Posted on 05/01/2009 10:32:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Remember the term "Bush Derangement Syndrome," which perfectly captured the hateful invective directed at the former president? Many conservatives condemned BDS, as they should have. Like him or not, the president tried hard to serve and protect America; he did not deserve to be the target of cheap shots all day long by crazy left-wing loons.
But now the proverbial shoe is on the other foot and ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) is in play. The dictionary defines "derangement" as a form of insanity. After listening to some partisans evaluate Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, I have to say there is some madness in the air.
On my TV program the other night, I graded President Obama on his performance thus far. I gave him a "B" for domestic policy, largely because the stock market has stabilized and recession panic is receding a bit. I then awarded Obama a "C" in the foreign policy category because he has little to show for his public criticism of America. The Obama people will tell you that the president "planted a seed" while speaking overseas, but his spouting off about America's ills seemed weak to me.
Finally, I gave the president a "C-plus" for leadership. While his job approval poll ratings remain high, his waffling about the interrogation deal did not demonstrate a strong and forward-looking point of view to say the least.
Well, after that on-air report card, I received quite a few dissenting letters. One guy in Arizona said he was glad I wasn't teaching because I'd be the new Ward Churchill. A man in Denver said I had lost my mind because Obama deserved "F's" across the board. Still another guy opined that the president had accomplished nothing and that I should be ashamed.
So let me ask you, is ODS the same as BDS? I think it is.
Fairness is a hallmark of America. Our legal system, with its appeals process and litany of rights for the accused, is a great example of that. Greatness of any kind cannot be achieved without being fair. Tyrants may rule for a time, but they are never great.
Holding sincere opinions is also an honorable trait. There are fair-minded Americans who simply do not believe Obama's liberal view of the world is good for the country. Fine, no problem with that. But everything the man does is not awful, and to assign him sinister motives is blatantly unfair -- the same kind of inequity we saw heaped upon President Bush.
President Obama may turn out to be a disaster, or he may rise to greatness. At this point, nobody knows what will happen. That is the great thing about democracy and capitalism. When done right, those things give people a fair chance to succeed, and there's nothing deranged about it.
O'Reilly is an ass. He's not a liberal, or a Conservative, or even the radical loud "moderate" he fancies himself to be. He's just an ass.
The reason he resembles a liberal is because he spouts the Collectivist hive-mindset and apparently really, really believes in the total myth of Neutrality.
He's really fond of made-up terms like "Christian Extremist," for example, and he ain't talking about Pastor Phelps' warped clan in Topeka, he's talking about the Church down the way... people who go to Sunday School.
Ass.
If he sounds "conservative" its his parroting of ideas he hears from his audience, which he thinks is as weak-minded as he is.
Example? This column, wherein O'Reilly tries so hard to equivocate, which he does constantly, showing he really can't tell truth from fiction.
Ass, I'm telling you. Rarely entertaining. Insecure. Fretful. To set himself up as a conservative and some great example of fair-mindedness is ludicrous.
O’Gasbag needs to be ignored.
He is no conservative, never has been one, and is tiresome as all get out.
Bill must have forgotten that Obama speaks well, is clean, and is black. Its just not nice to criticize him. I think the time is coming, when people are going to hurt, then all the media can’t stop the wave of dislike and pain. Then the people will see him as the Conservatives do.
We must form a new Conservative Constitutionalist Party! We must elect Conservatives to office in 2010. That is the only hope to save the nation.
All you need to know about Billy O comes from the Swift Boat period.
I know he has high ratings, but I just can’t take O’Reilly seriously. He really does seem like Ted Baxter after all.
She said - paraphrased - What if he was born in the USA but the Birth Certificate listed him as “White” or his religion as “Muslim”. Either or would have damned him in the election.
And now he would have to answer a lot of questions if it came out “Because he knows”.
some bend over backwards to be fair. When it come to the big zero O’Reilly mostly just bends over.
What a moron! I guess the stock market is the world to BOR. I guess spending every thing we have and sixty percent more is good public policy.
I am glad I don't watch this guy. He's just as bad as Olbermann.
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Rush has a 99.5% accuracy level... what is yours? Rush has done more in a day for Conservatism and America than most have done in a lifetime. o’bloviator is just an example of a waste of oxygen.
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Bada Bingo!
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Da*ned straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I will NEVER forget... and he is a liar because he lied about this site and the Conservatives that populate it. He lies almost as much as hussein does.
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I’m still proud to say I never watch this guy. I remembered him from local news and knew he was a phony then and is one now.
“We must form a new Conservative Constitutionalist Party!”
How old are you? You must not have been around when Ross Perot’s 3rd party gave us 8 years of Clinton.
Third party talk is not the answer. We have to correct the wrongs of the Republican Party and time is running out!
The problem with that logic is that if the vault copy of his BC proves that BO is not a natural born citizen, then he is NOT the POTUS. If that were the case, then he is disqualified, and the disqualification goes back to the day Congress voted to certify the EC vote, which activates Amendment XX Section 3.
Biden then becomes Acting President. From there . . . who knows?
I could go on, but I think you get the point. When you have almost all major media outlets in your corner, none of the above matter. The fact that Obama were proved to be a “citizen of the world” would just make the sheep love him more.
Just wait til O’Reilly’s Ox gets Gored......he will sing a WAY different tune.
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