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That Darned Obama

By on 6.11.10 @ 6:09AM

He’s just so infuriatingly moderate!

Liberals who bristle at being called socialists probably shouldn’t exit the house wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. They also should avoid protesting, en masse, that President Obama, who in only one year has substantially shifted American government to the left, is too darned conservative. Both behaviors are like standing in the foxhole and screaming as loudly as you can. They tend to give away your position to the enemy.

This week, several thousand liberal activists gathered in Washington to protest what they view as President Obama’s timidity in pursuing the hard-left agenda he promised them.

“This is the greatest reform president since Lyndon Johnson, and every progressive in the movement is dismayed and disaffected,” Robert L. Borosage, the co-director of the liberal Campaign for America’s Future, told the New York Times. “Some of that is expectations that were shattered.”

That quote says a lot. Borosage knows that Obama is the most liberal president since Johnson. He knows that Obama is moving the left’s agenda more successfully than any president in the past 40 years, and yet he is “dismayed and disaffected.” How on earth can that be? How can one see one’s own ideology sustain its greatest movement forward in close to half a century and be… disappointed?

It takes a particularly extreme and rigid ideologue to consider President Obama insufficiently liberal. They got universal health care complete with compulsory coverage that will induce gut-wrenching pain in the bowels of every libertarian in the nation when it’s time to whip out the checkbook and pay for it, and still they’re whining that the public option got dropped?

But who can blame them for being a little bit confused? Honestly, they don’t know whether they or the conservatives are the ones who were had.

Ever since Obama became the Democratic nominee in 2008, the left has delivered two contradictory messages about him: 1) he is a radical change agent who will fundamentally transform American government, and 2) he is a common-sense moderate who will simply undo the radical excesses of the previous administration.

These incompatible summaries of Obama were invented and peddled by his own campaign. The couldn’t both simultaneously be true. But in the hands of a brilliantly talented politician, they could both be made believable to their target audiences.

Obama told liberals that those rube middle-Americans were clinging to their guns and religion because they were too ignorant to know any better, and he was the one to enlighten them. And he told middle America that Ronald Reagan was a transformative president, bad teachers should be fired, we’d all get to keep our current health plans, and he’d never, ever, cross-his-heart-and-hope-to-die tax the middle class.

How out of touch is the left? It sees Obama raise taxes on people of all incomes, mandate that every individual carry health insurance, transfer close to $1 trillion in “stimulus” funds to unionized and public-sector workers, take over General Motors, join a foreign head of state in characterizing Arizonans as racist, undo Bush’s compromise on stem cell research and Clinton’s on gays in the military, and amass the greatest debt in the history of the United States while pursuing Keynesian pipe dreams… and it complains that he’s not going far enough fast enough.

Earth to the left — it’s been only a year and a half!

It ought to be obvious to anyone acquainted with reality that Obama’s actions are far more leftist than his rhetoric. As the left has its agenda slowly implemented, the middle is starting to wonder why that nice guy with the cherub smile and the smooth lines doesn’t call anymore.

When the far left went after Clinton for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and welfare reform and NAFTA, one could understand the frustration. Clinton was an opportunist perfectly willing to sell out the left for his own personal glory. That’s gotta breed resentment. But now that the far left is going after Obama for being too centrist, it’s hard to be sympathetic. You get the feeling that these people would actually vote for Che Guevara if they had the chance. And some of them would be disappointed if he didn’t duplicate here all the glories of the Cuban Revolution.

About the Author

Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His Twitter ID is @Drewhampshire.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (151) |

Brian Mc| 6.11.10 @ 6:45AM

March 3, 2112

Tommy had finally come to his wits end. He stomped through the house and found his father sitting, fuming at his desk, attempting to pay all his federal mandate billings; health care assessments, C02 forfeitures, recycling requisitions and the like. Tommy asked, "Dad, can I ask you something?"

Tommy's dad stretched back from the desk with a huff, ran his hands through his hair and shook his head as if in an attempt to clear it, "What did you need, son?"

"I have been doing my American Spectator report for Social History class and I can't understand something."

Tommy's father turned to him, "What's the matter?"

"Well, I've been reading all these articles and then, it hit me. Why didn't someone indict Obama and others like him for treason...? They had plenty of reasons. I mean, look what he did to the Constitution, but no one did anything, I just don't get it."

"I guess nobody had the stones, son. At least, nobody with any 'real' power."

"Stones? What's that, dad?"

"Never mind Tommy. Now, go back and finish your homework and leave you old man to this mess before I have to take you and your sister to the indoctrination tonight."

"Sorry, dad."

"Not a problem, son."

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 9:22PM

Obama is going to be re-elected, the GOP has been clueless since the Soviet threat evaporated in 1991.
3 lost elections since 1991: '92, '96, '08.
Bush barely won in 2000.

So that makes 2004 the only real GOP presidential victory. Not too good--eh?

Craig Goodrich | 6.12.10 @ 12:20AM

Good, good, Alan, keep it up. The major danger for our side is overconfidence; your continuing warnings are very helpful.

AMENBRO| 6.12.10 @ 1:41AM

It only takes one sperm to get pregnant,,,yawl,,,, .

At least Bush didn't try to steal all the furniture nor pardon every lowlife with more than $100,000 after he got his ass impeached for getting his PURPLE HAID polished. Course that's well educated extremely intelligent liberal Nobel contender behavior.

SHHHHAAAAZAm Where were you AL when the Republicans unseated JIM "I Just Want to Help You" Wright. You remember him don't ya AL ?

Newt Gingrich back bench FIREBOMBED his ass. Mr.Bundled book campaign contributions himself from the great state of Texas.. You fergettinl, a rich tapestry. 40 years of democrat rule in the legislative branch of our country brought us the House Bank, Congress not having to follow EEOC rules, Rowstenkowski. CHARLIE
RANGELS CRACKER BROTHER SEPERATED AT BIRTH, cashing FRANKING PRIVLEDGES postage at the House Post Office. He liked to steal furniture and misappropriate office space money also. A few from the many of wonderful ways the Compassionate Party had been serving the People. WHERE YOU BEEN????

Remember the Contract with America. How bout the Welfare Reform suppository they administered to Slick me Willie. 12 years of Republican Rule with Reagan Course that evaporated threat also vaporized as dust from TEARING DOWN Mr. Gorbachev's wall.

Recall that tadbit of inconvenient truth:

The Republican Revolution or Revolution of '94 is what the Republican Party of the United States dubbed their success in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections,[1] which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate. The day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.

The gains in seats in the mid-term election resulted in the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate in January 1995. Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years, since the 83rd Congress (elected in 1952) Large Republican gains were made in state houses as well when the GOP picked up twelve gubernatorial seats and 472 legislative seats. In so doing, it took control of 20 state legislatures from the Democrats. Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972. In addition, this was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.

Discontent against the Democrats was foreshadowed by a string of elections after 1992, including the capture of the mayoralties of New York and Los Angeles by the Republicans in 1993. In that same year, Christine Todd Whitman captured the New Jersey governorship from the Democrats and Bret Schundler became the mayor of overwhelmingly Democratic Jersey City. Republican George Allen won the Virginia governorship. Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas. Republicans Frank Lucas and Ron Lewis picked up two congressional seats from Democrats in Oklahoma and Kentucky in May 1994.

Bush also packed the legislative branch.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 8:42AM

"Good, good, Alan, keep it up. The major danger for our side is overconfidence; your continuing warnings are very helpful."

Oh so you admit your people are prone to self-deceptive tendencies such as overconfidence. Thank you for exposing your main weakness. Shall keep it in mind always.

