Obama And The Age Of Outrageous Credulity

Ed Driscoll.com ^ | May 14, 2008 | Ed Driscoll

[Uncle Ralph]

There's a passage from a 2005 essay by Umberto Eco that I've frequently quoted, as it neatly defines several elements of the mindset of our age in just a few carefully thought out sentences:

G K Chesterton is often credited with observing: "When a man ceases to believe in God, he doesn't believe in nothing. He believes in anything." Whoever said it - he was right. We are supposed to live in a [skeptical] age. In fact, we live in an age of outrageous credulity.

Indeed. While it's a cliche that ours is a cynical era, it really is just the opposite, as Eco noted. While college kids are instructed by their professors to "fight the power" and "speak truth to power" and to generally not trust that power (because it corrupts absolutely), all of that hard-bitten cynicism goes flying out the left-hand window at warp speed come election time. Jim Geraghty has a round-up of worshipful photos and illustrations of Obama that make him out, in quite hysterically literal fashion -- to be the second coming; and in a post about Gene Healy's new book, The Cult of the Presidency, Betsy Newmark explains one of the reasons why we -- and particularly the left, which often views government as a substitute religion -- put our presidential candidates on such a pedestal:

With the Progressive Era and New Deal, our vision of what we asked of the federal government changed forever. Add in World War II, the Cold War, Great Society, and the War on Terror and it's clear that we're never going to return to a limited federal government or presidency. ...

[Uncle Ralph]

There's a lot of interesting background info and trivia behind the links. Written about a month ago and offered here as a weekend contemplation of sorts.

[Jeff Head]

Obama's ardent followers (including the MSM) are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth, and regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol and they the idolaters. His campaign media-blitz has been designed and engineered to evoke just such mindless hero worship without considering specific positions.

Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild-eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the propaganda they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black, not caring to hear or look at his actual positions.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lennin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans, of all races and creeds, who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Finally, understand that this is not the first time in history that rock-star, messianic status has been conferred on a populist, charismatic individual in order to hand them the reigns of power. Although there are many critical differences, still it is important when you consider the danger that this candidate poses to American foreign policy, our economy, our social fabric, and to the war we are fighting against fanatical Islamic Jihad terrorists, to note the following comparison:

A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Simply put, Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACTIY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[D-fendr]

Saw a new bumper sticker yesterday:

I Already Have a Saviour.
I’m Looking for a President.

[TimSkalaBim]

Thank you, Uncle Ralph,

Interesting stuff, as you've said.

Meanwhile, me and mine will make preparations for Independence Day, July 4th, my favorite day. It's times like this I think that maybe the world is bagged out of it's mind, or maybe everything's ok. Not sure which, but for the coming weekend, I'm assuming everything'll be ok. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Sincerely,
Tim

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! I’d love one.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/savior-bumper-sticker/211281477

[jonrick46]

Yours is the post of the week!

Keep up the good work.

[ckilmer]

this animated gif image goes back and forth between obama's birth certificate and a real birth certificate. note the missing seal, the blacked out certificate number and the differences along the edges of the seal. in order to show detail this is a high mg download.

this writer examines the writing in detail and shows why much of the writing on obama's birth certificate was photo shopped.

This is a google search of birth certificate obama. This story is steadily making its way up the info food chain.

This link gives the growing list of posts on obama's birth certificate.

[Jeff Head]

Thabks. Spread the word. All of that post and more are at my:

AUDACITY OF TRUTH SITE

Check out particularly the newest one,

OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

[D-fendr]

That’s it!

Well done...

Hope to see many more of ‘em.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I just ordered 3, one for each car.

[patriot08]

Great work, Jeff. Keep it up.