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Obama fools us: Whole world will pay for America's electoral mistake (A Canadian View)
Edmonton Sun ^ | November 8, 2008 | MICHAEL COREN

Posted on 11/10/2008 1:19:55 PM PST by Main Street

Whole world will pay for America's electoral mistake

A young student friend e-mailed me on Tuesday night.

"Have locked myself in my room because the place is full of little idiots -- who cannot spell Barack Obama's name and could not name one of his foreign or domestic policies -- running around screaming obscenities about George Bush, conservatives and how Sarah Palin is a bitch. I love democracy!"

Even so, the people spoke. A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere.

A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.

Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meagre political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.

Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.

WEAK TOWARD ENEMIES

A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.

A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Also a defeat for one of the weakest presidential candidates in living memory.

Why would anyone vote for a man who seemed incapable of outlining his policies and instead repeatedly emphasized a noble but, if we are candid, largely irrelevant war record?

He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being and perhaps never will be a serious candidate for senior national office.

Most of all it was a terrible defeat for democracy and the United States. A politician of nothing defeated a nothing politician and a credulous electorate screamed in adoration. I fear we will all suffer very much indeed.


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; bho2008; digg; elections; mccain; obama; obamatransitionfile; obamunism
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To: Main Street

“Whole world will pay for America’s electoral mistake”

I hope the hell the whole world does pay. They all wanted him elected. You reap what you sow. Don’t come begging to the US when your neighbors attack you.


41 posted on 11/10/2008 2:03:27 PM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Faith
He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being and perhaps never will be a serious candidate for senior national office.

Yeah, I didn't miss that either. Unfortunately, a typical Canadian view.
42 posted on 11/10/2008 2:06:53 PM PST by caveat emptor
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To: tophat9000
Feeling a 'bit' sorry for Canada; but the rest of these Countries who, will soon find their own reasons to be dispirited if not panicked, I feel less sorry for. They wanted Obama; (of couse, what did they know; given our own MSM would not tell the truth. . .but they had to ID the rhetoric; and know more than our naive citizenry.)

That said; the whole world would have been better off; if the 'nothing politician' and his maverick side-kick had won. Together, they have more integrity and authentic 'patriotism' than Obama; his entire support team; and the majority of those who voted for him.

Without that 'love of Country'; a patriotic morality, more critical than any geography lesson; America can only be the biggest loser, ever. . .

43 posted on 11/10/2008 2:12:30 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! T hank You ~ U..S.A. Military~)
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To: tophat9000
Feeling a 'bit' sorry for Canada; but the rest of these Countries who, will soon find their own reasons to be dispirited if not panicked, I feel less sorry for. They wanted Obama; (of couse, what did they know; given our own MSM would not tell the truth. . .but they had to ID the rhetoric; and know more than our naive citizenry.)

That said; the whole world would have been better off; if the 'nothing politician' and his maverick side-kick had won. Together, they have more integrity and authentic 'patriotism' than Obama; his entire support team; and the majority of those who voted for him.

Without that 'love of Country'; a patriotic morality, more critical than any geography lesson; America can only be the biggest loser, ever. . .

44 posted on 11/10/2008 2:12:47 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! T hank You ~ U..S.A. Military~)
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To: Main Street
A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.

SLICE!!! Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!!!!!! LOL!!

45 posted on 11/10/2008 2:12:59 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
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To: Main Street

Obama carried College Graduates and this article is nothing more than an ignorant fantasy.


46 posted on 11/10/2008 2:13:02 PM PST by The_Republican (Conservatives are in trouble because they hate Scarlett Johanson.)
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To: Main Street

for later read


47 posted on 11/10/2008 2:13:35 PM PST by Mare
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To: T Lady

Which do you think will go first? Probably talk radio....then the porn will be forgotten because of some lame excuse of a bill. “We have more important matters to attend to”.


48 posted on 11/10/2008 2:14:09 PM PST by prayerfullywaiting
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To: 6SJ7
I may not live to 100, but the next 4 years will probably feel like it.

And who said there was no silver lining?

49 posted on 11/10/2008 2:18:34 PM PST by john in springfield
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To: mel

If we start boycotting these companies Obama and the Dems will just bail them out. Last year Ford was boycotted because of their support of the homosexual lifestlye. Sales dropped.


50 posted on 11/10/2008 2:20:09 PM PST by prayerfullywaiting
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To: prayerfullywaiting
I hope not...since that and the Internet are the only sources I rely upon for any type of information...I canceled my cable subscription to Cox Communications back in 2006 and haven't looked back.

I have also heard from a few Constitutional Law Professors (including Hugh Hewitt) that the Fairness Doctrine is unconstitutional and could not be instated on its merits since commercial radio is part of the free market and not under public broadcasting (I may be wrong in the definition but it's pretty close, so please forgive me in advance). So there very well may be a huge fight on Capitol Hill over this.

And should Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, along with their henchmen try to ram this sticky wicket through Congress, there will more than likely be a few less House and Senatorial Democrats in Washington come 2010 and 2012.

51 posted on 11/10/2008 2:23:56 PM PST by T Lady (Palin-Jindal 2012)
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To: Main Street
"Have locked myself in my room because the place is full of little idiots -- who cannot spell Barack Obama's name and could not name one of his foreign or domestic policies -- running around screaming obscenities about George Bush, conservatives and how Sarah Palin is a bitch. I love democracy!"

I think many of us have had this same experience lately. Outside the student world. And here in PA, the reverse racism, where a vote against Obama presumes one is a racist (thanks, Murtha) and not any differences in political ideas. On the plus side, I watch less TV now.

52 posted on 11/10/2008 2:34:42 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: Bahbah
And we should all give him the same support the liberals gave Bush.. That's my plan, and how can they have a problem with that?
53 posted on 11/10/2008 2:40:25 PM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: Main Street

yep


54 posted on 11/10/2008 3:07:22 PM PST by sneakers
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To: Main Street

Actually, I agree with all except the bit about Sarah Palin. I would support Sarah for president.


55 posted on 11/10/2008 3:09:24 PM PST by sneakers
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To: Main Street
well, not everyone is mad...
56 posted on 11/10/2008 3:15:58 PM PST by babubabu
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To: Main Street

I don’t think the American people will ever figure out that they made a mistake. They cannot distinguish forest from trees.


57 posted on 11/10/2008 3:42:59 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: T Lady

The American people are for the “fairness doctirne” because they think of themselves as imminently “fair”. Of course, the fact that they have no clue about what the “fairness doctrine” involves reflects poorly on their lack of intellect.


58 posted on 11/10/2008 3:44:42 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Main Street
I'm not going to suffer. I'm going to buy a nice new house, cheap, in sunnier climes, and I am going to take long walks in the open area gazing at stunning scenes of breathtaking natural beauty, and I'm not going to lift one finger to help the rest of the world, or any of its whiners. I need nothing from the government, nothing from foreigners, nothing from snotnosed kids with sagging pants and empty heads. They can do whatever they like, and I am sure they will, and that they will pay very dearly for it. But I'm not going to suffer a lick. It is a holiday from giving a damn about any of them. To rule, to teach, to instruct, all of these mean to serve. So I don't serve for a while, I am not the loser by it.
59 posted on 11/10/2008 3:59:14 PM PST by JasonC
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To: kanawa

Dugg


60 posted on 11/10/2008 4:10:07 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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