Posted on 01/23/2009 1:13:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Is it just me? Gerald Warner
Barack Obama inauguration: this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears 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.
To anyone who kept his head, the string of Christmas cracker mottoes booming through the public address system on Washington's National Mall can only excite scepticism. It is crucial to recall the reality that lies behind the rhetoric.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
"Denouncing "those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents" comes ill from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents."
Personally, I’ve been crying for weeks.
For a Mandarin contest our daughter memorized the story and recited it. She won in her school. Of course we are NOT an Oboma family values family.
For a Mandarin contest our daughter memorized the story and recited it. She won in her school. Of course we are NOT an Oboma family values family.
Great article!
How far America has fallen that we have those millions still waiting for the stimulis bill to pass?
Good old conservative self sufficiency will get us through this. Ignore the fools behind the curtain!
Prepare for impact. Once they realize that this isn’t working, they will need their devils.
I understand ... caution, don’t become a bitter conservative. USE THIS as a “teaching moment” to kids and any adults that will listen. It’s called “tough love”.
Cornelius and Dumbo are going to ruin this country.
"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. "
But in all fairness to Tony Blair, he at least got things right in the War on Terror. Oba Mao's signature accomplishment will be to unleash the next terrorist attack on us because he got one or more jihadis released on executive orders or legal technalities.
Also, while Blair was a good orator: unlike Obama, he could speak extemporaneously. Also, his speeches often had actual substance.
Warner is probably right about everything else (I don't know enough about Blair's domestic policies to comment on them).
This guy nails it...sadley. 40 miles of rough road ahead.........
The Zero may only be the 43d. if you want to nitpick ... I’m not sure but I think it was Coolidge who went from being VP right into the presidency, he just finished out WG Harding’s term ....
LOL
Great post reply. One generation of left-wing indoctrinated school and college kids is enough to see the decline and fall of the United States as we know it. His first days in office in signing an executive order that would result in the “slaughter of the innocents” (as the author puts it) is Hussein’s perverse idea of hope.
He signed orders closing Gitms, foreign rendition sites, and productive interrogation techniques thus returning the favor and kowtowing to the NY Times, George Soros, Ariana Huffington and his super-rich Rolodex of Hollywood Scum who provided him the $850m campaign war chest.
So where the hell is McCain and the Republicans? Why aren’t they not screaming, yelling, and shouting from the rooftops?
The Triumph Of Feelings Over Intelligence
It's mine! It's mine! It's all mine!
I highlighted the same section.
I highlighted the same section.
I highlighted the same section.
I’m just curious whether you highlighted the same section or not. ;^)
The whole world, to one degree or another, appears to be recovering from liberalism. Our decent appears to be accelerating.
“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.”
He was in the sense that like Pres. Bush they put soldiers in the field to fight the Islamists in Afghanistan.
But like Pres. Bush, Tony Blair took the focus of the basic problem, which is practicing Islam as written in the Koran and Hadiths. (Subjugate convert or kill all non-believers.)
Bush set us back for years by saying Islam is a religion of peace.
Blair set us back by saying "grievances were the problem with Muslims. - tom
Amen to that!
free republic is headed for another crash - my prediction
system has been slow and hiccuping all day
“...Bush set us back for years by saying Islam is a religion of peace.
Blair set us back by saying “grievances were the problem with Muslims...”
Yes, you are exactly right.
No kidding. I've been in an awful mood. My wife keeps telling me to snap out of it like it's Monday morning after a Redskins loss. She has no idea what we're in store for...
One of its economic correspondents is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who was the Washington correspondent during the early years of the Clinton administration and has always been an admirable journalist.
If they had called out Muslims in general — there result would likely have been civil war (along religious or racial lines) in Britain, at least. The embers were already glowing — it would have been grossly irresponsible for a national leader to fan them.
That said, the limits of tolerance are being tested. If Muslims living in western nations continue to practice jihad, and attempt to subjugate, convert or kill non-belivers, the future will be worse than the past. One way or another.
This is coming to the party a bit late, isn’t it?