Christopher Holland| 6.13.10 @ 5:16PM

Your overconfidence comes from inability to understand the source of problems and your capacity to address them. Liberals are utterly clueless about America, they despise the country, its people and its institutions and they want to destroy these. No wonder the wheels are falling off. The problem with liberalism is not overconfidence, it is clueless stupidity and contempt. You know nothing and learn nothing. Liberalism is a bald man insisting that a comb will solve everything.

Alan's Dad| 6.12.10 @ 10:57PM

Alan, Get your ass back in bed

Alan is delusion| 6.13.10 @ 6:44AM

Alan's math is a little Obama.

Alan's Mom| 6.13.10 @ 6:48AM

Alan, did you take your medicaton today?
Stop bothering these nice people.

Alan's Brother| 6.13.10 @ 6:50AM

Alan quit wearing my clothes, you dipstick.

Bob Jones| 6.13.10 @ 5:20PM

Alan, your Mommy's calling you to come upstairs for dinner.

Alan's Uncle| 6.13.10 @ 6:51AM

That boy just ain't right.

a third party| 6.13.10 @ 3:33PM

lol, pwn3d

Alan's Jockstrap| 6.17.10 @ 8:50PM

I'm feeling a little empty...

K962| 6.11.10 @ 6:46AM

The left will grow more and more violent. They see themselves as losing power in November and they are growing panicky. Watch out this summer!

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 9:27PM

No, the November losses will boost Obama's popularity when the economy grows thanks to the new Congress's guidance starting next January.

AMENBRO| 6.12.10 @ 1:46AM

Send me some of dem dare SSSCCCHHRRROMMMMMS you been ingesting son,,LMFAO

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:03AM

If you stop the jive.

Bro, you can do it-- sho nuff!

BackToBasics| 6.13.10 @ 2:41AM

Just like under Clinton. The Republican Congress was the rudder that allowed Clinton to tac the middle course with welfare reform and better economic guidance which helped him very much. Sorry to say, if the Republicans do gain control of Congress, I think it will help Obam to win in 2012. This will NOT save our country from the crash and breakup that are surely coming if we do not stop the communist-government direction we are heading into now. Those on the left may gloat about Obam and the current Democrat-controlled agenda but they will be victims of this crash just as much as those on the right will, so their gloating and glee will be short-lived.

Ol' Goat| 6.13.10 @ 2:09PM

Take another bong hit, Alan and lull yourself back into the delusional world you inhabit.

Christopher Holland| 6.13.10 @ 5:19PM

This is inaninty squared and cubed. Losing elections is the way to achieve great things! This in not what you were saying in 2008, the story was different then. You couldn't make electoral success work for you, so now you will achieve all with failure. Give it a break, it is too early in the morning to read stupidity like this

Stephanie| 6.11.10 @ 7:36AM

I hope the left does get rowdy, that way it will show the masses, if they will look and pay attention, that it isn't the TEA party folks, it's the progressives that throw a fit when they don't get their way. I await the gathering storm.

RacerJim| 6.11.10 @ 10:15AM

I couldn't agree more. I look anxiously forward, guns loaded and unlocked, to Civil War II!

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 8:56PM

"I couldn't agree more. I look anxiously forward, guns loaded and unlocked, to Civil War II!"

The South lost the first one, and would lose the second one. The South with its statist Fugitive Slave Act.

Old Soldier| 6.11.10 @ 9:22PM

I live in the "North". Funny that you think I would fight for you.

Look at the Red / Blue map by county. Those are the battle lines.

Old Soldier| 6.11.10 @ 9:22PM

I live in the "North". Funny that you think I would fight for you.

Look at the Red / Blue map by county. Those are the battle lines.

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 9:30PM

But you know very well the South is where the heart of the Teaparty is. Denying so would be as dishonest as Yankees would be if they were to deny that New England is where the heart of liberalism is.

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 9:32PM

Do you remember where the Teaparty Convention was?
Nashville.

AMENBRO| 6.12.10 @ 1:49AM

OOOHHH AL how cliche you wascle you. that original material.You guys come up with that yourselves???

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:19AM

It's just your jive talkin'
you're telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin'
you wear a disguise
Jive talkin'
so misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin'
You really no good

Ed Wallis| 6.12.10 @ 8:09PM

What a moronic statement...
...seeing as how the "Coffee" Party's event takes place in Kentucky.
F'ing hypocrite.

Christopher Holland| 6.13.10 @ 5:21PM

Where does California fit into this model? Your geography leaves a lot to be desired, geopolitics is clearly not your strongest point.

Old Soldier| 6.13.10 @ 7:59PM

Yet thousands of people keep showing up on the green in Morristown for every Tea Party, NJ now has a fiscally conservative Governor.

There are just fewer big cities and big-city liberals in the South to outvote the conservatives in the suburbs and rural areas. Drive 50 miles west of NY, Boston, or Philly, and you are in Tea Party land.

Tim*| 6.11.10 @ 10:47PM

Duuuhhhh ,We Tea Party Rebels are in The North ,The West ,The East & The South.

Aaaand, It's " Locked & Loaded " .

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 10:57PM

Nah, without the South, the Tea Party Movement would be greatly diminished. Just as without Mass, NY, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
liberalism would be almost nothing.

It is all quaint and provincial.

Tim*| 6.11.10 @ 11:31PM

You Are Full of Pork!

In just The Tea Party Patriots Faction alone there are :
120 Chapters in California.48 Chaptors in Connecticutt , 75 Chapters In Illinois , 44 in Indiana , 90 in New York , 45 in New Jersey , 63 in Ohio , etc.
The Tea Party Patriots Faction and others boycotted that factioned Nashville Convention .

rcv| 6.14.10 @ 9:53PM

Like the French revolutionaries and most other purist ideologues, the tea baggers are now factioning and battling each other. Good riddance to them all.

Craig Goodrich | 6.12.10 @ 12:29AM

I dunno, Alan, Vermonters at least are starting to think twice about some Liberal points of faith, anyway. And Maine is already mostly lost. So don't be too confident; remember the Solid South once meant Democratic.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:22AM

"remember the Solid South once meant Democratic."

Because they are fickle?

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:26AM

"In just The Tea Party Patriots Faction alone there are
120 Chapters in California.48 Chaptors in Connecticutt , 75 Chapters In Illinois , 44 in Indiana , 90 in New York , 45 in New Jersey , 63 in Ohio , etc.
The Tea Party Patriots Faction and others boycotted that factioned Nashville Convention."

Again: the nucleus of the tea party movement is in the South, just as the nucleus of American liberalism is in the Northeast.
You will admit the latter, but you wont admit the former?

Tim*| 6.12.10 @ 10:54AM

Do your homework .

http://patchworknation.csmonit.....-tea-party

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 5:15PM

The map in patchworknation doesn't show that if the South and North disappeared tomorrow, both the tea party and liberalism would be crippled-- if you take six legs off a scorpion, it has only two left.
Here's something much better to read:
"The libertarian wing of conservatism ought to be the portion that non-leftist liberals and pragmatic moderates could negotiate with. All three groups appear to be motivated by a shared set of general goals. A dream of maximized individual opportunity and freedom. An aversion to bossy accumulations of undue power. A belief that unleashed human creativity can solve a vast array of problems and that tomorrow could be better, as a result. These commonalities ought to make for lively, good-natured debate over the details, e.g., whether to use the state or laissez-faire or a tuned-markets approach to solve this or that problem.
Why then, are most libertarians instead the most intransigent and obnoxious of fuming dogmatists, contemptuous of practicality or compromise, endlessly reciting nonsensical pseudo-religious catechisms from the dunce-prophetess?
Cajoled by paid shills from the Cato, Heritage and American Enterprise “institutes,” most libertarians and libertarian-minded conservatives have been duped into calling government an inherently satanic foe of Manichean dimensions. Indeed, they see civil servants as the only force out there that’s inimical to liberty, something that Adam Smith (mindful of 4,000 years of history) would have found laughable. While worshipping at an altar of private property (coaxed coincidentally by propaganda paid for by billionaires), libertarians thus turn their gaze away from the two desiderata that ought to be the movement’s core focus:

Freedom and fair competition.

