Disillusion
Ted Rall writing in State Journal Register has an extended piece calling Barack Obama a monster. Glenn Reynolds notes the tut-tutting from other sites to the effect that “if Obama’s lost Ted Rall, he’s lost un-America.” Rall essentially rails against what he believes is a wholesale betrayal by President Obama of his most cherished principles.
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through. …
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss.
I refer here to Obama’s plan for “preventive detentions.” If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in “prolonged detention.” Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama’s shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.
One wonders what principles the eminent cartoonist is referring to. Was it because Mr. Rall was promised something for nothing and is now surprised that there’s no free lunch. Was it surprise that someone who could be dishonest to others would be less than honest to him? Was it shock at his own judgement, because Rall proceeds, without realizing it, to impugn his own discernment along with the character of the candidate he voted for. “Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed George W. Bush, I won’t follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.”
Ted Rall “the eminent cartoonist” and policy analyst? Rall is the Al Franken of cartooning and in a world where Al Franken is allowed to enter the United States Senate anyone may be aspire to be taken seriously in any ambition.
On some level I still hope that we may find proof that the vote fraud was massive enough that 51% of the American people did not actually vote for the Chicago fraud merchant. In a better world having voted for Obama could be used as a litmus test to prove that someone is either to venial or to dumb to trusted with the ballot and considered justification for disenfranchisement. What will we do with these people?
Rall may no longer be had of A&D at United Media but his syndicated cartoon will go on. Rall may be bitter and disillusioned but I seriously doubt we’ll soon see a slew of humorless, venal, and juvenile cartoons from him about Obama himself, his administration, and his policies. Rall is talking a good game, but is he prepared to confront the “monster”?
Then we learn a piece of information which almost explains it all. Mr. Rall has been laid off
LOLOL! Indeed.
Though, there’s a proof that even a broken clock is right twice a day: This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
LotM,
The voter fraud was there, but maybe not as prominent as believed. Whiskey is incorrect about the reason why so many women got on the 0′s bandwagon, it was not because they are sworn enemies of white male, but because the campaign was a superb subliminal manipulation machine and women are generally more susceptible and were targeted.
We’ll know Ted has come full circle when he starts drawing Obama in the same flattering style he used when drawing Dr. Rice. Remember those vile cartoons?
“Vile” is the word I meant as well, Elroy, not “venal.” I have no evidence that Mr. Rall has acted in a mercenary fashion to produce his malicious handiwork.
One can certainly be optimistic that such an experience as
being laid off
combined with
the Casablancaesque shock! SHOCK! of perceiving “betrayal” by Obama
might be just enough to sway Mr. Rall into “seeing the light at The Dark Side (where WE have cookies).”
SEE:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_to_deprogram_a_liberal_in.html
Ya never know….
I too have been laid off but I knew it was coming when the election results came in and after the first T.A.R.P. bailout. I have now been without work for 2 months and the prospects are not good. Construction has about come to a standstill here and other places around the country as well. Some projects that were to start have either been placed on indefinite hold or canceled altogether.
Now with the reckless spending of this government I foresee rising unemployment, rising interest rates, and increased inflation along with less production worse than it was during the Carter Administration (which was horrid). Unless s lot of this spending can be rescinded or somehow cut back the recession will last longer than it otherwise would have had nothing been done. While I agree that the financial institutions needed to get help it should not have been done with the approach that it has been. Hope I am wrong but history will probably prove my view to be correct.
I can see poor Ted, homeless, on the street corner with a sign that says, “Lost my job as professional hater—will Snark for food.”
11. leishman:
Ha
Ted is pissed because now he won’t be able to participate in pres. hopenchanges $150,000 tax plan.
Welcome to the real world zipperhead!
“he ought to step down now”
Rall may want to study up on the Vice President before he starts campaigning for BO’s resignation.
#1, Life of the Mind:
Some excellent questions you ask here. Here’s how I would respond:
“On some level I still hope that we may find proof that the vote fraud was massive enough that 51% of the American people did not actually vote for the Chicago fraud merchant.”
