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The Obama Watch
Closing Time at the Club of Disaffection
He’s a man frozen in '60s time.
Last call for drinks. Last chance to find someone new before the night is done. It’s closing time at the Club of Disaffection.
I spent a good deal of time at this club during the turbulent years of 1964 to 1968 at Stanford. But then I changed. Within two years of graduation, I had what Zorba the Greek called “the full catastrophe” — meaning wife, child and a demanding job. I left the club never to return.
But the club continued to thrive in my absence. Certainly, it was going strong in 1979. That was the year that Barack Obama graduated from Punahou — the fanciest private school in Hawaii — and entered Occidental College in Los Angeles. As he writes in a quasi jive-talking way in his memoir Dreams from My Father:
I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. Nobody asked you whether your father was a fat-cat executive who cheated on his wife or some laid-off joe who slapped you around whenever he bothered to come home. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.
In retrospect, one of the great ironies of the 2007/2008 presidential primaries was Mr. Obama’s success in labeling Hillary Clinton as the 1960s leftover and himself as the bright new hope who would be the bridge over the still troubled waters of that era. His ability to project himself as “a post-partisan politician” was based in no small part on his clever takedown of Hillary as someone who had been “fighting some of the same fights since the '60s” and who therefore would have “a very difficult time in trying to bring the country together to get things done.”
That worked as political tactic. Unfortunately, as anyone who has read his memoir and studied his performance as president knows, it is also false. It would be hard to find anyone who is more steeped in that part of the nation’s past than Barack Obama. He’s a man frozen in time. His clock stopped before Ronald Reagan came to the presidency. It remained stuck when he went on from college to become a community organizer, a Harvard law school student, a law school lecturer at the University of Chicago, an attorney for ACORN, and a politician consumed with ambition for higher office.
As much as he talks about the “failed policies” of George W. Bush, Obama wants nothing more than to return to a set of the failed policies of a much earlier era — the policies of the '60s and '70s. These were the policies that drove the “misery index” of inflation plus unemployment to undreamt of heights, that led to the creation inside the United States of a permanent underclass of nonworking, fatherless families subsisting on welfare payments, and that undermined our ability to project force and command respect abroad.
It is difficult to recreate those two decades in a few words for those who did not experience them (and a long-standing joke is that the drug-addled people who lived through this time cannot remember it anyway). If I may take a stab at such a recreation: The '60s were a time of protest, riot, and sexual liberation; the '70s were a time of military defeat (in Vietnam), economic stagflation, and declining national confidence in our ability to compete either economically or militarily. One factor that connects the two decades is the continuing growth in government and the thought that a more active government was somehow needed to deal with the problems that the private sector and a more free society could not handle. Of all people, Richard Nixon himself declared in the early '70s that “we are all Keynesians” — which, in an economic downturn, basically means you should borrow and spend, keep your foot on the fiscal accelerator, and figure you will die before the bill for your profligacy comes due. No one who believes that will work can convincingly cite a single instance in which it has worked. Others can cite numerous instances where it hasn’t.
Obama grew up in the '60s and '70s. In his memoir, we find this revealing passage about his time at Occidental:
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes on the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
Many of the privileged and yet “alienated” people from that time have gone on to become smug and successful. They no longer grind out their cigarettes on the carpet (indeed, they no longer tolerate smoking in public places). But they continue to believe that they occupy the intellectual and moral high ground — and they continue to look down their long noses at “bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.”
Like the young Obama, we as a people have learned to choose our friends carefully — or if not our friends, then our employees and colleagues. We all publicly celebrate the idea of “diversity.” Can’t have too much Eurocentrism, can we, when we think of our history or our place in the world? Who dares to say he is not a feminist? Political correctness, it may be said, is the homage that most of us ordinary people pay to the elitists who inhabit our universities and the worlds of art and entertainment, and who surround Obama and share his views.
