Charlie Pierce: Toward the end of September, a couple in Fredericktown, Ohio, named Richard and Jacqueline Ruhl decided to build a float for the annual Fredericktown Tomato Show Parade. Apparently, the Ruhls had been bothered over the previous nine months by the activities of President Obama, whose three hundred and sixty-three days since we elected him have broken open the fibrotic lesions holding back the old infections of the body politic, the way tuberculosis can lie dormant in the lungs for years then burst through, choking.
Anyway, the Ruhls became convinced that the Obama administration was preparing to expand Americorps — probably to take their guns and restrict their access to the Internet, all in preparation for forcing them and the rest of us into the authoritarian embrace of the North American Union. (Authoritarian Canadians? Isn't that like Vicious Beagles?) In order to fight what they felt was the ever-tightening embrace of Obamofascism, the Ruhls decided that they would make their stand in the Frederickton Tomato Show Parade. What the hell — political movements have started in stranger places.
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