Posted on 02/03/2010 11:18:58 PM PST by dixjea
The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic, and gave rise to the Barack Obama phenomenon.
.. The speed with which some of his devotees have turned on him—and their unwillingness to own up to what their infatuation had wrought—is nothing short of astounding.
There was cultural "cool" and racial absolution for the white professional classes ... There was understandable racial pride on the part of the African-American community...
The white working class had been slow to be convinced. The technocracy and elitism of Mr. Obama's campaign—indeed of his whole persona—troubled that big constituency, much more, I believe, than did his race and name...
Mr. Obama .. had won an election, but he took it as a plebiscite granting him a writ to remake the basic political compact of this republic.
Mr. Obama's self-regard, and his reading of his mandate, overwhelmed all restraint...Better ram down sweeping social programs—a big liberal agenda before the people stirred to life again.
But no sooner had the country recovered its poise, it drew a line for Mr. Obama. The "bluest" of states, Massachusetts, sent to Washington a senator who was unapologetic in his assertion that it was more urgent to hunt down terrorists than to provide for their legal defense.
Then the close call on Christmas Day ..demonstrated that the terrorist threat had not receded. The president did his best to recover: We are at war, he suddenly proclaimed. Nor were we in need of penance abroad... The generosity of the American response to Haiti, .. was a stark reminder that this remains an exceptional nation that needs no apologies in distant lands...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
He may do that, but our military will not support him, just like the Honduran military did not support Zelaya. Plus he would have to deal with millions of angry, and armed, citizens.
Excellent piece.
“We will cross that bridge when and if we come to it.”
I don’t think there will be any “IF” about it. I suspect it will be the first order of business for the next House, that is if the Rats don’t throw him under the bus before then. They are all running very scared that they may actually have to go find a real job.
With obama, it is swim across that bridge if we can find it. Most likely, the bridge is gone.
Unfreaking believable.
There’s a journalist that stills owns a pair in this world!
I am speechless.
What a beutifully written, precisely scathing, completely accurate, insightful, nut-crunching, overdue piece of great journalism!!!!
The election of Mr. Obama was just a symptom of our country’s problems. Both political parties need to hit the reset button and offer up an election appropriate to the standing of the USA. I think Mr. Obama has realized that he is charged with holding down the fort, whether he likes it or not.
“Pelosi is the tin man but never finds her heart. Reed is the lion but never finds courage (or conviction).”
No, I beg to differ, Pelosi is the Wicked Witch of the East that gets hit by Dorothy’s house as it comes to rest in Munchkin Land; remember, her red and white stocking covered feet shrivel up when Dorothy removes her ruby slippers?
And Reid, well, he simply has to be one of those gargoyle-like flying monkeys that come and take Dorothy away to the castle of the evil Wicked Witch of the West (of “I’m melting, I’m melting” fame).
Looooved the way that Obama is portrayed as the great Wizard of Oz who just stepped from behind the curtain where he had been manipulating EVERYTHING!
>> Mr. Obama .. had won an election, but he took it as a plebiscite granting him a writ to remake the basic political compact of this republic.
As did a few other parasites.
The accomplices in the media are going to be flushed down the toilet with Obama.
Maybe he will also discover he has knees and get down on them before the REAL God and beg HIS forgiveness.
He does that 5 times a day now, while facing east, on the rug in the oval office.
Plus he would have to deal with millions of angry, and armed, citizens.
The reason zerO wants a national police force!
This will never happen. The delusional remain so until the end.
For example, it's been reported that Hitler commented from his besieged bunker that, "The German people simply did not want the 1,000 year Reich bad enough" as an explanation to why Germany was being destroyed.
0bama0 blames Bush for his problems now. He will blame his supporters and the American people for his failures in the future.
He will never own up to his failed ideology as being the problem, or his lack of leadership, after all he is delusional.
Too bad those who were so ignorant and gullible that they voted for this defective character cannot have their voting privileges permanently suspended.
This experience is precisely why the Founders did not want the USA to be a democracy. And that is why the Leftists now want our children’s history books to begin at 1877, so they will have no concept of what America was supposed to be.
He’s a professor in international studies or some such at Johns Hopkins ( just imagine his reception in the faculty lounge). He was stalwart in defense of the Iraq War through it all under Bush. When he went on MSNBC to defend Scooter Libby (paraphrase:”he’s the brother left behind on he battlefield”), David Schuster went ballistic and shouted him down.
From your lips to God’s ears.
“Only fools voted for this POS...”
They’re worse than fools.
They engaged in a mass orgy of auto-eroticism that gushed with hatred for American institutions. They based their votes on the assumption that they were brilliant and the population at large was made up of ignorant, knuckle-dragging idiots.
They heard about the antics of those that surrounded this Democrat party yet they still voted for the candidate touted as the saviour of mankind by hard leftists.
Fools?
Much worse than fools.
IMHO
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