These are basic underpinnings of true markets, democracy, science and justice—and history shows that government can foster them as readily as hinder them. Just as private wealth can undermine them, and has done so, in nearly all human societies. Only through dynamic confrontation can the private and public realms prevent each others’ worst excesses. But that fact is too complex ever to be admitted by purists.

Freedom and fair competition. If these twin pillars again became the main goals of the brighter-right, there would be a shift of tectonic proportions. Libertarians and libertarian-minded conservatives would sever all links to both populist know-nothings and plutocrats. They would rescue what remains worth saving, from their hijacked and shattered movement, and thereupon rejoin us at the negotiating table, helping a coalition of civilized adults in search of new, agile, and creative ways to save civilization."
Who wrote the above? Find out for yourself-- you do YOUR homework.

Tim*| 6.12.10 @ 6:03PM

I already have Pseudo-intellect bloviator.
Dude's just one more Colliefornia Secularist Pseudo-Intellect Fictionist .

christopher holland| 6.13.10 @ 5:25PM

So liberalism is nothing but a geographical construct! Really, does the liberal mothership know that you are preaching this heresy to the natives you want to conquor. If liberalism is almost nothing without the declining NE states, then liberalism certainly has problems.

ruralcounsel| 6.14.10 @ 9:45AM

I attended the 2010 Tea Party rally on Boston Common...I'd say it's prevalent across the country. My neighbors here in Vermont are disgusted with Federal and State government. There's plenty of rumblings about reinstituting freedom around here. Maybe not in Burlington, but you know what they say about Burlington...nicest little city close to Vermont.

The Blue/Red maps are right. This is a rural versus urban civil war, and won't be anywhere near so neat and clean as the North/South one. Think Bosnia.

carnot| 6.12.10 @ 8:02PM

maybe...but with a little luck...YOU WON'T................:-).....collateral damage and all that.

Ned| 6.11.10 @ 11:42AM

I'm afraid that you give far too much credit to the lightweights that put this con man in office. Economics is not the only thing that they fail to understand - they are poorly educated on just about everything.

Wasn't it Twain that said "It's not that [they] are ignorant, it's that so much that they know is not true." Or words to that effect...

Obozo's supporters actually think that "Bush deregulated everything..." (like what, for instance?), that "the stimulus is working..." (10% unemployment, anyone?), and that ObozoCare will "reduce the cost of health care..." (despite abundant evidence to the contrary...)

Good heavens, some of the folks still think that John Maynard Keynes knew what the hell he was talking about - they may not know his name, but they believe that his fairytale theories work in the real world, just like they did in 1930.

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 11:13PM

"undo Bush's compromise on stem cell research"

Obama did the right thing.

FTM| 6.12.10 @ 3:35PM

I did some research on Keynes. Keynes was a genius, no doubt. His ideas in regards to deficit spending in an economic downturn are for the most part wrong as history has shown.

Keynes' main thesis though is that people need a strong central government to direct their lives for them based on the idea (Great Depression Era) that people were too poorly educated, preoccupied and basically too stupid to take care of themselves, politically, socially and financially.

Unfortunately, like it or not, Keynes was for the most part right. How does an imbicile like Obama get elected to the highest office in the land to start with? Think about it.

Clinton nee Publius| 6.11.10 @ 8:20PM

The reality is that the violence is just beginning as the failures of liberal-progressivism always require a scapegoat to justify the failure, because; once people start questioning liberal-progressive mantra they realize there are no sustainable principles at the core of this "movement. The reality is there is only stealing money under the color of authority and disbursing it amongst the participants in the movement as if we hadn't had enough of feudalism in the Middle Ages.

This means we will have a violent summer. I know I will be doing my best to agitate the violence to a point of civil war. This is our time and we can permanently eradicate the liberal conspiracy cult once and for all if we will only stand up and do the deed. The job remains unfinished and history will judge as having failed to meet the test if we do not do what is necessary so that future generations may have clean earth to till in a world ruled by liberty and freedom instead of tyranny, want and endless suffering.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:28AM

but you still want govt to give funds to your grandparents?

ruralcounsel| 6.14.10 @ 9:56AM

No. I want the government to return the taxes they took under the false promises of Social Security and Medicaire/Medicaid.

The government has nothing to give that it hasn't taken away from someone else. It's nothing but a giant fund transfer mechanism, usually producing nothing of value in the process. Because the process is guided by our national politics.

Two-party government with a Congress that determines spending is inherently unstable in a nation of our size and complexity.

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 9:59PM

Ah, the true colors of the self-described "American patriot"! Stirring up violence because they lost at the ballot box. I hope the ATF picks you up on its next sweep of Timothy-McVeigh-wanabees. Our good men and women in our police units and military can take of you loose nuts.

martin j smith| 6.11.10 @ 7:48AM

The " far left" will never be satisfied unless our nation is totally destroyed. Then the really wealthy ones will move to France and laugh all the way to the bank. The others, well too bad for them.
Having said that I would say, if no one understand the connection between Obama's history and associations and his current actions they are a) in total denial, b) stupid, c) lying d ) they come from outer space.
In clonclusion: BHO is a Communist, hard core.
and much of his inner cirlce are too as well the core left of the senate and house Democrats.
I think it is time to stop playing the game of PC.
Recently I got a DNC mailing sined offf b y Billy Boy himself essentially calling the Republican Party the Party of NO. Well that should be turned around as the Party of Hell NO to Communism in American !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And wear that proudly.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:30AM

"Then the really wealthy ones will move to France"

Why would they move there if Muslims are so prevalent? And why France, why not some other country? Why not Australia?

coal carrier| 6.11.10 @ 8:02AM

When I was a young man, starting out in my career, I applied for a position that required a secret clearance with a specific federal agency. The FBI started its background investigation and I was granted a clearance in 6 weeks, which was really quick, because I was so young. I was 21. There was another individual at this time that was also applying for a position. After three months or so he was denied a clearance and had to seek employment elsewhere. He said that he was told that he was denied a clearance because he visited his neighborhood bar too often. The security agency said that he was a security risk. Too many whisky sours had a tendency to loosen lips. Security information could slip out in a casual conversation with a stranger at the bar. You see in 1966, the Federal Government didn’t fool around when it came to national security. If they thought you were a risk, you were not given a security clearance and you wouldn’t be working in an area where you may compromise national security.

Now, 44 years later, we have an individual in the White House who frequented a church for 20 years that advocated the overthrow of this nation. Rubbed elbows with terrorists and radicals who bombed the Pentagon. Smoked dope. Refuses to display his birth certificate and school records. Has hired a slew of Marxists radicals in his administration and now he is allowed to see and hear the most top-secret information with regards to the security of this nation. All while the Secret Service protects him to do so.

Ladies and gentlemen, what is wrong with this picture? May God help our great nation come November 2010 and 2012.

drudge ette obama| 6.11.10 @ 8:19AM

Fabulous post.

If it hasn't hit anyone yet why Obama continues these ruinous policies while the world economy is where it is, then they shouldn't vote.

He is either arrogantly self-driven to it by ideology or the dumbest idiot ever. Or both.

