A commenter made an intelligent remark abut the National Guard, called the Nasty Guard by those who served in it — soldiers love to bitch.

This comment reminded me of a professional propagandist’s idea of what is killing the establishment.

They used to be New York provincials. Now they are totally out of it, not even Harvard provincials any more. The establishment based its attack on Bush, Jr., on the statement that he “dodged Viet Nam by being in the National Guard.”

There are millions of voters who served in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. There are hundreds of thousands of voters serving in the National Guard right now. That was the sort of political gaff opposition advisors dream of!

But Obama and the media don’t KNOW a single person who ever served in the National Guard. It is a Middle American institution.

Another time, remembering the Vietnam days when college was the way of avoiding the draft, Presidential nominee John Kerry made the hilarious comment at a college that if the students didn’t do well they would end up in Iraq.

There were several hundred thousand voters in the armed forces at the time and they had several million relatives, none of whom appreciated the idea that anyone serving in the military did so because he was a dunce.

It reminds me of something that was on Family Guy, when the speaker before a yacht race said “We will now have moment of silence for those of you whose sons are serving in Iraq.” There was moment of surprise, and then everybody laughed.

There is a lot of truth that is expressed in humor.

President Obama declared that a billionaire told him that he paid less income taxes than a lot of millionaires. Obama declared him a hero and wanted to name a tax increase after him.

To Obama and his billionaire and Hollywood buddies, this was True Politics. But the thing was, at best, a dud. Nobody outside the Democratic Party’s limousine liberals considered a multibillionaire bragging abut much taxes he can pay without noticing it to be sign of admirable sacrifice.

They really are drifting out into LaLa Land.