Unquestionably the best description of the Doug Kmiec phenomenon that I have seen to date.
Got Kool-Aid? Thomas Jefferson said that land taxes were the worst, since a independent man could not then subsist on his own land and was forced to acquire, to participate in the economy, the politicised economy outside of his land to acquire the money to pay the tax. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act made all money, and all banks and all credit tools of the state. There would be no economy outside of the state's power. As the economy is 10 to one, debt to money, it's not money that makes us free, but that debt makes us slaves. Even if you yourself are debt free, you live, work, swim in a massively debt economy. You being debt free is like being healthy in a plague epidemic. The reason people are in debt, isn't because they are not thrifty, or they are spendthrifts. It is because all the money, ever printed would only pay off ten percent of the debts. Since so much is bought on debt, and is inflated on by debt, is debt and borrow that sets costs. Theoretically, if everyone went to cash, prices would have to fall 90%. Right now plenty of people either by need or suspicion are acting like they need to exist in a cash economy. That is wy all prices are falling. The existing prices need to be bought on credit, not cash. Again, there does not physically exist enough cash to support more than 10% of the so-called 'value' of things. So far the Treasury has tried to manufacture a trillion dollars in available debt to keep the costs of things high. By and large, people are not taking the bait. People are reverting to cash. We have lived in this country for almost a hundred years on central financial power, command and control. Call it soft communism, or communism with a financial face. We will see.
Better to have had that civil war in 2001.
au contraire This reporter is totally wrong. Barry has awesome clothes
You didn't have to call them out. Blair and Bush should have said nothing that would make the dumb Infidel less likely to see the threat. But they didn't do that; Blair and Bush went along with the religion of peace , grievances, hi-hjacked religion, moderate Muslims stuff; which only allowed the Infidel to muddle his way along without seeing the Islamic threat.
Since Bush is the commander in Chief, the high ranking military didn't want to contradict him so his foolish statements about Islam went unchallenged.
Had Bush and Blair known what was the basic cause of the Jihad,(following the religion as written,) they could have worked on stopping the spread of Muslims and Mosques into England and America, where the Saudi sponsored Wahabbi sect could then take over the Mosques; knock the so- called moderate congregation in line on getting back to Islamic basics - and getting some of them to go on Jihad against the Infidel.
Clueless Blair and Bush, both allowed the Islamic cancer to continue to flow into their countries and to flourish. - tom
Duly noted.
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This is my first post (that I remember) since the election. It has taken me this long to be able to post. I feel, as many of you do, that we have been betrayed. God made a promise that evil would never win out over good. I kept feeling “How could this happen”, what about the babies, what about the soldiers, what about us as American, why?, why, why? I knew we deserved this because of the nation we have become, but Lord, the babies.
I finally went on a search across the web wondering if I was the only one. Well, I am not. When I read what Cardinal James said:
“Catholics weep over Barack Obama’s words. We weep over the violence concealed behind his rhetoric and that of Joseph Biden and what appears to be that of the majority of the incoming Congress. What should we do with our hot, angry tears of betrayal?”
I finally understood my heart, and this gave me peace. God is in charge. The people wanted another god or king and they got one. This is what they wanted, they chose, they feel they need this man. They have put all there trust in him and this is good because all of those who have risen because of this man, will fall just as hard and just as fast when he does.
The liberal way of thinking will never be exposed for the evil way it is until they have been given everything, as they have now, and then it falls. All those will then see how their thinking has destroyed all that is good, and God will finally be put in his rightful place as the God of love, hope and joy. All those who have turned their backs on the one and only true God, especially Christians, will return. This is my hope anyway. But, first they must be allowed to rise and so that they will fall.
For now we cry for the betrayal of God, we pray for a return of his place of honor in this country, and we stand ready to fight against any evil that will be imposed on us as American Citizens.
Maybe in all of this, we are given a small glimpse of what Jesus felt in the garden before he died. It’s absolutely unbearable. That’s why we must continue to put all of our trust in God and Be Not Afraid!
Yes, but that's in the long run. His word also says that we reap what we sow.
