RNC Chairman Michael Steele has to be the most thoughtful public face of conservativism out there. While others in the party he ostensibly has a leadership role in go after the president with demonstrably untrue accusations, Steele has shown remarkable restraint for a man in his position. Instead of slandering Barack Obama as a LIAR!, he donned his emotional sensitivity cap to question whether it was appropriate for 44 to read the letter Ted Kennedy explicitly asked be read after his death during his big health care speech… because Kennedy’s grieving widow was in the room.
“I’m sorry, but I just felt a bit unnerved by it, in the sense he just passed,” Mr. Steele told The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show on Thursday. … Mr. Steele was not surprised when Mr. Obama began talking Wednesday night about a letter Mr. Kennedy wrote to him in May that was to be delivered after his death. But hearing excerpts was tough, he said, because Mr. Kennedy’s grieving wife, Vicki, sat crying in the audience.“His wife was still clearly emotional,” Mr. Steele said. “I just thought that was bad form. We all understand and appreciate the role Sen. Kennedy has played in this debate and the passion he brought to health care. I just thought that was a little bit much for me, so soon after his death, using that as a political tool.”
Yes, Vicki was having a fine night, at last able to push the grim knowledge that her husband had passed on from her head. Who knew that surrounding herself with lawmakers at a big political event concerning the great cause of Teddy’s life was the key to forgetting? Then Mean Mr. Obama had to go punch her in the face with the letter. It wasn’t a pulled punch, either. It might as well have been Mike Tyson, mocking and laughing as he pummeled away at her. What kind of president beats a widow on live television as his Democratic cronies cheer on? Bad form, Chancellor Hitlerbama. Bad form.
