Transparency
One of the great tropes of the campaign was that a hip, cool Obama was “one of us” and had nothing to hide. In contrast, the Bush-Cheney nexus was knee-deep in secretive oil deals and military profiteering, involving the likes of Halliburton and Blackwater. Secrecy, executive privilege, and stone-walling the press were the usual tools of such a disreputable trade.
So we got promises of web postings of all pending legislation (never quite followed). There would be no planted questions or sympathetic toadies scattered at conferences and town halls (never quite followed). Instead of Scott McClellan, we were going to get something like a cross between a wonk like Paul Krugman and cool Brad Pitt — and got Robert Gibbs. There are no promised complete logs of who goes in and out of the White House.
Wake-up?
Some of you say, “Well, yes, Victor, wake up, this is just politics”. Yes, of course, so “out of Iraq by March 2008” means 140,000 troops there in September 2009. I understand. Renditions and tribunals are Bush’s nefariousness, and my bite-the-lip necessities.
The point is thus twofold. The messianic promises proved (a) not just to be false, (b) but far less idealistic in reality than of those now castigated. “Culture of corruption” translated into Murtha, Rangel, and Dodd. No more lobbyists meant more than ever. Fiscal sobriety means $9 trillion more in borrowing. “Cash for clunkers” translates into borrowing millions to destroy perfectly good autos to allow down payments for consumers to go more in debt to buy imported compacts. “Stimulus” means more borrowing and little stimulation. Health-care reform envisions those who run the DMV or the cash for clunkers program deciding whether you really need that MRI for the lump on your neck.
I’ll finish with a few lessons learned thus far about Obamics.
1) Please do not vote in any national election for any politician from Chicago. Yes, I know that statement is biased and blinkered, and there are wonderful people in Chicago politics. But after Tony Rezco, Blago, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, the history of the Obama campaigns — all of that superimposed on a half-century of two Mayor Daleys and Harold Washington — the odds are you will be getting the “Chicago Way,” like it or not.
2) Do not believe there is really anything much left to “race.” Just as feminism has descended into abortion rights (“for it” means that an aristocratic millionaire who married into a corporate fortune is a grass-roots feminist; “against it” means that a mom of five who came up from Wasilla is not a feminist), so too “minority” means nothing much at all these days.
Obama was the proof of the pudding. He was only half-African, but according to our Civil War-era race thinking that made him “black” — although he shared nothing in common with the black experience. He was not “African-American” at all, and without anyone in his family who had been born black in America. We know nothing about his undergraduate transcript in part because of fears the right will demagogue it, wanting to know how his record translated into admission to Harvard Law School.
Affirmative action is a sort of cruel joke: Barack Obama, schooled in prep school and raised as a middle class kid by white grandparents, is a “minority” in a way that a poor, jet-black Punjabi immigrant, a lower-class white kid from Tulare, or an Arab-American daughter of a taxi-driver is not, at least for purposes of government set-asides.
And add the politics: a right-wing African-American is considered inauthentic; but a liberal African-American is deserving of reparations. A black Reaganite who grew up under Jim Crow in the South and overcame vile racism to become a professional is now considered less “black” than someone near-white, who grew up in the 1960s North, and received identity-politics deference. No, minority has not much to do any more with racial discrimination, but everything to do with careerism and politics.
3) There is no more media. The New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CNBC, NPR, etc. are ministries of truth for Obama. Yes, of course, they are balanced now by Drudge, Fox News, the bloggers, and talk radio.
But that is the point, isn’t it? At one time (true or not) the former pretended to be disinterested outlets for news in the manner the latter never did (with some exceptions at Fox). Now we simply have a European-style press — one paper is left, the other right, and the news is made to fit each. I think we essentially always had a leftwing bias at a CBS or NPR, but with Obama at least the old pretense was shattered. An anchorman at ABC, or an editor at the Washington Post or Newsweek is now simply the liberal version of Hannity, without the honesty.
4) The Good Life. Obama vacations in Martha’s Vineyard, Bush in Crawford Texas. Nancy Pelosi wants twice the private jet that the prior Denny Hassert enjoyed. Edwards’s two nations really mean his mansion and those down the road. The really tony environmentalist pundits and activists think slapping on some solar panels on a five-car garage, or putting up a windmill out in front of the gazebo, is an “offset.”
I used to think that the elite left’s obsession with the good life was an amusing act of hypocrisy (gone are the Democrat’s Harry Trumans), but lately it seems far more interesting and complicated. It is almost a personality quirk: the more one desires to have private jets, influential friends, the status that comes with the right location, right schools, and the right job, the more likely one is to mouth the “correct” ideology. Elite liberalism, as we see with the Obamas and their cohorts (and with the Clinton clique as well), is no contradiction. If anything, privilege is the proper compensation for being “good” and “right” on things.
5) The United States remains a center-right country. Obama’s policies, all without exception, poll badly. His own approval ratings are tanking faster than almost any president in recent history. Oh yes, we may all be on the government take with mortgage deductions, Medicare, and Social Security, but that does not mean we like socialism. Again, we are in a race for America: how fast can Obama get his agenda through before his own unpopularity dooms it? I think he is just one more, but clearly has one more, setback away from failure. So the end of the year will be interesting since nothing is now assured and everything is in play.
More and more people I know fear the heavy handed tactics of the combined, tough guy image and wealthy, union/Acorn nexus. Friends fearing the intrusion of a civilian security force and who have handguns are now talking about conceal and carry and an up-to-date passport.
Then there are the optimistic conservatives who tout the will of the average American. But they are fewer.
Friends are calling and faxing representatives like never before. I send picture postcards with messages to everybody hoping like the lottery I’ll score and change one mind back to sanity.
Keep it coming professor. You just might be the nemesis we’ve been hoping for.
These authoritarians arrogantly debauch our traditions in pursuit of their idea of social justice in which “justice” is no more than the empathetic divination of the entrails of grievances and the utility of the “social” extends only to the granting of privileges to a minority at the expense of the majority.
To constrain political corruption, or the Chicago way, do you empower enforcement agencies with independence in support of our laws, or do you do as our historic first Islamic apostate president does by circumventing legislative oversight with the personal selection of a presidium of oligarchs whose only fealty is to their tribal chief?
If you lead the nation most steadfast in the defense of the free world do you do as he does by avoiding in every speech and in every comment any use of the word “freedom”?
They are indeed failing America, but serving quite well their own tribe.
“…how fast can Obama get his agenda through before his own unpopularity dooms it?”
It’s already too late. Barack Obama has been a marginalized politician for at least the last two months. He has no idea what to do next. Obama is existentially committed to non-violent, radical politics. The man knows nothing else. Bill Clinton could take solid advice from Dick Morris and learn to “triangulate.” Obama does not have a clue. There is only one other option that he may be contemplating: the extralegal overthrow of our country’s political institutions. Thankfully, this is not a likely scenario. I simply expect him to resign before the end of next year. In the meantime, we must be concerned whether he might experience a mental breakdown. We are going to observe countless, near future examples of Obama becoming emotionally unhinged.
Obama should have never gotten close to occupying the White house. He has virtually no executive experience and seems fundamentally lazy. Obama apparently is not interested in performing the boring work required of his office. Has there ever been a less prepared leader in our nation’s entire history? Can anyone even provide one example? There are only four more months until New Year’s Day 2010. Hold on tight. It’s probably going to be a wild ride.
Years ago, we managed to buy a small house in a neighborhood of much larger homes, inhabited by wealthy liberals. The O-Economy is starting to chew through our lovely suburb, the need for middle-aged middle managers in the law/financial/media/you-name-it sectors is nil. People are losing their jobs and becoming ‘consultants’. House foreclosures are rising dramatically, ditto property tax liens. But so far at least, not a word against the man, and his policies which are making things worse. Amazing.
Likely, the most unfortunate result of the Obama era will be lost opportunities for REAL progress on race relations and health care reform. As Obama’s radical agenda is exposed for what it is, and fails, the far left needing a scapegoat will stir the flames of black v white animosity, as always.
What amazes me is the stance of such famed intellects as Paul Krugman who, when faced with the inelegant facts of the Obama experience, simply seek to rationalise it. They seem quite oblivious to the fact that in the process their credibility is obliterated. Along with that go the vast cohort of liberal-inclined academics for whom discretion is the better part of valour. They keep their heads below the parapet: they just want to keep their tenures. Mendacious is too strong a word for them: soft gel rather than tough fibre is better. The sort you would not wish to share a trench with in a war.
Dear Dr. Hansen,
I am afraid that America has voted herself into the morass that has for decades destroyed much of the Third World, that is, “one man, one vote, one time.”
Barack Obama and his Left wing Chicago Machine regime are putting into place laws and institutions which will insure that there will never again be free elections in America.
You heard it here first.
57% of the country now say to vote out all in congress and Obama is sinking it has been great over the past week not to have to see Obama on TV and other media. Here is a video of my thoughts about the administration and the current congress~
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4o62j_line-dancing_fun
Obama resign? Please. He’s not going to resign. He thinks he’s what this country has needed for 40 years.
Only through his ideals and warped policies can Amerikkka truly right itself.
That’s what he thinks. That’s like Gingrich saying a few months ago that Pelosi wouldn’t be speaker by August. Yeah, right.
The earliest this country is going to be able to get rid of this joker is Jan 2011.
All those boys who matured (?) in the late 60′s and early 70′s, who found their way to college so that the draft could not take them to that unjustified war, listening to those professors clamoring on about the corrupt government while they hoped the family allowances might increase to meet the demands of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.
What did these people do the rest of their lives? Follow this thread and perhaps you’ll discover why we have what we have.
Hysteria shows itself how? Al Gore ranting? Or are there others signs? Of course. A president who can’t stop smoking, perhaps.
Overanalyzing is not going to get you anywhere. Fire season is on. Thank you, firemen.
7. Donald Last:
“What amazes me is the stance of such famed intellects as Paul Krugman who, when faced with the inelegant facts of the Obama experience, simply seek to rationalise it. They seem quite oblivious to the fact that in the process their credibility is obliterated. ”
One of the few clear-headed guys with credibility. His discourse has been on track.
The REAL issue is this: Obama’s supporters have fallen prey to hysterical optimism and any rational argument that is contrary to this “hope” is met with histrionics normally reserved for a lynch mob.
Mr. Obama’s personal temperament has been hidden from the public thus far by carefully scripted and staged events. Every now and then the mask slips for just a second and we see his true personality revealed: imperious, angry, peevish, arrogant, and just downright mean. All the man needs is one public meltdown and his presidency is over. Given that Mr. Obama seems to take rejection personally, I think this possibility more likely than not. It’s going to get very ugly before the situation plays itself out.
