Victor Davis Hanson: Cracks in the Facade. Fissures in the Obama Totem

pajamasmedia.com ^ | May 14, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Billthedrill]

He treats the media with contempt as all earls do with obsequious court jesters.

There's a lot to this simile. We do too, and for the same reason.

[stevie_d_64]

Yep...

But I do not believe this should be a competition...Hanson always makes good points, Buckley...Well, Buckley was an icon...There will always be a reason to go back and look at what he said about the issues, and his opinion...

[Em and Brets Mum]

Re Post #19. Very well articulated. Thanks for focusing on what we REALLY need to do: “. . . reach the 10-20% who can be persuaded by logic and facts.”

[BILL_C]

“where does this 62% approval come from? How do we know it is true?”

How is this happening, that we have to have a column tell us what we already know, we’re being lied to again, again, and again? How do I know that is true? Watch the video, “they” know Americans are functional idiots, too stupid to deviate far from what the media tells them is true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpHSyuueMU

[Little Ray]

He’s got a 62% approval ‘cause the TV season ain’t seriously into summer re-runs yet.

[maica]

6). Race relations. Here I am worried. Far from bringing us together, I think Obama’s serial emphasis on race may achieve the unintended opposite of polarization.

So am I. Obama, not a real African-American, is relying on the bitter history that so many African-Americans carry close to the surface, to be his most loyal supporters. As our joblessness gets worse, anything could trigger real conflagration, --- if Obama needs that to happen!

It is no coincidence that Ayers/Dohrn's new book has got White Supremacy in the title.

[maica]

All we want is a clear definition of marriage. Anyone else must come up with their own word and definition for this type of union.

%%%%%%

Marriage is a biological union of two unlike things into one whole new entity. Two men or women together are only two men or women. Think of salad dressing. Oil and vinegar combine into a new entity. Oil alone or two cruets of oil is not salad dressing.

We must adopt the language tricks of the left, and always say “so-called same-sex marriage.” If we do not include the “so-called” we have conceded the argument.

[aruanan]

There is a mood of ‘them/us’ and ‘time is running out’, as the Obama administration used the panic over the autumn 2008 financial meltdown to steamroll through a statist, postmodern economic and social agenda before the people woke up.

I was telling the kids yesterday that, sure, Al Qaeda killed over 3000 in one day and wasted over a billion dollars worth of buildings, but Obama and his folks have done more harm to the United States and its economy than Al Qaeda ever did. And the worst is yet to come.

Considering Alinsky, his goals, and Obama's allegiance to his methods and outcomes, a significant number of Americans were suckered into electing their very own domestic terrorist who is now using the apparatus of American politics and government to take down our country and our way of life. Is it extreme to call him a domestic terrorist? I don't think so. How many people are terrified at what their lives have become or will become as a direct result of Obama's policies that he is deliberately implementing for the purpose of "transforming" America.

Barry Obama is political HIV, using the body politic to destroy the body.