Even if proof was found of this, do you think many people would hear about it? Even if they did hear about it, do you think anyone would do anything about it? My opinion is no and no.
“In a better world having voted for Obama could be used as a litmus test to prove that someone is either to venial or to dumb to trusted with the ballot and considered justification for disenfranchisement. What will we do with these people?”
That’s not going to be a popular question (obviously) but it’s an important one. My answer is yes, in a MUCH better world, we wouldn’t have extended the vote to children or to people with no ability to manage their own property or money or to people with no education. But this trend will continue into the future, and the hell of it all is that the logical end of ever-expanding democracy is tyranny.
As for what we will do with these people? Well look around: They are the recently laid-off editors of editorial cartoons, and former comedians turned U.S. Senators and Supreme Court nominees.
When was the last time a monster ever removed himself from power?
He may as well shout to all the bears in the world not to defecate in the woods.
The link provides and interesting summary of how the Russia views us!!!! If it’s true then our world has flip.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
“We expected broken promises.”
That one line right there says a lot about the left.
Remember, it’s all about Feeling Good about yourself and what you have done. For many, voting for Hope & Change made them feel good. Having W in office didn’t make them feel good. The reality that government worked better under W than Hope & Change was lost on them.
I heard a commercial on the radio recently that actually promised that doing X would permit you to feel good about doing something for the environment – no statement that it would actually DO something, only that it would make you FEEL better.
Reality is going to bite these folks in the tush.
“I still hope that we may find proof that the vote fraud was massive enough that 51% of the American people did not actually vote for the Chicago fraud merchant.”
It doesn’t matter. It’s EV’s that count and all you need are 270 of them. Out of the Millions of votes cast in 2000, it was less then 200 that put Bush in office. The JFK margin was even smaller, IIRC.
So you don’t need 51%. Half a 747 load will do. Or, in the case of the Usurper, several busloads of Chicago natives being driven to Ohio where they became Ohioans for a day ( Ohioans de jour?). Talk about getting out the vote.
Then we have Minnesota where in certain heavily democratic precincts, the number of votes cast exceeds the number of voters. Once ballots no longer matter, bullets are about all that is left. Some argue that the courts should be given a shot, at which point I say they already had their shot and that the courts power is based on the bullet anyway, so the real question then becomes; ‘Do we put our fate in the hands of black robed tyrants or take it up ourselves?’
That question was both asked and answered in 1776.
Gandhi said the quickest way to bring down a government is by withholding taxes. With direct payroll deductions, that isn’t even an option. No, what we are watching is the Hitler like take over of a democratic government, using the letter of the law to violate the spirit of the law.
The actual civil war will start after the Usurper cancels the 2010 elections. Better start getting ready now. The Chicago mob is.
Legal disclaimer;
I am NOT advocating a civil war. I am using my 1st amendment protected opinion that a civil war becomes inevitable when there is no other alternative besides being enslaved.
Wouldn’t release his educational transcripts. Wouldn’t release his birth certificate. Wouldn’t release his medical records. Wouldn’t answer any questions about how he basically spent the 1980′s. Hung around with the folks who brought us “Prairie Fire.”
What the hell did Rall, and others of his ilk, think they were getting with this guy?
But you know, I have a question for Mr. Ted Rall…Sincerely, did you vote for Obama?
Because, because of many independents, regular soccer moms, normal whiteys…pushed Obama across the board and into the White House (Come to mind Hemingway’s novel “Across the River and Into the Trees”).
Did you Ted?
I saw this disaster coming a mile away. I think you must be crazy, confused, or in La-La land to have voted for Mr. Fraud-in-Chief, autobiography-inventer, Alinsky-follower-community-organizer, Obamin.