One of the more fascinating things that has happened during this administration has been observing you, Dr. Hanson,as you progressed from a relative, balanced, moderate up that steep learning curve to a rather skeptical open doubter of Obama’s agenda.
I’ve personally enjoyed every step of your journey and continue to look forward to future chapters. Thank you–
Obama did run a transparent campaign. When he said things to placate the right and center I discounted all of it which is why I was surprised by Afghanistan. When he said what he would do on the left I believed all of it except for immediately pulling out of Iraq which I thought was an out and out lie told to shore up the vote.
He is taking away our freedoms at a faster and more bold pace than I thought possible.
“Barack Obama and his Left wing Chicago Machine regime are putting into place laws and institutions which will insure that there will never again be free elections in America.”
You are far too negative. The odds are on our side. We simply must persist in opposing the Obama juggernaut. There is little doubt in my mind but that the Anointed One is willing to overthrow America’s institution and establish a benevolent dictatorship. He would rationalize such actions as beneficial to the downtrodden masses victimized by misinformation provided by rogue alternative media outlets. However, this is not the Weimar Republic! We have more than adequate checks and balances in place to prevent this from occurring. Spend as much time and money as possible. That’s all we essentially have to do.
Victor: I size up our transparently communist would-be dictator this way. “There is no there there.” Thank you Gertrude Stein and thank God we have the Second Amendment. I’m ready for our second revolution. Bring it on!
It would seem that this unfortunate choice for president is both shiftless and lazy… or perhaps just half of each.
Where have I heard those characteristics ascribed before?
The reality is that BHO is more African-American than the vast majority of Black persons in the US. His father was Kenyan and mother American. Most Black persons have mothers and fathers that were both American. To get past race, we need to get past calling ourselves by our ancestral roots. My family came over from Sweden after the Civil War but I don’t call myself a Swedish-American.
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Oh, it’s far, far worse than that, Dr. Hanson. The people who’ve now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the American State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They can and will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that THEY will be the ones sitting on top of the ruins. Why? Because a free and prosperous people cannot be enslaved. They must be broken first. “Laid waste”, just as Machiavelli prescribed so long ago:
“When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince… they do not know how to live in freedom… and a prince can win them over with greater
faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life…they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste.
–This, from Machiavelli’s most famous work, The Prince
Take a good long look at what’s happening now in America. Then dare to turn around and take another look. If what they’re saying doesn’t square with what they’re doing; if it looks like there’s an concerted effort to destroy our once Constitutional Republic and
replace it with… something else – then you’re probably right. None of what’s
happening today makes any sense at all unless you look at it that way – and then it
makes a perfectly clear and terrible sort of sense, doesn’t it?
Anyone with any sense of history and knowledge of who Obama has put into positions of unaccountable power – and the pedigree of their ideas – can understand that there is only one way this can end.
The truth about Obama was there for all to see before his election. Exactly why so many otherwise sensible voters decided to ignore the obvious is a mystery. The well organized and vociferous radical Left aided and abetted by the mainstream media simply drowned out any reasonable analysis or expression of doubt. The most intriguing question is why the media has decided to morph from objectivity to propaganda and obfuscation? Or was that always an illusion? Certainly today, there is no pretense of neutrality in their presentation of events. Do they really believe that their readers/viewers are that stupid? It makes me wonder whether either Obama or the media have the best interests of this country at heart? Very, very distrubing.
I think there is another analogy, though it is fraught with some peril because of the racial overtones which make it quite politically incorrect.
The kind of thoroughgoing liberal orgy of corruption and incompetence that has followed the Obama coronation has been seen only once before in American history: in the carpetbagger/scalawag/freedmen radical Republican governments in the South during the early years of Radical Reconstruction following the THE War.
The Obamites should take the lessons of Reconstruction seriously. Not the ones that modern historians who say it was not radical enough try to draw, but the lessons that (1) the only thing that supported those governments was the presence of lots of Federal bayonets, (2) the excesses of Reconstruction were real, and were major factors in shaping Southern responses ranging from the initial Ku Klux Klan to Jim Crow, (3) it ended badly with serious political violence in 1876, and (4) after 1876, it was three or four generations before any respectable Southerner could even think about voting for a Republican.
In this situation, we have a military that is mostly conservative and has generally stayed out of law enforcement in the US since the Compromise of 1877. Even though changes to the Posse Comitatus Act probably would now permit Obama to use the military in the US to enforce his measures, I doubt there would be much enthusiasm for that in the officer corps or the ranks.
Unlike the post-War situation where the North had not only active Army units in the South but a vast body of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who could have been called out had the South actually risen again, today the Left that supports the Obama agenda is almost devoid of veterans or even men and women trained to arms at all.
Not only is the majority of the entire country center-right, the overwhelming majority of men of military age and trained to arms are decidedly on the Right.
I think we are reaching a point where the current Congress and Administration behave like a combination of the Radical Republicans in 1866 and the contemporary Carpetbagger/Scalawag/Freedmen governments in the South at their peril.
I’m not so sure that Obama would ever resign (#3 David Thomson).
My view is that he is a pathological narcissist who long ago moved himself, psychologically, out of the real word and into a cocoon-realm where he could control all interactions. He controls by misinformation, emotional manipulation and, if you dare to dissent, accusations of bias. Anything and anyone whom he feels he can’t control simply doesn’t exist for him. That’s why his previous ‘work’ essentially removed him from accountability and direct interactions. He cant handle criticism; he becomes enraged. BUT, within that cocoon, he can ‘wheel and deal’.
I think that Obama is the UpFront Salesman for a BackRoom Gang (BRG), of far left, really hardcore proponents of elitist socialism – who seek to install an Upper Class of Governors or Rulers over the ‘unwashed rest of us’.
But Obama is not, himself, an ideologist. He is intellectually shallow, ill-read and non-analytic; his focus and commitment is only on himself and his control of his Cocoon.
The BackRoom Gang is using Obama as The Salesman – and Obama is failing them. This sets up a dilemma. Do they ditch him? And when? Remember, Obama cannot, psychologically, handle criticism. It is taking more and more time and energy to set up Staged Town Halls, filled with adoring pre-programmed audiences, and ‘time-out’ vacations, to deal with Obama.
It is taking time and energy to deal with his ignorance of the issues and issue press releases from the BRG that rebut what Obama said. And time and energy to deal with his gaffes (the police behaved stupidly). Time and energy to deal with his insults, his ignorance of foreign affairs, etc.
Will the BRG ditch him? Would a narcissist, such as Obama, ever actually resign? I can indeed see a ‘meltdown’,as David Thomson suggests when Obama, unprotected from ‘the mob’would react with rage to criticism. So far, they’ve managed to keep him in a reasonably secure cocoon. But, if he becomes a liability to them, they might ‘throw him to the wolves’.
Further to my post analogizing the current situation to Reconstruction, one may suspect the Obamites should also pay attention to the Curragh Incident during the controversy surrounding passage of the Home Rule Act of 1914, when more than 80% of the British Army officers stationed in Ireland resigned their commissions rather than be willing to enforce Home Rule.
I think the Obamites proceed with their agenda at their peril.
Shiftless? Lazy? Hardly! All of his actions are carefully scripted-his intentions, and those of his Maraboutis and brainless minions, are to “even the playing field”-by destroying our economy, our health care system, our will-so that we are no better than any other third-world country. The naive Anointed Ones in Congress Who Are Clearly Smarter Than Thou think they will be able to better rule from on high, passing down their scepters to their progeny, as in the feudal days. Our own Senator Bayh, who never spent more than a few days in Indiana his entire life! is a clear example of this. He no more has his finger of the pulse of his constituents than does our other Senator, Richard Lugar, who is clearly showing early signs of dementia. A recent from letter received from his office would have one believe that the only problems with the Health Bill are that it would cost too much. He obviously has not read the bill, but then he fits in well with the rest of Congress. And of course we now know that NONE of them WROTE it either! (http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=8661920&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/glennbeck/index.html)
In the meantime, all Western way of life hangs in the balance, as Marc Steyn so presciently predicted in “America Alone”.
Two years ago I would have never thought of sharing my thoughts with the world. Even a year ago, as I was shouting for joy at the news of McCain’s pick of Palin for his Veep, I (naively) assumed that worst of the bad would be winnowed out like insects in a combine harvesting wheat. But in the mad rush to elect someone! anyone! that was a different shade of tan, the sifting screens were all removed, and the filth and detritus of America have now invaded every box of Wheaties, every loaf of bread that we eat.
And it will be as nearly impossible to remove those that WILL do us harm, as it is to pick out the grasshoppers, rocks, and jimson weed (http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/fall02/jimson.html)from the food on our plates.
May God have mercy on us all.
Many are now beginning to see what some of us observed all along: That Barack Obama the man is something considerably less than Barack Obama the myth. The Messiah got elected; the man is left to govern.
In a series of essays written in the months leading up to the election (posted at http://emmeffemm.com/id90.html), I joined others who were doing their best to awaken the sleeping masses.
That the Leftist media was “in the bag” for Obama is not surprising. What IS surprising is that so-called conservatives such as David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, David Frum, and Peggy Noonan bought Obama’s BS — and helped get him elected. (See: Suckered by Obama, posted at http://emmeffemm.com/id152.html )
America is left to contend with a president who is certainly NOT post-partisan, NOT post-racial, and NOT “transformational” (at least, not in a good way). Neither is he possessed of even a modicum of the experience or the inclination necessary to properly execute his duties.
What Obama DOES have in abundance is arrogance — and an obscene lust for power. Hence his many attempts at circumventing the limits on governmental overreach provided for in our nation’s founding documents (Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.).
Obama is also making a mockery of the “checks and balances” built into our system of government. Just how many “czars” (people unconfirmed by the Senate and unfettered by Congressional Committee oversight) has Obama installed in his shadow government, anyway?
These certainly are “historic” times, as Obama supporters continually remind us. But it is well worth noting that not all things historic are good.
By the way, Rasmussen is polling Obama today with a negative index of minus 11, but the key statistic is the general approval, which has dipped to 46 versus 53 general disapproval.
The Democrats and Republcans are remaining partisan; with 81% of Democrats approving and 83% Republicans disapproving. The independents, however, are at 66% disapproval.
I’d feel better if/when Obama’s general disapproval dips to the low 40′s. And then, I’ll wonder how the BRG will deal with this.
Note – they’ve tried to deall with Obama’s need, and growing need, for adulation and thin skin with constant public exposure via staged Meetings. This has backfired with the public growing weary of ‘All Obama All The Time’.
They’ve tried to deal with growing opposition to Obama’s (sic) policies with the trusty ‘Bash Bush’ technique. This too is wearing thin.
What’s next? They need another emotional crisis.
