Notwithstanding Inauguration Fever, there are signs of unhappiness in Obamaland. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is just about to begin her tenure as the first-ever female head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is deeply distressed by Obama’s pick of Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, to head the FBI [Oops: wrong acronym: as a reader points out, Obama picked him to head the CIA: "FBI, CIA, ONI. We're all in the same alphabet soup." --The Professor in North by NorthWest]. “I wasn’t even consulted,” sniffed Feinstein, dabbing her eyes (I paraphrase). And Obama’s choice of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inaugural sent poor Frank Rich into orbit. Reaching for his most opprobrious epithet, Mr. Rich warned that he discerned “a faint tinge of Bush” creeping into the otherwise immaculate reverie that was his image of Barack Obama. Any moment now, I expect an outbreak of Capgrass Syndrome to cascade through the ranks of the faithful.
Capgras Syndrome? That’s the delusion, named for the French shrink Jean Marie Joseph Capgras, that “a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behavior.” (See here for more.)
“I, for one, welcome our new Marxist overlords!”
I seriously fear for the future of our nation and the world. What happened to bring us to this point? Brainwashing in our institutions of higher learning, with the result being an entire generation (or two) of historically illiterate ignoramuses? Is it the almost complete ownership of the news media by the left? Did the fall of the Soviet Union leave us without an example of what leftist ideologies create? Did Bush’s inability to deal with attacks from the left (except by attempts at appeasement) ensure that their caricature of him became the dominant meme?
I think that all of these things, and many more both known and unknown, contributed to this situation. I also place a lot of blame at the feet of conservatives and Republicans who somehow lost sight of their principles and began trying to make peace with leftists instead of sticking to their guns.
So now here we are, a couple of weeks away from swearing in a president who will probably do more to damage this country than any foreign enemy in living memory.
I used to say “Anyone but Hillary.” Well, be careful what you wish for.
First of all, do not discount the ability of many on the left to hold several mututally contradictory positions. I won’t bet on cognitive dissonance setting in on a large scale. And of course there are going to be plenty of just-under-the-radar appointments and bureaucrats that will be implementing Obama’s Great Leap Forward. Or FIve Year Plan – I’m hazy on the actual terminology.
Second, I doubt the “real” Obama is locked in Ayers’ basement. More likely he’s stashed at Area 51 or wherever the alien UFO crew is, along with the 200 mpg carbereutors, the perpetual motion machines, Jeff Goldblum’s flying saucer crashing Mac PowerBook and Osama bin Hidin’. And, of course, the lost Ark of the Covenant.
Incidentally, if Osama is in that same storage facility, it explains why Bush and Cheney failed to “capture” him in time to affect the election – nobody can locate him.
The reverend’s inclusion is particularly painful because it confers a measure of respectability on the Fundamentalist-Religious-Right Jihadists liberals habitually use to frighten small children and mild-mannered suburbanites.
It’s perilous to mess with such a useful bogeyman.
This just in…
The popular liberal website, “The Daily Kos” has tapped former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta, 70, to be the new the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In a statement, Kos founder Markos Moulitsas said, “We are pleased that the president elect has entrusted us with this important choice before we were forced to make good on our threat to disable his transition website with an avalanche of negative comments and angry emoticons. We can assure our constituents — college professors, actors, illegal immigrants, college students, and greasy-haired slackers alike — that we have thoroughly vetted Mr. Panetta and determined that he has absolutely no political, ideological, philosophical, social or familial connection to anyone with the first or last name of Bush. Of course, if such a connection is ever discovered in the future we reserve the right to fire Mr. Panetta and promote deputy director Bill Maher to the director position. Mr. Panetta has also, in the past, displayed occasional intelligence which undoubtedly qualifies him for this important position.”
Asked for a comment, blogger Andrew Sullivan said, “once again the president-elect has displayed his intelligence, wisdom, and political skill, underscoring the importance of legalizing same-sex marriage and the unquestioned illegality of water-boarding and other interrogation techniques. Wait… what were we talking about, Levi Johnston?”
Another, lesser-known member of the incoming administration, vice president elect Joe Biden, added, “not many people know this but Panetta invented those delicious Panetones as well as the Pan-tone color system. It’s true, look it up.”
When asked if the job of intelligence chief requires intelligence experience, Panetta replied simply, “no comment.”
Yes, there will be minor squabbles amongst the lefties but in terms of the big picture, trust me, Obama will ram socialism down our throats.