Thanks for the heads up on the so-called “preventative detentions” ideas of Obama. I just read about it on, of all people, Glenn Greenwald’s space on Salon. Even HE is afraid of this, although not for the reason we’re afraid of this abomination, perversion of the nature of national security and destruction of liberty. Especially given the plans he has for his massive squad of personal brown shirts. Add to that the DHS definition of what are “dangerous extremists” and the full measure of what Obama has in mind emerges from the mists of his smooth words.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/22/preventive_detention/
Sweet, someone from the left has looked behind the curtain and sees what many of us also see–Teleprompter Monster.
Interesting comment he made about Bill Clinton and I agree. I long for the days of a Clinton (or Bush) presidency. People were better off. And none of the Bush-Clinton-Bush team ran around the world accumulating photo ops and apologizing for America and they were not hostile toward businesses and people who want to create wealth. They cared about more than just themselves.
There is pleasure in the irony of the downfall of one who said that the destruction of the American Era was good business for him. The problem with Ral is the he is typical of left y who are filled with hate is that there never figured out the basis of their philosopy.
He need to figure out what his pronciples are and make them logivally consistent. Then he can figur out if theleader is in line with those principles or not.
Obama was easy to figure out before the election. Also when someone say “no problems- jop and change” and is puposely vague,you know that is is a load of BS.
Rall voted for a guy he knew was a huckster because he had strong faith that Oba-messiah was ONLY lying to the gullible public for their own good, and not lying to liberal Rall and his buddies– given Oba-messiah’s voting record. But what Rall didn’t consider was that the utopian policies he advocates actually produce the OPPOSITE of the stated goals, unless the goal, as Arnold Kling puts it, is “to promote government at the expense of civil society and to create a one-party state in which business success is based on political favoritism,” similar to the Chicago machine of the first Mayor Daley. So Rall finds himself mysteriously out of a job and knows he was duped on the utopia thing, but can’t figure out how he was duped.
Ted Rall will be back in Obama’s graces at some point; he is temporarily off the ranch, but his exile is not permanent. Liberals eventually go back to the fold.
Obama Bombs at Standup
Gotta love that arrogant, upturned snout, tho.
Rall, you’re toast. You haven’t figured out the new rules, have you? You’re too dumb to be one of my minions.
#25 Rall voted for a guy he knew was a huckster because he had strong faith that Oba-messiah was ONLY lying to the gullible public for their own good, and not lying to liberal Rall and his buddies– given Oba-messiah’s voting record.
This reminds me of the many wealthy and sophisticated investors who were taken by Madoff, because although they new his results couldn’t be real, they thought he was “their” crook, manipulating his brokerage business and ripping off the retail clients in favor of the hedge fund. The wealthy thought Madoff was one of their own kind, and couldn’t imagine he was really eating them alive.
P.S. Love the edit function!
Oh the humanity! But no worries: 60% of Americans still want BO to succeed in stinking up the place. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turns out after his two terms of destroying the country that Obama really wasn’t born in the U.S. after all?
The Idiot Rall has got that for which he asked (“the Monster”) and, still, he wallers and wets his panties…and, consistent with the Dem constituency, he wants someone else (“the Monster”) to do something about it.
“Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was.“
Wow another unhinged sanctimonious leftist raped by reality? Pass the popcorn please.
Poor Rall. Lied to himself.
Let me know when Rall is broke.
19. Typos_R_us:
“Gandhi said the quickest way to bring down a government is by withholding taxes. With direct payroll deductions, that isn’t even an option.”
W-4 Married, 30 children.
tom
Ted Rall is not worth my time. He is, in my military mind, scum, pure and simple.
starling @ 2
leishman @ 11
Does Rall have the cojones of the “hero” in his cartoon, to turn his real guns on Obama & Company?
Poetic justice served if Rall were to curl up into a ball and die, dry out, and then blow away like scraps of old newspaper.
I have always found Ted Rall to be offensive. His hatred of the Bush administration was so intense that it made him irrational. He seemed to be more propagandist than journalist. His sole aim was getting Bush out of office at any and all cost. Presumably he voted for “change” and now he has “change.” Obama is asking people for sacrifice so now Ted Rall gets to do that too. Oh well, that’s socialism for you.