Essential vdh
BHO,Ted Kennedy, John McCain Connection
Ted Kennedy: Who would disagree with the talking heads? A veritable parade before the “adoring audience” but they are missing the essential battleground where America is being lost.
They do not understand the damage that a Ted Kennedy has done to America over the last 45 years. They shut it out, like all good cult members.
Their comments show their own “insider” weakness and lack of essential insight and commitment to simple truths. Their disconnect from America and true Americans.
I think at best the only thing to grant Ted Kennedy during his life is that because of his light weight intellectual capacity and lack of character he could not and did not see through the Utopian perfumed scorpion of the words and work of a Karl Marx and his like and the language of revolution that was based on static Utopian thinking, words and class warfare.
A static snapshot of the human condition that did not and still does not consider human aspirations and the individual’s need for advancement in human society underwritten by Individual Responsibility and Individual Integrity.
This need to be fulfilled must be coupled with a society that can allow this advancement to happen–an America as defined by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution–not utopian words that appeal only to human weakness. The weakness in America’s population needed for a Power grab by subversive and idiot Politicians.
Ted Kennedy, all the while living in a country, a country by demonstrated evidence was following a course of Individual Freedoms and responsibility that created results that still are the high water mark of humanity in history, Ted Kennedy was a simple fish who could not see the water that gave him life. A parasitic fish.
How is BHO different: He is not– BHO is the result of the Ted Kennedy and his like damages inflicted on America in the last 45 years.
BHO is part of the subversive army that was allowed by a Ted Kennedy and his like in America that promoted the creation of a parasitic, PC and AA mentality that will and is set to destroy America. Simply dumb knee jerk reactionaries.
Blank stare indoctrinated cult members. Acorns who have been indoctrinated to believe that they can get something for nothing by simply taking away from others “things” that are not theirs.
The words and meaning of Individual Freedom and its attendant Responsibility were something that Ted Kennedy avoided all of his life to the harm and even death of those around him.
He elevated dependency,lack of character and lack of integrity to new heights along with the Hosannas of the “herd” especially the MSM and other idiots in the world.
Good riddance, the problem now is he was not an original and the American Political deck is stacked with Ted Kennedys. Enter Now BHO the “brother” of a Ted Kennedy, the result of a Ted Kennedy.
America was built on fundamental things that people fought for and died for. Not as many people think, “things that are negotiable” and can be “given away or modified” in the nature of “compromise” and “good will”. Enter John McCain.
A John McCain in that light can be more dangerous to America than the known idiot BHO. A John McCain thought process is the putting of America in the classic tale of the frog in a pan of hot water gradually heating up.
Who now is still standing on the sidelines to allow the shallowness of 50 years of rejection of individual responsibilities and lack of integrity to take America down?
3. David Thompson
Why would the President resign when the US Treasury is his very own checkbook?
14. Vivo
“One of the few clear-headed guys with credibility.”
You must be referring to #7. Donald Last
I see a president who displays the worst characteristics of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. No enemies abroad and enemy lists at home.
The more Obama’s approval rating tanks, the more persistent his Attorney General is in going after the CIA agents from the Bush years.
The more the public demands to know the truth about Obama’s birth certificate, his sealed university and medical records, the more he and the elitist, liberal establishment mock and insult the opponents of Obamacare at town-hall meetings.
So telling.
“The Era of Obama” is a future write for history. That future write is, of course, uncertain, and it may begin with ‘rose quickly from an uncertain past to the presidency, had great support from the MSM, had questionable associates, planned radical changes for the American system which he had deemed as failed.’
You people remind me of babies who’ve lost their pacifier. Six months out of power and you start screaming and stamping your feet.
America was sold a hollow, vapid excuse for a leader by a sycophantic media who values image instead of substance. Now, several months later, the country sees the true nature of Obama and the radical left. Failure after failure have proven Chicago politics to be the national joke it has always been: great political theatre populated with larger than life characters and shadowy figures, but with no real benefit for the citizens.
America is beginning to realize that she requires a steady, rational hand to help guide her to her destiny. The Obama administration can do nothing but steer her in ever-decreasing leftward circles.
In this article, Dr. Hanson examines bits and pieces of the era of Obama; isolates them, puts them under a microscope and is able to observe numerous contradictions, many of which to me not only are are socialist, spread-the-faith based, but unworkable, ineffective, illogical, often hypocritical examples of life in the Obama era.
Dr. Hanson cites numerous examples of bad, even illegal behavior acted out by members under the Obama tent, rationalizing their corruption away with the logic of a six year old hitting another child in the eye with a stick. Then justifying it with the statement, “he needed to be taught a lesson.”
The same kind of end justifying the means are in play when middle class Americans attend a town haul meeting about ObamaCare, and, upon leaving, are beaten up for what appears to be the handing out of information written on paper.
Of course, there are many, many justifications of bad behavior. Such as ignoring tax laws because other, not related, good works put them somehow above the law. Just like so called good works justify the best jets, the most expensive vacations, the most expansive life styles.
If lying is bad behavior for a Republican, like magic it can turn into good behavior if its told in furtherance of left wing political agenda, (or your personal Hollywood lifestyle)it’s perfectly permissible. Eg. “Sonia Sotomayor is a fair honest and non-racist woman. There will be no earmarks in my administration. I’ll hunt Osama all the way to hell. I’ll have an open and transparent administration. I need nine new state of the art Lear jets because they reflect the style that someone with my political beliefs has every right to be accustomed.”
Where does one go to learn these nefarious, anti-social, anti-American almost God like self images? Where does one go to learn the process of socialism? Chicago? Chicago politics?
Harvard?
Are there books to refer to?
Are there men of renown who possess a playbook for overthrowing democratic governments and turning them into beacons of dark, freedom-less wards of the socialist state?
As you know, Saul Alinsky was a world class 20th century leader of the radical socialism movement. Was Obama influenced by him?
You could say so. Worse, Obama’s a practicing disciple of his?
Unlike Barack’s birth certificate, it’s public record.
Not only was Saul the father of all extreme left wing American community organizers, but he was the guy Barack models himself after.
Do we have a Alinsky Presidency in Obama clothing? Bingo.
If Saul Alinsky were now your American President, his skill and knowledge of the socialist sales process would have gotten socialized medicine much father down the road of acceptance than President Pee Wee, aka Barack Hussein Obama has. In fact, as Jennifer Rubin so ably points out, Barry pretty much has driven the socialized medicine argument right into the ditch.
Yet, Barack is not without his strong points.
In the field of prepared speech giving, Barack could run circles around Saul. The point being, Barack and Saul have (Saul died in 1972) their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of the ability to cook and serve up the same socialist slop, romancing it with words like zesty, yummy, delicious, tasty, savory, scrumptious; words like that, but no matter what they called it, it’s socialistic slop.
Unless they put a gun to your head, after the first sip, you’d spit it out in their face.
Kind of like America has spat out Barack’s concoction of socialized medicine which he calls reform, a word that makes me gag every time I hear a member of the slave media use it.
So, why am I comparing these two despicable, unsavory purveyors of socialism?
To try to convey to you what I think Barack’s ascendancy has meant for the United States.
I think the fox is truly in the hen house.
I believe everything Obama’s done is the result of the most evil of intents.
I think when he took the oath of office, Barack lied like a used car salesman. I think he never intended to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. I think if he were attached to a lie detector, the needles would have jumped the shark.
To me, having Obama President is like having Saul Alinsky President.
Talents are slightly different.
Objectives one in the same.
They’re out to destroy every ideal and tradition (free enterprise, for instance), on which America was built.
Another ideal: Free speech, is a prime target.
Fact is, when Obama named Mark Lloyd the FCC czar, he named the biggest hater of free speech in the world today.
If you think the Fairness Doctrine was bad, this Lloyd guy makes a hob-nailed booted gestapo agent look like a little furry kitten if you’re a conservative speaker.
Mark my words.
Mark’s going to take the first amendment and try to vaporize it. Sean, Ann, Laura, Glenn, Michael, Rush, David, all of you; he’ll try to turn you off like a water faucet. Part of the plan is to make it a law that conservative shows have to pay for National Public Radio.
Well, Obama talked about sharing the wealth. I guess now we’re starting to find out what he meant. Not just money, but tons and tons of propaganda.
My dear friends, having Obama President isn’t just like having Saul President, it’s like having Nikita President, it’s like having the Joes President. It’s like having all five of them. A troika plus two.
I’m afraid, the proverbial wolf isn’t just at the door. He’s in the oval office.
Dr. Hanson, you give a description of the era of Obama that’s spot on.
If I wrote a script about it, my working title just might be, Red Dawn. Twenty-five years later. This time around, though, it would be a documentary.
“Again, we are in a race for America: how fast can Obama get his agenda through before his own unpopularity dooms it? I think he is just one more, but clearly has one more, setback away from failure.”
Unfortunately, the flip side of this is that he only needs one more “good crisis” to stamp his petty little feet and declare a “national emergency” so of such proportions that those still drunk on the Kool-Aid will fall prostrate to await his “help”, leaving the rest of us doomed to face his impending “civilian army” or our own military in a civil war.
One can only hope, then, that our military remains “right” enough to instead stand with the people and the Constitution and do a little Honduras on Washington.
Good article Doc. It’s good that you go to the trouble to remind of us the facts. Unfortunately, I don’t think facts matter very much with Obama’s minions or the main stream media. While I think some of the “center” is beginning to see the light, the hard core Kool-Aid drinkers will never deny their messiah.
What’s sad is that there is a lack of a true opposition party. It seems most of the passionate criticism from folks like you, talk radio and citizens participating in Tea Parties.
I’d love to hear your thoughts about the Republican party. I think it’s one step away from going the way of the Whig party. How about you?
PS: Hope you are not endangered by the California fires. How’s the state going to pay for all that firemen overtime?
#32 Anonymous is Jack Marcotte–sorry about that. I do not want to be Anonymous about anything I would say or do. This is a time for “light” not “dark”. A counting on, not a trying to find.
One thing we’ve learned is that the captive media is evil and nothing more than a propaganda mill. We don’t know anything about Mugabe Obama, then or now. The media let this happen; the media encouraged it to happen and the media can NEVER again be trusted.
This is why I have no problem in investigating the CIA; at some time in the future, I want to investigate the media and see who took the bribes and who are simply anti-Americans.
I never thought obeyme was transparent – he is the eptiome of “methinks the (dolt) doth protest too much”. Or in this case, “(the opaque won) proclaims his transparency too much”. He’s not quite as opaque as he’d like to be, but he’s trying to deflect attention by casting aspersions upon those who point out the lack of transparency.
I grew up with a liberal mother who always had to try whatever the latest fad was, and how did it make her feel . . . (puhlease). I learned one thing from dealing with her (and her liberal tyrant mother), that is applicable to all liberals – Actions speak LOUDER than words. iow – I don’t give a hoot what libs say, but I pay total attention to what they DO.
