Ari and I are already humming “Hatikvah,” while Eric’s in the corner being racist.* But seriously, when I read that a Ron Paul supporter was cross-posting anti-semitic material to Obama’s social networking site, I reacted as anyone who had just watched him deliver a speech before AIPAC, i.e. l thought things like:

There’s something deeply wrong with a presidential candidate who attracts so many of these hateful psychotics.

Don’t let the fact that Charles Johnson — a man who doesn’t run a site hateful psychotics find attractive — wrote those words fool you.** It may seem like the Obama’s anyone-can-contribute-a-post community embraces antisemitism, socialism, Marxism, and poetry of questionable provenance, but it’s only because it does. Once Obama’s in power, Ari and I will be whistling the Israeli national anthem from a cushy relocation camp.***

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*Did you know the melody of “Hatikvah” is based on a Romanian folk-song called “Carriage with Oxen”? I didn’t. But it’s appropriate. In my ancestral bones, I hear the kvetching: “What you want horse for? To pull carriage? Who are you to want being pulled by horses? What’s good for plow is good for prom.”****

**Ari and Eric invited me to contribute because I troll observe, anthropologically, conservative sites.

***I’ve already requested I be imprisoned vacationed in Happy Camp Canyon.

****I know what you’re thinking: Scott, shouldn’t there be a space between your footnotes? I know. But all the HTML in the world won’t put one there, so there won’t be one.*****

*****Yes, one of the conditions of my posting privileges is, and I quote, “Be it said that each post contain no fewer than five footnotes, one of which must originate within another footnote like the incestuous spawn of a digressive mind.” That said, they’re dangerously addictive.