Badgers of Honor
Cynthia McKinney says she’ll wear the scorn of her critics like a badge of honor. Last time I remember a politician using that phrase was Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice presidential debates. I didn’t like it then, either. Now, I was a partisan Democrat in 1988 and I’m a libertarian now, so maybe they each caught me at a bad time. But using the “badge of honor” thing non-ironically constitutes awarding yourself a medal. Even figuratively speaking, that’s hard to take.
