The Real Two Americas

Hugh Hewitt has a great piece on the real two Americas – the serious America, and the silly America.

The dividing line between Americans runs between those who are serious about the world and the nation and those who are silly on these subjects.

Silly people listen to Michael Moore. Silly people issue marriage licenses to couples ineligible to receive them because they feel that it is important to do so. Silly folks think Dick Cheney is still running Halliburton and that Halliburton is running the war. Silly people make ads for websites that feature George W. Bush morphing into Hitler. Silly people think we’ve got Osama bin Laden stashed away in a cave waiting for a September debut. Silly people look to Maureen Dowd for insight into the world.

Because many Americans have slipped into the silly category, the rest of us are beginning to forget that those folks are indeed silly. Some people once thought of as serious have adopted silly positions. Such as, for instance, Madeleine Albright speculating that the United States has Osama under wraps. We respect the office she once held and resist branding Albright as silly. And thus some small bit of credibility becomes attached to her bizarre thought-process.

And this is the problem. These are profoundly serious times, and there is an entire group of people who have profounding unserious views of the problem. If you think that George W. Bush is a bigger tyrant than Saddam Hussein, then you’re not being serious. If you think that Michael Moore is a legitimate authority for anything, you’re not being serious.

And yet we have a candidate who regards the war on terror is little more than a sidenote. A candidate supported by Kim Jung Il and the Iranian mullahs. A candidate that has repeatedly voted to emasculate our military and intelligence infrastructure. A candidate, that tragically, is being treated as though he were font of wisdom on international issues.

That isn’t merely silly, it’s dangerous.