By the time Bush I decided to address the [...]]]> I honestly don’t remember if I got to watch Reagan’s 1988 address to us kiddies. I certainly don’t remember being kept home from school to avoid being indoctrinated. Nor do I remember school officials posturing over it. But, we may not have had CSPAN, or whatever.

By the time Bush I decided to address the wee ones, I was no longer counted among their number. But I don’t remember much outrage.

And when the craziness started about Obama’s plan to follow suit, I ignored it because I only read about it on liberal blogs. So, I assumed that the liberals were blowing out of proportion some below-the-threshold of the nirthers craziness and trying to tar movement conservatism with craziness that they didn’t own.

In the last, say, 24 hours though… it seems to have blown up and spread to some Tennessee school officials who now plan to nix showing of it in order to keep large swaths of children from being kept home from school by teabagging parents.

So… I’m scratching my head. Just how far is Obama Derangement Syndrome going to go? And why? I can understand disagreeing with some things that he has done – but even if you disagree with them most of them have been extremely mild deviations from the status quo – the most radical departure coming if it does in the form of making insurance companies provide the product they sell. Sure the idiocy with flag@whitehouse.gov deserves all manner of derision – but hell – it ain’t warrantless wiretapping.

I’m trying to stay aloof from the viewpoint that it is racism that explains the craziness. 1) I know people who are equally crazy but who certainly aren’t racist, and 2) I don’t want to assume the worst without evidence. But, honestly… what is the source of this stuff?

Update: Reading publius, it occurs to me that the reason is that the leadership of the left is wussish and unwilling to create the right narrative by showing backbone. Jibes with what I know about elected Democrats. So, I ask you – has the angry right gone too far?
Answer: Yeaaaaaaaaagggghhhh!

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