I don’t think we have to worry about the 2010 elections being canceled. With what this administration has been to accomplish in four months do you really think this contry will exist in 2010 ?
Sorry, Ted, the “book” on B. Hussein Obama was there for anyone to read and consider prior to entering the voting booth. His creepy associates/mentors, the missing birth certificate/college transcripts/college theses, silly ‘Hope & Change’ campaign rhetoric and the extreme left voting record. Those who voted for BHO were either stupid, leftist or wanted to sleep with him. How many of these fit you, Ted?
“if the economy picks up, there are no further attacks on US soil and gas prices go down, then by the common ‘bright line’ argument, Obama is likely to be seen as a “success””
But president Obama would not measure himself a success under those terms, those is not his criteria. That it still would be the criteria the majority of those who voted for him would use is a telling statement of just how badly the Democrat party has abused its supporters and lied about the direction in which they were taking the country. Omission is of course no excuse.
So Mr. Rall like the mistress in the portrait feared, finds himself abandoned and without virtue. Sucks to be him, I hope I am not next.
Chris @ 22 mentioned “squad of personal brown shirts” Now calm down. The shirts will be a nice reassuring blue.
#29 RDS: “This reminds me of the many wealthy and sophisticated investors who were taken by Madoff, because although they new his results couldn’t be real, they thought he was “their” crook, manipulating his brokerage business and ripping off the retail clients in favor of the hedge fund. The wealthy thought Madoff was one of their own kind, and couldn’t imagine he was really eating them alive.”
This reminds me of the Woody Harrelson character in “No Country for Old Men” – as a fellow assassin, he thought he had some kind of agreed upon exemption from assassination by a fellow assassin. When Javier Bardem’s character kills him as casually as flicking dust off his shoulder, Harrelson’s expression is a great picture of surprise and confusion as he realizes the other bad guy doesn’t view him as a fellow traveler along the same road.
In many ways, the Bardem character in that movie reminds me of Obama, specifically, the cold-bloodedness and complete lack of contact with humanity. This is a person whose allegiance is to himself only.
19. Typos_R_us writes:
“I am NOT advocating a civil war. I am using my 1st amendment protected opinion that a civil war becomes inevitable when there is no other alternative besides being enslaved.”
Honorable Typos, I, too, am Spartacus!”
Rall is deranged by his hatred.
He couldn’t see that Obama has only one principal (sic).
To some,
Try and remember WHY Rall is upset with Zero. It is because he did NOT assume dictatorial powers in full from day one and cancel immediately the Iraq war, the Afghanistan action and order out the jackhammers to erase any mention of anything remotely religious on any public monument in DC.
Ted Rall, asshole.
So which is worse, when Obama does something you don’t agree with or when he does something you DO agree with?
Think about this, now;
“We expected broken promises”?
Rall KNEW Obama was lying from the outset, and yet supported him? What does this say about the truthfulness of Rall himself? In all honesty, it’s nothing that we didn’t already know. But it’s interesting and rare to have such matters displayed so prominently.
He also now … after all this time… admits the sleazy operator Clinton was? And yet supported him as well? Rall Makes excuses for him not only for the eight years that Clinton was in office, but just up until recently as well? And yet he expected Obama represented a change for the better? I’m telling you, friends, Freud woulda had a ball with this guy.
There are a few trends that lend themselves to our deciphering this, however.
You’ll recall Rall just got canned from his op-ed cartoon job a few weeks ago. With this comment from Rall, it’s apparent why. Someone canned his back side because they knew the way things were going with Obama, Rall would be in high dudgeon against The Chosen One before much longer. Can’t have that. Loose cannon on deck, and all that.
The Democrats are in power, and Rall’s out of a job. Ponder that for a moment, all by itself.
There’s one of two ways we can play this.
