Posted on 04/08/2010 10:10:42 AM PDT by Nachum
Unsurprisingly, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham bowed deeply to New Yorker editor David Remnick and his new book on their agreed-upon hero, Barack Obama: "envy gives way to admiration" of Remnick’s skills, he wrote in his "Top of the Week" commentary in the magazine. Meacham hyped the notion that when asked about the "racial component of the opposition," Obama told Remnick "I tend to be fairly forgiving about the anxiety that people feel about change."
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Afraid of the future? With a Marxist running the country? Damn straight I’m afraid of the future, Barack.
P.S. The color, or lack of, your skin doesn’t phase us. Get straight on it- we don’t give a damn what your ethnicity is- many of us are mixed this and that anyway- IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUR RACE, you idiot- it’s about your MARXIST POLICIES.
And do NOT condescend by explaining we’re too stupid to understand our bigotry- I for one, know what my prejudices are and aren’t.
Here’s a big one for me- I hate liars. Right off the bat- you qualify, Mr. President.
In this case, it looks like a straight-line progression - straight downhill! Illegal immigration, inability to manufacture major machinery, internet zombies and sucking up to terrorists.
Newsweek’s still in business ?
“’Afraid of the Future’”
I am reminded of Bastiat, who said of the progressives that they think they’re in the vanguard, but are in reality 2,000 years behind the times.
“Don’t ‘fear’ it, prepare for what lies ahead and what may be required of you to make it the future you want”
People have this notion that “fear” necessarily refers to destructive irrationality. There’s no reason it can’t be reconciliable with optimistic rational self-interest. Well, obviously not perfectly optimistic, but falling somewhere on the brighter side of the sliding scale of optimism.
Typical leftist tactic. If someone is opposed to the homosexual agenda and point out the risky behavior it involves lead to shortened life expectancies they are ‘homophobic.’
In other words, if you oppose us it’s because of some psychological problem — a phobia. “Fear of the future” is a great way for them to frame the discussion.
The real issue is defining what brave new world Obama is trying to create in America, it’s about ‘progress’ (remember the use of ‘progressssssssives)’ “We are moving forward and aren’t you for progress???”
How about we are for a future with more personal freedom, less government involvement, a paid off national debt, and power disbursed to the States to handle local matters but primarily to individuals where it belongs?
It’s not THE future that Americans fear; it’s Obama’s dark centralized socialized government controlled takeover of every aspect of our lives.
“And by hammering on the race card I think the liberals are unwittingly creating a growing realization in the minds of many that ‘white christian’ america will never be allowed to live down the legacy of slavery in the U.S. And in this process, the liberals are essentially tearing this country apart.”
So true. Liberals, at least the shrewd ones, realize the value in poisoning (what are for now) “minorities” against American—i.e. white—culture. It is endemically racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc., and therefore can never be legitimate, even if the oppressed at some point gain control.
I recall responding to an essay I read in college—which advocated some form of socialism or at least labor-unionism, after deluging the reader with how consistently racist have been our forefathers—by asking why The Oppressed couldn’t live by the culture of their masters, once the oppression was (mostly) gone. I know why they wouldn’t, granted the natural aversion they’d have (at least at first), and the poison they’re fed. I just wanna know why, in theory, ideas that are good for whites (free markets, limited government, etc.) can’t be good for blacks, once they’ve attained coequal status with whites. They can, of course, be good. They are good.
“Typical leftist tactic”
Well, yes, but there’s no reason we have to play along. “We should be afraid” is a better response than “I’m not afraid,” in my opinion. So long as you clarify that fear can be perfectly rational.
“if you oppose us it’s because of some psychological problem — a phobia”
That’s just it. Fear is not necessarily phobia. People often take it that way, and no doubt painting Tea Partiers as if they’re maniacs by using Coded Language like “afraid” will work on some. But not people like me, who don’t confuse garden-variety fear with mental disorders.
Mighty white of him. So to speak.
No, really, there is practically nobody, black, white or other, who could emit that sentence from his or her mouth without sounding like a first-class douchebag. Barack Obama is not one of the exceptions.
Well said; and yea, they are “good”; but I don’t think it’s ever been about whether the ideas that were working were good or not. That’s the heart of the irony here. They don’t give a wit about whether or not they are good; it’s all about the emotionalism of the “movement”, of the “struggle”, etc. It’s difficult for me to articulate, but I think it has something to do with what my mother used to say......”No one fights to come in second”. What chills me is the degree the gov’t has been complicit in this since the Kennedy administration. While on the one hand the Black activists have been yelling about equality of opportunity, etc., the truth is that the gov’t has been working quiety behind the scenes to disenfranchise through a watering down process, the white majority; they’re “creating” a South Africa type problem where none ever existed. When you close your eyes and think about that for a moment it gets truly creepy.
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