Posted on 08/28/2010 2:08:16 PM PDT by rellimpank
Barack Obama, the great healer, is proving to be the most divisive president since Richard Nixon.
Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. In sum, they explain everything from the tea parties to the wholly negative perception of Congress to the slide in presidential popularity.
1. Two sets of rules. The public senses there are two standards in America — one for elite overseers, quite another for the supposedly not-to-be-trusted public. The anger over this hypocrisy surfaces over matters from the trivial to the profound. Sometimes the pique arises because the spread-the-wealth, we-all-have-skin-in-shared-sacrifice presidential sermons don’t apply to those who do the preaching, as in the president’s serial polo-shirted golf excursions or Michelle’s movable feast from Marbella to Martha’s Vineyard.
More profoundly, an Al Gore, a Timothy Geithner, a John Kerry, a John Edwards, a Charles Rangel — the luminaries who call for bigger government, higher taxes, and more green coercion — now appear to the public as disingenuous, living lives in abject contradiction to the utopian bromides they would apply to others. So too with the media. The opinion makers at a failing New York Times, Newsweek, or CBS lost readers and viewers not just because of changing technologies, but because of incessant editorializing in which the educated and affluent, the winners in our system, berated the less educated and less well off, the strugglers in our system, as bigoted or selfish or both.
How, for example, can Americans be asked to pay higher power bills in a recession to subsidize wind power, when the green Kennedy clan worries about windmills marring its vacation-spot view?
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Overseers is the correct word. You notice how quickly Obama got his aunt amnesty. He had to do that to keep the family secrets.With Liberals it is always do as I say.
Revolution, the only answer.
great toon!
I think he’s right on. And I would add or clarify that the political correctness is an art form with this administration. On issues such as the war on terror, which can’t be called that anymore, it’s all about being PC.
On the issue of civilian trials for terrorists, it’s all about living up to some alleged higher ideals which supposedly will earn the respect of Bin Laden and his boys, and thus stop future attacks.
In the cases of both the Ft. Hood shooter and the Christmas Day bomber, we’re told that their being Muslim was not a motivating factor in their crimes. The Ft. Hood shooter was heard to shout “Allah Akbhar” (sp?) but even his saying that is not enough to convince our government that he was an Islamic radical. Instead both guys are just allegedly experiencing some sort of mental difficulty. They have no official motivation that we’re allowed to discuss.
So much blood was spilled to keep this a free country. And now we have this little turd would be dictator as president. Those who voted for him are traitors and cowards.
the neo-proletariat of the postmodernist libtards
A minor complaint which will change nothing. I do not like the current use of the term “Elite.” This current crop running the regime in Washington could never by any stretch of the imagination be deemed “Elite.” To me “Elite” connotes a bit of tradition . This group has been thrown to the surface by unusual agitation of the sewage settling tanks. The fact that he was educated at Harvard degrades Harvard it does not elevate him.
I am slowly beginning to wonder if our elections are honest. Several recent elections reinforce this view. It is again being played out in Alaska.
what a faygeleh
Just now?
And just what is that?
Most of our current ruling class compared to the first three pictures.
Yiddish: "Little bird", Fairy/Pretty boy/etc.
You are so right!
You are an awesome observer!
I get it. A "man" who likes to enter from the back door.
I get it. A "man" who likes to enter from the back door.
There is still a majority of voters in the country that are very, very angry and will express that anger on Nov 2nd, 2010.
And, if the newly elected still can't get it right, they'll be replaced too.
That said, I do not put it past the left in general or the Obamaites in particular to make an attempt to keep power extra-constitutionally. Certainly there will be MASSIVE cheating in the electoral process this November and probably Nov 2012 as well. There will also be numerous Executive Orders reaching beyond the mundane and insignificant.
Beyond those I'm wondering if they'll attempt to dissolve the Constitution (in the interest of Social Justice, of course) and effect some sort of Martial Law...with the SEIU/ACORN crowd hired for neighborhood observation and enforcement.
I know these people are drunk on power and self-righteousness...but are they dumb enough to make such a move?
How many Americans are really willing to shoot their neighbor?
Yeah, Civil War could be the outcome of all of this.
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