Sometime between 1979 and today, the Club of Disaffection metamorphosed into the Ruling Class, as it was defined by Angelo M. Codevilla in his brilliant essay in this magazine earlier this year (now available in book form). As a result of the 2008 election, which not only gave Obama the presidency but resulted in super-majorities in the House and Senate, the ruling class has been able to rule as never before. And of course it has made a total mess of things — running up trillions of dollars of debt and putting the economy into a straitjacket that does not allow it to grow or to create jobs for people who are coming into the workforce for the first time. In coming to power, the alienated blowhards from the 60s and 70s — not just Obama, but Barney Frank, Pelosi, and the rest of them — have succeeded in alienating most of the American people.
Because of that, as Codevilla observed in his article, the gulf between the ruling class and the rest of America is greater today than it has ever been: “The ruling class’s appetite for deference, power, and perks grows. The country class [the rest of America] disrespects its rulers, wants to curtail their power and reduce their perks. The ruling class wears on its sleeve the view that the rest of Americans are racist, greedy, and above all stupid. The country class is ever more convinced that our rulers are corrupt, malevolent, and inept.”
On a couple of occasions during his battle with Hillary back in 2007, Obama allowed his post-partisan mask to slip. The first time was when he bad-mouthed the idea of putting a little American flag on his lapel as a sign of patriotism. Realizing this was a political gaffe, he has never appeared in public again without having the flag on his lapel. It is like the military salute that he always makes in descending the stairs of Air Force One.
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Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 7:00AM
Sorry, but when discussing Obama's past, and specifically his own recollection of his past, it's hard to take anything Obama says about himself seriously.
First of all, Obama is a liberal leftist, which means that first and foremost, he's a liar. But with Obama, you also must take into account his particular personality disorder.
Obama is the classic, textbook narcissist. He fits the profile, and his words and "deeds" are the proof. He was abandoned by his father and mother at a young age and on numerous occasions, he was shuffled back and forth from one home to the next, indeed from one country to the next on numerous occasions. As such, he was unable to form real emotional attachments to people, unable to develop a sense of real self-worth, and unable to comfortably identify with his own ethnicity, culture, or nationality.
However, knowing that he needed to do these things because that's what normal people do, he forced himself to adapt. Like a classic narcissist, he settled on an identity and a cause that he had some familiarity with - international leftwing politics - and immersed himself in this new identity.
To the narcissist, real life is play-acting; he/she must constantly portray an ideal image to others of who they are and how they want to be perceived. Since the narcissist does not truly experience or feel emotion like others do, he/she must fake it, and it often comes across as clumsy and awkward.
Thus, Obama's perceived coldness ("take a pain
Pill") when discussing the struggles of others, his grandiosity (two biographies!), his pompousness, and his need for control - ALL classic symptoms of the narcissist.
Therefore, when he speaks of his past, and portrays
himself as a young, chic, leftist-radical in-training who sat in his dorm room and discussed Franz Fanon, don't believe him. Much like his claim to be a huge fan of the Chicago White Sox, it's a lie. He's merely projecting the image that his narcissistic mind thinks others want to hear. The same goes for his recollection of "the moment", that one speech he gave in college on South Africa where OTHERS recognized his brilliance for the first time is typical of how the narcissist needs to have his/her "supply" constantly fed. Since the narcissist actually has very low self-esteem, the illusion that others think they're special is incredibly important.
Personally, like the White Sox, I don't think Obama even knows who Franz Fanon is, let alone what Fanon wrote. But it's critically important to him that we think he does.
Narcissists also despise criticism, and lash out at their detractors. Sound familiar?
They're precisely the wrong kind of people to have the kind of power that Obama now holds.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.29.10 @ 7:07AM
This should be featured on a billboard somewhere. It paints him perfectly.
WayneH| 10.29.10 @ 10:48AM
Doctor, you've nailed it.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 12:05PM
Thanks.
I forgot to mention one other thing:
Narcissists are chameleons. That "ideal" image that they portray to others, and that they want other to perceive them with is also dependent on their audience.