Either Ted Rall is simply an extraordinarily bitter individual, whose bitterness served the purpose of the Democrats for a while, (See “Willing Idiot” ) and now finds himself with no further purpose for his bitterness now that the Democrats he snarked for, for so long, are in power, or else he’s simply a fool who has finally figured out how foolish he’s been.
Either way, with this complaint from him, the question becomes whether or not he’s going to have the intellectual integrity to work against the reelection of Obama, or will start making excuses for him again, come election time.
We’ll revist this, I’m sure as 2010 and 2012 come along.
BTW; I must say, the timed ‘re-edit function is a welcome one to this typo-prone editorialist. Thank you, website gods.
#44 Herb: touché! Nice one.
PS: LOVE this editing feature. Please can we have this on the entire PJ site?
Ted Rall is a nutcase that will probably end up hurting someone like a certain anti-American friend of Obama.
P.S. Moogie likes the editing feature as well. Now let’s get some of that rich text editor stuff in here. Or how about a preview program?
50. sheesh:
troll bait-
Name one I agreed with?
–love the edit button
This is great I still have two minutes for spell check.
We are not worthy -we are not worthy!
Obama was elected and is sustained by a wave of public affection. (“…democrats fall in love”], even as devotees begin to disagree with policy. The Rall example shows the tipping point inherent in any infatuation when reality does not meet expectation: “I believe in you” becomes “But I believed in you!” and “I believed in YOU?!”
Conservatives need to note the tidal character of affairs of the heart; the inevitibility of dissaffection and the need to provide the adult alternative to the liberal romantization of elected officials as gods or monsters.
“I would never call my president a monster.” (heh)
There may be some nasty divorces upon this failure at Camelot.
(…Popcorn?}
Poor and unfortunate Mr.Rall does not realize that Obama is a typical fascist, so it was stpid to believe that Obama would forfeit the right to indefinitely detain terrorists. In fact, one must expect Obama to make “national security” a much bigger priority – of course with some what more personal touch, i.e. the opponents of Obama will become his target.
and if wonder who Obama will emulate – look no further than the article I wrote some months ago:
http://hyphenatedamericans.blogspot.com/2009/01/game-we-all-can-play-name-that.html
Once you read it, you will be able to discern the logic behind Obama’s moves.
45. Moogie:
Great comparison. Woody, I think he said to Bardem character: “Ya’know, you don’t need to do this?” Ha, ha. Booom!
Likewise, on O’Bama, I quote “The Last of the Mohicans”, with Nathan: “I am not subject to much at all.”
As for old McCain, the king of sclerosis, who let me down by not putting up a fight to Obamin, I say with Rick Blaine to Captain Renault in Casablanca: “I think this is the beginning of a great friendship.”
Major Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick: It’s not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick: When you get there, ask me!
Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Major Strasser: How about New York?
Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.
Sheesh, I’ll give him credit for continuing the Bush war-on-terror protocols for the most part (except for re-branding them, they’re fairly identical). I also like what his Sec. of Education is doing: http://www.bradenton.com/180/story/1471698.html. Having been exposed to the inner city, Obama surely has seen what the teachers’ unions have done to the education system. Count on the NEA/teachers’ unions to join Ted Rall in outrage in the near future. I wonder which ones will be next — Hollywood millionaires (limousine liberals) if Obama puts in a wealth tax?
What’s the saying, “be careful what you ask for…”? I predicted major buyer’s remorse within a year of the election.
As for Rall: None of this could have happened to a more deserving guy.
So, the perverbial chickens are coming home to roost!
How does the Left stand for anything when their core is hatred? Hatred, bitterness, & self-absorption does make for sterling qualities for any person. Ted Rall has lived off of hatred, bitterness, & self-absorption for years. The same is true for Obama.
Obama’s hands are now stained with reality and the taint disgusts and outrages Ted Rall, whose bitterness against reality knows no bounds and will never be appeased.
