Colour me shocked as well.  Shocked and, well, appalled.  Thanks Ramesh for this blinding insight.  

I look forward to Ramesh's comparable disappointment if McCain does not mention cheating on his dying wife in his acceptance speech next week.

dcat

From what did you infer that Ponnuru was expressing or (feigning) shock at Obama's speech? I think we're all amazed that a thoughtful and idealistic candidate thinks he can ignore the craziness (your word) of his long-time mentors and fellow agents of change.

I am amazed Ramesh.  Who is this radical anti-American preacher of whom you speak? Muqtada al-Sadr?

I wonder if McCain will mention Charles Keating?

But I thought NR's line was that the typical Democrat politician has ties to anti-american radicals and terrorists?  Maybe he meant you'd be amazed to learn that Obama was close to a preacher, and not even a Wiccan or Satanist one!

Something gives me the idea that Ramesh can say this to himself in the mirror a million times between now and November and it won't make a damn bit of difference. The people who care about it won't forget (unless they're as brain dead as Ramesh thinks they are), and the people who don't care will get tired of the repetition, and might even begin to think that people who go on like this may be a little too crazy to be trusted.