While the terrorists may hate us for our freedom (the freedom to do what exactly – be a bunch of repressed semi-literate, overweight, misinformed, fooled by shiny objects town folk? With no health care.) there’s a home grown group who’ve found a way to hate us too.
The group doing the hating is the friendly Republicans. Their target? The Dems?
No, wine drinkers.
As I briefly touched upon in a previous post, somewhere along the political landscape, various code words for liberal include, latte drinking, Volvo driving, New York Times reading, arugula eating and yes, wine and cheese drinking. I may be a liberal but I don’t drink lattes, don’t drive a Volvo, do read the Times and certainly drink lots of wine and eat wheels of cheese.
So why is this last one so offensive?
Well for starters, I’m genuinely curious how any of the above can be seen by anyone who might use such phraseology as inherently bad. Is it un American to drink coffee in the morning, to want a safe car to transport one’s children, to read a newspaper that has been the world’s informational record for over a hundred years or eat a green leafy vegetable that is low in saturated fat and is a good source of Protein, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, Zinc and Copper, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Manganese.*
While they’re at it, why don’t they go ahead and make fun of people who go to Harvard or Yale or Brown? Oh wait…
I guess it was somewhat infuriating to watch parts of the Republican convention and watch west coast trailblazers like Rudy G. and Mitt R. make fun of those east coast elites. Perhaps the addition of Tina Fey Sarah Palin to the ticket prompts a new mantra (please use JFK voice) – “Today, we are all Alaskans.”
So you can take my Manchego or Brillat Savarin or Cave Aged Gruyere when you pry it from my…well, you get the idea.
As for the wine, here’s my hope for this great nation of ours and whoever becomes the next president. If you truly are going to be reaching across the aisle to make our country great, please, please, please have a bottle of California Cabernet in your hand when you do.
My name is Eric Cohen and I approve this blog post.
Lovin’ this post, Eric!