THIS MACHINE KILLS LEFTISTS
This is how the Obamareich’s re-election machine is being characterized —and I have no reason to doubt it. Do his followers have a problem with their idol burning through a billion dollars of crony contributions? I don’t hear much about it, if so. I think such a figure would only be morally repugnant if it were a Republican campaign.
I think the Election of 2012 is going to burn some bridges.
What argument can one make to someone who still supports Obama that can account for the emotional investment that such a person has in The One? It isn’t enough to list for him Obama’s many acts of cronyism, contempt, incompetence, and hypocrisy. It is too late for facts when defending Obama is defending one’s own political judgement and personal intelligence. Would an appeal to decency and love of country be enough to move an Obamaton to concede what ought to be conceded: that his statist ideology is destructive of the economic character of this country; that he is a law-breaking corporatist; that he is a campaign finance cheat and liar; that he is a hypocrite on civil liberties and warfare; that he is a vindictive narcissist?
No, the investment is too great. The racism inherent in the choice of voting for a man because of his race is too deeply held. The personal identification with this post-American agent of our dissolution is too complete. Democrats are prone to such personal idolatry (e.g., Obama, the Kennedys, FDR, Wilson, et al) and it reflects poorly on them.
But whatever it takes, the dominant narrative of a populist Obama who just wants what is fair and even and right for all must be resisted because it is false and it is dangerous. It is un-republican in the most literal sense.
I do not make idols of politicians. I do not understand those who do.
[...] this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.
Even after it happened, I could not believe that the American people would elect someone like Obama: an untested and media-created Marxist ideologue posing as a centrist. Right: a Chicago Democrat as the “post-racial” (whatever that term hopes to mean) Third Way. He is indisputably the Democratic Party’s revenge on the Union —this contemptuous liar with Lincolnian pretensions— in the form of a literal embarrassment of the country’s electorate as the ignorant partisans they are. How did it ever happen? Americans who love their country must work to deny this man another term in which to show his contempt for what makes us prosperous and free.
I’m glad Romney stepped it up on Gingrich tonight with the influence-peddling charge, but he probably didn’t gain a lot of ground from it. Still, Romney needs to stay mean and on the offense even if that’s playing against type.
The President had no need of such a venue tonight as a joint session of the Congress except to provide himself with the props of authority. His narcissism is boundless, as well as a decidedly un-republican menace to our society.
What did he say tonight that he hasn’t said in dozens of other equally insipid speeches? To insist on such a setting for such an unremarkable campaign spiel verges on an abuse of the privilege. This is Son of Stimulus with the usual horseshit narration.
Our nation’s economy will begin to recover once this Marxist bastard is out of office. Just as his nomination by the DNC in the summer of 2008 precipitated the Great Recession, his departure will surely mark the beginning of real hope and change.
“It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.” —Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
“This is known as ‘bad luck.’”
Now that the President has made regime change in Libya a personal goal, his war there will be a failure if Khaddafi and his family wind up staying in power. Thus, his belief that he can prosecute this war from the air and in a limited way and without calling it war and without appearing to be responsible for it is delusional. Obama has abandoned so many of his own anti-war principles that he is simply incredible. Will his partisans hold him responsible? No, but some of the more clever ones might try to show they have a little intellectual integrity by criticizing him by proxy in criticizing his Administration, particulary Hillary. They’ll use her as soon as things turn so bad that not even Sulzberger or Immelt or Soros could work to hide it from the public.
Bottom line: the President waited too long to defend the people of Libya against their own government. By missing the window so badly, this war will be prolonged. And it may even turn Obama’s uncritical masses in the soft middle against him.
Reagan tried to kill Khaddafi; Obama now must kill Khaddafi.
Obama could have rattled off that same laundry list with the same robotic delivery several days ago when some word of resistance from the President of the United States to Khadaffi and his bully-boy spawn might have made a greater difference to the revolutionaries in Libya. What a bloodless ideologue you Democrats have foisted upon us. Obama is here to help kill the Hegemon and exonerate the post-American foe.
And you’re here to help him.
Has the President of the United States had anything to say about this Col. Khadaffi business today? The neo-isolationism of this Democratic regime in Washington is appalling.
And what about that smarmy bastard son of his sitting there like a pimp on the TV this past weekend telling the Libyan people that he and the old man will slaughter or starve as many of them as necessary? WTF?!
Note to the Hope-n-Change artist: if the diplomatic corps of the Libyan regime itself has the courage to stand there before the world demanding that Khadaffi be tried for war crimes, you’re probably free and clear to say a few words on the topic yourself. Have a care, Barry, and see what you can do to bring some stability to the oil markets and some hope of solidarity to the Libyan people.