You may wish for God to help us, but so doesn't the enemy. We must help ourselves. Now. With money and our voices. This is not silly politics anymore.

RacerJim| 6.11.10 @ 10:22AM

Indeed, given that Obama said in his book "Dreams of My Father" that as a college student he sought out and associated himself with radical Communists, Marxists, Leninists, Socialists and Black Ideologists there's no way in hell he should have even the lowest national security clearance. Incredible.
May God indeed Save our country asap.

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 11:18AM

I agree, fabulous post, coal carrier. And now the question is, will the voters who refused to vote for the opposition Republican party last time, and wouldn't cast their votes for McCain/Palin do it again? Or have they learned their lesson~has it hit them personally enough yet what the cold hard facts are, of having a true Marxist in the White House? How low must we go before we all wake up to this reality?

It ain't gonna get any better!

S.L. Toddard| 6.11.10 @ 1:58PM

"the question is, will the voters who refused to vote for the opposition Republican party last time, and wouldn't cast their votes for McCain/Palin do it again?"

Absolutely.

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 2:07PM

That'd please you, wouldn't it?

Alan Brooks| 6.11.10 @ 11:18PM

McCain was only nominated because he had been tortured in 'Nam.
Dole was only nominated because he has a withered arm from being wounded in Italy during WWII.

Craig Goodrich| 6.12.10 @ 12:36AM

Actually, that may explain why they both became Senators, but they were nominated by an unimaginative Republican establishment mostly because it was Their Turn.

On the other hand, it seems to me that both of these sacrifices display a dedication to the ideals of America substantially beyond what we have seen from any of the more with-it crowd of hip-hop politicians that apparently control Washington now.

Your point is?

Margie| 6.12.10 @ 12:38AM

Obama was only nominated because he is half black.

Some brainiacs would rather see the Republicans lose rather than see the Democrats lose.

So does Satan.

Tim*| 6.12.10 @ 12:11PM

Then , you have recanted your sins & now support The Republican Candidate Rand Paul .

Bless You Apocalyptic Church Lady .

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

We Can See November From Our Tea Party Houses.

Margie| 6.12.10 @ 4:25PM

Rand Paul is a Libertarian is Republican's clothing, and is a fruit from the tree of his father. Both of them registered Republican in order to get elected. Libertarians are Leftists, not conservative.
Read David Horowitz for an expose on the Leftist Libertarian mindset. I am not fooled. The Leftist anti-Semites like you don't fool the majority of us, Timmy* boy Insult all you wish!

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/0.....ur-of-the-“ron-paul-revolutionary”-mind-2/

Tim*| 6.12.10 @ 9:14PM

Uh Oh !
Apocalyptic Margie Plays The Anti-Semite Card .
Well Margie , You Israel Firster NeoConservative Types foisted The Serial Traitor to Conservatism , John McCain & Israel Firster RINO-CINO's Arlen Specter on The Republican Party .
We ,Tea Party Rebels Fell Off Your NeoCon Sled & Won't Play Your "VOTE FOR ANY REPUBLICAN " Lie .

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

We Can See November From Our Tea Party Houses.

Margie| 6.12.10 @ 11:30PM

True, one of us is lying.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 12:26AM

Yeah , Phoney Margie You Are.

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 3:22PM , over at : A Leak In The Presidency :
" It means that liberals need to wake up and spit out the Kool-Aid...and that conservatives should put aside differences, band together, and elect as many Republicans as possible. "

Wash Out You're Lyin' Mouth With Soap ,You Bad Thing.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Remember In November .

BackToBasics| 6.13.10 @ 2:55AM

The Tea Party and the grassroots movement it represents will be undone totally if Congress paases amnesty or if Obam signs an Executive order to grant amnesty which I would not put past him. The Demographics are shifting to the left faster than most everyone thinks including the Tea Partiers who are still thinking that the Old Rules will apply. Amnesty will totally throw out the Old-Rules-win-by-legitimate-numbers voting that was "mostly" in place until the 1990's. The Tea Party and our Republic are largely finished within 3 presidential elections unless we can stop the massive illegal immigration.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 8:30AM

We ,Tea Party Rebels have been well aware of the demographics & the recent joy of The Mainstream Media in reporting it.
This is one reason why we oppose The Serial Traitor to Conservatism John McCain for His attempted McCain-Kennedy Bill .

Just as the high Arab -Muslim birth rate will undo Margie's Israel Firster Agenda , the high Hispanic Birth Rate , unless countered , will undo the Culture , Affiliations , Traditions , as well as , the Economic & Political Atmosphere of America.

We ,Tea Party Rebels have been in the forefront of stopping Illegal Invaders coming into Sovereign U.S. Territory across our borders.

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 11:22AM

Timmy* is revealing his anti-semitic self once again. The Libertarian Leftist Paul-bot mind is truly a sad and despicable one. Anyone who proclaims the truth about that mindset and who backs Israel our ally will be especially hated. Some will be stalked around the internet by them and their vile hatred will be poured fourth continuously. The Leftist Libertarians and Paleo-con-artists cannot bear our existence, just as they cannot bear the existence of the Jews.
As to the Pauls, anyone who does their research knows that they are deceitful non-interventionist whackos, and as I said registered Republican in order to get elected. It's the only way they could. Paul-bots are absolutely blinded by their hatred and refuse to admit the truth. Rand Paul is aligned with Adam Kokesh, the Anti-American, Israel hating scumbag who aligns himself with Code Pink. Just google their names together.

Now, if the Pauls are truly Libertarian Leftists and registered as Republicans in order to get elected, that would truly make them RINO's. So Timmy*'s voting for RINO's, LOL. Now, Timmy*, don't you worry your vile little heart, the Muslims aren't going to cancel out my vote sweetheart. Most Americans just aren't as stupid as you paint us out to be.

Timmy* the stalker, who proclaims his adoration of Sarah Palin but refused to vote for McCain/Palin because his hatred of a United States Military war hero and pro-Israel man was stronger.

You continue to reveal your insanity each time you stalk me, there sicko.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 12:44PM

Uh Oh !

For Zany Margie , this is about the Republican Candidates from Texas & Kentucky.

Duuuhhhhh !

Didn't ya get the memos ?

Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul.

As for The Serial Traitor to Conservatism John McCain .
I oppose McCain-Kennedy , McCain-Lieberman , McCain-Feingold , McCain-Feingold , The Gang of 14 , McCain's Opposing The 2001 & 2003 Tax Cuts , aaaand TARP .

If ya can't take The Tea Party Heat ,then shove off .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

We Remember In November.

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 12:56PM

Wow, Timmy*~ Sarah Palin was on the Presidential ticket, loser! Sarah Palin could have been our Vice President, next in line if something were to have happened to McCain, yet you hypocrite, you refused to vote for the ticket!

Blinded by your anti-semitism you cut off your nose just to spite your face!

Now preach on, Timmy*!

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 1:17PM

I know .

Aaaaaand She Endorses Rand Paul ,Hypocrite Faux-Church Lady .

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 12:35PM

The quote you accredited to me, (and with which I agree and practice), stalker Timmy* is not my quote. Tim* cannot read, nor can he reason.

And if Timmy* the stalker and anti-semite agreed with the quote himself, he would have voted for McCain/Palin, but said he refused to. Yet he labels me as a hypocrite, LOL.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 1:12PM

Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha !

Duuuuhhh !
I quoted your post.
(Margie| 6.11.10 @ 3:22PM , over at : A Leak In The Presidency )
You always post hypocritically " Vote for Republicans ".
Rand Paul is The Republican Party Candidate for Senate in The Commonwealth of Kentucky & Ron Paul His Father is A Republican Party Candidate from Texas .
I guess like Bubba Clinton , with you , it depends on what the meaning of " is " is.

