I haven’t prepared a midweek post because I’ve been expecting the Flight 93 blogburst which, for me at least, is not simply a matter of uploading.  I always prepare a brief but thoughtful introduction, and I thoroughly edit the essay and reformat the photographs, graphics, and animations.  Additionally, I code the blogburst with an array of meta data, optimizing the post for Google keyword, image, and blog searches.  It’s a dirty job.

Waiting for the missing blogburst to arrive has got me in another pensive mood, musing about what I’d rather be doing—thinking about why I do this at all.  And hearing the silly twit in the video express himself in song reminds me of all the incredibly gifted and talented bloggers and artists engaged in the counter-jihad and in defense of western traditions and values.  Inspired by the limitless human spirit, they used to spend much of their time in Bohemian pursuits, voraciously consuming great art, music, and literature and tirelessly honing their own aesthetic skills.  They had hoped, all of them, to write great books, to compose symphonies, to capture beauty on canvas, and to make powerful and unforgettable films.

Where did they, where did I, go wrong?

Each taken in isolation, any of Obama’s many alarming connections to racists, radical socialists, and terrorists could possibly be explained away, but if you can’t pull them all together and paint the  portrait of a Marxist subversive that you don’t want anywhere near the White House, then Claude Monet you’re not.  But Michelle, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and the rest have nothing on Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who wades in blood and enjoys the adulation of the Obamas.

The story of Obama’s association with his tribal relative Odinga is not a new one, but the powerful video is new.

Lots of authors have written the story with the disclaimer, “Obama may not be a Manchurian candidate, BUT . . .”  On the other hand, Obama may be a Manchurian candidate indeed, and his troubling connections to the slaughter in Kenya, and to the barbarian Marxist Odinga, do nothing to allay our fears.

We can take Barack Obama at his word when he says he’ll meet directly with Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-il, Hugo Chavez, and Assad.

He knows his way around scum.