My friend Blob at Cowboy Blob’s Saloon & Shootin’ Gallery normally keeps his blog scrupulously apolitical.  He concentrates his blogging primarily on the sport of shooting (as suggested by the title of his blog).  He likes guns, you see.  Nay, he loves guns.

Oh, and he’s from Pennsylvania.  Did I mention that?

Well, naturally, Blob had something to say about Barack Obama’s remarks of last Sunday.  To put it bluntly, Blob is mad.  I can understand why.  He, more than anyone else I know, has a right to be angry.  Says Blob:

As someone who has spent his formative years in the small town of Lehighton PA, worshiping at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, and learning gun safety (and gun fun!) at my dear Dad’s elbow and at my Law Enforcement Explorer Post at the National Guard Armory… let me try out my Kenny B. impersonation….

At any rate, Blob goes on to quote Shakespeare’s King Henry V.  More specifically, he quotes King Henry’s passage from Act 4, Scene VII (The Battle of Agincourt):

I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field; they do offend our sight.
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them,
And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.

Indeed, Barry.  We were merely amused by you before now.  Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that we were “befuddled by the hubbub” and were “marveling at the spectacle” of your meteoric ascent into the political stratosphere.  We were even interested…for a time.

But we were not angry at you.

Until this instant.

You blew it, Pal.  You picked a fight.

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