[neverdem]

Surely, this could not have been intentional...

Then why was Biden tasked with attending?

[Names Ash Housewares]

The left doesn’t know anything but tearing things down and hating. Faced with actually being the ones in power and actually have to produce results and be responsible must shake them to the core.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Several months ago, I wrote a piece for AT defining Barack Obama as a flake. People have asked me since, do I still believe that? As the lady said: you betcha.

The messiah is running out of tricks. Turns out he is after all just a mortal. And a liberal one.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Now, this is the latest example of the mythic Obama luck in action."

Apparently, the Bible was missing when he was finally sworn in again by Roberts. Another omen perhaps. Since his first major act after that was to expand global abortion funding with U.S. tax dollars. Seconded by Madam Pelosi's explanation that birth control helps the economy. Creepy. A lot of strange vibes for his first week in office. Along with the Alinsky baiting of Rush Limbaugh.

As the debt grows and the dollar falls will anyone dare say: "The Emperor is wearing no clothes"?

[Darkwolf377]

Another underreported story involves the response to Obama's making a point of saluting atheists in the line, "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers." A number of pastors, largely from black churches, have chosen to protest. It's difficult to grasp how somebody who was raked so badly and repeatedly concerning religion during the campaign would eagerly stick a foot into that bonfire once again, but that's what he did. It's also a bad move to alienate one of your most faithful followings

I rarely if ever defend my own lack of faith here, but even MENTIONING that some Americans indeed are nonbelievers is "alienating" to those who do believe--even though they were mentioned?

That's incredibly petty and childish.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Did anyone hear of these great miracles that occured before and as our great new president was inaugurated?

1) The Miracle of the Instruments:
Beautiful music flowed from instruments that weren't even being played! What's more the music was heard far and wide by all those who attended the Inauguration.

2) The Miracle of the Tunnel:
Thousands walked into a tunnel and though they did not get out the other side in time to witness the Inauguration, holy documents (referred to as "programs") were sent to them describing the great sights that they missed.

3) The Miracle of the Moneylender:
A tax cheating, law breaking, dissolute man known for squandering money to curry favor with greedy interests was magically transformed into a great and benevolent economist and treasurer right before the eyes of our elected representatives.

Can anyone yet deny that we have indeed chosen the Chosen One?

[LifeComesFirst]

“Take a brody”? What the heck.....?

[rawcatslyentist]

>"What struck me at last was this: the left are not acting like winners. "

We tried to tell them they were selecting Darth Cheney's cousin.

What were they promised? Rainbows, unicorns, falling sea levels, global harmony. Oh yeah, pie.

[jla]

Several months ago, I wrote a piece for AT defining Barack Obama as a flake. People have asked me since, do I still believe that?...As the lady said: you betcha...It's going to be a great four years.

Only great in that we can watch the scatterbrain self-destruct before the world.
"flake" is an appropriate, but kind, term in describing Obama. His public persona, and intellect, is much affected and now that he is going to be under the world's spotlight the charade will eventually be exposed.

[shibumi]

"People basking in a long-sought victory -- a victory that they can bank on -- behave in a certain way. There's a sense of exhilaration, of smugness, of tolerant condescension for the losers. But there's none of that in any of the hardcore left-wing comments. No arrogance, no lofty amusement, but something else entirely, something that can only be characterized as a sense of near-hysteria crossed with frustration. It's an impression of deep insecurity, of people afraid that their triumph is ephemeral and is going to be snatched away from them. In their moment of victory, the American left is no less than desperate."

Considering the manner in which this election was "won" and the office of POTUS usurped, it could be that the left is finding out that Ill-gotten gains are never as satisfying as those honestly earned.


.....or it could be that they're just jerks.

[kevinm13]

Although President Bush has left Washington, it seems that Bush Derangement Syndrome lives on at the left’s favorite websites. I hope it eats up the left taking Barry with them.

[raybbr]

What struck me at last was this: the left are not acting like winners.

Where has this guy been for the last thirty years?

[Carley]

The left is the party of the perpetually pissed off.

