But you know what? Maybe it’s confidence in what’s coming. Maybe it’s the GOP falling on its own sword. But whatever it is, I just went and had a look at the site – and saw this, its current headline, and I didn’t get angry. I just laughed:

Obama on Obama: Marxist Friends

Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but notes in memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college

Absolutely. Love. It.

Man goes to college! Talks to people about political ideas!

(Oh, and I’ve read the book. And there’s no way any normal person would read it and come up with that headline about his college years.)

I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous: that the ’story’ above is considered to be a headline, or that it’s somehow evidence of Obama’s socialist/communist/Marxist beliefs. And funny how this is only Fox’s headline now that, erm, it’s the Republican party’s current tack on Obama, isn’t it? I mean, when that book’s been sitting there (with all its Marxist content) since 1995, an’ all.

Remember: this is the most popular news channel in America. Now I’m done laughing, and just want to weep. How has this situation been able to continue for so long?

Seriously. This is the sort of talk that makes one think Americans are living in a parallel universe. One in which Barack Obama is a ’socialist’; in which giving a tax break to normal people, as opposed to millionaires, is ’spreading the wealth’; and one in which the notions of socialism and spreading the wealth are horrifying/disgusting/unpatriotic/insert derogatory adjective of your choice here.

And one in which no one would ever want to live in Sweden or England. I know I don’t. No, wait, that’s not right…

I’ll write a post soon about Sarah Palin’s possible future plans – but for now, I’ll just say: if Palin ever runs for President, she and Michele Bachmann would be a campaigning match made in heaven. And Barbara West should clearly be their media strategist.

Here’s the story.