Aaaand , I Put In A Protest Vote & Wrote In My Brother-In-Law.
A Fine & Upstanding Lad , I might add.

Now, hold that thought ,Sweetheart .

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .

We Can See November from Our Tea Party Houses.

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 1:28PM

Tsk, tsk. Twisted Timmy* lies again. You are the perfect example of what Bob Grant was just talking about on his radio program this afternoon. He said that the (some) of TEA partiers won't vote for a Republican unless they're "conservative" enough. You prove his point, loser. You Paul-bots are insane!

As for Rand Paul, you lied and accused me of something untrue (again). I have said before that if he were to become the Presidential nominee I would vote for him. You never even actually ASKED me the question though. You just post that I am a liar, hypocrite, et al.

It is YOU who is the liar, and the hypocrite. It is YOU who helps to hand over the election the the Left. And why? Because you are insane.

You refused to vote for McCain/Palin and therefore you don't really care about winning. The election was lost due to your insane way of thinking, and you are going to do it again.

All the while throwing stones at me, that is very funny, but pathetic.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 1:44PM

Cuckkooo !

Foist , Zany Margie posts :
" As to the Pauls, anyone who does their research knows that they are deceitful non-interventionist whackos, and as I said registered Republican in order to get elected. It's the only way they could. Paul-bots are absolutely blinded by their hatred and refuse to admit the truth. Rand Paul is aligned with Adam Kokesh, the Anti-American, Israel hating scumbag who aligns himself with Code Pink. Just google their names together.

Now, if the Pauls are truly Libertarian Leftists and registered as Republicans in order to get elected, that would truly make them RINO's. So Timmy*'s voting for RINO's, LOL. Now, Timmy*, don't you worry your vile little heart, the Muslims aren't going to cancel out my vote sweetheart. Most Americans just aren't as stupid as you paint us out to be. "

Now Silly Margie posts :
" As for Rand Paul, you lied and accused me of something untrue (again). I have said before that if he were to become the Presidential nominee I would vote for him."
Sooooo,you go crazy against Rand Paul ( Who We ,Tea Party Rebels Support ) , and yet now You say that you'd vote for him for President .

Cuckooo ! Cuckoooo !

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 1:49PM

Twisted Timmy* likes playing games, doesn't he? That's right, Timmy*. What I said is correct and truthful about the Pauls.

And unlike you, I am true to my word. I vote Republican. Always. Unlike you, I may not like the candidate, but I am electing the party behind the man. Unlike you, I can understand how that works.

Idiot.

Tim*| 6.13.10 @ 2:04PM

Ha, Ha, Ha ,Ha !

Let's get this straight .

You , Margie say , " Rand Paul is aligned with Adam Kokesh, the Anti-American, Israel hating scumbag who aligns himself with Code Pink. "

Now ,ya say you'd vote for Him , as President .

Holy Crap , Margie !

By your own standards and your frequent and angry accusations , that makes you an Anti-Semite .

You Are Completely Nuts !

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 2:30PM

That's right. loser. I will vote for the Republican nominee in order to keep a Democrat from winning.

You, on the other hand, will either not vote, or write in your brother-in-law in order to gusrantee that the Democrat will win.

That's the difference. I will for for the party in order to stop the Democrats. Something you cannot relate to in your warped mind.

Mock on, Timmy*.

Margie| 6.13.10 @ 3:08PM

Sarah Palin also backed Meg Whitman for gov. in California. OOooh Timmy* boy, now what?

Sarah Palin is smart enough to know that a Republican candidate should be backed, rather than a Democrat. Why is it that the loony Paul-bots, claimers of the TEA party (which they are NOT!)~ cannot understand this?

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Libertarianism is Liberalism cloaking itself as conservative.

They will sell their ever loving souls before voting for someone not considered "conservative" enough, including McCain/Palin, as displayed by Timmy* the stalker. All the while yelling "Hypocrite!" to those of us who, like Sarah Palin, do the right thing.

Read David Horowitz.

Radegunda| 6.12.10 @ 2:42PM

You're right. A white man with Obama's resume and personal history and character traits would never have gotten the same adulation from the Dems. That's partly because a white man with Obama's academic record and ability would not have gotten into Harvard Law, much less been chosen as president of the law review.

And Republicans would have been more inclined to make a big deal out of his glaring defects if not for the race factor.

The people who claim that criticism of him is race-based have it 180 degrees wrong.

AMENBRO| 6.12.10 @ 1:52AM

DEEEEP DEEEP thinking there Al. Woooah.
Interstellar insightful sir.

Maybe you should audition for the next WOWW that's a low price comercial.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:35AM

You should audition for the part of Louise on 'The Jeffersons'.

Alan Brooks| 6.12.10 @ 9:38AM

"... but they were nominated by an unimaginative Republican establishment mostly because it was Their Turn."

That's even worse!

BackToBasics| 6.13.10 @ 3:14AM

You're right about that. Many leftists do not seem to see the distinctions between a Republican establishmnet candidate and someone who is truly conservative. Anyone to the right of Ted Kennedy is seen by most leftist as the "far-right." As much as I disagree with the direction of establishmnet types like the Bushes, Dole, McCain, etc. the Republican party seems to have a broader spectrum of political thought than the Democrats do. That is noted in the disctinction you made about Establishments Republicans meaning there are those more to the right than those. But, it seems like 99% of Democrats just want a socialist-communist state. There's just this great leap to the left on the Dems part from what I see. Forty years ago that was not true, but today, the Dems seem to march in lockstep like lemmings over the socialist-communist precipice.

Christopher Holland| 6.13.10 @ 5:27PM

Fortunately for you, the constitution has no prohibition on stupidity. Liberals make full use of this

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 10:05PM

The Secret Service protects him because he was elected by the American people to be our President. That's what they're supposed to do. And we elected him President because he promised to enact sweeping health care reform, begin to reregulate the out-of-control financial entities, end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, stop destroying America's moral leadership by ending shameful torture, and restore diplomacy to a foreign policy that had degenerated to a "bring-em-on" mentality. And that's what he's done. You lost the election; get over it and stop whining.

Bill Hussien O'Stalin| 6.11.10 @ 8:06AM

Actually, the far left should not get too excited because it's obvious Obama is one of them and they must work as a group.

Although on the surface they claim to disdain wealth, it's their sole desire to take someone else's in the form of taxes or other confiscatory schemes. Their ultimate goal is always to amass wealth themselves.

They become community organizers and engage in other mindless activities, mainly because they don't have the intelligence to run an entity that requires real thought.

George True| 6.11.10 @ 10:48AM

You are so right. It is always about the money with these people. They always claim they are motivated by "fairness", or that it's being done "for the children", or some other such mindless claptrap. But always, always, it is about enriching themselves financially, and always at the expense of the very downtrodden they claim to be helping. There is a dark spiritual element to it all. At their core, they are driven by covetousness. They themselves do not have the ability to honestly earn wealth, or they are not willing to go "Hank Reardon" for ten or twenty years, sacrificing everything for decades to get there. So instead, they concoct plans to take it from the productive among us, and to pass all manner of destructive taxes upon all, and distribute the largesse to themselves. So while they pontificate about "fairness", it is all about them coveting what others have earned and taking it from them.

carnot| 6.11.10 @ 11:28AM

Mr Gore does have a lot of houses!!!

JimH| 6.11.10 @ 8:14AM

At one level the One has to enjoy these demonstrations because they allow him to claim that he is governing from he middle.

