We must never, ever point out the obvious. Is this not clear to all Americans? We are nothing if not members of a civil and polite society. We shall endure as a people and nation so long as our implied contract with each other is respected, even in the face of an increasingly clothing-challenged President. That the President's Taliban Whacker is so far to the right that he can only pee at a ninety degree angle is obvious, but damnit, this sort of thing should never, ever be pointed out!

Were the President covered in Yak dung we would not mention that fact. Were he comingling with a herpetic goat we would not report it. Were he served a steaming pile of Le bébé brun cuisiné dans une sauce de bile on a bed of Yellow Cake with a side of John Ashcroft's seared Gall Stones--we would not burden America with the details. To lay that at the feet of the voting public serves no purpose (though the dish in question serves eight--and yes, the baby should absolutley be a brown one, preferably as dark as you and your guests can stomach).

When Mike Huckabee stated, referring to President Jimmy Carter's untoward comments about President Dangler that Carter had "...violated an unspoken code that you don't make personal attacks on others who currently hold the job. You just don't." he was saying what all of America is thinking: We. Don't. Want. To. Hear. About. Big. Things. It. Makes. Our. Tiny. Brains. Even. Tinier. As. They. Shrink. From. Over. Use. The. President. Is. Not. Naked. He. Is. Protecting. Us. From. His. Suits.

I mean, what's next? Someone noticing that The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year... Now sing with me: Hush, hush, little baby, don't you cry, Papa's gonna kill those Arabs until they learn how to stop killing each other, if it's the last thing he does. And if he smears his glistening body with the blood of the conquered that's his business, not yours. Or yours. Or you, in the back. Not you either.

For goodness' sake, Jimmy Carter: stop with this unseemly practice of noticing what is going on in the world and commenting on it and so forth. You don't hear any dead Popes complaining about that German guy who's been wearing the big hat lately. And you won't either, because dead Popes know their place, just like living ex-Presidents should.

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