One can feel the utter frustration embedded in this post. Professor Hanson, (who my dad would call a Gentleman’s Gentleman)has been more than fair to Obama, refraining from personal attacks and offering the President some wisdom, and some warnings in governing our great nation. I think that VDH, along with many others who have tried to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, have reached the end of the ideological rope and have come to the conclusion that Obama will never govern from the center, and that regardless of how many Americans oppose his policies, will continue, in record speed, to try to change our society, and push through his agenda(s) of redistribution and socialism. Given that fact, Dr. Hanson has no other choice but to endlessly posit in his posts the dangers of this man and his cronies.
The Chris Wallace interview with Cheney on Sunday, (who by the way, is not running for office and really has no more political ambitions)is a warning to our country that the continued policies of the Obama administration gravely endangers the national security of America. Even if one does not like former VP Cheney, one should take his warnings very seriously. The tone of that interview is that our President, who is utterly incompetent to lead this nation, puts at risk every American and his or hers family by neglecting to to perform his number one obligation as POTUS to defend our nation.
I could go on and on and repeat what everyone else has said on this post but my final thoughts are that in his closing remarks, Dr. Hanson warns that Obama is one more setback away from failure. Some foreign policy disaster such as an Israeli strike on the Iranian nuclear program, with a vitriolic hate filled response from Obama, would doom his presidency.
Overall, I like this article and largely agree with its main points. However, don’t confuse Obama and the Democrats as “Platonic Guardians” or would be “Ubermenschen.” They are the futhest from the Nietzschean ideal.
Democrats want to level down, not level up. They are defenders of the “Last Man” not the “Ubermensch.”
Keep on singing your gloomy songs Mr Hanson.
Those of us that immediately recognised the flim-flam man and the greatest political con in modern history, already know the words.
But those who were sucked in, need to be exposed to your sad coherent refrain. When most Americans come to believe that Mr Obama is devious, childish and petulant (and worse a scoundrel), then he is done like dinner.
Keep singing Doc.
Are you still proud that you voted for Teleprompter Barbie?
# 37 “You people remind me of babies who’ve lost their pacifier. Six months out of power and you start screaming and stamping your feet.”
Please leave this board if you have nothing constructive or intelligent to say. Most of the people on this board could not care about power, however we deeply care about the unconstitutional grab for unlimited power by our President.
President Obama only knows two ways to be the leader of America:
1) Campaign with teleprompter speeches & promise any & all to the people when he plans for other things.
2) He acts like a mob boss who tries to thread the needle with the blunt force of the hammer, destroying the needle in the process.
Therefore, I see President Obama becoming more visibly angry, short-tempered in the public when his plans go up in flames of defeat in a funeral pyre for the One; furthermore, he will not work with Republicans, although he may give the image of bipartisanship to the media. He will continue to work only with the far Left contingent of the Democratic Party & bully the spineless Blue Dogs. However, as Obama loses his vaunted popularity, the conservative Democrats will become more embolden to stand-up against President Obama. The 2010 elections are still not very far away & this Fall will be a bumpy ride for the Messiah as he learns that being President of the United States is not synonymous with dictators from around the world. Hence, this is the core problem with Obama: Obama wants to be America’s dictator. I see more problems for him as his popularity fades & the political backlash gains more power. The Democrats associated with Obama will not ignored either. As Obama goes down, so to does the other Democrats.
After the 2010 elections, I would like to believe President Obama resigns from the office under strange conditions of some medical need when, in truth, he cannot simply handle the job. Will his bloated, rotted narcissism allow him to resign? I’m not sure. As long as Obama attacks America from within, the backlash will grow exponentially & Obama’s people will not know how to handle it. That is certain with Obama already campaigning against Americans this Summer with the SEIU Purple Shirts & the zombie ACORN people as his brain dead army.
MOHO go back to Jew Hating because everything else you do and you vapid comments are pathetic at least as a Jew Hater your heart is in it.
…Obama administration is how brazenly its supporters have been about the noble ends justifying the disreputable means.
The central idea of Billy Ayers’ view of “change” is that the end justifies the means, even if the means means the death of millions of innocents, think Mao.
Who decides what the “end” should be ?
Billy did. Barack does.
Obama’s ideal end seems to be overarching federal government with emasculation of individual liberties.
There are two ways of making sense of this paradox.
It seems to be accepted dogma that Rangel, Geithner, Daschle, Dodd etc. having been revealed as rather substantial cheaters in financial matters…that the rules of cheating apply only to members of the other party.
(aw, they may circumvent “the law” in their own private dealings, but they want the best for you!)
The only difference between such people and Bernie Madoff is level of brazenness.
Examine also community organizing.
Van Jones, avowed communist, is currently serving in the Obama administration as Green Jobs Czar.
Jones recently described his job as “…community organizing within the federal family”
I wrote it about 50 times (maybe only 25) during Obama’s campaign that the plan, upon winning the prize, was community organizin’ the federal government.
Proceeding apace.
You are no everyman, Dr. Hanson. Why did you not see this from the beginning?
“The Chris Wallace interview with Cheney on Sunday, (who by the way, is not running for office and really has no more political ambitions)is a warning to our country that the continued policies of the Obama administration gravely endangers the national security of America.”
No, the Chris Wallace interview was a make out session between a clearly smitten right wing propagandist and a disgraced and hated former VP who is trying desperately and cravenly to save his guilty behind as the evidence continues to build that he consistently and knowingly broke the law.
“Even if one does not like former VP Cheney, one should take his warnings very seriously. The tone of that interview is that our President, who is utterly incompetent to lead this nation, puts at risk every American and his or hers family by neglecting to to perform his number one obligation as POTUS to defend our nation.”
I’m sorry, why should I take his words seriously? He lied about WMDs in Iraq. He lied about an operational connection between Saddam and al Qaeda. He lied about being the catalyst for the leaking of the name of a CIA agent. He continues to lie about torture – it’s legality and its effectiveness.
The man has proven himself to be nothing more than a sociopathic, opportunistic liar with an illustrious track record of backstabbing friends and colleagues, including his own President.
MOHO:
I see you’ve chosen to stick an index finger up your nose, this time. Exaactly how do you decide which finger gets the job? Is your place under the rock a rentall or a condo?
I’ve always believed that Obama and Biden (JoeBama) would become the Democrat Party’s version of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. Nothing they have done so far has amended that belief.
The Obama Era?
Just checked my watch and according to “real time” and other realities, he has only been president for seven months….. but hey, at this rate after ten months you guys can write a book about “the history of the Obama legacy” eh?
GUSTOV:
You’re quite a piece of work. Of course, there is one little fact that you will have difficulty denying; Bush and Cheney kept us safe four eight years. Let’s see how well your hero, the Wiz does. My guess is, as articulated in the musical West Side Story ‘somethings coming, something big….’. That being the case, let it at least be San Francisco. You know, every cloud has a silver lining. It’s funny how self-indulgent speciments such as yourself like repeating the refrain ‘Bush lied….etc’. And, you know, it wasn’t about the oil. It was all about Iraqs unlimitted supply of desert sand. The heretofore unspoken neocon plot was to corner the market on sand and ship it to Miami Beach to reverse soil erosion and prop up property values. That was the real conspiracy.
MOHO, since you spend much of your time under a rock, you needn’t worry.
Gustav – Nice try but we’re keeping our eye on the ball. Maybe you should try that.
No more lobbyists meant more than ever.
No more lobbyists meant all the lobbyists are inside the house, they’ve taken over.
37. Moho:
You people remind me of babies who’ve lost their pacifier. Six months out of power and you start screaming and stamping your feet.
Turn the way-back machine on to early 2001. You know, when types like you threw rocks at Bush the day of his inauguration.
Plato’s Guardian Philosophers are thought of as benevolent guardians of public welfare, much like harmless University Professors today. It is important to remember, the philosopher guardians were perceived to be a Spartan type group who could condemn adultery with death, who would direct the science of eugenics to produce more perfect children, who considered the institution of slavery commonplace, that thought women and property should be held within the communal collective.
Like the concept Philosopher Guardians, I view Obama’s true being not as a benign but confused Marxist without a logical plan, but as a calculating and evil Marxist who will do whatever is necessary to accomplish his goals. If he could carry the election hysteria until he consolidated his power and control, he would have; but now that plan A is disintegrating around him, he will resort to plan B.
Although Obama possesses no great facility for intellectual concepts, he doesn’t need them. Stalin was rather dull, but he had a keen political sense and a ruthless determination to succeed. Stalin, unlike Obama, played the political game and waited his chance to step into power. By the time his power grab was noticed it was too late, the purges were in process. Thus he had time to watch the failures of others and to consolidate a power base. Obama has been launched into power without having time to consolidate his power base, such as the SEIU and Acorn.
Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov were in virtual control of Pravda, Stalin was on the editorial board; it is at the newspaper that Stalin exposed himself as weak dependent thinker, who advanced by following the party line. The newspaper’s reappearance, March of 1917, as the newspaper of the proletariat, was monumental, Stalin became identified with directives to the Bolshevik ideological line but upon analysis, he made no such contributions He could have fallen from favor and disappeared from history, with his writing mistakes and he made several; but he learned to adjust his writing and continue to join every political group and be elected to many offices.
Of course Obama has complete control of the so-called MSM or propaganda bureaus and has never had to expose a lack of original thought, but the signs become more apparent with each passing day. Obama also had the foresight to secure all his previous writings and academic records to hide the truth of lack of intellectual capabilities, a wise move, except there were no other options. Being exposed as a dullard would result in failure to be elected.
To many of the early “Founding Fathers” of the Russian Revolution like Plekhanov, Lenin, Trotsky, Sadovsky, Kosmin, and Podvoisky; Stalin was an insignificant extra, a centrist party loyalist who was skillful at making compromises and identifying problems. None of the early power brokers recognized the seething desire for power that raged within the heart of Stalin.
There is no doubt that Obama has the same desire to rise to power and control the country in the Revolutionary zeal of an ideologue Marxist. Is he willing to resort to the same tactics as Stalin. His close friend, mentor, and ghost writer Bill Ayers is more than willing to resort to the same tactics, he stated in front of an undercover FBI agent that he was more than willing to execute 25 million Americans that resist the Revolution.
Obama already has a seat of power that his friend Bill Ayers, propagandist for the public school system, could ever dream of; will he tire of the agonizingly slow Marxist progress against the American people who are naturally imbued with the concepts of Freedom and Liberty?
The fresh talk of his civilian militia that is as well armed and as well financed (think Acorn and SEIU) is the first step to make the Revolution proceed at a much quicker rate. Make no mistake, change is a code word for Marxist Revolution!
