As I've said before, everyone following this election, wherever they are in the world, should check in at least occasionally with leading conservative blog The Corner, part of the National Review magazine, because there's something genuinely life-affirming about what's posted there. I promise I'm not being sarcastic, or not entirely: there's a kind of breathtaking wonder involved in the logical and rhetorical acrobatics indulged in by its contributors. Their latest argument: that Barack Obama is a deeply suspicious, foreignish type of individual because he pronounces Pakistan with a soft "a" sound, or in what Mark Steyn calls an "ostentatiously exotic" way, whereas Sarah Palin is a real American because she pronounces Iraq wrongly. As Adam Serwer says: "Keep in mind that these are the same people who insist that a culture of ignorance holds black people back, while lauding Sarah Palin's vast ignorance of public policy as some kind of tremendous virtue. They demand merit from others and only mediocrity from themselves, because said mediocrity is touted as proof of authenticity."
Oh, and actually "Pahhkistan" is how General David Petraeus pronounces it too, but everyone already knows how much he hates America.