Ned| 6.11.10 @ 11:49AM

"Enjoy?" His band of thugs orchestrates the demonstrations to give him cover as a "moderate"... that's Political Disinformation 101, and the Alinsky crowd has VAST experience misrepresenting themselves (to the ignorant masses)

Nancy| 6.11.10 @ 4:35PM

The middle of what...hell? I contend that it is Obama's overall purpose to completely destroy the economy and what is left of our Republic. He already knows that he's a one termer, and doesn't care. The plan is for a fundamental change from a republic to a communist socialist regime. And he's doing a fine job of achieving just that.

Howard| 6.11.10 @ 9:10AM

I don't see Obama as a purely doctrinaire leftist; more of a thug, Chicago, politician. Hence, he will send more drone aircraft to Afghanistan than Bush did. But, he will also take over GM, because it gives him power, not because of some pure ideology about nationalizing business. He has chips to cash in there. I think part of the problem also, is that he is passive, all of the "present" votes in the IL Senate. He outsourced the Stimulus bill to Obey, Pelosi, and Reid. They are the real leftists. They want 90% marginal taxes, a weak military, and government ownership. Obama is an empty suit.

REt. Marine| 6.11.10 @ 9:35AM

You need to do some more research, it was the members of the TIDES foundation SEIU, Communist party members who wrote almost all of the current legislation in process, dingy harry Reid, san fran nanny Pelousy for the better part are lazy and power hungry and willing to let others do the dirty work for them as to claim they did not do this to our Country, but of course we all know they are all liars to the first order nonetheless.

Howard| 6.12.10 @ 9:26AM

Pure fantasy on your part. Obey had been waiting 40 years to write that bill. He didn't need a bunch of pinkie ring union thugs to tell him what to do. The end result may please them, but, Obey didn't need help.

Nancy| 6.11.10 @ 4:39PM

More research needed. The suit may be empty, but the pockets are getting fuller. Check out the Chicago Climate Exchange, and Obama's part. He will make millions (if not billions) through the crap and trade deal. It's convulted, by design, but Al Gore is involved as well as Franklin Raines, Goldman Sachs and lots of others. Follow the money.

Ret. Marine| 6.12.10 @ 7:13AM

Been there done that and have the proof on file. Anyone care to really know where the "won" got his money to steal America?

martin j smith| 6.11.10 @ 9:33AM

Howard, Doctrinaire left and thuggery go together quite well. They are not mutually exclusive.

Howard| 6.12.10 @ 9:31AM

They may complement each other, but they are philosophically different. Strategy vs. tactics. Leftists/Progressives/Marxists have an overarching worldview. It is called Communism. Thug politicians do not look beyond their nose. They want power, money, and good seats at a ball game. They would sell Lenin the rope he would hang them with.

Louis Jenkins| 6.11.10 @ 9:48AM

"He knows that Obama is moving the left's agenda more successfully than any president in the past 40 years, and yet he is "dismayed and disaffected."

Could it be that the Pretender n Chief has had a change of heart? Naw, Naw, Naw. Wrong again.

John Kirk| 6.11.10 @ 10:32AM

Here's the old problem: in the 20th Century lots of non-left people hated the Left's ideas. Here's the new problem: in the 21st Century even the Left hates the Left's ideas. Obama & Pelosi are being cursed for actually implementing the policies the Left claims to desire. The fantasy of free health insurance is a lot more appealing than the reality of the government forcing you to pay for health insurance. The Left, Right & Center all hate the idea of being forced to pay for health insurance. The only difference is the Right & Center were honest about this before Obama took office. I predict we are going to see the Left cursing Obama on foreign policy, energy, immigration. It will not be pretty or pleasant, but it will be educational.

carnot| 6.11.10 @ 11:27AM

John...the Left is attacking Obama, Pelosi, et al, for not implementing the full agenda fast enough...not for the realities of the actual policies.

Paul| 6.11.10 @ 11:45AM

When is someone going to have the courage to call for impeachment of this president?

Jeff Perren | 6.11.10 @ 12:53PM

" You get the feeling that these people would actually vote for Che Guevara if they had the chance."

This is only error in an otherwise superb post, and a minor one at that. Che Guevara supporters - like the Woody Allens and Tom Friedmans in America - are not interested in voting. They want leftward change, even if it means literal gunplay. In fact, I suspect many of them would like that better than having it done the boring old legal way, through endless, stifling regulations.

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 10:10PM

The only people I hear talking about gunplay instead of electoral politics are on this website. See above for examples.

Jeff Perren | 6.11.10 @ 1:38PM

P.S. I don't have the link anymore but some commenter on HotAir put it as well as I've ever seen it put: "Waa! Waa! Obama, you stink. You're not turning the country into a communist hellhole fast enough! Waa! Waa!"

Or words to that effect.

Scott Fraundorf | 6.11.10 @ 1:50PM

As a left, anarchist, liberal, I agree with this article. The left is too hard on Obama, because he isn't selling them out. It's akin to the radical Republicans giving Lincoln a hard time, because he was perceived as being too 'centrist' on the slavery issue.

Margie| 6.12.10 @ 12:43AM

Just curious, do you refer to yourself as a Libertarian as well?

GeeOhPeaSuhX| 6.11.10 @ 1:50PM

Wow!!! Great post!!!! You are so smart and great!!

We all have our guns ready to get all these people...loaded and ready to fire at will!!!

Don't tread on me!!
These colors don't run!!
Take my counrty back!!!

coal carrier| 6.11.10 @ 5:10PM

We don’t need guns. That is just what they want us to do. We need an educated electorate to pull the handles for small government, low tax conservative candidates come November 2010 and then in 2012. We need to kill them at the polls.

Average Infidel| 6.12.10 @ 7:18AM

I agree with you on this one, however, you must seriously consider when the first shot is heard, many of out here in the fly-over country know and have marked our own lefty's as targets, we are determined to get them out of our live at any expense, even gun-play. Time to stop playing around with the feely-touchy-idiots and make them make a decission, freedom or?

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 12:44PM

Happily, you're probably already on ATF's list along with the rest of you Timothy McVeigh-would bes.

Oldefarte| 6.11.10 @ 2:21PM

In repeating myself, Obama SOLD himself and his agenda as MODERATION so as to become elected. Otherwise, he would not have stood A CHANCE IN HADES of reaching 1600. Using the old Roman wooden/trojun horse war structure/mechanism as a model, he stealthed himself into the presidency by masquerading as a MODERATE agent of change. We should have but did not realize then that his change meant what Andrew now describes. Again, also, the one/only way to CORRECT our previous mistake is by voting for true change in November plus!!!!!!!

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 2:53PM

Does true change have a party? Come on, Oldefarte, say it and take the risk I always do of being slandered and maligned. You know as well as I do and everyone else that the party opposed to the Marxist Democrats is the REPUBLICAN party.

Until we decide upon facing it and stop bashing it and others who tell the blunt truth then we will continue to get "the government we deserve".

And like the Toddards, (see above), the Left will continue to rejoice in our stupidity. (not you, I am saying those who think this way)!

Oldefarte| 6.11.10 @ 4:14PM

Margie, The one/only time that I voted for a Democrat in my 64 years on this planet was for Edwin Edwards against David Duke [no other explanation should be necessary]. Sadly, the Republicans have put forth candidates [ie Dole, McCain, Ford,etc] which were Democrat-lites. In the last election, McCain could/should have gone after Obama [Palin wanted to do so but was overruled] as to his/Obama's true personae; and the end result was that Obama is now President. Excluding the Democrat Party as nothing but radicals, Hollywood and college eggheads; the Republican Party still needs to come out of the political CLOSET and tell it like it is to the basically moderate voting public. If and when they do, they'll support candidates such as Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and [maybe] Mitt Romney as representatives who can/will get this country back upon solid financial/political/economic footing that will prevent its destruction and guarantee its survival!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 6.11.10 @ 4:20PM

PS [Margie]----Reagan had the right idea economically with tax cuts, but failed by not getting governmental budgetary expanse reductions [had to spend money on military but failed to rein in social welfare expendatures increases since Johnson's Great Society]. What's needed is [from my limited knowledge of his accompolishments] a Chris Christie type federal presidency!!!!!

