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The New Yorker: Obama Like Gandhi
Publius' Forum ^ | 2/18/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 02/18/2009 7:05:22 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus

We've seen the Obamacized media call President Obama Lincoln, we've heard him called FDR and Kennedy, we've been informed that he gives newsers a thrill up their leg. The media has even ridiculously called Barack Obama a "light worker." He is The One, their Obammessiah. Well, we can now add another undue adulation to the media's obsession of finding great figures to compare Obama to: Mahatma Gandhi. At least according to the New Yorker's Hendrick Hertzberg he is, anyway.

In a piece from February 23, headlined "Partisanship, by the bye," Hertzberg likened Obama's work on the so-called stimulus bill to a "Gandhian" effort because it is going so swimmingly for The One.

This is all merely an effort by Hertzberg to absolve Obama for his failure to govern in the bi-partisan way he claimed he'd undertake and to gain any measurable Republican support for the biggest pork barrel spending bill ever brought before the people, a bill falsely described as an economic stimulus bill. It doesn't matter that this bill is not a bi-partisan bill, Hertzberg claims, because Obama did try to get GOP support...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho2009; bho44; democrats; enemedia; liberalmedia; mediabias; msm; obama; obamedia; slobberingmedia
The media is in love... ain't it cure? Well, no... more like sickening and dangerous.
1 posted on 02/18/2009 7:05:22 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The only thing missing here is (Barf Alert!).


2 posted on 02/18/2009 7:07:09 AM PST by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

More like a cross of Little Lord Fauntleroy and Karl Marx ...


3 posted on 02/18/2009 7:08:49 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Like Ghandi?

You mean he drinks his own urine?

I can believe that.


4 posted on 02/18/2009 7:10:58 AM PST by Mr. Jazzy (No greater friend, no worse enemy -The United States Marine Corps.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Gandhi opposed socialism and communism and preferred capitalism to socialism. India’s first Prime Minister, Nehru who was a Communist, has attacked Gandhi for this in his autobiography.


5 posted on 02/18/2009 7:13:22 AM PST by JimWayne
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To: Mobile Vulgus
I think that Hertzberg was referring to the hard-ball politics of Indira Gandhi, rather than the mass organizing of Mahatma Gandhi, in his column.

Indira Gandhi declared The Emergency to seize total power in the late 70s. I think Hertzberg meant to compare Obama's huge federal powergrab in the Porkulus bill to The Emergency.

6 posted on 02/18/2009 7:13:32 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Ghandi was enormously sexually promiscuous. On a par with JFK.

Obama? I doubt it. Not with girls anyway.


7 posted on 02/18/2009 7:14:01 AM PST by agere_contra (So ... where's the birth certificate?)
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Though Gandhi shunned politics I think.


8 posted on 02/18/2009 7:14:36 AM PST by Republic_of_Secession.
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Though Gandhi shunned politics I think.


9 posted on 02/18/2009 7:14:40 AM PST by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: Mr. Jazzy
You mean he drinks his own urine?

Myth.

10 posted on 02/18/2009 7:17:11 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Wasn't the ascetic-looking Gandhi privately getting it on with a number of the starry-eyed, young female acolytes in his large entourage?

Leni

11 posted on 02/18/2009 7:17:52 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Satan, the devil, Beelzebub, demon, Lucifer, the Evil One, Prince of Darkness, and antichrist.


12 posted on 02/18/2009 7:18:44 AM PST by bgill
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To: Mobile Vulgus

No, he is MORE like Stalin!!!


13 posted on 02/18/2009 7:18:45 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Obama, liberals, dimocrats, socialists, communists - THEY are the enemy. MY enemies.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Lets see...God, Jesus, FDR, Lincoln, and now Ghandi.


14 posted on 02/18/2009 7:24:10 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Mobile Vulgus
A possible ploy to get Ben Kingsley and Martin Sheen to star in the new Obama movie ...



Kingsley is in negotiations with Tom Cruise to borrow the lifts from his shoes.
15 posted on 02/18/2009 7:26:13 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ;o)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
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16 posted on 02/18/2009 7:29:43 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Things rarely went "swimmingly" for Gandhi.

Obama ain't a hair on his arse.
17 posted on 02/18/2009 7:32:22 AM PST by stentorian conservative
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To: Mobile Vulgus

From the wiki

Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoned passion or love; addictive love. Usually one is inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone.

Infatuation is a common emotion characterized by unrealistic expectations of blissful passion without positive relationship growth or development. Infatuation is distinguished by a lack of trust, loyalty, commitment, and reciprocity. In the case of infatuation, there is more often than not an obsessor and an object of desire (generally unattainable). One may come to the conclusion that unlike love, infatuation is not usually mutual.


18 posted on 02/18/2009 7:37:57 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Kenya.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Maybe they mean Sanjay Gandhi, or possibly Rajiv Gandhi.


19 posted on 02/18/2009 8:32:16 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: mgc1122

how about, “Lil carpetbaggin oreo”


20 posted on 02/18/2009 9:00:32 AM PST by usshadley (crying racism--the new "last refuge of the scoundrel")
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