[EBH]

We were reminded this week by David Warren that, "The liberal mind -- now fully restored to power in the United States -- is in love with symbolic gestures."

Here indeed is the catch, the importance of symbols to fascist regimes. 0bama is a symbol to the democrats. Listen carefully to them speak of the 0. He represents this, that, etc.

Now we have a group pulling together the 0 Little Blue Book of quotes. Symbols, words and as many here realize, empty rhetoric. Mussolini rose to power on rhetoric.

We didn't have the organization to stop 0bama's rise during the election cycle. The Clinton machine was effectively silenced and defeated. Democrats underestimated Bush, Republicans and Conservatives need to be very wary not to underestimate 0bama. He is slick, savy, arrogant, and plays the game not just to win.

Congressional Republican opposition is not enough to stop them. 0bama already has control over congress. Now he has fired the warning shot across the bow of Free Speech in attacking Rush Limbaugh. He will start to silence his critics and the people will approve.

They will approve because the symbol, the man who represents their future cannot fail. He is not inspiring faith in America, he is inspiring faith in failed men.

We failed to stop his election. There is no shame in failure, but what did we learn and how can we exploit that new knowledge? We know he and his ilk are using Alinsky rules, how does a freeman counter those tactics? We know he is developing a civilian corp., what should freemen be doing? We observe the rise of the challenge to Free Speech, shall we all become pamphleteers? The MSM is know propagandists, why do we still sit and not create our own media for public consumption?

[Just mythoughts]

While I should have known better, I was expecting more out of the left in their victory than what they have displayed. The real fight begins as these victors attempt to take the spoils.

The real ugly part is only about to begin as these ‘coalitions’ now have to fight each other over who paid more to get to play. The cast of characters on stage putting on this show do not particularly like each other all that much.

[sergeantdave]

Leftists are incapable of rational thought. We saw it in Hitler as he overuled his military commanders and sent his divisions into suicide missions on the Russia front. That, arguably, lost him the war.

But leftists are, if nothing else, ego-maniacs. Nobama will crash and burn, along with his followers. Once they are inevitably caught up in their self-designed Blut und Boden rage, mistake after mistake will follow along with their eventual defeat and the movement’s death.

Nobama will mirror Lincoln in at least one aspect - he will be a president much hated in his time. He will go down in history as the anti-Lincoln as he tries to re-institute slavery on the American population with his Marxist philosophy.

This will be followed by a great re-awakening of American liberty and freedom. The pendulum will swing - that I believe. We are watching the imminent death of irrational leftism and blind hatred in America.

[the invisib1e hand]

this guy writes fairly well and it seems he knows it, which taints his material; he also seems to leverage the unprovable at times which is not good for credibility.

That notwithstanding, an image was called to mind while reading about the disappearing promoter: There's a scene in "Trading Places" in which Billy Ray Valentine invites all his friends from the 'hood to a par-tay in the mansion he's just been given the run of. It's a very socially telling scene.

[TheOldLady]

"...the left are not acting like winners."

They're looking over their shoulders. They know that they didn't really win because their victory came from the oak-tree-seed crowd's cheating, and they're scared to death that enough people will discover their theft and throw them out. As evil as they are, their consciences are bothering them, so they're acting out. Babies.

[DesertDreamer]

As the lady said: you betcha.

The nod to Gov Palin is the icing on the cake. We are definitely in for an interesting four years.

[Tallguy]

Obama got through his "perfect campaign" (if we overlook Joe the Plumber, the birth certificate, and the Berlin Speech among other incidents), and the "flawless transition". (Putting to the side Bill Richardson, Blago, and Timothy Geithner) But eventually, despite the media's best efforts, his gaffes are going to catch up with him. (Particularly if he continues pulling things like last week's staring contest in the White House press room -- Mussolini used to do that too.) People are going to begin asking, where is the flawless superman we voted for, where is the miracle worker, where is man with an answer for everything?

Obama may benefit from the seeming fact that many of the MSM outlets are in or nearing bankrupcy. The Media is like a poker player that is "all-in". I necessarily think that this gives Obama a free pass in the Media, but it buys him a bit more time before the roof falls in on him in terms of coverage.