“Better to have had that civil war in 2001.”
History may bear you out. However, neither Bush nor Blair had the benefit of hindsight, when they had to decide on a strategy for dealing with the world of September 12, 2001.
I agree- this is our Gethsemane. But the fall may come in generations yet unborn. The damage wrought by B. Hussein O will takes years and years of repair and sadly some of it may be irreversible especially if he gets a crack at 2-3 SC appointments.
Don’t cry FRiend. And now you have not cried alone. I know a few came from me because I just don’t trust this guy.
And beyond that, I can see he’s already over his head. He can’t seem to put anything together in comments without the words fed to him.
For a guy who is proclaimed brilliant, he sure has trouble putting a few sentences together.
Bush may have botched syntax, but you knew exactly where he was coming from and it was clear in that regard.
This guy twists himself into a pretzel every time he speaks off the cuff.
The UK isn’t going to be on board with Obama. They wanted Hillary.
Amen and G~d have mercy on us poor, dumb, and demented souls. If we knew any better we would cleave to you, as we do to water, food, and house, here on earth. (Would adding 'car' be the truth or would it just lose any notion of poetry that we may have hinted at?) Have we all succumbed to being starving artist on the internet?
We, as conservatives, must remember that as when Bill Clinton passed the retroactive tax in his first days of his administration; the Democrats are still counting on Americans never remembering whatever the Clinton administration did in it's first years, or, now, any of it's years.
In those days, they had no idea of the influence of the internet. Most of the people who used the internet were also a bit inexperienced in marketing on the internet, who had ever done it before?. But we did manage to connect with those who shared our ideals.
The Republicans won the first George W Bush election because of our presence, and ability to connect with others of the same experience, on the internet.
We, won the last Bush election because of our total internet mastery, compared to the Democrats who thought that they could say and do what every they wanted, and no one would remember what they had said before.
Then, there was a coming of age of a newly voting generation, who used the internet on a level of intuition. They had grown up with the internet. Their experience was with games and places like, 'MySpace', which excludes any comprehension of politics, let alone the cynicism of the truth of the statement: "I was a Democrat in my youth, but once I married, and had a family to support, I became a Republican. This was a new generation, a generation susceptible to the promises of a campaign like Obama's.
Obama's disintegration will be a slowly speed, frame by excruciating high def frame, on the internet, at places like 'youtube.com' of complete and utter humiliating failure of Pelosi, Reed and Obama.
This new generation of voters will never fall for it again, failure. A failure that will be felt so deeply, by those who succumbed this time, that they will despise in the future, any who even begin to suggest making decisions on such fructose injected emotions.
Just as my generation, in the end, felt about Carter, as we went out to buy houses for our new families and looked at interest rates of 18 even 20%.
To make it simple though, the papers do gravitate to printing negative information about anyone, no matter their affiliation of their talent.
When I first noticed that his voice had Eisenhower's vocal qualities, I began differentiating between his truly extemporaneous speaking and that where he had a 3X5 notecard memorized, or a teleprompter.
The extemporaneous stuff was total garbage ~ flat humor like that TV preacher who comes on at 10 AM right after Wallace, et al (I can hardly switch to FOX fast enough), and sometimes statements that do not follow known rules of grammar.
We had a guy like that assigned to our office once. He'd been a Washington Redskin ~ good record, but injuries, and age. Time to retire and go to work in a government office.
The big problem was he was "functionally illiterate" (by our standards). He could read, and he could read "from", and give a (memorized) speech, but he couldn't do analysis.
Took several weeks to move him on down the road.
Then, the worst case, a famous Democrat politician's niece (name on request) ~ I found out quite quickly that she could not write when they gave me some of her "draft regulations" to "review" and "revise". It was not possible to determine what the topic was ~ and none of the words were more than a couple of syllables in length. She could deliver speeches quite well and had a delightful voice. On the other hand, there was, as they put it, no "there" there!
Rather than be her own personal Bill Ayers and just write stuff for her, I expressed dissatisfaction (privately), and they moved her on to a higher paid job with someone else who was less discerning. She left in a year.
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