So much Hope so little Potential.
This is interesting, funny and sad. The line about checking the goods before buying is on point. Many moderates were all over themselves trying to suck up to 0, and are now “seeing the light”.
It does strike me as interesting the circles that the author travels in, namely liberal. What with the talk about the failure in Guantanamo and Health Care. Still, I like seeing stories about 0-bots angry at their boy.
In a haircut salon, all the talk is about the president's alleged failure to develop a credible health-care plan.
It's called a barber shop where I come from. It's like walking into a locker room. Don't bring your daughter there doing your errands and haircut because the of the language.
I say, give me a number 2 buzz and then have great conversation with the barbers and peanut gallery waiting to get their cuts.
So much Hope so little Potential.
It’s too bad they’re all unhappy for the wrong reasons.
This to me says it all. Very revealing...I've been supportive of the tea parties; have attended a few; I contribute when I can but, I was in the trenches long before this muslim/marxist was elected. Informing by writing, sending documentation, and PROOF of what this guy was...to no avail. I've always been engaged and I resent the hell out of the 'newer', suddenly active people acting like they're saving the country along with the a**holes that have changed their minds about this monster. And all that needed to be done was reading, analyzing combined with critical thinking to avert this disaster. Very frustrating and infuriating as well. IF we get out of this...the population will go back into their lull and the next a**hole that comes along screaming "I'm a savior" will be elected again.
I predict that it will drop another 3 points after people finish the 4 day Thanksgiving holiday comparing notes with their families.
His supporters do not want to understand who he really is.
They are afraid; but soon they will and they will see that he is capable of taking away everything dear to them. Especially their freedom.
When we as a society eternally ricochet from candidate to candidate always hoping and too often believing that this time this man will produce the magic which will excuse us from our own willful dereliction of duty as citizens, the results are not only predictable but inevitable.
This quadrennial lusting after a political savior is fully in keeping with our human natures. But it does reflect well on us. It is an ignoble trait because it reveals us to be intellectually lazy and emotionally dependent. We were flimflamed by Obama not just because the media worked the crowd while he was on stage, we were taken in because we wanted to be taken in. We were vulnerable because we had not done our homework long before Barak Obama became a household tongue twister. Most of us have an inchoate understanding of our political process and a thoroughly distorted notion of constitutional governance. We have no well considered political philosophy so we seek not to evaluate policy but to judge the man. In the television age that rapidly deteriorates into a beauty contest.
In that televised beauty contest it is Katie Couric who controls the lighting, the camera angles, the editing, and the background music. Is it any wonder that conservative candidates get treated no better than Miss California? Is it any wonder that Barack Obama is literally treated as a Messiah? Is it any wonder that the best of Sarah Palin and the worst of Barack Obama are left on the cutting room floor?
Why do we yield the likes of Katie Couric power over ourselves? Why do we permit ourselves to be so deceived? Why do we want to be taken in by such a transparent siren as, "yes we can," or, "we are the one," when such bumper stickers are not intrinsically compelling, rather, by any objective test are simply mindless?
We are beaten on the one hand by the cynics who say, there is no difference among politicians, it matters not whom you vote for, they are all the same, and apathy, therefore, is the only rational reaction. It is the only way to save yourself from the liars. The only choice is not to choose otherwise you are participating in the sham and, God forbid, you will look foolish.
We are beaten on the other side by the mythmakers, both those who lionize and those who demonize. So Camelot was constructed around a psychotic and compulsive sex addict and a man who was addicted to psychotropic drugs. This myth was so firmly attached to the American psyche that literally no debauchery committed by his youngest brother would disillusion Massachusetts voters. It is folly to underestimate the power of the myth which idolizes an individual. That was why I posted so many times before the last election that Barack Obama had to be morally destroyed or the election was lost.
