Wesley Prudens offends--so very much.

Today I read an editorial that offended me in so many, many ways. It was as if someone acually decided to go out of their way to offend people. This editorial was by Wes Pruden, and this is the sort of obviously bigoted bullcrap he wrote:

But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy '60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to "hope" for "change." It's no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of "the 57 states" is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

He no doubt wants to "do the right thing" by his lights, but the lights that illumine the Obama path are not necessarily the lights that illuminate the way for most of the rest of us. This is good news only for Jimmy Carter, who may yet have to give up his distinction as our most ineffective and embarrassing president.

I could very nearly go word by word to show where this offends the sensibilities of any reasonable human being with sense, regardless of race or creed or even generational affiliation.

Let's just take the "likely knows no better." Wow--that is condescending--especially when you are talking about your Commander-in-Cheif and the rightfully elected president. Wow--so very tacky. Actually, he bowed because he knows bowing is appropriate as a Japanese greeting, and other presidents have also bowed to Japanese dignitaries and it was done because that is polite to their culture, and because we haven't been at war with the Japanese since the surrender after Hiroshima--n'est-ce pas?

As to the "grungy '60's", only a few Baby Boomers were actually "grungy" in the "dirty hippy" sense. Quite a lot of draft dodgers from the 1960's actually are conservatives today. Like Rush "Gotmore Pyles" Limbaugh. The actual movement known as "grunge" was a musical movement starting about 1990 which appealed to flannel-wearing and probably mostly-liberal post-punks like myself. Us Generation X post-punk grunge proto-liberals kind of think bringing up whether Bill Clinton could really salute makes you a douche.

The issue really is, "How did any Japanese view Obama's bow?" It might have been the awkward obeisance of a tall American to a short Emperor, and awkward, but it was recognized by Japanese as polite.

But let's get down to the really nitty-gritty offensive bit--

"He was sired by a Kenyan father"--oh snap. For one thing, "sired" better be talking about your horse. And as far as "Kenyan", he had to go there. His "siring" by a Kenyan father (who did not raise him) and a mother with the "jungle fever" and grandfolks who aren't even from a real state--because, seriously, have you ever driven to Hawaii? All makes sense to stupid people.

He wants to "do the right thing"--this son of "jungle fever". But he isn't even really real to Wes Prudens, no? He's just a multi-cultural post-grunge excuse for liberals to pretend the world outside of the US matters. Um. Point to us and Obama for being grown-ups who recognize there is a greater world outside of the US--boo on Prudens for being a racist fuck-up editorializing for Moonie birdcage lining.