Posted on 01/09/2008 5:23:50 AM PST by Ouderkirk
What adult would vote for a totally untested presidential candidate by falling in love? Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Senator Joe Biden, and a million other Democrats -- that's who. The New York Times stable of Leftie pundits is reliving the Decade of Love. The Washington press corps has the teenie bopper hots over Barack Obama -- such a romantic name. A real African! Almost.
What does he believe? What has he actually done? Uhmmmm... Well...
It's Son of Camelot! And he's got the youth vote! Children just know these things!
This is straight out of Dumb and Dumber. If you despaired about the media's endless love affair with Bill Clinton, the Master of Slick, because he Cares About You, you'll get to revisit those feelings now. For we have a new national idol!
The Good Parent
Children often have fantasies about a Good Parent -- one who loves you and takes care of you forever and ever, who forgives your transgressions whatever they may be, who demands nothing, and never, ever hurts your feelings. Obama is now the Good Parent of the childish Left -- a good majority of the Dems, it would seem.
In a child's mind the Good Parent is often played against a complementary fantasy, the Bad Parent -- call them Republicans in this case. The Bad Parent stands for the sterner aspects of reality. Since Leftism is basically an infantile protest against adulthood, Republicans represent what Sigmund Freud called the Reality Principle.
Reality is the part of the world we all need to come to terms with in order to earn a living, to deal with losses in our lives, and still be productive and moral adults. Interestingly, most of the GOP candidates look like adults with real records of accomplishment. But then GOP voters are also more adult.
The childish Left constantly needs someone to adore -- FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton before the Fall. Even Hillary during her New York senatorial run. But Hillary looks visibly older today, and the Good Parent can't be allowed to age. That shakes the foundations of a child's perfect world. So all that need for love has to be transferred to a younger Good Parent. It's like the new trophy wife of the aging executive. The Good Parent must be immortal.
Enter Obama. We still know almost nothing about him. But that's the point. The less you know the better you feel, because Obama is a projective figure, a human Rorshach test. The Dems don't want to know any sobering facts. They don't want to know, for example, his relationship with the Chicago Democrat machine. They don't want to know that he voted against saving the lives of infants who survive a botched abortion. They don't want to see his minimal competence in foreign affairs. This is just a mass craving for a Good Parent. You don't vet and check out your Good Parents to see if they qualify. You might do that for a new baby sitter, but never a Good Parent. You are just born into that endless cloud of love.
Hillary's fall from grace has been amazingly quick, because the Dems -- the Party of the Needy, those who Crave to be Cared For, the Emotional Victims -- they have all found a new fuzzy toy to cling to. Hillary Clinton is now yesterday's toy, lying discarded on the floor. And she knows it.
This is the candidate as Rock Idol. It is purely instinctive. The thinking part of the brain has nothing to do with it.
Meanwhile, the United States still needs a real adult to lead it through the next four or eight years.
The nation is at war -- though the infantile half of our population lives in denial. Benazir Bhutto was just assassinated in Pakistan, where the throw-back jihadists are eagerly looking for dirty bombs or worse. Ahmadi-Nejad just challenged the US Navy in the Strait of Hormuz with five suicide boats. Forty percent of the world's oil goes through the bottleneck of the strait. Europe is in decline. The United Nations is hopelessly sleazy and corrupt. Almost twenty years of jihadist genocide in the Sudan continues today, with African victims galore. Kenya just exploded in an orgy of jihadist violence. Vladimir Putin is running a KGB state in Russia, threatening oil and gas cutoffs to our feckless allies in Europe. And President Bush is making a Hail Mary pass in the Middle East, hoping to make some progress by traveling there. The terrorists have promised to try to assassinate him, too.
The media aren't interested. They're back in the Kennedy days, swaddled in the warm blankets of their second childhood.
Boy, do we need the grownups today.
Ouch !! You might want to put some ice on that.
They don't believe, think or know - - they feel.
Whenever one reads or hears about progressive liberals, the operative verb is “to feel.”
Let’s call it what it is - Barack, the Magic Negro, like Uncle Remus, doling out tales of how the bad ones (Br’er Fox) get their comeuppance through their own carelessness, and the good ones (Br’er Rabbit) take advantage of that reckless behavior on the part of their rivals and deadly enemies.
Sorcery works. Walt Disney could not have composed a better morality fable.
This is a good article. I would add that it also says something about liberals’ politics. They believe that the right President will bring Utopia yet.
That is a trite, unoriginal bore. In poor taste.
The left is a dichotomy of sheep and shepherds.
The sheep constantly seek a parent figure in power in gov’t. They also refuse to see the gov’t as anything other than a benign father figure that opens his wallet whenever you need something.
The shepherds, on the other hand, seek control. They disdain the sheep for not being able to know what’s best for themselves. They also ignore the possibility that there are those people out there that ARE competent to run their own lives, don’t seek power, and just want to be left to succeed or fail on their own merits.
Also, it might be worth a re-read - do a FR Search on stupid left satanic left.
The sheep (stupid) think that, just as you’ve said, the right leader will bring about utopia, and that all the failures are just an accident, not caused be liberalism.
The shepherds (satanic left) know that their policies cause misery, and implement them anyway in order to have power over people.
Freud meets Obama.
Good read bump
Great article by John Kass:
Obama fairy tale has Chicago-size hole
John Kass
January 9, 2008
Click here to find out more!
Prospective First Laddie Bill Clinton bought into the fairy tale theme Tuesday in New Hampshire, wondering why the media doesn’t treat Sen. Barack Obama as harshly as we treat his wife.
“Give me a break,” Bill said, stumping for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”
Normally, politicians whining about media treatment can’t be taken seriously. But today, President Clinton, though the earth may crack open and devour me, it appears you’re absolutely correct:
The Clintons are indeed the victims of a Vast Left Wing [Media] Conspiracy.....
Excerpt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-johnkass,1,5488029.columnist
“That’s gonna leave a mark.” ... the piece is spot-on. The Big Eared Socialist Fuzzy Toy is in. The Old Hag Marxist is yesterday’s infatuation, tossed to an abandoned corner of an undisciplined teenager’s room that never ever gets tidied up.
Obama fairy tale has Chicago-size hole
I just love that headline. Of course I’m a gutter brain, so I guess that is why.
Good article except that the Republicans running have good records. Since when does McCain have a good record?
The pack mentality I’m seeing in the democratic party is quite amusing!
I’ve listened to a couple of Obama’s speeches and quite honestly he says nothing! As my daughter said to me a couple of weeks ago, “Mom, he speaks a thousand words and says absolutely nothing!”
This morning while listening a radio news broadcast I heard a woman comment on Obama’s speech last night, “It was the best speech I have ever heard!” ....ROTFLMAO!
Great article...yesterday I caught Laura Ingraham on the tube saying that America is about to elect its first “American Idol” president. Perfect!
Excellent article.
Frightening, isn't it?
Bump for later
I was watching the Frank Luntz focus group segment on Fox News and he was interviewing so-called Republican voters in New Hampshire...I couldn’t believe what a bunch of shallow wimps he had gathered. I truly fear for the future of our Nation.
It the Obamagasm syndrome!
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