Equally, demonization myths are not to be underestimated. The mythmakers have denigrated Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, George W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and Sarah Palin, to mention some obvious examples, as stupid. Consider the myth that Richard Nixon is evil. This was well planted and nurtured long before he became president as a result of this politicking against communists in California and his association in the Alger Hiss affair. When Nixon was revealed to be as corrupt, but perhaps no more corrupt than Roosevelt, Kennedy, or Johnson who had recently preceded him in office, he could not escape the consequences for essentially the same acts which they had committed but for which they received no contemporaneous scrutiny and no adverse sanction.
We are beaten into the belief that our solution is in the person and not in the philosophy. We are beaten into the belief that we find truth by identifying the most trustworthy messenger. So if we believed Walter Cronkite we believed that the Vietnam war was lost. If we believed the successor to Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, we believed that George Bush cheated his way out of combat in Vietnam. If we believe those scientists that the media tells us we should believe, we are alarmed at global warming. If we are conditioned into accepting the truth of the message because we accept the trustworthiness of the messenger, we will accept the emotionally easy path of voting for the man and not the philosophy. We will be eternally seeking a Messiah and we will be eternally disillusioned.
By the way, we are not immune from this distemper here on Free Republic where one often reads that some opinion or another ought to be dismissed because the author of it is a liberal. This is the path of know nothingness , isolation, and minority status. This is the conservative world, our beliefs are the correct beliefs and they can stand scrutiny and challenge. To withdraw from the Fray is to commit our belief system to corruption, to a gradual death because we cannot correct ourselves. Is insupportable unless you believe that all conservatives are infallible all the time. It is not the man who brings us the truth but the truth which illuminates the man. No better example of this exists than the biography of Sarah Palin.
As long as we as a commonweal whore after the emotional release of surrender to a false Messiah, statists will have the advantage over us. Our commitment is to the principles of conservatism and not to an individual, not even Sarah Palin, not Glenn Beck, and not Rush Limbaugh. Our belief system is righteous and fully capable of meeting every test the left can throw at it. The one thing it cannot overcome is that folly which infects the rest of our culture.
If voting was required to be an informed decision that was made solely by the people who are net taxpayers, 0bama not only would not be in the White House, but there would be much better candidates from which to choose for president as well.
At least those people admit they made a mistake. I’m still waiting for Christopher Buckley to admit it.
Obama himself is a victim of his own delusions. He’s a typical academia-type leftist who thought he knew all the answers and is finding out he knows next to nothing. At least I hope so. If he at least would come to the realization that he’s not nearly as smart as he thought he was, he might make some progress. But my feeling is Obama is such a unrenerate leftist, he’ll plow ahead with his nutty plans. For example the decision to try KSM in a public criminal trial. We may have just seen the tip of the iceberg as far as his screwball schemes.
"No use defending him," a repentant Obamaist lashed back when I told him that the now not so new president could not force Israel and the Palestinians to create two states before he leaves office. "If he can't do it, where is the difference that he promised?" the disgruntled Obamaist snapped back... In a haircut salon, all the talk is about the president's alleged failure to develop a credible health-care plan. In the bookshop, the complaint is about Obama's alleged weakness in curbing the appetite of Wall Street "fat cats", who seem to be back with their old tricks. A chance acquaintance on a jetliner is angry with Obama because the president has not yet closed the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. And journalist friends are aghast at Obama's decision to have Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the self-confessed Al Qaeda terror mastermind and four of his most obnoxious associates, treated as ordinary criminals and put on trial in an ordinary civil court in New York, a state which has abolished the death penalty... Part of the blame must be assigned to the buyers themselves for their failure to examine the goods offered and, in some cases, reaching for the shelf blindfolded. Then there is the fact that many people picked Obama because they wanted to feel good about themselves and the US in general...Thanks sukhoi-30mki.
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Electing Obama is like buying that Onion Blossom maker in the infomercials.
Most of the blame for that can be assigned directly liberal media who refused to vet the Kenyan commie.
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Fortunately, I've heard similar stories from others. Perhaps it is a good sign if we can possibly limit the damage he will continue in what is left of his term.