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 5:44PM

Well Oldefarte,
McCain/Palin STILL would have been FAR better than this Marxist admin and that's my whole point! Never will we have a perfect candidate no matter who they are.
It's either the party of Marxists or the party of FREEDOM. It's our choice and our responsibility.
I'm all for conservatives winning. When somebody says to me, "Well, I'm for conservatives winning!" I say OK~ and who isn't? (except for certain Libertarians who will not vote but for a Paul type).

It reminds me of the Lefties who say, "I want clean air and clean water!" As if the rest of us don't.

Ha. They cried that Christie was a RINO. They cried that voting for McCain/Palin wasn't good enough. These are the same people that will hand the election back over to Obummer. They will get the government they truly deserve but not only that but they will subject the rest of it to it as well!

Christ Christie would make a good President, I agree, so far as we can tell. He has no fear, believes in God, is a family man, and understands that shrinking government and not punishing citizens by taxing them to death is the way to go. True change is only going to come by way of the Republican party.

The one thing we can actually thank Obama for is for the fact that he has woken the sleeping giant. Now if we can all actually decide to vote him out of office. Can we pull together and do it is the question?
The Marxist boot on the neck~ have we had enough yet? (again, I am not addressing you personally but to those who are wavering.)
ANY Republican is better than ANY Democrat. There are NO Marxists, no Communists in the Republican party.

Margie| 6.11.10 @ 5:46PM

Oops, typo. Should be Chris Christie, above.

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 12:47PM

Please, we Democrats are begging. Please run Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman and Rand Paul. Please.

guy| 6.11.10 @ 3:41PM

Mr Cline,

I'm curious. How many voters are actually what you would call " the far left"?

I think we all make a false assumption that they are a much larger group than they really are because of their numbers in the House and the Senate, and because of who lives in the White House.

I'll bet they are less than 10% of voters and that they are able to control another 20% of mindless idiots who will do as they are told.

I think that the current number of them at the highest levels of government is an anomaly brought about by their infiltration of the democrat party and by a well-deserved voter revolt against the republican party.

I think that in order to defeat this enemy we must know their real numbers and their real strengths. While they are certainly not going to be a push-over to destroy, they are certainly not as strong as people make them out to be. They are simply LOUD.

To paraphrase Alinsky, we need to identify them and isolate them and ridicule them.

Nancy| 6.11.10 @ 4:51PM

I agree. You only find these idiots in the media, Hollywood and academia. The rest of the country feels like Alice down the rabbit hole. Everything is upside down. And they are loud, and get the coverage.

We just need to do what needs to be done...get the vote out in November. Hopefully, the morons will stay home (no president to elect) and we can make effective change in the House and Senate. Otherwise, the gig is up.

martin j smith| 6.11.10 @ 4:44PM

As I hear news about the Gulf Oil Situation,about Obama's moves against Israel, about the vote to give the EPA power to control energy against the will of the voter I feel more and more that what we have is a trojan horse president--we have a man called the President of the United States purposefully trying to destroy us. I think at the very least even though the votes are not there yet, the subject of impeachment should be raised. In addition another factor shoud be considered. Given the character of Obama, could it be that the coming election could be circumvented in some way? Obama must be carefully watched. I fear for our future if we are not viligent.

Nancy| 6.11.10 @ 4:56PM

And how about nothing getting done in the Gulf of Mexico with the oil spill. I've read about all kind of help being offered, and being refused. Some guy up in Maine with miles and miles of boom line, told no. Dutch government offered help, told no thanks. Do they really want to fix the mess? I don't think so.

Petronius| 6.11.10 @ 6:13PM

As a reformed radical lib I can relate to the disappointment of the garden variety gutter dwelling leftist. The #1 item on his agenda is and always has been total reversal of fortune. B. O. didn't promise him that, but it's what he voted for and desires more than winning a 9 figure lotto jackpot. He will never be sated until the carcass of every business executive swings from the lamp posts and picked to the bone by carrion crows and all of Their wealth divided among the losers who will be granted squatting rights in the properties of their former owners. Having destroyed the enterprises that supplied the necessities for living the economically illiterate mob will murder the professionals and middle managers too. After that, any person practicing skilled trades would be conscripted into government service; (forced labor), until they refuse to work and be executed as well. And when there's nobody left except the ignorant, indolent, incompetent, self absorbed savages, this country will become a carbon copy of Zimbabwe: a hellhole populated by two mobs, the government goons, and everyone else. It would not be otherwise as the lowlife will be at the top of the food chain. They won't settle for less. So mote it be. Hail the return of the Dark Ages.

flip video converter | 6.11.10 @ 8:41PM

good stuff

ojo grande| 6.11.10 @ 10:53PM

Coal Carrier,
Great comments and unfortunately true.

I know someone who has a top secret clearance and he said that there is no way he would have passed security with Obama's history....go figure.

Yosemeti Sam| 6.12.10 @ 2:33AM

" ... How out of touch is the left? ... it complains that he's not going far enough fast enough...."

But you useful idiots gotta remember - BHO as expressed in his ghost-written booooooooks has a strategy of NOT MAKING ANY SUDDEN MOVES!

Got it!

Dingy and the WWOTW sho nuf got it - tough.

LOL.

Radegunda| 6.12.10 @ 2:47PM

Some of the lefty loons may not be so clueless about what BHO is doing. Some of them may be tactically feeding the myth that he's a centrist or even right-wing, as well as trying to make sure that he doesn't really turn centrist.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.12.10 @ 9:56AM

Heh,
I just had an interesting thought. I wonder who Obama will have to put on his Presidential Pardon List before he leaves office.

I see those all through his administration; some indictable as actual traitors and other felonies as well.
Perhaps a looooong list.

Margie| 6.12.10 @ 11:00AM

Well just like Bill Clinton did, the traitor will pardon the traitors, won't he?

cindy| 6.12.10 @ 1:17PM

Look what's happened to the democrats since the passage of healthcare reform-they're in deep doo. Does it make sense then for Obama to fulfill the desires of only 20% of the country?

Jim O'Brien| 6.12.10 @ 1:25PM

Obama will eventually start dressing like Hugo Chavez, his compadre. Well, we got rid of the USSR, so I guess we can survive Obama in office for x more days. January 2013 can't come soon enough. How much more damage will he do in the meantime?

FTM| 6.12.10 @ 4:28PM

Let's all step back and take a cool, calculated look at this administration for a moment shall we? What has President Obama actually achieved? Best as I can tell the one sure achievement of the Obama Administration so far has been to Make the Carter Administration look competent.

The attempted health care hijacking isn't going to stand, soo many states are against the plan. Conservitaves and liberals alike hate the health care plan. Cap and Trade is as dead as a hammer. All the thug governments the world over that President Obama tried to cuddle up to are treating him like an adolescent sissy-boy. Several plans for dealing with the oil spill crisis of the century and the Obama administration did nothing, just more of the same posing and pandering.

Another achievement of the Obama administration has been to tack an extra three or so trillion dollars to the national debt. Even more inept bungling of a serious economic recession, the product of the government (Democrat and Republican) goofing around with the banking industry in regards to the housing bubble.

