Serving Bread

It seems like we love controversies and scandals even when the scandal itself is a non-issue. In the past week, there have been several scandals that have surfaced that are non-issues.

McCain’s inappropriate relationship. “The New York Times” has recently come out with an article alleging that John McCain had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist. The allegation states that those close to McCain have tried to distance the two as it could have hurt his Presidential ambitions. All of the allegations are by un-named sources which weakens the allegations, and both conservatives and liberals have come to McCain’s defense.

Michelle Obama is finally proud to be an American. In introducing her husband at a rally, Michelle Obama said that this is the first time in her adult life where she is proud to be an American. The implication is that Obama is less than patriotic. Conservative pundits and Cindy McCain jumped on that by saying that they have always been proud to be American.

Is that true? Were conservatives proud to be American during the Clinton years? When Rush Limbaugh was counting down the days of the Clinton presidency calling it a presidency taken hostage, was that not an expression of dissatisfaction and perhaps even embarrassment? When Bill Clinton was caught having an extra-martial sexual relationship, were they proud to be an American?

Barack Obama plagiarizes his speeches. It’s fine for the Clinton campaign to suggest that Obama is all talk and no substance, but Obama is hardly plagiarizing speeches. Apparently his soundbites are similar to his friend Governor Deval Patrick. In fact, Patrick had apparently given many of those lines to Obama.