President Obama’s loyal worshipers love to play the “redneck” card every time someone dares to passionately disagree with “The One.” They adopted that meme during the “tea party” protests of spring and revived it during the healthcare town halls of summer.

I wear the redneck label with pride, and I wish this country had more of us. At least we’re enlightened enough not to bite the pinkie fingers off our opponents.

The wet starbursts of spattered blood dot the gray sidewalk for a distance of about 30 feet, marking the path the victim took to his car after part of his finger was bitten off and spat into the street by a protester at a MoveOn.org healthcare vigil this evening.

The unidentified victim, who was standing with a small group of people counter-protesting MoveOn.org’s vigil on the opposite side of the street, apparently left the missing part of his finger behind and drove himself to a nearby hospital to seek treatment. The body part was quickly recovered by a fellow counter-protester and delivered to the hospital where it is presumed it will be sewn back on.

We rednecks also don’t beat our political enemies or hurl racial insults at them. And we don’t vandalize the property of our heroes in order to manufacture phony charges of hate by the other side.

Obama groupies accuse his critics of that kind of behavior all the time without any evidence. But the only confirmed reports of illegal and immoral activity in the political arena this year — the only ones you won’t hear from the mainstream media — come from the pro-Obama crowd. Who knew the “change” Obama promised meant losing a finger to a Mike Tyson wannabe?

A proverb familiar to every child comes to mind: “Every time you point a finger at someone else, three more are pointing back at you.”