Rare embarrassment for one's country

Several post election meandering thoughts. Michelle Obama once uttered those now infamous words, "This is the first time in my adult life that I am proud of my country."

This evil country that afforded her an Ivy League education and a cushy six-figure job? But I digress.

This is one of the rare occasions in my life that I am embarrassed for my country. Not long ago in our history a vacuous, far-left presidential candidate like Obama, who associated with terrorists, a bigoted America-hating pastor for 20 years, a felon and the fodder for every two-bit comedian, yet another Democrat Chicago Machine crony, buddy Rod Blagojevich, would have lost in an epic landslide reminiscent of Mondale or McGovern.

Kudos to the three-pronged liberal propaganda machine: the mainstream media, the Marxist inculcating Universities and the intellectual amebas from Hollywood.

Wait. According to an opinion penned by the Daily Herald's Jim Slusher, no discernible biased coverage for Obama? Talk about insulting half of your readers' intelligence.

According to Pew Research results, an astounding 3 to 1 ratio in negative reports for McCain compared to Obama. The bias was so profound that the poster boy for liberal bias in the media, Dan Rather, forever disgraced for attempting to bring down President Bush with fake documents and lies, admitted a palpable media bias for Obama. He should know.

Oh that monolithic liberal cocoon that passes for today's journalism.

A recent Zogby Poll identified another disturbing concern with the Obama electorate. Queried about which party controlled both houses of Congress before the election, Obama voters were clueless by a whopping 65 percent to 35 percent margin.

To their credit, Obama voters "exposed" to the left of Michael Moore MSNBC Network, scored a 90 percent on three nebulous, sophomoric questions about Sarah Palin.

Impressive. Further proof that ignorance has become this country's most expensive commodity.

Steve Toye

Naperville