I work a seasonal job with many, many liberal co-workers who ALL voted for Obama. Now every day when I go to work I enjoy a little bit of schadenfreude when I hear them talking about their spouses, children, and friends who have been laid off or fired during the “change” they asked for. My only comment is, “That’s the Obama economy for you.”
Aristide #38 has a novel idea: anyone have contact info for this Ted Rall? We should dare him to put his anger where his creativity is (he does draw cartoons…), and skip the prose tirades.
Ed @ 66
Amen! Words! Just words! We need cartoons, Mr. Rall!
Ted Rall is reaping the fruits of his own vicious cultivation.
Any cartoonist with a conservative POV has no future in Rall’s universe.
Rall demonstrates his typical shallow, short-sighted thinking. If Obama were to step down, who does Rall think will become POTUS? Slo-Joe Biden, whose gaffe a minute and tenuous grasp on reality demonstrates a truly diseased and damaged mine, would become POTUS. Does Rall actually think (and I use that word reservedly when applying it to Rall) that Biden would be an improvement over Obama? Heck, would Biden be an improvement over anyone????
“For many, voting for Hope & Change made them feel good.”
For many of the liberals I know, Obama getting elected was less about feeling good as it was wanting to get even. Their hatred of Bush was about feeling superior to the common folk with common sense. Since the 1960′s they had been told to believe that they had some new wisdom that made them more sophisticated and more able to grasp nuance than the ordinary simpletons who felt pride in their country and flag.
So when Obama won, that was really what it was about for them. “They” won. “We” lost. Hahahahaha
But I wonder if anyone else has noticed a very creepy sentiment among these people. Camilla Paglia expressed it in a piece recently. They talk about Obama and then in a weird hush tone, they talk about how they fear that Obama will be assassinated. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s not like they hope that he will be assassinated, but it’s as if they don’t quite know how to direct their feelings now that they have all that they want. So they whisper about the white supremist boogey man who might pop up and help them to prove that they were right to view America as a downright mean country.
I’ve experienced this conversation enough times now to find their motives downright creepy. And I’m wondering if, as Obama continues to disappoint them as the tool with which to prove their intellectual superiorty, if they won’t actually start subliminally hoping that some white racist will end their torture of having to defend Obama’s ruthless power grabs and allow them to once again massage themselves with the sentiment that they were right to be very afraid of the white, middle-class, gun-toting, American-loving male.
“truly diseased and damaged mine,”
maybe Biden’s mine would be an improvement over me….
Obama won’t attempt a wealth tax. Not only is a wealth tax so blatantly unconstitutional that there’s no way the Supreme Court would uphold it, but it also isn’t necessary. A VAT is equivalent to a wealth tax.
“Ted Rall will be back in Obama’s graces at some point; he is temporarily off the ranch, but his exile is not permanent. Liberals eventually go back to the fold.”
Historically, this is just not correct. Delusional even. Stalin lined about 38 million up against the wall and shot them. Pol Pot did about 2 million. Maybe that is what you mean by “go back to the fold”. Rall will join that great pool of dead Democratic voters. At least that way he will get a check;
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/money/find_a_job/dpgo_090514_Dead_People_Get_Stimulus_Checks_fc_2486322
{snipped}
Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. He’d been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United States for a seven-month visit in 1969.
One assumes he was a democrat.
Regardless, history is overflowing with examples of what happens to the useful fools when the revolution is over and the Tyrant is firmly in power. They get murdered. In wholesale lots mostly.
Legal disclaimer; I am NOT advocating wholesale murder, or retail murder. I am against all murder. I am just pointing out what has happened in the past and expressing my opinion that the past will repeat itself, as it so often does.
. . . massage themselves with the sentiment that they were right to be very afraid of the white, middle-class, gun-toting, American-loving male.
Not to mention being afraid of the white, middle-class, gun-toting America-loving female– like Sarah Palin.
Firefox has a spell check as a part of the browser. There is also a plugin that provides a limited editing toolbar.