Thus, when Obama speaks to ACORN or SEIU types, he speaks in the language of "the struggle"; when speaking to NPR-types, he's the epitome of the left-wing intellectual; when speaking to voters, he's folksy and "down-home"; when speaking with the arts-n-croissants crowd, he's elitist and condescending towards the middle-class ("clinging bitterly to their guns and their bibles"); to the folks at Rev. Wright's Church, he was the angry black nationalist.
He's a malignant narcissist, so whoever you are, he's "one of you", a fellow traveler who empathizes with your viewpoint.
And that's the irony, because narcissists don't empathize with ANYBODY. To them we are all just cardboard cut-outs in their ongoing show that NEVER closes. And if we deviate from their plan, if we cease to be useful, they'll toss us overboard without a second thought.
Thus, when Reverend Wright is no longer useful, he is banished from the Kingdom (and, after marrying Obama to Michelle and baptizing his children, justifiably pissed).
Also remember this:
Narcissists are NOT introspective. Tyey never question their own motives, desires, actions, OR conclusions. For that very reason, the ideology that Obama developed as a young man has NEVER wavered, it has never changed, and he will never abandon it. To do so would be to admit the he was wrong, and most narcissists would rather chew off their own foot than admit to being wrong.
Isn't it great that this type of pathology lives in the White House?
Consummate V's| 10.29.10 @ 12:55PM
The depth of your understanding of the man is remarkable. You've placed the strange, seemingly illogical facets of his character into a clear and frightening perspective. How would you predict our fate under this wretched, pathalogical liar's rule for the next two years?
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 2:42PM
Here's how I recommend we deal with Obama until 2012:
Ridicule and scorn.
And by that, I mean that the G.O.P. needs to adopt a strategy that speaks directly to Obama's narcissistic heart, particularly in public debates in 2012.
Narcissists are NEVER wrong, and they cannot stand to be corrected or criticized. Even if they can contain their temper publicly, internally it makes them seethe with rage.
The GOP leadership in Congress, should they take control (fingers crossed!) needs to make ridicule and criticism a strategic policy.
In other words, When Obama says something stupid (and he will), they need to call him on it. Boehner and Cantor should make sure they get "caught" (wink-wink) making fun of Obama in a "private discussion". When they discuss him on TV, they should always make a point to chuckle and roll their eyes.
The effect of all this will be to solidify in the public's mind that Obama is NOT someone to be taken seriously...I mean, c'mon, Wolf! Look at how bad he screwed up his first two years! Snort-chuckle-snort!
The effect this will have on a narcissistic personality is incalculable. Obama may act like he's unaware of it, but trust me, he'll know all about it, and as a good narcissist, he'll be keeping score and plotting his revenge.
The ultimate objective would be to get Obama to publicly and brazenly lose his cool. The best venue for this is a Presidential debate. His opponent (Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Bolton, whomever) needs to have brass balls, and need to know when to "pounce".
It happened to Obama once before in a debate with Hillary and he flipped her the bird while pretending to scratch his eye. It was a supremely revealing look into the Peter-Pan mind of a narcissist, and of course, the mainstream media tried to overlook it.
Just imagine the reaction if the GOP candidate could say SOMETHING to Obama that would ultimately cause him to blow his top on camera in front of millions of people.
So...There are ways to deal with this guy. We just need to make sure that the people whom we elect know how to do it, and are willing to see it through.
Patrick| 10.29.10 @ 3:02PM
I agree, his narcissism can and should be exploited at every opportunity. His fragile vanity should call out to us like a Stradivarius to be played.
Once his cool is lost, and the mask slips too far, there's no turning back. Our job for the next two years is to egg him on, to act more outrageously than the day before. The sky is the limit as to how far he can humiliate himself and his fellow liberals just with the weapons of scorn and derision.
Finger flipping and churlish soundbites are just the beginning. I'm suggesting pushing him past Howard "the Screamer" Dean.
Barak Obama is the Democratic Party's greatest liability in recent memory, and it would be a tragedy not to exploit it.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 3:09PM
I agree. His narcissism is our greatest weapon. It guarantees that he will NOT attempt to triangulate a la' Clinton and move to the center.