ERATTA
“deeply distressed by Obama’s pick of Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, to head the FBI. ”
He was not picked to head the FBI, he was picked to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
NJCloset, don’t forget that Panetta Bread Company pioneered free wi-fi in their locations, without which most Kos readers would have to spend all day in Mom’s basement. That’s worth a cabinet appointment in my book.
I’m finally glad people are starting to see what I see.
…I’m still trying to figure out how they plan on blaming Bush
One marionette picking another for the party; How do you feel about having Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton pulling the strings?
I am only cautiously optimistic concerning Barack Obama. We should, however, not forget that he graduated from Harvard University and acquired the mindset asserting that big government is the answer to most difficulties. I won’t feel completely confident until the president-elect says something like: “Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith were shallow and ignorant. Their views must be soundly rejected.” At the end of the day, Obama believes that “elites” should be running things. The concept that Americans can handle their own affairs is perceived to be weird, if not outright ridiculous.
6. NJclosetconservative:
Peter writes: That was great!
The political left is such a broad coalition of whiners and mental midgets that Obama can’t possibly please them all. Given that, why not throw each faction under the bus once or twice right at the outset just to teach them their place. Where else are they going to go?
I suspect that, despite the hope and change pablum, that Obama will do absolutely nothing controversial for four years. In fact, that’s his weakness – he’s overly concerned about his popularity rating and his legacy. (Bush didn’t care much about either.) All conservatives have to do is keep the pressure on at the level where 40% to 45% of the voters are still opposed. That will give Obama almost no room to manuever.
Is it to much to hope the new mantra will be:
“Obama lied,
Lefty dreams died?”
Probably.
I don’t think those who voted for Obama have anything to fear about the Clintonistas in his future administration.
Obama is such an ideologue he can ignore anyone’s advice, and, because he has appointed duplicate responsibilities to more than one person it seems that that is exactly what he intends to do.
3. Lee:
I also place a lot of blame at the feet of conservatives and Republicans who somehow lost sight of their principles and began trying to make peace with leftists instead of sticking to their guns.
Jan 6, 2009 – 3:41 pm
Blame the people who aren’t leftists and didn’t vote for them? That’s a ridiculous lack of logic.
A note about repubs and principles. Repub does not equal conservative. Back in the day, Teddy Roosevelt was a big time progressive repub. Hoover too. The Roosevelt administrations admitted that at first they didn’t come up with any new programs. They just continued all the programs Hoover started to end/ease the effect of the then recession. (If that sentence made you feel ill considering the present response to our recession, it should. It was estimated that government programs extended the 1929 recession by 7 years and turned it into the Great Depression with the Taft-Hartley Act impossing greater tariffs on imports.) Bush and his administration are progressive, that’s what ‘compassionate conservative’ means. Someone who wants the government to solve things.
Well, now this all makes sense.
Barack Hussein Obama obviously has an evil twin. We’ll call the evil twin “Hugo”. Hugo is the evil twin because he is less liberal.
So, obviously Barack was born in Hawaii, but Hugo was born in Kenya. Barack, but not Hugo, attended church with Jeremiah Wright, so it was Hugo who truthfully said he never heard any racist sermons from “Reverend” Wright.
Barack was appointed to the board of the Annenberg Challenge, but it was Hugo who actually attended the meetings and knew Bill Ayers.
Most likely, it was Hugo who never had any conversation with Gov. Blago.
If anyone doubts this, notice that “Hugo Obama” is an anagram for…nothing.
Since Hugo seems to be running the show these days, where is is Barack?
There is the really ridiculous disconnect between what is seen by conservatives and the media as Obama’s base and what Obama’s base actually is. There is also this funny disconnect that comes from trying to paint him as a radical leftist then trying to analyze the makeup of his administration.
No one that’s serious should have dissonance about Summers, HE WAS AN OBAMA ECONOMIC ADVISOR. No one that’s serious should be worried about Warren. Obama has actively praised Warren and went to the Saddleback Forum. And with Hillary… Obama’s best debate quip every is saying he’d welcome her advising him. (didn’t conservatives already play the “obama and clinton supporters don’t like each other” card and still lose?)
He said he was going to keep bob gate this summer. He’s also said he’d like to model his foreign policy off of bush sr.
I mean… Obama is the guy that was trashed by progressive blogs/netroots for having the level headedness to say something nice about Reagan. But his core supporters never wavered because his core support was never some radical left. It was independents and young people and minorities (with overlap of course).
