Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree with what the president wants to do, you don’t “support the troops.”

Strangely, I’m a little sad to see this one go. The reason is simple: this attitude represents the high hypocrisy of a certain brand of flag-waving, anti-democratic ignorance–calling it “conservatism” is a gross insult to real conservatives.  The second Obama takes the oath of office in celebration of my 39th birthday, these roving bands of dittoheads will turn their thinking 180 degrees and oppose any decision by the President.  Bringing the troops home will suddenly become a surrender, an insult to those who have already died, as if throwing more bodies on top of the pile would somehow lead to redemption.

If this attitude didn’t go, Obama could bring a swift end to the Iraq morass, focus on real ways to address terrorism world-wide and potential terrorism at home, and do it all without the strident, hateful, voices of these anti-patriots ringing in his ears.

Instead, they will throw up roadblocks and complain that the President, the Commander-in-Chief, doesn’t support the troops. Here’s hoping the roadblocks get overrun by a heaping helping of Yes we can!

The fact that Obama took time out for Halloween showed a candidate feeling confident about his chances on Tuesday, with polls showing him leading Republican nominee John McCain.

Did the writer stop to consider that, while the candidate may have a reason to be confident, the candidate is also a father with a seven year old and a ten year old daughter?  And as any parent knows, there are only so many Halloweens before it loses its magic and becomes just another reason to dress like a “slutty nurse/librarian/construction worker/stripper/etc.” and binge drink.  And Obama’s ten-year-old only has two, three years on the outside, before she stops believing her parents are the coolest people on the planet.

The same thing happened recently when Obama took time out of his campaign to vist his ailing grandmother. There were rumblings of his “confidence” in this race.

I don’t see confidence, I see a man who puts his family above his career.  Obama is a political animal, cut from the mold of the Chicago Machine. Yet, unlike so many others, he appears to have at least one item higher on his priority list than his election.

Besides, if this is Obama angry:

“Come on guys, get back on the bus,” he pleaded [emphasis mine] with journalists, many of whom had accompanied him from the airport to Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.

He’s in control of himself.

If I were in his shoes, I would be doing exactly the same thing.