No, instead, he will hunker down, get angrier, more resolute, more convinced of his persecution, and he will push his leftist policies EVEN HARDER.
And that's why we will BURY the Democrat Party once and for all in 2012. It could be a REAL political bloodbath.
You're right, he is their greatest liability, and I think some Democrats are starting to realize this. I wouldn't be surprised if he was told sometime in late 2011 to NOT BOTHER running for re-election, and pull a "Lyndon Johnson".
C.K. Amos| 10.30.10 @ 12:32AM
Doctor Right, you said, "I wouldn't be surprised if he was told sometime in late 2011 to NOT BOTHER running for re-election, and pull a 'Lyndon Johnson.'"
Agreed re: the first part; uncertain about the "Lyndon Johnson" moment.
I've wondered if Obama might arrive at the conclusion that he's really too bored with the job and might move on to his quest to become the king of the earth?
Somehow, I cannot imagine him listening to anyone, even his deep pockets. I think he's that self-absorbed and fractured that he might even martyr himself to cement his place in history. Surely he would endanger himself if he doesn't obey his handlers and creators, don't you think?
Whatever, this man's love affair with himself and hatred for our country and everyone else in it is frightening and dangerous.
old progrmr| 11.2.10 @ 4:12PM
Brilliant! It needs to be like Chinese water torture. A continuous drip, drip, drip of small, but very visible shows of contempt, couched in laughter, for his ideas, comments and especially his intellect. He is of a juvenile, stunted emotional intellect, as well as a suspect knowledge intellect; he will certainly "explode" publically if the drip, drip, drip is continuous and subtle enough to not make him appear a "victim".
C.K. Amos| 10.30.10 @ 12:21AM
Agreed.
Of the many narcissistic moments he had with fellow dude, Jon Stewart, one was when he reacted, finger pointing and all, when Stewart called him on saying "Heckuva job, Larry."
I wonder: How long will it be before this megalomaniac has a complete meltdown in public.
But, as you so rightly say, whoever challenges Obama's pathological narcissm needs brass testicles, figuratively.
Whatever it takes, we must drive this poseur, this anti-American, this rogue, this anarchist from office.
steven perrigo| 10.30.10 @ 11:26AM
...Where will his "Michelle my bell" fit into all this and being his wife, can you drive her nuts as well. Figure on making it a two-for-one home run with both Obamas. It will be fun to watch them implode...
Patrick| 10.30.10 @ 3:47PM
Moriarty he is not, as I find that Obama's ineptitude is showing through more every day. Once Obama loses Congress, things will be much harder for him, and all he knows how to do is whine.
No, I WANT him to meltdown, on television if at all possible. I WANT him to make himself and his party to look the fools they really are. Then I want him to turn 2012 into a circular firing squad.
As for brass balls? Nah. Anyone who can laugh at him can do far more damage to him than he can to them. Sure, you want to make sure your tax returns are pristine, but that's about it.
The key is to joke, laugh, and mock at all times.
Fred| 11.2.10 @ 12:01PM
Sorry Doc, but I can't agree. I certainly agree that Obama is a major narcissist, but the course of action you recommend would backfire horribly. Outside the right-wing chorus (and I say that as a member in good standing of that chorus) the Republicans would alienate far more people with a strategy of deliberate disrespect for the highest office in the land (even if most Ameicans don't respect its holder) than Obama would alienate with his reaction to it. It would be a dreadful mistake.
Patrick| 10.29.10 @ 2:49PM
More of the same, but likely more pathetic. The House will be against him, and the Senate will be deadlocked.
As such, he will have to make his "change" by extra-legislative means. This isn't particularly good for him, as he's rather inept at administration (perhaps because he's never had to manage anything).
He will be a joke, albeit one with teeth. He will further humiliate America and his own party. He will be a byword and an example to all.
In the meantime, we will be dealing with a prolonged recession morphing into stagflation, ever higher casualties in Afghanistan, and plenty more of the same misery of the current two years.
