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The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth
The Daily Mail ^

Posted on 11/09/2008 12:21:12 AM PST by WaveMan

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.

Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.

If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.

read it all... at the link...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichrist; bho2008; hitchens
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To: WaveMan

Do read the whole article by the good Hitchens brother. It’s worth your time.


21 posted on 11/09/2008 6:30:22 AM PST by Malesherbes (Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: WaveMan

bump.


22 posted on 11/09/2008 9:04:17 AM PST by fullchroma
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To: WaveMan

This election, some of the very best and the very worst coverage has been from England, sometimes even from the same paper. They have something in their media that we lost a few years back: Variety.


23 posted on 11/09/2008 10:44:50 AM PST by Genoa
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To: WaveMan

At least one European understand what happened.


24 posted on 11/09/2008 3:09:19 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: WaveMan

If we combined the two Hitchens boys we might get a real pro American. Peter needs to jettisen his Ron Paul characteristics.


25 posted on 11/09/2008 4:26:32 PM PST by dervish (in God I trust)
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