The Obama administration has assured that "progressives" won't be paid any serious attention politically for at least a generation.

Now, let's take a look at the other side of the coin, The best that the Republican party can do is John McCain. Really. That's it? Truth be told folks, the Republican party is just as dismayed and repelled by the Tea Party movement as are the liberals. The Republicans see the Tea Party as a collection of outlaws and agitators. The Tea Party to the Republican Party is an untolerable deviation from the status quo.

Seems to me that the Democrats are going to get the stuffings kicked out of them come November. To that I ask, "So what? Big Deal." Who with a hat full of brains can say with any degree of confidence that the Republicans would be any better?

We have a serious problem here. We have a $14 trillion national debt. Ten plus percent unemployment. We have been invaded by a hostile horde and in response we've thrown open the welfare coffers in welcome. We've allowed the world to pillage away our manufacturing base. We have a commander-in-chief that looks all the world to me to be an illegal alien himself. The truth of this matter is that even if we wanted to reverse the leftist damage that has been done to the United States of America it would be a bigger undertaking than landing a man on the moon. The problem is so completely huge and the political/social/legal systems are so entrenched to support the quo where would one even start? The trouble that the United States of America faces is going to take generations to fix and in my honest and most humble opinion the average American doesn't have the attention span to even focus on the problem.

How are you going to cure this disease without killing the patient?

The War Department sent President Roosevelt a report a couple weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack saying that the American military might be able to stop the Japanese at the Mississappi river. The American people were frightened and for the most part defenseless ergo kids peeling aluminum off of gum wrappers for scrap drives to build aircraft. Seventy years later you can't get a kid to focus on any specific topic long enough to make an impression. Folks, I think that we're screwed.

Harrison | 6.12.10 @ 5:09PM

Bill Clinton did more to damage the Democratic party than any other person of recent memory. NAFTA, welfare reform... Democrats got voted out of office and didn't return for years. Obama is damaging the Democratic party in a different way... instead of staking out "Republican" stances he is moving too Left for most Americans and thus will cause his party to be voted out whereas with Clinton Democrats ate their own in this case Americans will eat the Democrats.

John II| 6.13.10 @ 6:14PM

Professor Obama and his cheap criminal acolytes have successfully uncovered a terrible weakness in the American system, not to mention the corrupt education system on which they're coasting.

I'm trying to make a rough estimate of what this all means. Some sixty percent of Americans are now against Obama's explicit policies. But before the creep was elected President, more than eighty percent of Americans were against socialism and appeasement. The trouble, of course, is that concrete reality has a way of trumping ideas. Obama IS President; ergo, more than 20 percent of Americans remain infatuated with the ass when, if asked in the abstract whether they support his ideas, they would all say no.

So then: We now have a President who is truly and irrevocably supported by about fifteen percent of the populace--approximately the proportion of the populace that, in any routine statistical examination of almost any random sampling of any population, would prove to be political psychopaths.

Ordinarily the psychopaths would be roughly evenly distributed at the extremes of the political spectrum--but in America, fully fifteen percent of the population teeters on the edge of the Left and beyond. The truly extreme right-wingers are relatively few.

THAT is Professor Obama's "political base." The other 85 percent are up for grabs--and very impatient with Dole and McCain type Republicans: good men who happen to be sloppy and lazy in their articulation of the American thing they live. We need good men and women with an articulate sense of what makes America truly different and infinitely better in a fallen world. Otherwise, the good 85 percent are going to be permanently under the thumb of the very bad 15 percent--the standard arrangement for most of world history and, still, for the overwhelming majority of the 200-odd nations of the world.

RCV| 6.13.10 @ 9:40PM

It is pretty laughable that you consider yourself and the others on this site as in the middle. The "truly extreme right wingers" predominate on American Spectator blogs. I oppose socialism and appeasement, worked full-time to elect Obama and am very glad we succeeded. It isn't a "weakness in the system" that elected him, it was the majority of the American people and I believe they will do so again in 2012. If you look at the current array of potential GOP candidates, starting with Palin, there is not one who has a ghost of a chance of being elected.

John II| 6.13.10 @ 11:50PM

Well, it's not at all laughable that you can't read--but that's part of the general cultural trouble. I didn't say anything about the "middle." Most Americans--that is, most normal human beings--are (relative to the contemporary spectrum) center-right in their sociopolitical views. Your hero lied about his own position on the spectrum, the media never called him on any of his lies, and he won. In fewer than 18 months he lost that majority support, but still commands more support than he possibly could if more Americans took the trouble to be better informed.

And if you regard the Spectator as inhabited by extreme right wingers, your angle of vision can only be from the extreme left.

Which is to say, you're a liar. You promote socialism and appeasement if you worked "full-time" (does that mean you don't have a real job?) for Obama and have no regrets in the face of the obvious.

Fine, then. You belong to that 15 percent of unteachable psychopaths, that's all. You're part of the Professor's smug political base. You would like to be part of the anointed who tell the other 85 percent of Americans minutely how to live their lives.

On the sad topic of the GOP, we shall see what we shall see by November--but I'm fully prepared to agree with you. If Professor Obama wins a second term in 2012, it surely won't be because of anything any longer appealing about him personally or politically. He's a narcissistic creep, rather like his more passionate supporters.

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 11:18AM

You guys were calling him a "socialist" all during the campaign. We elected him precisely because he promised to reform health care, end the Bush tax cuts, and crack down on Wall Street excesses, so don't spew this crap about lieing about his place on the spectrum. You lost. Get over it and suck it up.

Hugh| 6.14.10 @ 12:17AM

Where is Obama's new socialism heading us? We need only look to Europe for the answer.
How dare Gert Wilders not surrender freedom to Islam? The New York Times brands Dutch political leader Geert Wilders an ‘extremist” and “populist” who causes trouble for “mainstream” politicians with his “unsavoury policies”. It then calls on a Dutch academic to help explain how bad this “outspoken critic of Islam” really is:

Dick Houtman, a professor of political sociology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, said that Mr. Wilders had built on Mr. Fortuyn’s legacy, successfully avoiding the overtly racist language of far-right politicians in other countries by highlighting issues like freedom of speech, female equality and gay rights. ”That serves to exclude Muslims from the Dutch political consensus,” he said.

Are these guys listening to themselves? If “highlighting issues like freedom of speech, female equality and gay rights” does indeed “exclude Muslims from the Dutch political consensus”, then who is the real problem here? Which side of the debate does indeed have “unsavoury policies”?

This siding with the threat rather than the threatened is already sick enough, But note also that Wilders’ forerunner, gay academic Pim Fortuyn, was murdered by a green activist upset by his warnings of the threat to freedom posed by Islam, and that Wilders himself is now under 24-hour guard merely for speaking his mind.

Michael Finch sums up: Apparently to be part of the postmodern Western “political consensus”, too be inclusive of Muslims, we need to be against freedom of speech, gay rights and female equality?

Houtman, aware of it or not, has made a brilliant, if obvious, observation. In order for many Muslim immigrants to feel culturally and politically included in the West, most clearly in Holland, they need to exist in an environment that is not open to the pluralistic, open and free West of the Enlightenment of the past 300 years.

So when a Western politician like Wilders openly embraces the values of liberty, he is called an extremist, hate monger and radical with ties to neo Nazis. The elite class, currently in Washington and throughout the halls of Western academia and the media, feel it more important to be inclusive of Muslims then holding true to the values that created the most open and free society the world has ever seen. And to oppose this new orthodoxy makes one a criminal, as the Left hopes to make of Wilders.

fds| 7.1.10 @ 4:51AM

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