Nor has he spoken out against or made efforts to rein in the excesses of his campaign supporter and other groups who ally themselves with him.

You can’t continually keep silent and gain the benefit of their attacks by claiming that Obama personally didn’t say this – especially when every isolated opponent who goes over the top is immediately draped like an albatross around the conservative movement as a whole, when there is not the slightest organizational connection.

There’s a clear pattern here of subcontracting our the dirty work and denying all responsibility.

You can’t play this game both ways, benefitting from out-of-line supporters, refusing to condemn them, claiming non-complicity through silence – and then raking your opponents over the coals for slight infraction by people you identifiy as their responsibility on your say so.

It was most likely some random volunteer on the campaign’s version of Facebook.

No axe to grind, I just don’t like to see someone attributed for something they didn’t say.

As it is, I think the Republicans should just boycott it – go around before the speech giving interviews explaining that giving a political policy-only speech to a joint session of Congress is unprecedented and totally outside of American tradition and propriety and that’s why they’re boycotting it.

I don’t think middle America is open to munching on excrement sandwiches any more!

That being said, it seems highly unusual to use a joint session for purely political purposes, and particularly galling considering the “right wing domestic terrorists” comment.

Ordinarily we wouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But Shakespeare’s words ring all too true because the Left is shamelessly trying to exploit Senator Ted Kennedy’s death in an attempt to ram Obamacare down the throats of the American people.

And as patriotic Americans, we cannot let that happen.

Remember one thing, all the sentimental tributes you’re hearing on radio and television – the blubbering eulogies, the syrupy clichés, the sickening lies – don’t alter the hard fact that Ted Kennedy probably did more than any political figure of his generation to weaken and corrupt America. Someone has to remind them who Edward Moore Kennedy really was. Otherwise, a bunch of blind Democratic ideologues and weak-minded, sentimental Republicans will pass a so-called healthcare bill that will transform our great nation into a sick, socialist country. Political commentator Don Feder agrees. Feder – who lives in Massachusetts – wrote that he wished for a barf bag while driving around the city, listening to the fulsome tributes on local radio. As Feder put it:

“Known as the ‘liberal lion of the Senate,’ Edward M. Kennedy was a fitting symbol for his creed – intellectually flabby, detached from reality, arrogant, self-righteous, hypocritical and, ultimately, useless.” Are we doomed to listen to these sick encomiums for the rest of the summer and then watch a spooked Congress pass Obamacare in the fall?