THAT should be what really scares conservatives. The middle and the youth have been coopted into Obama. The middle doesn’t really care about Obama’s picks as long as they work, and the youth will go along with him for a long time. His foreign policy picks are softening the neocons and his ability to make people like Warren feel welcome will keep him from becoming a bogeyman to social conservatives. He’s setting the groundwork that combined with proper governance will make the republican party more powerless than it’s been since WW2.
BE HAPPY: AFTER ALL, LOOK AT HIS RESUME
Comparing the resumes of Carter-Bush41-Clinton-Bush43-Obama
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/presidents-elect-resumes-whats-your.html
When the last Czar and his family were canonized by the Orthodox Church in Russia, the question of Rasputin came out. And one of the answers was (a guy I knew, very anti-Semitic, now a priest, told me, very seriously): THAT WASN’S THE REAL RASPUTIN, the real one was kept in /blah-blah’s/ dungeon, the famous monster was a fake, the REAL Rasputin than councelled the royal family, wasn’t active those time at all.
So (I asked him), if the bad one was the faked one, why the guy you want to pray to (that’s what they do!) took any advice from him? — He had no idea! — What about the Holy Spirit or whatever, inspiration “from above”, to show the way and the stuff? — Oh, shut up, you f… j… b…!
As sweet as it was, I still considered my dialogue partner somewhat disturbed, untill I’ve met at least two books stating exactly the same rabish: the REAL RASPUTIN was a saint, and the guy who influenced russian and european history so much was just his DOUBLE.
Is this the Capgras syndrome? The whole nation, 70 years plus after the events, wants to delude itself in such a way? FREELY? Please, give me a break! The czar WAS canonized, so the majority of those people WANTED to buy it. Sad? Sure. Unexpected? No way! INDIVIDUALS can be disturbed. NATIONS are sane, what they do is THEIR FREE CHOICE. Just like in Germany (whatever Ratzinger says, it was a DEMOCRATIC choice that put an insignifican Austrian guy in power).
Capgras syndrome is an illness of an individual. A group of people will never suffer such a s… They make their free choices, profit from them, burn their fingers and start to shout: “Capgras syndrome!”.
But the linguistic joke is extremely sweet anyway. Thanks.
I think we should sober up and listen to what Derek and Krauthamer have to say. While we needn’t agree with all of what each one says, it is accurate to state that a lot of the “stealth marxist” stuff is a strawman, as is the issue of Obama being turned into a cult figure by lefty moonbats and celebrity illiterates.
There will be plenty of statist nonsense to complain about in the next few years without it having to be naked socialism, and an awful lot of people will be fine with it, unless “conservatives,” or whatever smaller/small government types are supposed to be called these days can articulate compelling, attractive, and workable alternatives that a lot of people will like.
oblahblah will inevitably fail. why you ask? simple he promised everything to everyone and cannot deliver on that promise. ergo everyone will wind up dissatisfied and several will flat out hate him. the media will not allow the wonder boy to take the blame and will therefore blame congress. harry and nancy will arrogantly make sure we all know the dems are in charge now and when the media starts pointing fingers at congress…boom. people who voted dem will remember they voted dem and dems are in charge so dems must go. buhbye harry, nan, and bawney. and inevitablly byebye bambam.
When I go out in the back yard and whisper “Obama, Obama”, I see tingles in my drain field that go all the way into the septic tank. Try it yourself. It may fix your sewage problems..
Wow are ‘SOME’ Americans finally starting to realise that the ‘Obama Messiah is a proven LIAR’. If his deceit and dishonesty displayed by fighting ‘tooth and nail’ NOT to produce a reliable Birth Certificate is not enough then what about when he visited Pakistan in 1981 what passport did he travel on Americans were BANNED from entry to Pakistan at that time? Also what about ‘Barry Soetero AKA Obama’ adopted by his INDONESIAN stepfather who attended school in Indonesia which at the time did NOT allow dula nationality and where he was registered as a MUSLIM and even took additional non compulsory Koranic Studies. Ahhh yes the Messiah has so many questions to answer. I am extremely fearful of what this lying, deceitful man will do when he takes office.
Obama and his supporters tend to be much more comfortable with some cognitive dissonance. That is actually part of Obama’s personality profile – he is good at seeing problems from multiple perspectives, and assessing dispassionately.
