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Jonah Goldberg’s book detailing the secret (or better, ‘ignored’) history of the American Left, “Liberal Fascism” is a facinating read.

Goldberg’s analysis puts into context the effort by the Obama campaign to intimidate people like John McCain and George Voinovich into silence over the First Amendment right to a vote undiminished by fraudulent and inelibile voting.

As Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky notes:

The Obama campaign’s Stalinist-style demand that a special prosecutor at the Department of Justice criminally prosecute any candidates, party officials or congressmen who discussed their concerns over voter fraud is an outrageous attempt to use the power of the federal government to intimidate and persecute political opponents. It is almost as if Senator Obama wants to reinstitute the Alien and Sedition Acts and it brings into sharp focus the issue of whether he understands the protections of the First Amendment and the importance of fair and secure elections.

It was news to me just now that Obama made his the-little-people-cling-to-God-and-guns remarks before donors in San Francisco and not, as I had imagined, in some place like Sharon, PA. If he had been in the Keystone State, it would have been plain stupidity behind this putdown of real Americans.

But the fact that he was speaking to San Francisco liberals speaks to out-and-out duplicy on the part of the junior Senator from Illinois.

As usual, Peggy Noonan hits the nail on the head (Wall Street Journal Online, 4/18):

Sen. Obama seems honestly surprised by the furor…[h]e was only caught speaking the secret language of America’s elite, and what he said was not meant as a putdown. It was an explanation aimed at ameliorating the elites’ anger toward and impatience with normal people. It’s a way of explaining them, of saying, “You have to remember they’re not comfortable and educated like us, they’re vulnerable and so we must try to understand them and feel sympathy for and solidarity with them.” You could say this at any high-class dinner party in America and not cause a ruffle. But America is not a high-class dinner party.