[beaversmom]

Obama ran as both a Clintonite centrist and a no-red-state/no-blue-state healer who had transcended bitter partisanship. That assurance allowed voters to believe that his occasional talk of big change was more cosmetic than radical.

Just a tiny bit of research into the man's beliefs/past would have revealed that not to be true--I guess that's too much to ask though from your average dumb sh!t, lazy voter.

[BenLurkin]

[fso301]

bump

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Apparently, Team Obama figured that with sizable majorities in both the House and the Senate, Obama would snap his fingers, Congress daily would pass bills redefining America, and Obama would stay in perpetual campaign mode to hope and change the country to accept his agenda.

Spot on and still going on today. He aapoints czars to take care of the problems so doesn't have to do anything but continue campaigning. I'm beginning to believe this is Axelrod's strateegery for as long as Opossum is in office.

[jazusamo]

Outstanding piece by VDH.

He was too much of a gentleman to come right out and say Obama is an accomplished liar and many of those lies are coming back to bite him but I’d bet he knows it to be true. :-)

[DuncanWaring]

... given that his appetites are far more in check.

I don't think his appetites are any more in check; they just manifest themselves differently; he has an insatiable appetite for destroying America.

[ohioWfan]

At some point, the American public snaps out of it, and sighs, “Wow, these people really are nuts!”

I believe this is happening now. Anita Dunn's praising Mao (and sticking her tongue out like a lizard while saying it), may well be the proverbial straw that broke the American people's back.

Pray for America. We need MORE people to "snap out of it" and MORE people to pro-actively work to stop this Marxist regime from destroying America.

[truthguy]

Victor Davis Hanson- accurate and brilliant as usual! VDH has become my favorite columnist/commentator/historian. The guy is a national treasure. He and Mark Steyn are the superstars of conservative though in my opinion. There are many others who contribute as well but none write and speak as eloquently as these two. Their articles are so easy to read and understand.

[IronJack]

The only other writer who so consistently and articulately chronicled the socialist march was the late, lamented William F. Buckley.

[a fool in paradise]

You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

[CharacterCounts]

In addition to McCain, we cannot forget the republican congress walking away from conservatives to kiss up to special interests. This contributed greatly to the mood for change.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The Obama fake messiah cult is right out of a book on utopian extremist movements.
Charismatic cult leader, delusional promises of utopia, hysterical egalitarianism,
levelling, hypnotic chanting of mindless mantras at mass rallies, demonization of opponents.
It's a textbook case study.
Right down to the Maoist, Alinskyite, and Fabian Socialist sources and footnotes.

[neverdem]

bump & a VDH ping

[the invisib1e hand]

unquestionably the hysteria will pass.

1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.

I just watched the movie "When We Were Kings," about the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Ali and Foreman. It was fascinating on many fronts, but what was new to me was how Ali, by showing with mantle of Messiah (undoubtedtly an attitude fostered by his Nation of Islam affinity) won the public opinion and had the people of Zaire on his side from the beginning -- and then won a fight he probably shouldn't have won.

It's a bizarre mojo, and the parallels to the Obama marketing themes are striking. I gather Axelrod watched the movie.