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Election 2008

Culture War on Wheels

10:32 AM PDT on September 17, 2008

Having
dispensed with the question of whether an African-American or woman
will ever make it to the White House, conservative Culture Warriors
have moved on to defining and dividing Americans over their chosen mode
of transportation. These two images have been floating around the right
wing blogosphere under the shrieky, all-caps headline, "THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW." Somehow or another this strikes me as a promising development.

obama_rides_bicycle.jpg

palin_bike.jpg

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