# 48 & # 54 ~ Please leave this board unless you have something intelligent to say that would add to the discourse. You post nothing but personal attacks and offer nothing except recycled, far left gibberish.
Dear Professor,
you write:
The second of these two sentences is tragically true because the first sentence forgets one important element of analysis: the American people have been tricked into electing a militant communist to the White House, and militant communists do not have “failure” as a possible outcome of their actions. This president will not stop just because the large majority of Americans is against his policies.
He will call them nazis.
And if the protests will continue and will increase he will do anything he can to quench them, at any cost and in any way.
Communists do not relent nor resign.
The only hope for the Country is that the honest congressmen acknowledge the danger and stop this madness.
The honest forces of the American republic must defang the regime that is now being built, and can do it by using the Congress as a dam against the subversion. Then they must allow the American People to reach free elections in 2010 (that will have to be guaranteed against massive fraud and intimidation).
That’s the only hope.
“Failure” is not a word in the dictionary of the subversives.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Liken the protest of Vick playing for Philadelphia Eagles to ‘hounding Vick like a runaway slave’.
That is what is up for post-racial transcendence these days.
The way I see it, there are THREE parties to the Democratic agenda. At first, the presumption was that they were all working together, but I think that all three are separating from each other.
There is Obama-as-President. I consider him a pathologial narcissist; he has, himself, no intellectual commitment to any political or governing perspective. He operates within the Democratic Party only because it is a collectivist ideology that inserts a governing elite. A narcissist puts himself in this Elite Set and rejects individual freedom of the electorate.
Obama’s Agenda is Adoration as The Power.
Then, there’s the BackRoom Gang, a set of hardcore Socialists in the Democratic Party. Their agenda is to insert a hardcore socialist infrastructure within the USA – a structure that sets up the federal govt in full control of the population, which is reduced to a passive collective. Individual freedoms and rights disappear.
This BRG used Obama as their Up-Front Salesman to move themselves into power. They’ve counted on his boy-charm, his ‘teen-age’ jokes, his indifference to policies and programs, his laziness, his indifferenc to misinforming and manipulating the public ..to get their agenda through.
They counted on the Bash Bush backlash, a nation tired of war, and a cynical manipulation of ‘racial guilt’ to get Obama in power.
Then, there’s the third group, made up of regular unaware Democrats, steeped in the liberal ‘feel-good’ideology of ‘helping the downtrodden’. They are expected, by the BRG, to go along for the ride.
The problem is, these three Sets each have different agendas and these agendas are starting to contradict each other.
Obama wants adulation and power. He can’t handle criticism and questions. Or policies; or details. It’s taking a lot of time and effort to keep his ego and narcissism fed and quiet. And, he’s not doing so well as Salesman, because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about; he makes egregrious errors (the Post Office!); he can’t answer details, he misinforms…he’s not interested in selling the policy but in selling himself.
The BRG have their agenda, but, more and more, people are starting to realize what it is – and object. They’ve tried to vilify dissent (unAmerican); tried to divert attention (Bash Bush, Charge the CIA)..and it’s not working.
The regular Demcrat has their own agenda; to be electable..and more and more,they are becoming worried about such a future state.
How will these three agendas function in the next few months?
Meanwhile, the Republicans have to, slowly, set up a coherent set of leaders. They couldn’t do this too soon; they had to let the Democrat Triad implode on its own…but..soon, the Republican Party will have to organize itself.
Carla – with respect (and very little of that) to this Moho creature, I suspect that he resides either in a dorm room at some second-rate junior college, or in his parents’ basement.
But back to the subject at hand. Obama and his Winnie Mandela wanna-be wife are less of a concern than those behind him. What worries me is that the same ideas that have animated the 20th century’s worst mass murderers now have a happy home in the White House. It’s only a matter of time before they act upon them.
gustov:”The man has proven himself to be nothing more than a sociopathic, opportunistic liar with an illustrious track record of backstabbing friends and colleagues, including his own President”
you didn’t watch the interview?
i did and saw no such behavior,it was so entertaining that i paused the program to go get take-out.
Again, we are in a race for America: how fast can Obama get his agenda through before his own unpopularity dooms it?
Sorry, we are at the losing end of this internal civil cold war.
Think of the (at least two) generation of young Americans, brainwashed on ‘common good’ since kindergarten through their whole life.
Right now, we still have old timers left to remember what it was like and still fighting for the version of America our Framers intended.
Pretty soon our generation will die out (sooner, thanks to the Obama/Kennedy Care), and we are left with more citizens who WANT complete government care in every aspect of their lives.
The question should be “How soon can we reverse and complete overhaul the complete chokehold of the leftist doctrine on education system?”
@57. Poor Citizen: – at this rate after ten months you guys can write a book about “the history of the Obama legacy” eh?
If history is any guide, he’s already staying up nights on the phone with Bill Ayers, working on it.
Either way, this sounds like a natural progression after BHO’s two (count ‘em) memoirs – of a life propelled by white privilege & racist hatred, marked by zero accomplishments of any note, and shrouded in secrecy since his birth.
“An anchorman at ABC, or an editor at the Washington Post or Newsweek is now simply the liberal version of Hannity, without the honesty.”
That’s not fair.
Hannity’s show is advertised as being opinion. Why not compare the anchor’s at CNN, ABC, etc, or the news portions of the magazines listed, to the news portions of Fox?
As things are now…come 2010, there will be fraud and intimidation to the voting population.
People need to re reassured that they can close that curtain and vote as they please, and that no one stops them from getting there.
The fraud has the potential to be great…
Communism does not give up easily and we put Obama and his cronies in office, we did it, and must find a way to show those that voted for Obama that they are also at risk. That will be difficult. Manymany voted color, and freebies…
Will we be the next Cuba? If Obama has his way. Obama could not have put this together on his own…so, who supports this man??? Who pulls the strings and puts the words in his mouth? Soros is an easy answer…who else.. Conservatives need to put some strong leaders forth, yesterday!!
I would not put it past the Obama regime to start a race war..seriously. Anything to stay in power.
Plus if ACORN does the census, we are in serious trouble.
Obama is a muslim and wants the United States to fail. disgusting.
“Bill Clinton could take solid advice from Dick Morris and learn to “triangulate.” ”
Furthermore, there is no “Dick Morris”, anywhere in this adminstration. They range from left wing ideologues, to far-left wing ideologues.
We Americans put up with different forms of socialism, but we despise socialists- those who believe their rationalism is so superior to that of the housewives from Wasilla that they have the right to tell the world how to allocate its resources from oil to infrastructure to start-up capital.
#66 ETAB – Interesting. Maybe the very smartest thing the House Republicans could do right now would be to do the truly unexpected and call for all of the moderate and conservative Democrats to caucus with the Republicans to elect a new speaker on a ‘do no harm’ unity ticket to stop ObamaCare, any further Stimulus pork, etc. – the fundamental deal being a realignment that if these Democrats caucus with the Republicans, and they want to run for relection, they will not be opposed by a Republican challenger.
I know my own inclination is not to do this, and to vote out every Democrat from every office in the land — essentially to figuratively “hunt Democrats with dogs,” as Phil Gramm put it in 1993 — but this might actually work if your thesis, that a majority of Democrats, though liberal, are not really statist socialists. After, that’s sort of what the Democrats did themselves back in the ’50s when they pushed most of the socialist left out.
ETAB makes some great points, but I think a large part of the motivation for Obama and the Democrats and their backers is simple greed.
They want the skim that being in power puts them in position to take.
The Obumble Administration is going to torture us with it’s incompetence and stupidity.
#75 CatoRenasci
That has been my point for a while: the only true hope against the subversive attack is a united front (I purposely steal classic leftist words)of all the sane (as opposed to insane) forces
to save the Republic and Freedom.
The divisive policies of the subversives must be countered by a call to the UNITY of Nation against the minority of communists.
Unluckily the Republicans keep thinking the situation in terms of “politics as usual” and seem not to understand the mortal danger for Freedom that is represented by the internationalist subversives’ plot to destroy America.
The People’s insurrection that we have witnessed in this month of August must now find a “People’s Voice” able to roar against the regime that is being built.
And all this is the only hope for a peaceful solution of this drama, before the regime gets too strong and able to smash any dissent with violence.(Actually they already started, with the union thugs at the townhalls’ meetings.)
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Guess again. On inauguration day I was banging your mom.
Sallie #72- the use of ‘race’ is a basic component of the Obama and BRG (BackRoom Gang)strategy and has been this way since the beginning – indeed, I suspect that this conflict is a basic component of Obama’s psyche.
I don’t think Obama is a Muslim; he has no sense of religion, i.e., a sense that there is a power greater than himself. As I said, he long ago moved, psychologically, into a deeply pathological state, a cocoon, of narcissism where he only feels ‘safe’ when he controls everyone around him.
Cato#75 – No, I don’t think that setting up a ‘fake’ election structure, with no Republican choice, is the answer. I see your point; you are suggesting a ‘way out’ for the Democrat member of Congress.
However, I think the focus has to be, not on the Power of Congressmen (to be elected), but on the Power of the People (to elect). Governance is by the people, for the people, of the people – and this must be primary. Therefore I think the Republicans have to start to offer simple and coherent choices.
I think the Republicans were wise not to, immediately after the inauguration, come up with The New Republican Leader and The New R. Policies. I think they had to let the Democrats implode on their own.
Otherwise, the Democrats could have diverted attention from their agenda by ‘bashing the new Republicans’.
However, soon..they are going to have to offer a clear, fresh-air alternative.
And don’t think that this BRG will disappear in the night! What I’m wondering is how the BRG will deal with Obama and his ineptitude and narcissism..and the regular Democrat Congresman who just wants a vague ‘liberal agenda’..and to be re-elected.
How will the BRG control these two?
“Bill Clinton could take solid advice from Dick Morris and learn to “triangulate.” ”
Furthermore, there is no “Dick Morris”, anywhere in this adminstration. They range from left wing ideologues, to far-left wing ideologues.”
Yup, that’s exactly the case. This is why the Obama administration cannot be saved. The president is existentially incapable of choosing a more pragmatic course of action. He is also too intellectually shallow and lazy to even begin such a transition.
We are in the prequal to the movie Postman.
58. genghis: “You’re quite a piece of work.”
Thank you.
“Of course, there is one little fact that you will have difficulty denying; Bush and Cheney kept us safe four eight years.”
No, they didn’t. 9/11 happened on Bush/Cheney’s watch. So did a bunch of anthrax attacks. At least 22 people developed anthrax infections, with 11 of the especially life-threatening inhalational variety. Five died of inhalational anthrax.
Durr.
