Good news and bad news in Democracy-land this week. Good news, it looks like, after the painful “You have died of dysentery” on the Oregon Trail that is the Democratic Primary, we’ve inched ever closer to finally deciding which of the two candidates who have near indistinguishable policies towards major issues will be comparing McCain to Bush this summer. Bad news? It looks like the Republicans have managed to completely null and void any further discussions. Godwin’s law has officially been invoked.
That’s right, Bush has compared Obama (indirectly, and with the subtlety of a senior frat boy hitting on a freshman girl during orientation week) to Nazi appeaser Neville Chamberlain (it’s ok, you don’t need to know who he is, that’s what wikipedia is for; besides, Kevin James managed to get on Hardball with Chris Matthews without knowing him either).
Unfortunately, according to Godwin’s law, this means that discussions about the elections have reached the point of absurdity and pointlessness.
I almost wish we would’ve done this sooner, but I guess the primaries were entertaining enough for a while. Maybe we can use this same logic on terrorism. Start a flame war with a whole bunch of terrorists, constantly drop hints to WWII until they finally call us Hitler and boom, no more terrorism in the US.
And now you know why geeks would make terrible politicians. “Vote for me, I pwn j00. Iz 1337, McCain iz a n00b!!11one!”
