Now and Then:

“Why do you hate America? Why do you want America to fail? Why do you agree with the Taliban and Hamas?”

Disliking Obama and wanting him to fail in implementing his agenda is NOT the same as despising America. Even as a foreigner, I can see that. It is somewhat evident that Obama is NOT America.

I would like Obama to be seen, 50 years from now, as a truly great President. That would mean that he did indeed do considerable good in this world (like Truman and even latter-day Roosevelt). However, I don’t think that’s going to happen. IMO, he’s going to be viewed like Jimmy Carter is (probably even worse).

Also, just because the Taliban are right about one thing, it doesn’t mean that they’re right about anything else. The Taliban are medievalist religious reactionaries. Why on God’s green earth would anybody here support their general agenda (enslaving women, etc.)? The fact that they agree that Obama’s prize is undeserved is coincidental and they probably believe that for entirely different reasons to the rest of us.

Point is, anybody who believes that Obama prize-dissenters = Taliban is disconnected from reality.