The Lessons of the Brown Victory: Will Obama Learn Them?
And finally, do not miss Mort Zuckerman’s mournful cry and conclusion that Barack Obama has “done everything wrong.” Remember, Mort Zuckerman was not only a supporter of the President’s campaign, in both a public and private capacity, but an influential editor and writer and one who probably donated a lot of money to help Obama win. Now he feels entitled to let Obama have it, and he doesn’t mince words. Zuckerman writes:
In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.
Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.
All I can say is Wow! He concludes that not only does Obama not know how to connect with voters, but that he is a “disaster.” He says that those he appointed have been dismal failures, that they know little, and most likely will be a one-term President.
If Obama supporters have reached such conclusions, and if the Democrats and the administration continue on the path of push forward with our agenda despite all signs of discontent and the clear message of the Brown victory, their forthcoming collapse and electoral losses will be their own fault. They have been warned: continue on the path of governing left while making special deals with both labor and big business, it is all over for them.
The Brown victory was the equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as the People’s Republic of Massachusetts fell overnight. Will Obama and his team absorb the lessons? We will soon know.
Republicans did not initially convert the blue-collar Bubbas of the south. These individuals instead gravitated to George Wallace and other racially tinged populist politicians. The GOP first attracted the better-educated indigenous Southerners who were more open to racial progress. Thomas B. Edsall has long championed the slander that the only reason whites might reject big government programs is due to their alleged racism. I have read many of his writings and own perhaps two of his books—and I remain unimpressed. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not save capitalism. His foolish Herbert Hoover on steroids economic policies only deepened the depression. Elites favor Keynesian economics because they are thinking backwards. Big government economic programs are utterly wonderful to the graduates of our “better schools.” These folks are able to land well paying jobs immediately after graduation. They will also gain the ability to slap around the small to middle size business people. The power will go to their head. The economic doctrines of Ludwig von Mises and Frederick Hayek are the only way to go. We must allow individuals as much economic freedom as possible. Politicians and government bureaucrats should mostly stay out of the way. But this is the last thing the elites want to hear. What’s in it for them? Why shouldn’t they be able to rig the system in their favor?
My, my, my how the worm has turned.
Didn’t Zuckerman have a clue that dirty Chicago politics transferred to the White House was not going to bode well for America? HELLO????????
“Didn’t Zuckerman have a clue that dirty Chicago politics transferred to the White House was not going to bode well for America? HELLO????????”
Mort Zuckerman is likely a guilt tripped white dude. The number one thing that he saw in Barack Obama was the opportunity to seek redemption for past racial sins. Zuckerman wanted to prove that he wasn’t a racist. Obama offered forgiveness and a sort of secular salvation. Zuckerman would have never been played for such a fool if Obama were not a so-called man of color. Of course, the same holds true for most American voters in 2008. They blipped off their personal radar screen the overwhelming evidence that Obama was just another race hustler like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Jr. He constantly employed the race card regarding the Clintons and others during the presidential campaign. Why would anyone think this nonsense would stop once Obama entered the White House?
Yes, David Thomson! There was definitely a disconnect with reality when it came to seeing Barry for the White-Middle-Class-America hating person he was because surely being half-white, he couldn’t hate whitey, so he seemed a ‘safe’ bet (unless you dared to scratch the hope-n-change surface rhetoric).
The regressive, clueless ‘progressives’ want a poverty ‘cleansed’ society. Part of the ‘progressive’ movement has been to eliminate poor blacks/browns/whites via abortion/Margaret Sanger/Planned Parenthood and even forced sterilization. Then you have the Marxists who want ‘equality’ via a PRO brown/black and anti-white anti middle-class society where reverse racism is OK and even encouraged. How the Progressives and Marxists line up on the same team is baffling to me though.
Meanwhile there is Haiti…
Where Black Rules White
“How the Progressives and Marxists line up on the same team is baffling to me though.”
I don’t even find it slightly mysterious. Both groups perceive themselves as elites. They are supposedly the best educated and incredibly virtuous—and therefore should be running things. After all, they are doing so for our own benefit. Only a scumbag reactionary could possibly disagree. The true difference between the Marxists and the Progressives may merely be a matter of degree. Also, the latter don’t like using violence. They prefer to follow Cass Sunstein’s advice and “nudge” us along toward the great utopian future.
There is something robotic about the big statist push of the current administration. The determination to push ahead against public sentiment reflects a fanatic disposition inside the White House, and to a lesser degree in the congress.
Can the robots get a software update, and redirect themselves along a more pragmatic trajectory? If anything could trigger such a response, the Massachusetts earthquake would be it.
But if the Obama coalition persists in its subversive ways, more of us will come to realize the prevalence of its sinister side. Remember: charm is an attribute of evil.
The Lessons of the Brown Victory: Will Obama Learn Them?
Early indications are not promising, Obama claiming today that the dissatisfaction obvious in yesterday’s Massachusetts vote is the same kind of dog as dissatisfaction under 8 years of his predecessor.
(did the WH spin machine stay up ’til 2 a.m. to concoct that one ?)
Mort Zuckerman’s mournful cry…
Mort Zuckerman was passionate & outraged on today’s Cavuto, including a point about what’s up with Obama’s (inane & insane) dissing of the business community ?
Despite copious hints during the campaign, the Michelle comments, the Rev. Wright assn., the “bitter clingers yuk it up” with some wealthy San Franciscans, dissing Grandma, I didn’t really catch the complete wave of Barry’s contempt for America or his race baiting tendencies until he had taken office and set about speaking on sundry Apology Tours* and the Gates incident.
He has no particular right to speak for this country or its history.
Progressives and Marxists are essentially the same thing in my book.
*(some 160 junkets on Air Force One since taking office, 1 year ago today. Now that’s a lotta emissions, carbon & otherwise)
“And we are talking here about perceptions.”
No, we’re talking about reality. It’s income redistribution–socialism. No mystery at all. Everyone with eyes can see.
Progressivism is the term the wolf uses in order to pass a a sheep, but they’re rotten little marxists all the same. They’re not liberals, let’s stop calling them liberals. They’re marxists or neo-marxists or Leftists.
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