Posted on 08/10/2009 9:18:40 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Scary how a lot of bitter McCain backers oppose Obama at every turn Comments
BY Opening shot . . . At any given moment, 40 percent of Americans are dead wrong. Four out of 10 colonists would have happily remained under British rule -- some even fought on the side of the Redcoats. Forty percent of the country -- if not more -- were content with the Nazis overrunning Europe and would have never considered taking up arms against Hitler had not the Japanese attacked us and the Germans -- unwisely, as it turned out -- joined them in declaring war against our country.
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Neil Steinberg
Of course it takes time to form a consensus over what being "dead wrong" means. Today, for instance, some -- I don't know if it's 40 percent, but a considerable minority -- who voted for John McCain are galvanizing into, not just an opposition party in exile, but a kind of fifth column, an enemy within trying to undermine the operation of our government, opposing the president at every turn for purely ideological, if not pathological, reasons.
If Obama tries to fix the economy, then they're against fixing the economy. If Obama tries to reform health care, then the current medical mess is fine and they descend on congressional town hall meetings to shout down and intimidate. If Obama were mobilizing the nation to fight off invaders from Mars, they'd oppose that, too.
It's scary, but we must remember that -- like the Royalists and the America Firsters -- the current crop is on the wrong side of history. The Royalists fled to Britain with their Tory overlords. The isolationists forgot their initial eagerness to ignore Hitler and spent the next 50 years patting themselves on the back as the Greatest Generation. Alas, we're stuck with our present misguided 40 percent, and will have to move forward best we can, with them clinging to our ankles and trying to trip up their own nation every step of the way.
Cities make you smarter God bless Chicago. Having just driven across the country and back, I can tell you that most places are bumps in the road, and it's chilling to see the kind of undiluted reactionary opinion they marinate in. Every roadside diner's TV is tuned to Fox News, every radio station serves some right-wing nut grimly insisting on the reality of utter fantasy. It was out West that I saw a bumper sticker reading, ''Where's the birth certificate?'' referring to the mad claim that Obama was born in Kenya and thus was not eligible to be elected president.
I was sitting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Mesquite, Nev., when I turned on the radio and heard someone -- it may have been Michael Savage -- explain how the entire birth certificate controversy was -- ready? -- fabricated by the White House in order to distract the public from the president's health care reform.
Takes your breath away, doesn't it?
It's hard to believe such people are sincere, that they ascribe so much malign, nefarious evil onto Obama that they can really believe that long ago he was planting seeds of the birth certificate controversy, working his enemies like puppets, to grease the skids of health reform after his potential election.
You have to marvel at the ingenuity, the sheer flexibility of hate. Like water, it finds a way. Let's break the code. What are the "birthers" saying? Obama is not a citizen, not a full person, but someone barred at the door, by definition. Which for 200 years would have been easily accomplished by his skin color alone. But now that the racial factor -- to their sorrow -- has been taken off the table, the birth certificate canard has been created in its place.
Welcome home "Neil, I just read your Sunday article and could not disagree with you more," writes Tony Megaro, of Chicago. "The main point that the media and the White House don't get is this: The American people do not want to pay for the health care of illegal aliens. . . . Look, if Obama and Pelosi are hell-bent on giving every person free health care, they should change a few laws. The most important should be if you are in this country illegally and have a child, that child is not automatically a U.S. citizen. These immigrants who come into this country know this loophole and have been abusing it for decades."
Three of my four grandparents were born in Eastern Europe, and came to this country to escape the rigors of their homelands.
Thus, I instinctively oppose the contempt with which some greet our current wave of immigrants from Mexico and Latin America as the cowardice and hypocrisy it is.
Occasionally, I try to bang a few pans together on this subject, to point out that we have 12 million undocumented Hispanics living in this country in near serfdom, and the only solution is to put them on the path to citizenship, as we have always done in the past.
But the bottom line is, I'm not Hispanic, I don't speak Spanish and my ability to understand and comment upon Chicago's Latino community is limited. That's why I'm especially happy that my colleague, Esther J. Cepeda, is rejoining the paper today, in the commentary section, as a regular columnist. It takes a lot of personality, curiosity, spunk and confidence to fill an empty space, and Esther has got it, big time, and is an expert in an area that is only going to grow in importance. Welcome back.
Conservatives are generally opposed to most government attempts to “fix the economy” (translation: “interfere with free markets”). When “fixing” the economy involves massive bailouts, government control of major industries and trillion dollar “stimulus” packages, funded by massive debt, you better believe conservatives will oppose it.
