Dancing in the Streets with Steve King

Maybe he ate too much corn as a kid. Maybe he spent too much time alone in the woods. Maybe he forgot the commandment against bearing false witness. Maybe being an Iowan went to his head.

Steve King is a Republican congressman from the caucus state of Iowa. He was pretty much an unknown. He's now gained a certain amount of fame. That may help him get a job with Fox News when he loses his seat in Congress.

His fame comes as a result of his prediction on an Iowa radio broadcase that all sorts of dire calamities would descend upon the world if Barrack Obama was elected president.

How did the perspicacious Mr. King come to that conclusion? We'll let him speak for himself. Nobody else is dumb enough to do it.

"I'll just say this that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States -- and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?

"And I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the, the radical Islamists, the, the al-Qaida, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 ...."

Hee, hee. Wait. I think he was serious!

But Mr. King didn't say why radical Islamists and others would "be dancing in the streets." I don't think the phrase referring to the "optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected ..." has any meaning whatsoever: Reminds me of an eighth-grader trying to impress his teacher by using words he really doesn't understand.

Okay, here's the problem. King doesn't like Obama's middle name! Now, who the hell cares about someone's middle name?

Mr. King does! " ...his middle name does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world, it has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who is father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict."

Whew. Lots of dancing. Not a lot of sense from Mr. King. Obama's middle name obviously means a lot to Mr. King, but I doubt that an Islamist in the Middle East gives a flip. Then notice how King slips in that nasty little reference to Obama's father ...

I can't imagine the good people of Iowa would want to claim King as one of their own.

I know for a fact that when he loses his seat in Congress (which can't happen soon enough), I, along with a lot of other folks, will be dancing in the streets.

And I don't even know his middle name!

Where do these morons come from?