[2ndDivisionVet]

Do they really feel that elitist snobbery sells magazines?

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Posted By: jeanrenoir @ 01/31/2010 11:06:22 PM

As a strong, unrepentant Obama supporter, I very much agree with this column. That said, it’s highly unrealistic to expect the right wing public to “follow” Obama, just as unrealistic as it would have been to call for “patriotic” following of Bush II’s “leadership” in Iraq by the left. The American right-wing masses are even more “bitter” now than when Obama correctly called them that in the campaign. In their ignorance, helplessness, economic ruin, and bitterness, they are quite like the German mob in the Twenties, after their savings were wiped out by inflation. All they wanted was revenge then, and that’s all the American mob wants today. Too bad they’re just as self-destructively clueless about who their “friends” are as the German mob was which voted for the Nazis.

[Da Coyote]

Was momentarily interested - until I saw that the article was written by a Newsweek writer.

[FrankR]

Morning at the White House, "Hey, Michelle baby...be checkin' the mornin' news so I'll know which MASK to wear today.".

She answers, "Well, you wore the 'progressive' mask yesterday, but the way Beck is talkin' today, you'd best wear dat 'populist' mask today.".

[highlander_UW]

By the time the current political cycle is over, the term "populist" will have become a buzzword so misused and abused that it will be leached of all real meaning.

Much like the left has so abused the words "racist" and "racism" that they have leached out all real meaning. Now libs try to insult people by calling them racists and people just shrug and say..."whatever, fool".

[dr_who]

Works for me. The MSM hasn’t been bitch-slapped enough yet.

[ApplegateRanch]

Populist (modern usage): political pimp pandering to the lowest common denominator.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

No wonder Newsweek is going down the tubes.

They're paying people for trite tripe like this.

They can still feed this garbage to other elitists and union dunderheads, but a growing number of true Americans are getting sick and tired of their lies and mischaracterizations of the people who actually do work they look down on.

[Mr Rogers]

Ah, yes. Democrats. The intellectual giants of our age:

Following the leader, the leader, the leader
We’re following the leader wherever he may go
Tee dum, tee dee
A teedle ee do tee day
Tee dum, tee dee
It’s part of the game we play
Tee dum, tee dee
The words are easy to say
Just a teedle ee dum a teedle ee do tee day

Tee dum, tee dee
A teedle ee do tee dum
We’re one for all
And all of us out for fun

We march in line
And follow the other one
With a teedle ee do a teedle ee di tee dum

Following the leader, the leader, the leader
We’re following the leader wherever he may go
We’re out to fight the Injuns, the injuns, the injuns
We’re out to fight the Injuns because he told us so

Tee dum, tee dee
A teedle ee do tee day
We march along
And these are the words we say
Tee dum, tee dee a teedle ee do tee day
Oh, a teedle dee dum a teedle ee do tee day
Oh, a teedle dee dum a teedle ee do tee day

[BAW]

I’m glad I do not pay to read this dribble from Newsweek. What slop!

[grey_whiskers]

So at the moment the problem in Washington is us, not them, or at least how they try to figure us out. Good luck with that. One poll of former Obama supporters who abandoned the Democrats in Massachusetts showed that 41 percent of those who opposed the health-care plan weren't sure exactly why. If elected officials are supposed to act based on the wisdom of ordinary people, they're going to need ordinary people to be wiser than that.

You know what they say, Anna:

"Live by the specious slogan (Hope and Change)..."
"Die when the crowd figures out they've been suckered."

2ndDivisionVet, you might also enjoy this:

(Vanity) Chess, Tolkien, and the Return of the Republic: An Introduction

Cheers! Cheers!

[El Gato]

We elected him

Speak for yourself, Kimo Sabe.