>>>If Obama tries to reform health care, then the current medical mess is fine and they descend on congressional town hall meetings to shout down and intimidate. <<<
Obama is trying to nationalize health care, making it more expensive, and less effective, while robbing Americans of freedom. Funny, I thought dissent was patriotic.
>>>If Obama were mobilizing the nation to fight off invaders from Mars, they'd oppose that, too. <<<
He's got to be kidding. Obama would never mobilizie the nation to fight the Martians. He would:
a) Apologize to the Martians for all of Earth's history of wrongdoings.
b) Give the Martians driver's licenses and taxpayer funded health care.
c) Send Hillary Clinton or maybe Joe Biden to try to negotiate with the “moderate Martians”.
d) Surrender.
They don't want to go to Cuba or Venezuela, and why should they? They will bring their communism here. Much more convenient.
Another spoiled red diaper baby.Too bad we can’t just be done with them for good.The REAL hardline commies know what to do with these amateur Marxists-thy’re the first ones purged because they make trouble for everyone.It’s like a compulsion with them.It would be nice to see Axelrod end up in a “re-education camp”-he’d last about a day.
I can’t see backing a Marxist ideologue and the socialist party when it offends every single thing I believe.
Where was this clown when Bush was in office?
It’s lame. Discussing anything with an Obamanation is like trying to talk to idiots who can only bang on a drum and drool.
Serfdom in America is royalty in Mexico.
That's why I'm especially happy that my colleague, Esther J. Cepeda, is rejoining the paper today, in the commentary section, as a regular columnist. It takes a lot of personality, curiosity, spunk and confidence to fill an empty space, and Esther has got it, big time ...
So he just said that Esther has got empty space "big time"?
I think he means Democrats.
The Republicans don’t have enough votes in the Congress to win a bathroom break.
We'll never know because Obama has not tried to fix the economy.
I'm just to lazy to pick apart this whole idiotic article where Neil fails to ignore every single fact to find his conclusion. So I'll just summarize: Neil, I hope someday you can fulfill you dream of becoming a Hispanic Woman. Until then STFU.
Scary how a lot of bitter McCain Kerry backers oppose Obama Bush at every turn
Past journo:
“By the time we realized we worked for Fidel, it was too late”.
Wow, for a "smart" guy, he sure is an idiot. I'll wager you can take pretty much any "country boy", drop him in the city, and he'll survive just fine. Then take one of these brilliant metrosexual idiots from any big city and drop him out in the middle of nowhere. He won't last a week. He'll die from exposure 200' feet from shelter. He'll die of thirst and hunger right next to a stream full of fish.
This is remarkably incoherent article even for a liberal. The gist of Steinberg's article is I believe: conservatives are horrible, nasty racists who don't want to get on with Obama's socialist program. Plus people who don't live in large cities are ignorant screwballs who don't know what's good for them. The usual liberal method of analysis by character assassination. Totally unable to discuss issues on their merits.
That was a remarkably bigoted remark. The Stormfront website is too busy right now?
Everything's just fine; Until President Bush says so -- then it's time to start worrying. By Neil Steinberg The Chicago Sun-Times
Dick Dubin: " One of my acquaintances is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. His name is Neil Steinberg."
May 21, 2007 5:15 PM EDT: Neil Steinberg in the Chicago Sun-Times .... President Bush cheerleader for the Republican Party Donors, Big Oil
Yeah yeah, the knee-jerk politically correct response. You can buy into this garbage, I’ll tell the truth, regardless of whether it offends the offenders.
With all due respect, Chicago is a showcase for the proposition that cities do not necessarily make you smarter.
I am in my second consecutive master's level class where the multicultural drivel is neck high. After reading every other paper regurgitating the diversity indoctrination, the prof has been sending me emails thanking me for writing lively papers that are different. The same thing happened last semester.
The left’s insane people are in power everywhere and paradise still isn't here. Instead we see angry leftist bromides from a bunch of petulant children. It is becoming apparent to people everyday, even in academia.
Why do I find myself wishing his three grandparents had stayed in Eastern Europe?
What medical mess?
We have the best healthcare system in the world. Sure, it could use some improvements, but a draconian government takeover is not what it needs.
Better start with Tort reform. Now there is a mess that is not only affecting the medical industry, it also negatively affects all industries--except the law industry which gets rich because of the mess it creates.
What is the truth?
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