In a clear contempt for Obama’s supporters and democracy itself, William Kristol, a prominent Neo-conservative icon and a New York Times columnist, spewed out another column disparaging Obama’s campaign for raising hopes of so many young Americans, bringing them into the political process and for establishing a grassroots campaign, which he began early in his political life as a community organizer. In the previous New York Times columns the target of William Kristol’s rage has been Michelle Obama for not being proud of her country enough and Obama himself. But this time, Kristol - gasping for air in a clear desperation - has mounted attack on democracy itself by insulting Obama’s supporters.

After typical several paragraphs of assault on Obama’s patriotism labeling him as an “opportunistic politician” (because you know, Republicans aren’t), Kristol sets himself up for a heavy artillery fire on Obama’s supporters. He says,

So in fact, “Generation Obama” is just a fancy name for young activists for Obama. But the (remarkable) conceit is this: The “next great generation” of Americans can appropriately be called “Generation Obama”. Now I’m actually a believer in the next generation, which one might call the 9/11 generation. Many of its members seem more serious and impressive than we baby boomers were when our elders were foolishly praising us, 40 years ago, as the best-educated, most idealistic generation ever. Many of the best of this young generation are serving their country — either in the military or otherwise. Some are in politics, working for various causes, liberal and conservative, and for various candidates, Democrats and Republicans. But surely there’s something creepy about a campaign claiming them as “Generation Obama.”

Surely it’s creepy for Republicans and Neo-Cons like William Kristol to see a massive wave of supporters praising Obama and joining his campaign, which he largely built by opposing the Iraq War from the start in 2002. But the more fascinating phenomenon about Obama’s supporters is that many of them are military people. In fact, according to research, Ron Paul and Barack Obama lead the way in terms of military contributions, respectively.

Why is it that military people heavily support Ron Paul and Barack Obama, both of whom are largely opposed to the Iraq War and a potential military confrontation with Iran? Because it’s where the country is - a fact that Kristol conveniently brushes aside as if public opinion is just for statistical purposes to be marginalized.

In what appears to be several desperate attempts to attack Senator Obama’s candidacy, Kristol forgot the rules of engagement in a public discourse: attack the candidates’ stance on the issues, not the candidate himself. If Mr. Kristol is such a proponent of the Iraq War and a military confrontation with Iran, then it stands to reason that that would be an effective venue of attack. But of course that is impossible, given that public opinion is simply on Obama’s side at this point in history and not on John McCain’s and his fake patriotic supporters like William Kristol. While challenging Obama’s supporters’ patriotism by saying that they could instead be serving overseas, Mr. Kristol has himself elected not to serve in the army to fulfill his patriotic duties. Instead he followed the typical Neo-conservative, chicken-hawk hypocrisy, by establishing a magazine and a think tank to support the war others would fight. Those others have spoken and they chose Barack Obama! Yes We Can!