Typos,
Check out http://www.tinyurl.com
It will shorten those looooooooong links.
76 geoffgo: thanks for that tip!
Mr Rall has proven that the broken clock is not neccessarily correct twice a day.
We may agree with Rall that Obama must go but we’re coming from opposite ends. Reading Rall’s article it is clear most of us pajama patrons would not agree with Rall on a regular basis. My fears about Obama differs from Rall’s fears. Rall expected change from the Bush horrors. I didn’t find them quite horrible. It kept us safe since 9/11. Perhaps Rall finds Obama not leftist enough. If Rall can call a Somali Pirate a “Child” Rall has reality problems. That “Child” pirated a ship and held hostage its captain for days. That he was brought to America to be tried as any American citizen would mocks the notion of justice. The other three pirates received justice. I doubt Rall would agree. The author cannot use Rall as evidence to prove our case against Obama because Rall’s points of view differs dramatically from ours. Actually Rall benefits Obama by showing that reality trumps ideology. Yes we’d like to have Turkey admit to Armenian genocide but the strategic importance of Turkey overrides it. Obama is coming to the same conclusions Bush did regarding national security, therefore the policies remain. The things I fear is that Obama and the Democrats want to do is bar conservative opinion altogether. It’s becoming a daily routine for Obama to threaten opposing viewpoints with retaliation. Recently it happened with Sotomayer. Obama is becoming scary. He is taking the route of the common tyrant, i.e. no verbal opposition will be tolerated. Obama may be continuing suspending habeus corpus for certain people but he’s going way beyond that. He’s threatening to suspend one of the greatest freedoms America has and that’s freedom of speech. Obama is spending way too much and has little to show for it. The economy remains in a funk. What happened to all those public works projects Obama promised? Comrad Obama has siezed the auto industry and will now tell us how to produce automobiles and what kind of automobiles to produce. Rall makes no mention of any of these in his article.
When one listens to the videos of the interviews with Yuri Bezmenov, one gets the definite impression that the Ted Ralls of this world would be shipped to the gulags or shot when people like Lenin and Obama come to power. The Ted Ralls feel used, and that is quite the point: they are used – and then discarded. The real Communists want to get rid of the idealists, because the real Communists know all along that the idealists who went to the barricades for them will turn around be disillusioned with them.
#80 Fred: you are, of course, correct. Great connection. For those readers unfamiliar with Yuri Bezmenov, here’s a link to the playlist of his YouTube interviews: http://tinyurl.com/nha96j. Thanks, Fred.
This is just a case of Stalinist vs. Trotskyite. Or, as they said in Get Smart, My Kaos is purer than your Kaos.
This sounds like a school from another timeline
“This is just a case of Stalinist vs. Trotskyite.”
Good. I love it when commies statr offing each other.
It’s their only saving grace.
Great questions. Entitlement theology is a disease.
natural born citizen legally defined:http://nobarack08.wordpress.com/
I couldn’t get a passport for my kids with a Hawaii COLB, I had to produce a vault certified birth certificate for the passport office.
If the Founders did indeed use Vattel’s Laws of Nations as their guide and reference to meanings and definitions within our Constitution, and Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” is a valid reference point, then it sure looks like both Obama and the Democrats committed fraud on the grandest level of all…they ran an admitted British citizen for POTUS and stole an election with an alien candidate. If the birth certificate issue ever gets its day in court and there is discovery that proves the fraud …. it will either be the trial of the century or a civil war?
#86 sigintel: it will also render all laws signed by Obama moot and the status quo ante will obtain.
2X4,
Didja notice the reference to Leo Limbeck’s KIPP schools?
51. Eric Florack: I’m telling you, friends, Freud woulda had a ball with this guy.
Rall would have CAUSED Freud to quit altogether. I could picture Dr. Freud throwing his hands up in disgust. Rall is so engrossed in his own hatred of Bush and anything conservative I doubt ANYONE can help him at this point. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy.