Likewise, progressives tend to be less likely to be disturbed by cognitive dissonance than conservatives.
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n10/abs/nn1979.html
Obama should be able to deliver on much of his platform within the first term, given a compliant congress. However, he will not risk his second term by moving too quickly. His first term will be a deliberate and measured move to the left, making sure not to outpace the nation at large.
His second term should provide the opportunity to make some progress in solidifying the Democratic base in a larger part of the nation. Just locking up a few counties could be enough to prohibit Republicans any significant voice in DC.
It sure is fun to watch folks getting their panties in a knot before Obama is even sworn in. The last eight years have taken a very long time – I get the feeling the next eight may be gone too soon.
Peace.
DS
Is it possible that this is not the Barack Obama I used to know?
The Kraut was right. Beware Panetta is the harbinger of worse things to come. A nation at war on two fronts and others installs someone with no background in the application, analysis and use of intelligence. For what purpose?
To dismantle it.
Those folks who saw the retainer of Gates (for now) as an indicator were wrong. Panetta is the indicator. Record spending as a percentage of GDP is an indicator. Eric Holder and his Easter weekend abduction of Elian Gonzalez is an indicator.
Time to wake up. Reality is about to hit us quite hard.
It’s all an act. Divert the stare of the voters while you afix their chains. When the real fascists dictator shows up, how will you know?
I agree strongly with Derek and RW. We’re not dealing with normal political issues. We are about to see our entire government and treasury dismantled. There will be no way back. I can’t even hate Obama. Obama is the sum of the cultural and intellectual illiteracy that prevails in this country, just as Hitler was the word made flesh of the lunacy of the Germans in the 1930s.
Funny the guy has 75% approval rate. I wonder if the disappointment comes mostly from conservatives who imagined a marxist/muslim/radical monster rather from the Obama supporters
25 Cybergeezer — Hey, I tried it and it works!! Just cancelled my service call. Thanks.
@31
kabumpo,
I find it hilarious that you believe Obama will dismantle the “entire government and treasury”. That sounds like what conservatives have been trying to accomplish for the last three decades. Norquist would be proud.
Comparing Obama to Hitler is a good sign this thread has run its course. Obama is the most culturally and intellectually literate president in decades, perhaps ever. He is the furthest thing from the racist, hateful, and fascist Nazis. The GOP has taken up the mantle of the Reich – Obama stands to restore dignity to this nation, and help to remove the stain of Bush.
Peace.
DS
Capragas syndrome or not, this is not the Barry Soetoro I knew, sir – trust me, I know what I’m saying.
Re #35: Goooof – Capgras, not capragas syndrome.
Yet, at a second look, Capragas is also good name for the roaming collection of character flaws that Barry Soetoro is.
When you wipe away the liberal guilt that elected him ,and his media choir, Obama is a garden variety Chicago pol with a lot of ambition and very thin resume.The Democrats in Congress are exactly who they have been since Carter; tax and spend statists in the pocket of semi coherent interest groups.Hopefully the budget issue will prevent him from doing too much damage during his term of office
Any one who has done research on the Obamassiah knows one of his earliest “ideas” was what he called “economic justice”. What’s taking place now is his attempt to get this started before there is any ground swell of opposition. He knows he can’t get it through Congress once “We The People” figure out what he really wants to do.
there is such a rich pageant of responses, rebuttals & ripostes contained herein, I hardly know where to begin, but I do know that the subject of the three R’s requires, no compels, me to join the fray.
He, the anointed one, Hussein, is, I believe, what was once known, & maybe still is, as a “judas goat” leading the great unwashed masses into the utopia (dystopia?)of the “true” socialism, as opposed to the bogus type practiced in the late lamented U.S.S.R., but containing the incipient gulags that just HAVE to accompany any kind of really “serious” socialist system, so LOOK OUT!! & so say I, Markrite.
Joe I’m still trying to figure out how they plan on blaming Bush
by opening their mouths, gah-ah.
)
32. Robert Hurley:
Worth repeating:
“Funny the guy has 75% approval rate. I wonder if the disappointment comes mostly from conservatives who imagined a marxist/muslim/radical monster rather from the Obama supporters”
The guy is doing fine. We wish him good luck and a Happy New Year!!
@37
Kimberly,
Obama is hardly a garden variety Chicago pol. He’s a highly respected legal scholar. Tax and spend would be great – it is the Republican administrations that borrow and spend which are a threat to the USA. Obama will have to run a deficit for a while just to get caught up with the profligacy of Bush.
