He will not deviate from the criminal misanthropy of the Bush adminisration
On Nov 13, 6:40 am, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have just brought the dregs of the Chicago Politics to > Washington... > > And People believe that is going to make things better. > > They are Idiots, to say the least. > > On Nov 12, 11:36 am, Philobealo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth > > Last updated at 5:57 PM on 10th November 2008 > > > Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful re > > placement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that > > at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. > > > The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of > > the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-decepti > > on and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced > > civilisation . At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is > > focused on a man who actually did something. > > > I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock th e > > Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducte d > > in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around > > Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts. > > > It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which r > > ecorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama > > picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s > > picture version of his story, there soon will be. > > > Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting r > > ecord, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion > > and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find. > > > If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left - > > wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can be > > lieve anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuf > > fed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. I > > t was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too mu > > ch and that from now on the easy bit was over. > > He needn’t worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of > > America’s Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton’ > > s stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the > > rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is wha > > t he is used to. > > > Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really di d > > talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we > > can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite > > having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ > > means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by o > > ur own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of histor > > y (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the > > hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home). > > > I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson > > sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with t > > his sort of stuff. > > > And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his ad > > miring audience by repeated – but rather hesitant – invocations of the > > brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his wi > > ll – ‘Yes, we can’. They were supposed to thunder ‘Yes, we can!’ back > > at him, but they just wouldn’t join in. No wonder. Yes we can what ex > > actly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He’ > > d have been better off bursting into ‘I’d like to teach the world to s > > ing in perfect harmony’ which contains roughly the same message and mi > > ght have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship. > > > Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52 . > > 5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obe > > dient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political mac > > hines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associate > > s, a state-subsidised slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convic > > ted on fraud and corruption charges. > > > The > > rest:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084111/PETER-HITCHENS-The-ni...- > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