#80 EATB: I said my inclination is against a ‘national unity’ approach, but it’s certainly worth thinking through….if we’re to be successful at stopping Obama before much more serious damage is done. And, if your “BRG” deals with an imploding Obama in the usual manner, it would remove the option of having Nancy Pelosi end up as President for a couple of years.
I think you’re right that there are deep things going on behind the scenes of which we have little or no knowledge. As I have hinted in my earlier posts, I think the situation is much more dangerous than the BRG realizes, that the critical question will come down to what the Army does, and that a Currah-like outcome could lead us down a path pitting the armed states (which have most of the military hardware as well as the more conservative populations, lacking only the leadership….) against the more or less disarmed states (full of liberals afraid of guns, the urban underclass which preys on the weak and elects socialists, and which would fold like a cheap suit in the face of determined resistance to socialism.
The President need blame no one other than himself for his declininng popularity. His election campaign was an example of pure hippocracy. “Hope and Change” was intended to convey the idea of a new beginning without specifics. Rather, Mr Obama correctly concluded that each voter would supply his/her own meaning to the phrase. What we see since the election is a crude form of politics in which the President, surrounded by acolytes, is bent on overriding all opposition, enhanced by huge majorities in both houses of Congress. There is no debate. This is what I want and intend to do.
Obama won’t resign. Hitler didn’t. Stalin didn’t. These people are destroyers. They war to the death or until power is ripped from their hands.
BHO vel non, the real problems for us arise in the legislative branch and its absolute disregard for the Constitution (among other equally serious aberations).
EATB,
“The Republicans need to offer simple and coherent choices.”
They can’t. Their hands are tied. The people will not stand for prudent action and behavior now because the cure for what ails us is so drastic they would take the pols out and string them up if the pols ever tried to implement them. Additionally no one will ever believe anyone in Congress or the Senate is anything other than a crook unless and until massive prosecutions are instigated against the thousands of looters who bankrupted the world.
Not gonna happen.
Then there’s closing the southern border, tort reform, jailing Rangel et all etc etc etc. Never.
We are on a sinking ship and there are no life rafts. AND We have the government we deserve.
ETAB, I have wondered about the religion of the Messiah, as Bill Ayers stated so eloquently in Obama’s Dreams of Bill book, if an ill wind blows, he (Obama) will always stand with the Muslim.
That’s a hell of a statement, should have been enough for a white man to be unelectable in a post 9/11 America; but from a black man, it was just a fascinating phrase for Lemmings and Useful Idiots.
Then there is the whipped dog subservience displayed by Obama towards the Saudi Dictator, how do you rationalize this behavior in regard to your non-Muslim stance? It’s true he doesn’t display any overt Muslim religious customs, but there is that quote in the book.
Tertium Quid (#74) links a George Will piece.
Especially, in the last few paragraphs,
The spirit of this class
Remember Bill Ayers told Larry Grunwthwol that 25-30 million americans would need to be killed for the “revolution” to work. OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST-THEY NEVER GIVE UP POWER WILLINGLY. Every Commie has been a mass murderer to cement there power, whether it was Che Gueverra for Castro,Pol Pot, Mao,Stalin or Lenin. Even Khrushev sent thousans to die in Siberian labor camps. The whole idea of a “civilian security force” is the nkvd/kgb or the Hitler youth/nazi brownshirts of 30s Germany. Every single appointment this imposter has made is a COMMUNIST,nOT ONLY Van Jones. Carol Browner and most of these so-called “czars” have long conne ctions to extreme communist style groups. So does Harold Koh and even Tim Guitners dad have connections to the extreme left. Keep your guns and ammo handy folks-I have a strong feeling we are likely to need them.
Has anyone noticed how “The One” with his “finger salute” to Madame Hillary, is much like Donald Sutherland’s character in The Dirty Dozen: masquerading as a general while looking back at your buddies, screwing your face up and sticking your tongue out? The character was a simpleton sent to do a man’s job and, ultimately, taking one for the team. No, not “The One”, Donald Sutherland. Life truly does imitate art.
Another lesson that isn’t evident yet but will be soon, the true purpose of the irrational spending. Mugabe Obama’s core objective is the destruction of the middle class in America.
One of the institutions where our basic values are maintained is the US military.
With his irresponsible and wasteful spending, the Kenyan will have to force a choice between national bankruptcy and reducing military spending, probably, by half a trillion a year.
Or buying a piece of paper from DuPont corp. that says that they’ll capture some formerly vented CFCs, that they were going to capture and recycle anyway.
As it once was with the medieval church. As in the distant past, the path to opulence is through pretense of piety. They’re even bringing back indulgences. Who will be the new Luther?
#88 Scott – I don’t understand your point that the Republican hands are tied because ‘the cure’ is so drastic. I don’t see that. I think the Constitution is pretty basic.
#89 Steve – I don’t think that Obama has any religion. Other than himself! His bow to the Saudi king wasn’t Himself bowing (and a Muslim doesn’t need to bow to a Saudi king) but -and I’m speculating – a symbolic act of America (not Obama) acknowledging the ‘equal power’ of SA to America. It was Obama’s usual insult to America. Obama doesn’t ‘feel’ American; he’s anti-American.
My focus remains on the internal conflicts of the Democratic triad. The narcissistic Salesman; the BackRoom Gang; and the ordinary Democratic member of Congress. How do these three, each with vastly different agendas, collaborate? Do they? What happens when they conflict? Who is the Real Power among this triad?
And don’t ignore the American people – you can’t have two centuries of freedom for nothing. And don’t ignore the power of the Internet to empower the People. [That's why the Democrats are trying to strangle the Internet.]
“79. Moho:
Guess again. On inauguration day I was banging your mom.”
So, why, exactly, are posts like the above deemed acceptable by the moderators? This one didn’t even have any other text whch could be used an excuse for letting it through.
Thank you for the article, Dr.Hanson. “Please do not vote in any national election for any politician from Chicago”.
It is a mystery to me why so many Americans bought Obama’s game. Please tell me what was necessary so that more people could recognize the danger of this man? Maybe along with lessons on the Constitution and American history, we also need classes on, “How to Spot a Snakeoil Salesman”, and “Games Politicians Play”. The cons crooks and politicians run are not that many. It is the same game over and over with the roles just reassigned, i.e., pitting one group against another, victim, persecutor, saviour, et.al. So maybe it is harder than that. Maybe it is that people don’t value what they have so don’t give it much thought. So how about instead of the “National Service Day” replacing the meaning of 9/11, we have a day of, “Why You Should be Bloody Grateful that You are Free and Not Under the Boot of Some Sicko Tyrant Day”.
The philosopher-kings in Plato’s Republic are philosophers – lovers of wisdom who know that they are ignorant. President Obama and the Pelosi Democrats are sophists who think they know for certain and do not realize that they are ignorant. On the scale provided in Bk. 9 of The Republic, with the ideal state being ruled by the wise – the gods, since only the gods are wise; next the rule of the philosophers who know they are ignorant and seek wisdom (like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman); then the rule of the lovers of courage (timocrats) like De Gaulle; then lovers of wealth (oligarchs), like those who released the Lockerbie bomber (P.M. George Brown), Bill and Hillary Clinton; then lovers of freedom without wisdom (vs. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), the orgiasts of the 1960s; and finally the lovers of freedom for themselves and not for anyone else, the tyrants – Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Saul Alinsky, Lenin, Stalin, et al.
That will be his undoing. Clinton was smart enough to hire a devil’s advocate. Obama, despite the hallelujahs, isn’t anywhere near that smart.
97. malclave
There’s no moderation here. If something doesn’t make it, it’s because of software bugs. Theoretically, that troll’s been banned. I think you can see how effective that was.
This site’s on autopilot, and the batteries are about to go out.
ETAB, I am the last one to underestimate the power of Freedom loving people. As I have previously posted, we have two things to be grateful for. The fact that out president is such outstanding mediocrity and has installed one of the most incompetent bunch of buffoons that has ever been assembled. The second is these computers, without them most of the population would still be mesmerized by the propaganda bureaus of MSM.
I feel it is the knowledge and communication that has become the real power and it will enable the movement that will destroy the president’s Marxist Agenda and Marxists in government.
During the American Revolution, pamphleteers were given credit for stirring up resistance to the crown, they obviously were effective, but they were limited by several factors like distance, printing technology, distribution and geographical distance. We have none of those handicaps, our message is disbursed to patriots within seconds.
If Obama and his goons were statesmen or if we had no knowledge of the machinations of Washington except for propaganda, this government might be able to bring down the United States with their Marxism.
These two key elements are our greatest assets; the Progressive Marxists can’t do much about their incompetence, but they can try to silence us by gaining control of the internet and talk radio. We are the people and our message attracts an ever larger audience, now is the time to increase the pressure and turn up the heat. The Obama Administration needs to be marginalized until it is considered an embarrassment of American political history that will never be repeated.
33. Ron Kean:
“14. Vivo
“One of the few clear-headed guys with credibility.”
You must be referring to #7. Donald Last”
No, Paul Krugman.
GUSTOV:
You are a proctologists wet dream. (You try to figure that out)
MOHO:
Your existence has actually made me rethink my position on abortion. Please, wipe that booger off of your nose and wash your hand before replying.
GUSTOV:
If anybody deserved biologic extinction, it is you and your kith and kin.
MOHO:
If I called you clueless, others would complain that I waw pandering to you.
GUSTOV:
Obama-san lied, and pretty soon we’ll be bankrupt. I hope that your kids can afford it.
MOHO:
Is your home under the rock airconditioned?
I agree with #97 malclave, there is nothing acceptable about Moho’s #79 comment after day…
@101. Calvin Ball:
“There’s no moderation here. If something doesn’t make it, it’s because of software bugs.”
Ah, that explains it.
VDH …great analysis. no excuses.
people I talk to who aren’t really following the politics think that it is business as usual and are not aware of the implications of the administrations policies. and they recoil at the term marxism.
…it was telling after obama went to camp David and said to the effect “it’s good to be king”
Malclave,moho could very well be “servicing” some of the moderators to get her post’s through.Her name says it all does it not?
So, why, exactly, are posts like the above deemed acceptable by the moderators?
I did my best to meet the very low level of intellect bound within the comment I was responding to. What I always find humorous is the propensity of conservatives to whine about how their rights are curtailed, only to wrap themselves up in the flag of censorship as soon as its convenient. Pretty much sums up the entire basis of your belief system–all for me, none for thee.
Genghis:
MOHO:
Your existence has actually made me rethink my position on abortion.
While I would normally be glad to hear it, the statement would imply that you had “thought” in the first place. Its a claim not supported by any comment of yours here.
