Posted on 09/08/2009 6:58:31 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama black, young, eloquent, and hip soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush, and his unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Presidential Candidate Obama sensed their ecstasy, and so he made two great promises: 1. Whatever Bush was, he would not be, and 2. despite the right-wing slander about his former intimacy with Bill Ayers, the Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, and all his other old Chicago radical friends, Obama would be a centrist, a cooler version of Bill Clinton. There were to be no more red/blue state divides. The most partisan politician in the Senate promised a new era of bipartisanship. He who had profited from identity politics would suddenly be beyond race.
The people were considering voting for this unknown, fresh, hope-and-change candidate a decision made easier after the financial meltdown of mid-September 2008. They decided then that they wanted a new-frontier moderate, a JFK for the 21st century, who would put competence and style over ideology and clean up the financial mess left by Wall Street and the greedy Republicans.
Obama also promised that he would craft a foreign policy from the bipartisan center, while making us liked abroad once more. During the campaign, to reassure the doubtful, he name-dropped at length Republicans with whom he would consult: old centrist pros like Dick Lugar and Bob Gates, as well as four-star generals.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
America:
Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had!
Ya been took!
Ya been hoodwinked!
Bamboozled!
Led astray!
Run amok!
Great article by VDH- worth printing, e-mailing, face booking, etc
Thanks for ping and article, RobinMasters.
The very last line by VDH a classic.
“Once upon a time the people deluded themselves into thinking a suave extremist was to be their nuts-and-bolts centrist. Now they dont know whether to be mad at him or themselves or both.”
Not a one wants to admit they have been duped.
Thanks for the ping. NRO site is down, so can’t read it yet.
One of the most pointed notions Krauthammer relayed was that because Valerie Jarrett and Obarak Obama are so steeped in radicalism, they viewed Van Jones as more mainstream! ... They did not perceive Jones as all that radical from their perspective. As Rush says, Van Jones IS what the administration is all about.
Ping please, to every Hansen FR thread.
So many voters are in need of an excuse as to why they voted for this affirmative action bastard, it is good to see the excuses arising now, now that this fraud-in-chief is being exposed for the radical racist commie he is. It remains to be seen if the vast unwashed will take the cue and resoundingly reject this prick in the Oval Office and his hench goon czarista regime.
“...vast unwashed will take the cue and resoundingly reject this prick in the Oval Office and his hench goon czarista regime.”
I think the assertiveness training class that you took has worked. =)
Well said.
Bammy knows full well that green jobs are not really jobs...and that is why he hired Van Jones. Check this out...
Green jobs are not economic jobs but political jobs, designed to funnel vast sums of taxpayer money to left-wing labor unions, environmental groups, and social justice community organizers.
bttt
WOW! OUTSTANDING article! Thank you, VDH. Thanks for the post/FReepmail link, RobinMasters.
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