Posted on 03/06/2009 8:02:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"To see what is in front of one's nose," George Orwell famously asserted, "needs a constant struggle."
Congratulations this week to three journalists who have finally taken up that constant struggle: Christopher Buckley, David Gergen and David Brooks. All three used to insist that Obama was some species of centrist or moderate. Now that Obama has proposed the most massive expansion of government in the history of the republic, each has recognized that just conceivably he might have been mistaken.
A humorist--and, I should disclose, an old friend--Christopher Buckley exercised his acute comic sense during the presidential campaign, judging John McCain so thoroughly risible that the nation could hardly do worse by electing Barack Obama. Now Buckley has developed a sense of the tragic. In electing Obama, he admits, we may indeed have done worse--a lot worse.
"The strange thing," Buckley wrote last week after listening to Obama address Congress, "is that one feels almost unpatriotic, entertaining negative thoughts about Mr. Obama's grand plan. ... One thing is certain, however: Government is getting bigger and will stay bigger. Just remember ... that a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away."
"Just remember"? Coming from someone who just remembered, the exhortation might strike a lot of people as rich. But never mind.
Now a commentator for CNN, David Gergen served in a number of administrations, first working in the White House all the way back in the 1970s. To the extent that he possesses any coherent ideological outlook--a fine question to ask of someone who took jobs from both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton--Gergen seems to share Alexander Hamilton's view that the federal government requires, as Hamilton expressed it, "energy in the executive."
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It took them THIS LONG to realize what he truly was??????
And THEY are the “intelligentsia elite” and who so smart as “our leaders” ???????
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I agree. Their willful blindness, their criticisms of Palin, their foolish supportive statements demonstrate their ignorance. It’s too bad the rest of us have to suffer as well, though.
Winston Churchill: “Every once in awhile we stumble over the truth, but most of us get up and walk away as if nothing had happened.”
They thought that 0bama would be better than having Palin one heartbeat away from the presidency. Nothing could be worse than this Marxist clown.
If Buckley, Brooks, and Gergen had applied my simple rule, they would all have been preserved from this egregious blunder.
Obama is pro-abortion. Thus, he is a monster and a fanatic, who does not belong anywhere near any public office.
I’m confident that Buckley, Brooks, and Gergen never give a thought to abortion unless it is part of the day’s headlines.
If it took this long for the three of them to figure out what Obama is, then none of the three should have any credibility left with anyone, left or right.
They all voted w/their ovaries.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
The title of ... left leaning is hmm a bit empty. Not sure what you all “all in to the left” but lean does not cut it. Anyhow not a left leaner but left with both feet.
This requires a stretch.
These three have to have hinges on their faces that allow their mouths and eye lids to click open and shut.
Anybody who followed the 60’s radical movement knew that Obama was bad news. The associations with Ayers, Wright, Rezko, and Frank Davis should have screamed Marxism to these ninnies more than a year ago.
You are absolutely right.
They loved and fawned over 0bama because he was one of them; he attended the right schools. Palin didn’t have a pedigree, or an Ivy League education, so she wasn’t welcome! Their respective political philosophies seemed somewhat irrelevant to these elitist fools. Heck, Palin may encourage others who were not Ivy League, or properly bred, to get involved in politics and ***gasp*** these people’s positions may be exposed or threatened. So they sold out their beliefs for their elitist connections. Ughh...and now we’re supposed to welcome them back because they’ve “learned” how left 0bama is? Pffffttt to those morons.
amusing.
We all called it right on FR last summer,
warning that the demented messiah cult would lead to serious trouble. It has.
If this socialist plan had been invented by the KGB in Moscow or by Maoists in Beijing or Havana, would it be any more destructive of America's economy?
Hey! Give them a break. The extraction process takes time.
Peter Robinson zinged ‘em good.
They've exposed themselves....
Our poor nation.
The President is a marxist crypto- muslim.
By the way, what CHRISTIAN CHURCH did the THIEF IN CHIEF attend last Sunday?
I mean, we all knew he was going to steal everything in sight once he got to the White House but 2 TRILLION DOLLARS?.
This is like a bad Twilight Zone episode.
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