By the way, many of you people here seem to think that implying that I have a booger on my nose can somehow be construed as an effective insult. On the internet, no one knows what you look like or what state your body is in, so there’s no point in going there. For example, I’m pretty sure you’re fat, middle aged and have had as many sexual experiences as I have toes. I wouldn’t spend too much time dwelling on that, for frankly, even if you were the most put together and sharp person on the planet, the things you write here are simply stupid. Nothing would make it better or worse.
“The United States remains a center-right country.”
I’m not sure how this myth survives. In politics, we have been (nearly always) center-left since the early 1900s. We want government entitlements paid for by anyone wealthier than we are. We want laws to protect people (from others and from themselves). We prefer socialism and nanny-statism to free market capitalism and libertarianism.
In economics, we support protectionism and corporatism. We support corporate taxes, “windfall” taxes, and taxes on all successful people (except the ones we turn into demigods). We support balanced budgets, except when our entitlements are threatened (which is always). These aren’t right-of-center views.
We are center-right only when it comes to morality and laws. We like “sin” taxes, criminalization of drugs, criminalization of paid sex, criminalization of erotic arts, etc. We like long prison sentences with inhumane conditions.
I don’t think being center-right on morality outweighs our left-wing stances on politics and economics.
Moho,I’m pretty sure most of your sexual experiences involve working a glory hole in the castro district of San Fran.
Obama-san? Wow, that’s respectful, considering. Of course, only conservatives and independents who still want to be respectful would appreciate it. Many liberals (and quite possibly Obama himself) would insist that you refer to him as Obama-sama, if you were going to use Japanese honorifics. Meanwhile, many who are pissed at this government would rather say Obama-teme.
moho:”I’m pretty sure you’re fat, middle aged and have had as many sexual experiences as I have toes”
uh huh,and i am supposed to believe a second-string troll like you bags mentionable tail?
highly doubtful….and you know it.
Wonder why the Democraps and Obama are in PANIC MODE?
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.
Today, 70% of those not affiliated with either major party would vote to replace all of the elected politicians in the House and Senate.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2009/57_would_like_to_replace_entire_congress
OBAMA PANIC!
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Seventy percent (70%) of likely voters now favor a government that offers fewer services and imposes lower taxes over one that provides more services with higher taxes, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/america_s_best_days
OBAMA PANIC!
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Experts see double-digit Dem losses
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26393.html
OBAMA AND DEMS PANIC!
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Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve while 83% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
OBAMA PANIC!
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I’ll wait to celebrate when Obama hell-care is completely dead and socialist-Obama himself gets kicked out, very soon, on his ass. There is no end to voters’ realization that Obama’s REPUGNANT policies STINK. Obama’s lack of experience and his childish ideas betray his faux demeanor.
When Obamaites are encountered, REALIZE, by what they say and do, who they are; and, be very careful to know your facts. If so, Obama’s socialist “reforms” will die. There is no room in America for the ideas we’ve been taught to fight — socialism, fascism, communist and, snake oil salesmen.
Myth buster it goes like this:
Obama:Moho-san wax on!Wax off!Wax on!Wax off!
Moho:Yes Obama-sama!
Obama:Wax on!Wax off!Wax on!Wax off!……..Ooooh! Moho-san!
@109. Moho:
You’re a moron, a liar, and probably a pervert.
McBride. Please keep it coming. While the pages of Pajamas Media are filled with whining complaints of how so-called tea-baggers are unfairly painted as intolerant bigots, the comments section provide a different story. Its none of your business, my sexuality. You are certainly free to imagine me enjoying as much glory-hole action as your pants can manage. The idea that you thought you would insult me with that comment–and the complete lack of any opprobrium by your peers–says a lot, lot more about you and the others here, than it could ever say about me.
Obama is bad for democracy, period. Things are going to get worse in America, soon. It only stands to reason, he will not give up his chance at “history”, and he seems to have been groomed for the part he’s playing. His thugs will be on the scene to bat people around…
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IF Y’ALL WOULD “QUIT RESPONDING” TO MOHO ETC…
…THEY WOULD HAVE NO FUN HERE..some of you have made it a playground.
……The trolls don’t care what you think..they do however enjoy jerking y’all around by the nose…can’t you just see him/her at home thinking up bs to say to you..and cackliing the whole time…see the image???? he/she loves it here!!!
#97 malclave:
“79. Moho: Guess again. On inauguration day I was banging your mom.”
So, why, exactly, are posts like the above deemed acceptable by the moderators? This one didn’t even have any other text whch could be used an excuse for letting it through.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?
Now, don’t make Mohomad. I mean Homo mad. I mean Moho mad.
103. Vivo
We’ll agree to disagree.
Funny how the lower Obama’s poll numbers go, the less the liberals seem to find their way here to comment. I really can’t blame them after all, who want to actually admit they voted for him at this point?
Here trolly trolly trolly;Zogby has Obama polling at a 42% approval rating.Sit and spin on that my little troll dervishes!You can dooweet!AHHHHHH! HAAAAAAA! HAAAAAAA! HAAAAAAA! OHHHHH! HOOOOO! HOOOOOO! HOOOOOOO!!
I am still amazed at the lack of interest in the most important issue of Obama’s presence in the White House. It is clear that the term “natural born citizen” has never been interpreted by our judicial system. I have yet to see any credible arguments that Obama is a natural born citizen.
McCain was born in Panama and also ineligible, although Congress tried to change his status.
Given the cone of opacity which has been lowered over Obama’s past, I don’t think we’ll see much transparency on any of his real positions.
Hey, Robohobo . . . shouldn’t yo be invoking something re: #117? I do believe that there’s a transgression.
For those who do not even have a cursory knowledge of Japanese, -san is an honorific roughly equivalent to Mr./Mrs./Ms. -sama, on the other hand, means Lord/Lady. Teme, is not an honorific; in fact, it’s an insult.
McBride, you should hook up with Bilgeman on that gloryhole thing. If memory serves, he’s quite the fan of such hijinks.
Im looking for a good article to rebuke the nonsense spewed by this overly biased liberal in this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
If anyone can find me a good article about how how this man is completely wrong I would be very appreciative.
Now and then,why would I do that?I’ve got you and moho.
Well mohomed,I’m just playin the game by the same Ad hominem rules you trolls go by.
What, I’m gone one day and NO ONE reminds JHARP, NOW AND THEN and MOHO that Sweet Little Barry got his start turning tricks for Big Daddy Tony Rezko? Sheesh. But, I guess someone brought up a gloryhole, well, all that brings to mind is Sweet Little Barry workin the streets of Chicago, hustlin’, gettin paid, getting all dirty in the name of the almighty dollar.
The New Black Panthers are the logical place to find armed recruits for the Obama Civilian Army. Now that Atty Gen Holder has let go the NBP in Philly who took over that polling place, they must be feeling rather bold. They can hook up with the SEIU, Acorn, and other leftist thug constituencies to put many an otherwise peaceful neighborhood into chaos when/if the time comes.
We were in D.C. some years ago and had some time on our hands, which we spent at the Postal Museum. Don’t laugh. The founders communicated through the mail. They obviously couldn’t spell out their plans in newspapers of the day, or stand on soapboxes with pamphlets. The information of that day was carried by mail, the info of our day moves electronically. The latest move by the White House to take control of the internet whenever the White House declares an emergency is a move against US.
well, we had calvin coolidge and we survived. jimmy carter, and we’re still here and every so often a really dumb, incompetent fool. but this guy obama is eerie. with the possible exception of richard nixon, we haven’t had an eerie one. it’s likely he still smokes. and hides.
The fact that most Americans are fed up with Congress and would replace them all is a good thing. Republicans lost the election because the majority of Americans finally realized Bush was driving us over the cliff. McCain/Palin was a bad joke at best, which left one option. Those who voted for change now are realizing they got chump change. Reagan started the dismantling of America, and every president since has helped by using our tax dollars to subsidize sending our jobs overseas. 911 was on Bush’s watch, so Cheney is full of it. Fact is, neither party offers us anything of value, so please join me in supporting Americans take over of the House in 2010 by exploring the goooh.com movement. Republicans, please admit your past leaders were hypocrits on the take, and you have no one who can lead us out of this mess that you created. All of Bush’s cronies are still in place, so if you don’t like what is happening, it is because the current president made you actually pay attention to what is going on.
Having worked for several airlines over the years I am reminded of the many times that I heard airline personal talk louder to passengers who did not speak English. If the passenger gave a I-do-not-understand gesture, the employee spoke even louder. This is what BHO has done with the health care debate. Every time he gives a public speech on that subject he says nothing new or informative but says it louder and longer.
Obama’s Hopium is nothing new. The evidence against liberal policies has been overwhelming for at least two decades. Just before LBJ launched his “Great Society” programs and his “War on Poverty,” blacks were having out-of-wedlock babies at an alarming rate of just over 20 percent. Now it’s well over 70 percent. Whites had out of wedlock children back then at a rate of 2 percent. Now it’s 26 percent.
Abortions. Drug use. Abysmal schools. Rampant vulgarity. These are the wages of liberal policies.
Obama is just trying to excelerate those policies, nothing more.
For those of you who are skeptical of there being rich European banking families (a la the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs) behind the curtain and controlling Obama, it is none other than Jay Rockefeller (scion of one of the 12 Fed banking families) who has put forth the bill granting Obama “emergency” control over the internet and “internet czars” day to day control over content.
One of the little publicized aspects of ObamaCare is that of who gets the care. Obamanation does not hide his dislike for those who oppose his plans. Why, then, should they be allowed to participate in those plans? If he owns the automotive industry, then agree with his policies or walk. If he owns the banks, disagree with him and find you bank account conficated. Disagree with his health care plan and go to the back of the line. In other words, when the government controls anything then sometime, somewhere the government will allow your political affiliation to dictate whether or not you get the basic necessities of life.
129. Fedup:
For a start on Paul Krugman read the following from James Howard Kunstler. If you want to find out more about this hypernutcase Paul Krugman read “Mobs, Messiahs and Markets” from Bill Bonner and his “Daily Reckoning”. Everyone who knows something about real economics and was not surprised by the current crisis knows that Krugman is living in a fantasy world. He has not the slightest clue how a society is generating wealth. And this is exactly what he shares with the president. They think in essence that it’s possible to get something for nothing. And by this they will end up discrediting not just capitalism, but also the idea of capital per se, that is, of deployable acquired wealth.