The Democrats in Congress are the voice of their constituents – they represent a broad swath of the populace, as well as many interest groups, coherent and not. Just like any political party.
Peace.
DS
“BARACK, THE MAGIC NEGRO” HAD BETTER KNOW SOME REAL MAGIC
President-elect Barack Hussein “We-Only-Have-One-President-at-a-Time” Obama sure is sending mixed signals. On the one hand he stands virtually mute on foreign policy issues, on the other he speaks out quite a bit and in contradictions about the economy.
Methinks he wants to keep both hands clean.
With the blessings of a mass media blinded by his light during the primary and general election campaigns, he skated through the muck and mire of Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn and Tony Rezko and emerged untarnished, at least in the eyes of a majority of the electorate.
Thanks to that same worshipful media, he escaped ridicule, and national publicity, for his countless gaffes, which were so numerous that Michelle Malkin called him “a perpetual gaffe machine.” My favorites are his claim of campaigning in all 57 states, his reference to Iran as a tiny, harmless country, and his baldfaced lies, or gaffes, in his autobiography, Dreams of My Father.
Nevertheless, he was elected, so it’s understandable that the poor guy started to believe his own press and overrated teflon-coated charm until reality finally hit home. He has to realize by now that a president can’t fool all the people all the time, even with a complicit media concealing his flaws and doublespeak.
It’s bad enough that his administration has had so many problems even before it becomes an administration. Mr. Clean’s troubles had just started with Illinois Governor Blagojevitch trying to sell his senate seat to the highest bidder when it turned out that his Chief-of-Staff-to-be, Rahm Emanuel, had numerous chats with Blago, unbeknownst to his boss-to-be, Obama. That’s not much of a testimonial to having a firm grip on his people.
George W. Bush would have been hooted off the stage for his incompetence had a major player in his administration been negotiating, or doing whatever Rahm was doing, with someone such as Blago–and behind his back, if that truly were the case. We will probably never learn the substance of their many chats.
Then came the withdrawal as Commerce Secretary-designate of the much lauded, Bill Richardson…
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
You see, Obama will pleasantly surprise the right. At least I am already pleasantly surprised.
There comes a time where people have to stop whining, stop stating their perceived injustices, and do something about their situation.
The media likes Obama? So the eff what? Am I living on some magical planet where the conservative politicians have been beloved by traditional media? We’ve already dealt with this and there has already been a rise of conservative media. Move the hell on and realize Obama isn’t reaching his supporters through the press, it comes through the internet. Through youtube, facebook, myspace, whatever. The traditional media is only one side of Obama’s face, and it’s not the side that outraised, and outorganized the GOP.
In short. Stop whining about age old right wing grievances. Stop using cookie cutter right wing arguments (liberal media! he’s just like carter! he’s just like dukakis!) and start working on real solutions.
And I can’t even fathom Obama’s “back bench” of Biden and Pelosi. Our number two and number three back up Presidents. Can you imagine if one of them had to take over? Just unreal how this has come to pass.
How did it happen?
Google “40 goals” … let’s roll.
Let’s all have a big cry.Talk about buyers remorse.
Gracie said it best;
“When the truth
turns out to be lies
And all the joy
within you dies.”
The American (Constitutional) system of government is designed for incremental adjustments to the body politic.
Major change is impossible. Major “change” will destroy the system. So the Usurper can just make adjustments, in this precise case, those adjustments consist of turning back the clock to the Clinton administration.
That will lead to more terrorist attacks, since it was the Clinton administration policies that enabled the attacks in the first place.
Plus the CLinton administration. with it’s abuse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, created the current economic problems. So a resumption of those policies won’t cure the current depression. Obama is going the FDR road to cure the depression. It is a hard held liberal myth that the New Deal ended the great depression.
It was WW2 that ended the great depression.
So will the Usurper start WW3 to end the current depression? Nothing like a draft and putting 10 to 12 million men under arms to ensure full employment.
You cannot trust the states or the private sector to uphold the law. The Feds have throughout our history been the one force that has protected civil rights, and protected equal rights for women and blacks. A 100% free market system will not work properly due to selfishness, greed, racism, sexism and religion. You’ll always need government systems in place to protect the poor, and the working class. Actually a country as rich as we are should not have millions without health care, or homeless, or under educated. It only happens because some in our society are so hated that there is a concerted effort to deny them even one ounce of love and support. Fortunately, our country was founded on a premise of freedom and equality, so we have to live up to it best we can.
