Birds of a Feather

In response to an article critical of James Dobson's temperamental and ineffective leadership of his religious constituency in this year's Republican primary campaign, a spokesman for Focus on the Family resorted to the same excuse that has been used by apologists for Barack Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright: his is a "prophetic voice."

One suspects past prophets everywhere are rolling over in their graves. It seems that this has become the term of art applied to people who do or say stupid and belligerent things.