Somebody tell the Germans!
Posted on 02/20/2010 5:34:02 PM PST by kristinn
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Some of those who are rather more perceptive than these naive fools understood this from the very start -- as evidenced on FR.
Somebody tell the Germans!
More blather from Rabid Michael Whiner.
A carnival float representing U.S. President Barack Obama, with the words 'Obama as liberator' on his shirt, is pictured during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Duesseldorf February 15, 2010. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
LOL!
Blather, yes, but they are upfront about what they want. It’s good to keep an eye on them.
After trying to read this screed, I have the same feeling as if I had stumbled upon someone doing a very intimate and unfortunate self examination.
They can get away with that in Germany. Try that float in the States and you’d have Al Sharpton leading a Freddies style riot, I mean protest.
Obama-Abandoned-Us-Syndrome? Sorry guys and gals, but you asked for it.
Oh, but you will. You will...
You are surrounded by a "resurgent right", which is on the move, like nothing you've ever seen.
Accept Reality, moonbats. We are coming for you, and we will NOT be stopped. The American People have spoken. Your days are numbered.
“What happened in Obama’s first year is that most of those who had allowed themselves to hope began to appear to themselves and others as naïve fools”
They are naive fools there is no “appearance” about it!
I so wish many of us knew they were doing this, it would’ve been great fun to have shown up to point and laugh at them!
That float was New Year’s 2009. “Never forget”...
“Support Obama to BE the Obama Americans Thought We Elected”
There in lies the Rub - He purposefully campaigned by saying things that all Americans felt applied to them. Trouble is when you say things like “fundamentally transform America” - the independents thought he was talking about making government smaller and keeping taxes low and getting rid of Pork.
The leftists believed he would take over control of all private businesses and property so that a communism with all its bells and whistles could be ushered in. The minorities thought that he would give them money for gas, mortgages, food and pay off their credit cards and give them “free health insurance”
By offering something to everyone, he has set himself up so that he ends up satisfying no one but himself. He comes first of course. We are seeing the results of what happens when you have no core values except love of self.
Obama’s whole campaign was all about packaging him and selling him to the public like one of those fancy overpriced organic snack bars. Turns out that, much like many of those same snacks, he’s about as tasty and healthy as a bar of clumping cat litter. Now the libs have buyer’s remorse, and have to decide whether to spit out the nastiness, or hold their nose and swallow.
Whats she hanging on to?
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