Posted on 01/21/2009 4:04:03 AM PST by GVnana
This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.
We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the Blair/Brown imposture.
The burnt child, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not fear the fire. After the Blair experience there is no excuse for anybody in Britain falling for Obama. Yet today, in this country, even some of those who remained sane during the emotional spasm of the Diana aberration are pumping the air for Princess Barack. At a time of gross economic and geopolitical instability throughout the Western world, this is beyond irresponsibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
More at the link.
Obama’s administration will be known as “The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and the middle class will pay for it” administration.
Unfortunately I’m afraid that the nation will end in tears.
I have a bad feeling that our enemies will see how far they can go with the new guy and his peacenik friends; and that it will be the ordinary citizens who will pay them price the most. And I’d bet that it’ll probably be within the first 6 months.
Obamah proved for the whole world yesterday he is useless without his crutch, the teleprompter.
Is this a reference to Sant0bama being from the South side of Chicago?
“la trahison des clercs” = the treason of the intellectuals, the willingness to ignore facts, to look the other way, to not speak, to go along with the propaganda ... because the ‘cause’ is SOOOO important.
Whether it’s Obamanomics or Man-Made Climate Change, la trahison des clercs is in full swing right now.
Google the term. Crackers are a British Christmas gift opened by cracking them.
This article is spot on. People will rue the day they installed this imposter in office. We will pay with lives and wallets.
LLS
End in tears? It’s begun in tears as witnessed from all the weeping on and off camera yesterday. But, certainly, it will end in worse than tears for all of us.
I wish there was an appropriate term for what has been perpetrated upon these United States. Lies, complicity, fraud; not one of these words adequately describe it.
Perhaps the 0bama administration will surprise me and our country will not crumble and fall. It has survived much and it may be that he and his cabal are not the worst. They talk about hope and that is mine.
That Newt Gingrich, a history professor who knows the history of socialism, now fawning over Obama, is frightening.
Yes, Justice Roberts putting the word “faithfully” at the end of the sentence instead of in the middle proved to be more than Teleprompter Boy could handle. Contrary to media reports, he aint too shmardt.
This job is clearly above his paygrade.
The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.
These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.
He knows history, and also knows that to stay out of the re-education attitude adjustment camps, kissing der furor's ring is his only out.
He lost me there. The people who voted for and are rooting for Obama are 100% idiots.
You get a partner to pull the other side and it makes a loud pop. Inside are little gifts (the more expensive the crackers, the better the gifts)...a paper party hat, and a joke or riddle to read. Whoever gets the largest end gets the prize. We order them every year for Christmas to keep up my hubby's tradition. Kids love 'em. K. Back on topic. :)
Can we get a refund on the $170,000,000? We got told we were going to hear the speech of the Republic, we got a clichefest that had no heart or soul only anger.
Pray for America, Our Troops and Obama’s Guidance
We'd be lucky if that were the case, but I'm afraid the author is right. Smart people don't always have common sense. I work with several people who are not just intelligent, but brilliant. Talk to them about work, and they're razor sharp, clinical, and focused. Talk to them about Obama, and they become inarticulate and emotional. It's like a switch flips in their heads.
Certainly, Obama has the idiot market cornered, but there's a vast number of otherwise intelligent people that are simply mesmerized by him.
Even England sees the circus act going on in our country. I am embarrassed that people are acting this way about a mere mortal.
I don’t know if I’m a realist or a cynic, but it sounds about right to me. The coronation is over, let the testing begin.
I'd love to use that phrase as a tagline.
Resolve to be better next year Freepers - Better informed - Better prepared - Better equipped.
Embarrassing indeed.
The Obammunist media pushed their sycophancy to unheard of extremes during yesterday’s coverage of the inauguration (enthronement? deification?).
It was a sick carnival of barking mad hyperbole.
Tom Brokaw likened wheelchair-bound VP Cheney to Dr. Strangelove. Brokaw also equated the change of power to the Velvet Revolution, the term used for the overthrow of Czechoslovakia’s communist regime in 1989.
