in Indiana's 2nd District. He gets an invitation to speak to a Chicago group celebrating Adolph Hitler's birthday. He stands in front of a painting of Hitler, addressing an audience whose members are wearing swastika armbands and now...he's under attack! Can you believe it?

"I'll speak before any group that invites me," Zirkle told a reporter. And why shouldn't he? Hey, we're not going to start holding people responsible for the churches they attend or the terrorists with whom they associate, now are we? Besides, do you and I really understand the plight of bitter, jobless neo-Nazis? I mean, really--who are we to judge?

I anxiously await the enthusiastic press release in defense of Mr. Zirkle from DNC and others engaged in the noble fight against the injustice of guilt by association.

To quote those great political philosophers, Jake and Elwood Blues: "Illinois Nazis? I hate Illinois Nazis."