Jesus Christ in a birchbark canoe. Grow the hell up.
But wait. You want Mature Thought? Well, there's always Peggy Noonan pondering about what Obama stands for and delving deep -- way deep -- into the wells of irony when she says,
It seems to me that our political history has been marked the past 10 years by lurches, reactions and swerves, and I wonder if historians will see the era that started in the mid-'90s as The Long Freakout. First the Clinton era left more than half the country appalled--deeply appalled, and ashamed--by its series of political, financial and personal scandals. I doubt the Democratic Party will ever fully understand the damage done in those days.Oh, yes...a budget surplus and a blowjob are no match for the trifles of an unprovoked war and the demolition of the Constitution. How silly of me to have my priorities so mixed up.
Ms. Noonan concludes her pondering thus:
We'll see what Sen. Obama has, what he is, what he becomes. But right now he seems part of a pattern of lurches and swerves--the man from nowhere, of whom little is known, who will bring us out of the mess. His sudden rise and wild popularity seem more symptom than solution. And I wonder if historians will call this chapter in their future histories of the modern era not "A Decision Is Made" but "The Freakout Continues."Actually, I think the appropriate term should be "The Republican Flopsweat" because they realize that all of their contenders put together at a GOP fund-raiser don't generate the excitement that Barack Obama gets when he stops at a 7-11 for a Mars bar.
