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!
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