“Paul Krugman says that we’ll soon realize that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is growing. He actually said that on the Sunday TV chat circuit. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I would really like to know what you mean by that Paul? Do you mean that the Atlanta homebuilders are going to open up a new suburban frontier down in Twiggs County so that commuters can enjoy driving Chrysler Crossfires a hundred and sixty miles a day to new jobs as flash traders in the Peachtree Plaza? Do you mean that the Home Equity Fairy is going to wade into the sea of foreclosure and save twenty million mortgage holders currently sojourning in the fathomless depths with the anglerfish? Do you mean that all the bales of deliquescing, toxic “assets” hidden in the vaults of Citibank, JP Morgan, Bank of America, et al, (not to mention on the books of every pension fund in the USA, and not a few elsewhere) will magically turn into Little Debbie Snack Cakes on Labor Day weekend? Do you mean that American Express and Master Card are about to declare a jubilee on accounts in default everywhere? Do you mean that General Motors will produce a car that a.) anyone really wants to buy and b.) that the company can sell at a profit? Are you saying we get a do-over, going back to, say, 1981? Did we win some cosmic lottery that hasn’t been announced yet? What’s growing in this country besides unemployment, bankruptcy, repossession, liquidation, gun ownership, and suicidal despair? In short, are you out of your mind, Paul Krugman?”
MOHO:
Boy, oh boy, moho, you are one smart cookie. You actually figured out that we could not in reality see you as you. I can understand now why we dumb folks on the Right are losing out to you super-intellects.
But it is a bit more subtle, oh MoHo brain. You see it is the content and tenor of your postings that relentlessly dredge up an image of a smirking pimply teenager with one finger stuck up his nose. The New Man of the Left. Tell us about your booger collection.
GUSTOV
Yes 9/11 occurred on Bush’s watch. Does that help you sleep better? And Kosovo occurred on Bubbas watch. And Nam occurred on Kennedy’s watch. And Korea occurred on Truman’s watch. And WW II occurred on FDRs watch. And WW I occurred on Wilson’s watch. Notice anything Gus.
See, Gussie, the world changed a bit on 9/11. And what matters is that 9/11 didn’t happen again thanks to Bush/Cheney. but now we have Obama and the Chicago mob. I admit, they are terrific at extortion, it’s a Chi-town specialty. As for the wits and ability to protect the United States, well, when it comes, let it be San Francisco and the Bay Area. Sleep well, Gusso.
TO ALL SQUEALERS:your messiahs administration’s agenda is being dismantled by a bunch of old ladies.people you hold in contempt,ordinary salt of the earth types with only the help of a couple of loudmouths on AM radio,are beating the best your side has to offer.EVEN with all the assistance of hollywood,accademia,bilionare pimps,unions and of course……the media.oh,and a super-majority in the senate!HA!
all in less than six months,i don’t even want to know how that must feel to you..deep down inside.
dubya gave ya’all the big digit for EIGHT YEARS and you couldn’t do ANYTHING about it.to add insult to injury,the policies you hated him the most for YOUR man has continued unabated,do i need to go down the list?
no,i think not.
plus there’s darth cheney laughing at all you nitwits,going on national TV DARING you to prosecute him.
which we all know is never going to happen.
there is also the matter of the upcoming mid-term elections,how are those looking for your side?
In his post number 3, David Thomson says he expects that before the end of next year, 0zero will resign his pathetic pretense to the presidency.
September 11 2011 is my pick.
Give Gormless Joe and the dhimmis’ other dorks, stumblebums, pukes and crapheads a year or so to strut their stuff before President Palin and Vice-President Petraeus get 2012′s Brass ring.
FRANK G:
It is not nice to throw salt into the suffering Lefts woudns. Not nice at all. I myself would prefer a dash of tabasco sauce. And I must say, it has been most refreshing watching well-dressed middle class folk taking to the streets (i.e. tea parties, town halls, etc) rather than the usual panopoly of grievance mongers; the Rev Jesse’s minions, the militant gay.lesbian/transsexual cadres, teh enviro-freaks.
Tuesday morning.
I’m excited.
I’m guessing at this moment VDH is writing his opinion of George Will to be posted in NRO or RealClearPolitics tomorrow.
Wake up Citizens. America has been taken over by its enemies. The invader used subterfuge, intimidation, fraud, extortion and murder to take control of the apex.
Remove the enemy.
More and more of the American people are awakening to Obammunism and find they don’t want any part of it. Why they didn’t see that Obama was a Marxist before the election still remains a mystery. Just chalk it up to ‘hate blinds’, and the Democrats really know how to gin up hate.
It’s uncanny how much of rev Wright exists in the words of Obama administration officials.
Essential vdh
#129 Fed Up: Read Thomas Sowell and go through all of his articles or books. You can find him on Town Hall’s web site. Reprimand yourself for not knowing diddly squat if you can’t think of your own reasons. What do you do just walk around and trip overthings?
# 22 has it right. Hyphenated Americans, whether African-American or Swedish-American are incomplete Americans. I know a couple who proudly identify themselves, one as Italian-American and the other as Polish-American. They are horrified that I have never in my life thought of myself as a Ukrainian-American. African-American merely perpetuates racism. However, retard Americans is another story, and that describes Obama.
genghis:”It is not nice to throw salt into the suffering Lefts woudns.”
you must have missunderstood me.
watching them stumble through life,oblivious,i feel empathy towards them.call it tough love,if you will….personally,i think of myself as quite the humanitarian.
i agree with you on the demonstrations-very refreshing.the best part IMHO,was how the media handled it.”tea-bagger” being used repeatingly by a respected rhodes scholar on national television,that was music to my ears.
“…your messiahs administration’s agenda is being dismantled by a bunch of old ladies.”
Wow. Mao was wrong. A revolution is a tea party. Or at least the American Left’s concept of a revolution is. Apparently all we had to do to thwart Obama’s little putsch was send in the old ladies with a few signs — the Crumpet Brigade — and his minions turned tail and scurried back to D.C.. Che Guevara’s turning over in his grave, and the rest of are still laughing. Somebody oughta’ market a bumper sticker that says: My Granny Kicked O’s Ass!
111. Dr. T:
“The United States remains a center-right country.”
“I’m not sure how this myth survives.”
Your lumping together economic takers and makers on the one hand and separating the cultural conformists and deviants on the other hand suggests the great divide separating the experiences of the transient commuter rubbing against intercity squalor and the more auspicious cohesion of the small town way of life.
A rural population has closer acquaintance and scrutiny of the sources of prosperity than could ever image any city dwelling bureaucrat shuffling papers in the name of some abstractly divined greater good, be it corporate headquarter managers transferring production offshore or our omniscient overlords in Washington saving the planet.
The disunion of the urban and rural populations dictated the formation of a bicameral legislature, of which the senate representation of the least populous large state, rural Georgia, was equal to that of the most populous, developed states, Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. This device protected an established society from the enervating surplus of immigrants harbored in the port states.
Today, some accept government hand-outs because that same government made them an orphan of responsibility; others accept them as their due for years of paying taxes. Could taking the government’s borrowed money to buy one’s own new car bear some consistency with a form of civil disobedience as a means to overwhelm the welfare state?
America predominately shares a conservative outlook where responsibility is needed to survive, but also has a growing collectivist mentality where government has contrived a process for someone else to pay the bills.
#3 David Thompson
Has there ever been a less prepared leader in our nation’s entire history? Can anyone even provide one example?
Last year I looked at Presidents who had been US Senators. I looked at other experience: US Vice President, US Cabinet, US House of Representative, state governor, military. There was only one President who had been a US Senator who had had NO experience in any of the following: US Vice President, US Cabinet, US House of Representative, state governor, military.
That would be Warren Harding.
That experience metric also describes President Barack Obama.
#14 Vivo on Paul Krugman:
One of the few clear-headed guys with credibility. His discourse has been on track.
Such as when Krugman got p3wned on Canadian Health Care.
When Krugman asked how many of Canadians in the audience thought they had a terrible health care system, he anticipated that most Canadians in the audience thought highly of their health care system. To Krugman’s chagrin, he found out that found most Canadians in the audience thought their health care system was terrible.The discourse of an arrogant fool who got put in his place.
You want to know what is more appalling than moho and co? That the PJM admins delete my post calling the admins to the rules being broken by moho and co.ion the comments rules of engagement somewhere before #117.
Okay, PJM admins, you have just shown that you guys are hopeless and favor the lefty trolls like moho.
… the learning curve was steep…
Let’s add to this exponential curve of abysmal political failures Obama’s so provocative, and so unnecessary absence at the Gdansk ceremonies marking the beginning of WWII.
Is the American presence in WWII in Europe another illustration of America’s deep seated criminality?
Beyond belief – yet true.
Fedup–
Donald Luskin is Krugman’s bete noir. His blog is called poorandstupid.com, IIRC. He offers rebuttals Krugdementia regularly.
Countdown is Down for the Count.
There is only one rule in politics from the left: Does it conform to and push the Marxist agenda. Everything everywhere in order to be “good” must be translated through the marxist narrative. Eg: A black man from the south who is born dirt poor but becomes a Supreme Court Judge and is a conservative is an Uncle Tom and an “unworthy”. He is unworthy because the narrative is all black people who are “authentically black” are left wing and depise America because of her racist past and no matter how hard they work they will be denied because of their blackness. Why this narrative? Because it forments hatred and keeps people of different colors from believing they are part of the whole. They can be relied upon as shock troops to destabilize. Their alienation is exploited and they are used to keep the establishment in power. Clarence Thomas proved that was a lie so he must be destroyed before HIS narrative can take hold. Feminism, homosexuality, immigration, race, education, the arts, everything must be written to push Marxism. The cultural wars is all about Marxism and the Marxist revolution. Why do you think we have the novel idea of two men/two women “marrying” each other but to destroy the cultural underpinnings of this country and to ease us into ideas and practices which did not make us strong but will surely weaken? If the left couldn’t destroy us outright with war and weapons they have been using ideas and ridicule just as effectively. Americans feaful of being called names have been forced to accommodate and live with ideas and actions which are being used to kill this country. Culture IS country and that is why at this juncture we have the fascist known as Obama as the President. First fascism, then outright Marxism.
If you’re worried about the fate of your country, get off your duff and attend a town hall, or a TEA party, or join us in the March on Washington, Sept. 12. The revolution is on!! Freedom loving American, UNITE.
RE: #95, Calvin Ball’s “Who will be the new Luther?”
Calvin Ball, as a student of Broadcast Christianity, which now circles the Globe via 50 or more satellites, and penetrates the thinking of peoples from Africa to Australia… I am astonished to see general mendacious doctrines similar in big government, in big religion and in big entertainment-news. All hail statism in its triune perfection! It all appears to be the same opium doxies designed to keep over lords providing misinformation to an uncritical under culture, so long as liberty, independent thinking and God’s justice is generally absent.
For more, please see http://www.inthatdayteachings.com.
Is it possible that Obama is a puppet under the control of a cabol of Chicago mobs and “progressive” social leaders in an attempt to take over the government.
The only time he makes sense is while talking from a teleprompter,the rest of the time he is a playboy with lots of government perks.
Too bad Obama didn’t come with a warranty, so we could get a replacement or even better, a refund. :)