Ed Brayton posts some funny stuff. He seems to have a fondness for helping us spot stupid behaviours, so of course Sarah Palin features regularly as do other currently outspoken members of the American Republican Party.

His recent post recounts the blasts the Repubs have leveled at Obama (and others) for criticizing the U.S. on non-U.S. soil. I’ve always thought that was funny.  What? They don’t know that the U.S. (insert here your favorite nasty incident from the U.S.’ not so pristine past and recent present)?

Apart from maybe Russia, I doubt there is any industrial country whose population knows less about the history of the world that that of the highly educated U.S. I mean maybe Sarkozy could come here and not mention the French Revolution! That might actually work to hide the dastardly deed from (at least) a (large) proportion of the U.S. citizenry (including some of its past and present presidential and congressional members, and other leaders like Governors). But I am afraid the approach probably won’t work in the rest of the industrialized world.  I suspect they already know.

One would have thought humility (you know —  that quality Jesus was supposed to have had) and honesty a pair of behaviors vaunted by a “Christian” nation. No? Oh.

So what then? The buffoonery of stepping in the elephant’s crap because you’re busy pretending she isn’t there? Oh.

How many times do you really want to clean the stuff off your shoes? Personally, I prefer the honest approach.  I don’t much like elephant crap.