Teri O’Brien - America’s Conservative Warrior Princess » Eddie Haskell Hitches His Wagon to Wally

Remember in those episodes of “Leave it to Beaver” where smarmy Eddie Haskell would ask his popular friend Wally Cleaver to get him a date?

In yet another instance of life imitating art, or at least sit com, our own Eddie Haskell, the man that the late Steve Neal famously called “the pudgy huckster,” the senior senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, is seeking to ingratiate himself with the Big Man on Campus, in this case man-god Barack Hussein Obama (yes, that’s really his middle name). According to the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet, he has launched an on-line petition to convince He Who Walks on Water to run for president in 2008, and has been e-mailing supporters, urging them to support BHO. (Gee, I wonder if he wrote to Tony Rezko? Perhaps not. He’s done enough for the Obamas by helping them to afford their $1.65 million house, a transaction that the Obama-worshipping MSM (mainstream media) completely ignored, preferring to focus on the less significant purchase by Barack of an additional strip of land from Tony.)

As Ms. Sweet notes, Sen. Durbin’s enthusiastic support for his junior colleague is not necessarily motivated by his desire to see the best person in the Oval Office, or even by the partisan desire to see the dems back in there. Sen. Durbin is thinking about his 2008 re-election run. He knows that while both he and Sen. Barack Obama are crypto-socialists with ridiculously extreme left-wing points of view and voting records, there is a huge difference in their public perception. As we all know, Sen. Obama is a “rock star,” while Sen. Durbin …not so much. Dick has seen his television appearances, and he knows that while Barack comes off so smoooooth distracted listeners don’t even notice that he’s peddling liberal baloney, he can’t avoid appearing to be what he is: a fleshy-faced, bug-eyed, breathy-voiced phony. Better that his opponent should have to run against not only the pudgy huckster, but also the man-god, no?

Not that Barack has a negative opinion of Eddie. Let’s not forget how in his “brilliant” speech at the Democrat convention, Barack said “Thank you, Dick Durbin. You make us proud.” Of course, this was before Sen.Durbin compared our troops to Nazis, and before he told Chris Matthews that he would have been hesitant to put the thumbscrews to Moussaoui, even if it would have prevented 9/11, but as Mr. Neal notes in the article cited above, by July 2004, Sen. Durbin’s record was hardly one that would have engendered pride in any thinking citizen. Proud of Dick Durbin? Yeah, sort of like Paris Hilton’s parents must be proud of her video.

One thing I can’t help but notice; that is, how both Ms. Sweet and Mr. Neal refer to Durbin as a “cheerleader.” I guess the comparison is inevitable. Back in 2005, based on his shameful military bashing comments, I called him a cheerleader for al Qaeda. Whichever it is, if the miniskirt fits …