JackT, what are you talking about? ‘You’ll always need government systems in place to protect the poor and the working class.’
‘Need government’ huh? You’ll get what you wished for, fella. Obama’s going to create 100′s of thousands of more Gov’t jobs to go along with his ’4.1 million more jobs’ promise. Strange, he said 1 million while campaigning. ’3 million new jobs’ 7 days ago. Now, 4.1 million. Interesting…
JackT, do you know the oxymoron, ‘I’m from the Gov’t and I’m here to help.’
The millions without health care can right that ship. It’s called, ‘Free will.’ The U.S. is one of very few nations who can practice, accomplish and boast of its successes in that arena.
Benjamin Franklin once said (paraphrasing), ‘Those who are homeless, make them feel uncomfortable being homeless. They’ll better their situation because of it (i.e. ‘tough love’). He’d also said, ‘The country that treats their homeless best have the most homeless people.’
Michelle Obama may not be too happy either!
ANN COULTER VERSUS MICHELLE OBAMA: A QUESTION OF STYLE
In this corner, the contender weighing in at 135 pounds out of New York City, Anorexic Ann Coulter! . . . In the far corner weighing in at 152 out of the Windy City, Mighty Michelle Obama! . . . Now, shake hands, ladies, and have a good fight!
The Coulter-Obama drama hasn’t quite come to fisticuffs, at least not yet, but if it ever did, I’d have to give the edge to Michelle. If it came to a no-holds-barred debate, I’d go with the feistiest and more acerbic, Ann. If it came down to mud wrestling, I’d bet on a draw.
Ann is on a tear lately–as if she’s never on a tear–with her latest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and their Assault on America. How she and others, liberals and conservatives, regularly churn out lengthy, researched volumes is mystifying to me, but they do and Coulter does it best when it comes to piercing the liberal jugular and making them yelp.
In her latest, Ann takes aim at, among other liberal targets and icons, the soon-to-be First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Robinson Obama. Never one to pull her punches–Coulter has been called a flame thrower, a bomb thrower, and a dervish as well as being the object of uncomplimentary epithets–Ol’ Annie is taking on a formidable foe this time.
Calling a spade a spade, which term has no racial implications, certain topics in these, the free and semi-independent United States, have been tacitly declared off limits by the powers of political correctness. Those topics would include casting aspersions, whatever their merits, on the state of Israel, on homosexuals, and on Blacks.
It’s still perfectly PC-fine to rip Christianity and, especially Catholicism, to criticize straights who find the gay lifestyle sick and disturbing, and to attack those who point out the extent of Black crime. We of the faithful opposition say bunk to all that! All religions and nations, peoples, and races are flawed. We take issue with the current antipathy in some quarters to Christianity, to America, and to Caucasians.
We are not the religious bigots, the straight bigots, nor the racial bigots. We just demand that our voices be heard in an increasingly liberal, leftist America. If our opposition is interpreted as prejudiced or homophobic or racist, then so be it. Sooner be regarded as bigots by the true agents of bigotry than be regarded as the generation that surrendered to the forces of the actual bigotry and intolerance and to national and moral degradation.
White, Christian, heterosexuals are fed up with all that and we want, we demand as the majority constituency in America, that it be rectified.
Ann Coulter does not accuse Michelle Obama of any of the above nastiness,…
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OF TAX POLICY:
Team Obama abandons the campaign rhetoric of “taxing the rich” for the real world results of tax cuts.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/lost-in-fantasy-of-liberal-tax-doctrine.html
32. Robert Hurley:
Funny the guy has 75% approval rate.
Peter responds: Funny. How can the guy have an approval rating when he isn’t even in office yet?
43. David S wrote:
Obama is hardly a garden variety Chicago pol. He’s a highly respected legal scholar.
Peter asks: really? What classes has he taught? What papers has he written? What grades did he earn? You obviously know all about Obama, so please enlighten us here.
@58
Peter,
Obama, as a senior lecturer at U of Chicago law, taught subjects including voting rights, campaign finance, and racism and the law. He did not publish, as he was spending his time serving the people of Illinois in the state legislature while engaged at UofC.
His grades aren’t really the issue here. He was offered a tenured position at the law school – not something to sneeze at. Find me one other “garden variety Chicago pol” that can say the same. You can’t? Point proved.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html
Peace.
DS