Post #80 fred and post #81 Chris:
I just watched parts 1 and 2 (of 7) of Yuri’s lectures on subversion. Forget about the Rall’s of this world we’re being subverted and have been for years. Religion, Media, Education factors involved in the subversion process leads me to believe the 15 year cycle to subvert a country is just about up. Yuri is a wake up call. But is it already too late?
Ted Rall, appealing to patriotism…
As if there’s anything about America that he loves. I’ve never heard him say anything nice about his country. I wonder what “patriotism” means to him? Probably allegiance to a set of principles rather than a love for the United States.
geoffo, yep, I did.
another one bites the bus
if you aren’t on the Obama bus,don’t try to catch it because it will run you over. this is the tried and true method. my advice when the bus comes careening around the corner… run to safety, and don’t vote for him twice
“[S]ince World War 2 foreign policy failures have had no direct impact on domestic security”
This is a difficult point to concede, as the effects of foreign policy failures go hand-in-hand with that of the successes.
Since WWII I see that there have been at least two major foreign policy challenges to national security: the threat of Communism and the threat of Jihadism. While there were distinct failures in out foreign efforts against Communism, overall our successes have been greater. That isn’t, however, to say that there has been no domestic impact from the failures. Witness the rise in power of ANSWER, ELF and other anti-establishment ajitators who have their roots in Socialist/Communist philosophy and backing and who have, in my opinion, adversely impacted our handling of the second foreign policy challenge I addressed above.
Myth Busters;
How is Obama going to add a Value Added Tax without hearing the screams from his own minions of ” It’s unfair to the poor!!”. Or will “the poor” have a “get out of tax” free card with them, like a handicapped parking sticker?
” The heck with the key to the city- what I really want is a handicapped parking sticker!”- unknown
Ted Rall may be a cartoonist who claimed to be a humorist/satirist. I looked at his cartoon pieces some years ago and these are not even funny. There’s no hint of satire or irony in them. He should consider himself as a snarkist of the lowest order: all sass, no class.
Ted Rall…hahahaha, maybe next time you’ll think before you vote!!
Think of it this way. Regardless of which side Rall is coming FROM, we all are meeting in the same spot. The fact that Obama is a Marxist/Fascist intent on destroying this nation through his concerted efforts to destroy EVERYTHING that has made America great.
A lot of Americans (myself included) didn’t care much for John McCain but held their noses and voted for him anyway because there was at least a slim chance of him governing conservatively, as opposed to zero chance with Obama.
Seems to me Ted Rall took the same approach, but from the opposite direction. He really didn’t know just how Obama would govern, but he believed there was at least a chance it would be in a manner to Rall’s liking. With McCain, aka “Bush’s third term”, zero chance.
Of course, for him to now complain that Obama hasn’t lived up to his expectations is like buying a Powerball ticket, then complaining about not winning just because you had a non-zero (however tiny) chance of winning by buying the ticket, as opposed to zero chance by not buying it.
Joshua,
so what you are saying is that the house always wins. Sigh. I guess We The People are no longer the owners of the House and are now just the suckers to be sucked dry. On what date should the history books mark our transition from a Republic to a Casino?
Becky, #101: so what you are saying is that the house always wins.
Not quite. More like “just because some bets are better than others doesn’t mean the better bets are anything close to sure winners.” Rall thought Obama was a better bet than McCain. In terms of political agreeability, he was probably right about that. But even good bets can be losers. That’s why they’re called bets.
The United States is not a Muslim country unless we nullify the United States Constitution and its amendments; unless we nullify the right (or make it a fearful task) to vote; or unless we surrender to the President, with a compliant Congress and Supreme Court, the power to rule by fiat. There is no freedom of speech in Muslim countries, no freedom of religion; no free press; no right to petition Congress; no right to trial by a jury of one’s peers; no equality under the law. Is that what we want? If so stupidity reigns.
When Ted Rall campaigns againest Obama in 2010, I’ll believe in hope and change.