His colleague, Chris “Tingle Leg” Matthews, took the opposite tack; declaring that the Bush family were like the Romanovs, the Russian rulers overthrown and subsequently murdered by communists.
(If things don’t go right, that one, at least, could contain some small grain of truth.)
One ABC droid declared that the magnificence of occasion made the weather feel warmer. He added that even the seagulls were awed.
What, for the love of Trotsky, does it take to impress a seagull?
The British Telegraph gets Gerald Varner.
The American NYT gets Mareen Dowd.
Can we trade?
Please?
Since The One has proclaimed that he wrote his Inaugural Address, it confirms the suggestion that he was not the author of the two books sold as his "autobiographies."
Even his loving audience on the Mall could not find any lines to cheer. There was total silence while he was speaking.
Revenge is a dish served best chilled, we as a partial nation of America is duly bound to prepare the chilled feast for our brethren to dine upon, for too long they have dined on objects made of sweetened aires.
And after we furnish them with the fruits of truth only then will their blindness be cured.
Now for you rednecks like me and need a translation, lets kick some a$$ and royally screw up all their dreams of a perfect world.
RE: ...the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence
%%%%%
This author says in long words what I say all the time:
Leftists lie to themselves!
This includes people who make their living in news media.
Be fair, we already gave you Catherine Zeta-Jones! You keep Dowd right where she is!
Pray for America, her Troops and Bama’s Guidance
Could not agree with you more.
Have had this discussion with my friends this past week and I used the same time frame in my estimate.
And I could not agree more with the author of the article, about the coming Train Wreck.
The One probably woke up this morning - first time as-—(I cannot even say it - it makes me sick) - President - and probably thought to himself, “what am I doing here?” He has no clue what it is he’s gotten himself into. Worse yet - I wonder if and when the sheeple will ever say, “What have we gotten ourselves into?”
God Help us ALL!!
bttt
Even a teleprompter wouldn’t have helped that empty vapid speech.
I'd love to use that phrase as a tagline.
Go for it. ;-)
Benda’s book is excellent. And indeed Obama is an exemplar of the sort of “clerk” (intellectual) that Benda described.
America may be defeated from within.
\ The Tulip Mania. (and other Mania's)
The Event is explained in:
"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay -- 1852 The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics."
Download at Project Gutenberg:Extraordinary Popular Delusions: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24518
What, for the love of Trotsky, does it take to impress a seagull?
Lots of free food.
Mostly people were mad at Republicans or had some other issues. The vast majority of the "intelligent" looking people who voted for him have a veneer of intelligence with no philosophical grounding. One way you can tell is by the cartoonish TV drama shows they watch.
If I were a Russian or Chinese leader I would be salivating at the opportunity to finally destabilize the USA. The communists have been trying for some time, but they've always underestimated the freedom minded folks of the USA, so their plans have taken much longer than anticipated.
Were I a communist leader I would pour significant resources towards further American destabilization. Were I the Russians, I would work via proxy through Iran to further these goals and continue to poke and prod the US forces in the region in an attempt to tear down all that the Bush Administration has accomplished. Simultaneously I move to take back Poland and Ukraine. All the while I would increase support of the American leftists now that they are firmly in control.
All the while the Chinese leadership is salivating at taking Taiwan. When the US and NATO have their hands full with the Middle East and Russia, China will strike Taiwan and they will strike hard.
I was going to say a big heaping pile of garbage.
There’s a good side to it...Bush sold us out to the big money multinationalists...But now he’s gone...
B. Hussein will have to finish the job...We can blame him instead of Bush...
Ping!
He’s a poser, and he knows it. He’s more concerned with how he looks to everybody else. He knows he hasn’t a clue but it sure is fun to play dress up and order everyone around. Wait til he actually has to govern, and then we’ll see real fear.
More gubmint cheese is not the answer, but seems to be the only one offered.
This has not begun well and it will not end well.
I was flabbergasted. Who cares about all the babies that will continue to die, as long as the soldiers can come home tomorrow. She's supposed to be so bright - but she believed a liberal politician - that tells ya something right there!
Even when someone feeds him the lines in an oath, he’ll still botch them.
What about the war in Darfur which will not make America any safer?
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