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Words and Deeds: the Awful Advent of Buyer’s Remorse
Pajamas MEdia ^ | Sept. 6 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 09/08/2009 8:46:17 AM PDT by AJKauf

This weekend I was visiting friends in Northwest Connecticut. At an end-of-summer party on Sunday, I ran into an acquaintance, a very clever fellow who, like the vast majority of his confreres in that part of the world, had embraced Obama as a sort of savior of the world. Note the preterite. He followed Obama to the White House trailing clouds of glory. Now, seven months into the Obama Orgy of Debt, he is an older, wiser liberal. “Shades of the prison-house” have begun to close in upon him and the radiance he perceived around Obama has faded in the light of common day.

My friend is a savvy man of affairs, and he was shaken, not stirred, by the assault that team Obama had perpetrated on the U.S economy. We spoke for only a few minutes, so I did not have an opportunity to plumb the depths of his disillusionment. I came away, though, with this cheering thought: if my intelligent though programmatically liberal friend could have experienced so rapid and drastic a season of political maturation, what does that mean for the Obama’s agenda? If the Northwest corner of Connecticut is having buyer’s remorse and has started muttering about “Obamination,” what then? Will Obama’s Children’s Crusade later today or his address before the Politburo tomorrow materially alter the political dégringolade that has been gathering steam for two months? I doubt it. The disjunction between words and deeds that Thomas Sowell dilated on is becoming too wide and too obvious to conceal....

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; democrats; obama

1 posted on 09/08/2009 8:46:17 AM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

Why do most liberals continually deny the basic instincts for survival?

They rationalized Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, ACORN, his New Socialist past, his most far left voting record and now they’re surprised and we’re supposed to think they’re intelligent? About as intelligent as the dodo bird.


2 posted on 09/08/2009 8:50:53 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Aria

They have spent years constructing their reality. To tear it down would mean to start from scratch. That is a daunting task for most people.


3 posted on 09/08/2009 8:53:07 AM PDT by listenhillary (We became community organizers and Obama and the Statists get p*ssed off at us?)
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To: Aria

Funny but true” dodo birds

sadly for us this does us no good until 2010 and then 2012
BUT it is a start

i wonder how many former obamites will never admit they know they made a huge error


4 posted on 09/08/2009 8:53:22 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: AJKauf

“degringolade” -

For anyone else expressing a “WTF” sentiment:

: a rapid decline or deterioration (as in strength, position, or condition)


5 posted on 09/08/2009 8:55:47 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: AJKauf
Later today, the Dear Leader will address the schoolchildren of America. Part of the indoctrination may involve a video in which various celebrities pledge to undertake such wonders as ending world hunger, fomenting the instauration of world peace, etc. There is even one bit proclaiming “I pledge to be a servant to our President.”

Beyond scary.

6 posted on 09/08/2009 9:06:42 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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7 posted on 09/08/2009 9:07:18 AM PDT by pabianice
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Why would anyone believe that a person with Obama’s leftist - in fact, Marxist - background would govern any differently.

The leftists had Obama figured out. That’s why they supported him and continue to support him.


8 posted on 09/08/2009 9:10:27 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: popdonnelly

>>> The leftists had Obama figured out. That’s why they supported him and continue to support him. <<<<

Correct. And if anything they’re mightily disappointed because he hasn’t yet gone far enough.


9 posted on 09/08/2009 9:15:37 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: AJKauf

Wealthy liberals like this need to be taxed until they are bankrupt. These “intelligent” know-it-alls who really know nothing think the little people do not know any better. They thought Obama was a muclti-racial messaih that would soothe their liberal guilt. They gave us this nightmare.


10 posted on 09/08/2009 9:42:06 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: DuncanWaring
[Degringolade]: a rapid decline or deterioration (as in strength, position, or condition)

You sure it isn't something to do with the demographics of southern California?

11 posted on 09/08/2009 10:23:13 AM PDT by Grut
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To: RWGinger
i wonder how many former obamites will never admit they know they made a huge error

An admission of wrongdoing requires character; something which almost ever liberal voter lacks.

12 posted on 09/08/2009 10:25:00 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (The way to destroy a countercultural movement is to have white people start liking it.)
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To: Grut

That possibility entered my mind.


13 posted on 09/08/2009 10:27:28 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Centurion2000

What is even more astounding is the elected Dems including that POS obama know the majority of Americans do NOT support his/ their marxist agenda and still the march ahead


14 posted on 09/08/2009 10:51:09 AM PDT by RWGinger
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