OBAMA DESECRATES RIGHT-WING CHRISTMAS

Oh, Barack, Barack, Barack. Don't you know it's conservatively incorrect to say anything like this?

Sounding reflective as he heads into a bruising electoral season, President Barack Obama told POLITICO columnist Roger Simon that the Gulf disaster "echoes 9/11" because it will change the nation's psyche for years to come....

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11," the president said in an Oval Office interview on Friday, "I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come." ...

Really, Mr. President, don't you know that right-wingers love 9/11, and hold it sacred? It's their favorite day of the year, their favorite day in living history; every year, 9/11 fills them with the unsurpassable bliss of self-righteousness. It's a day that provided so many grievance points to them (and, as far as they're concerned, to them alone, although those of us who, y'know, lived where the attacks took place might beg to differ) that they know they can't possibly ever run out.

Right-wingers love 9/11 because it's a day when they felt they became extraordinarily virtuous just for slathering their homes with flags, their vehicles with "Terrorist Hunting License" bumper stickers, their homepages with sentimental video of property destruction in a city they otherwise despise. They use 9/11 to justify hatred of Muslims, liberals -- even Mexicans. (You knew that Islamist terrorists are slipping across the Mexican border because Washington won't seal that border, right? World Net Daily says so, so it must be true!) It's the most wonderful moment on the calendar, and will be as long as there's a right-winger alive who can utter the phrase "stab in the back."

How dare Barack Obama desecrate it!