Impeachment won't do a thing, other than make him a sympathetic martyr. If Obama is tossed out, Biden becomes president, and while he's a raging lefty and a goofball, he would be far more dangerous.
In the end, Obama's own incompetence is a blessing for those who oppose his ideology.
Bruce | 10.29.10 @ 1:06PM
Absolutely on the mark. However, when describing the usurper I think you could simplify this: "He's a malignant narcissist," to this: "He's malignant."
He and his ilk are a cancer on society - they need to be wiped out, once and for all. Difficult I grant you, but not impossible.
Gran Torino| 10.29.10 @ 1:26PM
"You know, I actually believe my own bullshit!" (Pres. Obama to author Richard Wolffe)
And therein lies the problem...
Lisa| 10.29.10 @ 6:40PM
Wolffe is one of Newsweek's hacks, and creams his pants everytime he thinks of Barry. Odd, then, that Wolffe would have allowed that to go viral.
C.K. Amos| 10.30.10 @ 12:25AM
You bet, Bruce: "Malignant" re: Obama and his species.
Presently, he and his minions are the clearest and most present danger facing America and the free world
Doug E Brafford| 10.29.10 @ 10:33PM
You're either Right on or Wright on !
PolishKnight| 11.1.10 @ 3:47PM
From what I have read about Obama's life, it appears he was privileged and well loved even if it meant shifting him around from place to place.
He is THE product of PC leftist white guilt. Born half white, he enjoyed the support of his white family while capitalizing on his half-black side for affirmative action entitlements. His leftist/liberal PC background rewarded him for bashing his own grandparents. On the other hand, how many white leftists hanging out here are rewarded for self-hatred?
Now, much like Clinton, he's gotten into office and the question is what he can accomplish beyond simply warming a seat and getting cushy kickbacks after he leaves office for "speaking" engagements.
For someone like Clinton, "selling out" and just being a typical corrupt leftist wasn't that big a deal. He came from a poor background and no doubt left bodies behind in his wake (literally) so he doesn't mind his nihilistic, apolitical agenda of personal survival.
For Obama, however, it must be truly disheartening to see his agenda rejected and at best just a part of a political machine instead of anything truly revolutionary.
I wonder... is he emotionally prepared for what is the come tomorrow?
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 3:04PM
Final Point:
Liberalism attracts narcissists like a flame attracts moths.
Liberals want very much to be SEEN as "caring", and as believing in all the right causes. It's not so much that they want to convince us, it's that they want to convince themselves. Once they convince themselves, then they try and convince others with an astounding zeal.
Liberals have a deep-seated need to feel important and that they do important things.
Liberals are NOT introspective; they continually pursue policies that have been proven to fail, but they will NEVER acknowledge this, and they will not deviate from their course.
Liberals disdain criticism and critics. The things they pursue are deemed righteous and just. Therefore, they cannot be wrong. Anyone who criticizes them or their motives is wrong by default, and MUST be labeled as "evil".
See the similarities? It's frightening.
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.30.10 @ 11:37AM
Narcissists mask their feelings of inferiority by taking a patronizing attitude towards others. Kings in complex subjects, they lecture the plebian hordes only to be treated with contempt.
For all the (non-existent) good deeds that they've performed, why don't other members of the group want to associate with them? As mentioned before, I worked with a patronizing liberal at a design firm. No one invited him to lunch, people would wait in their cars until he was inside if arriving to work at the same time, and under no cicumstances, did anyone ask him for advice.
Yet the liberal narcissist would never ponder these incidents, completely blind to the scorn heaped upon his shoulders, there must be something wrong with everyone else. Under no circumstances will they ever ask why the response never deviates from 'no'. They simply accept the answer and make a quick getaway.
PolishKnight| 11.1.10 @ 4:40PM
It's interesting that there are two kinds of smug liberals: The ones that seek out the sinners, and the ones that avoid them for fear of being called out.
We meet a lot of the former here. They love tossing rocks at the great unwashed and lecturing us about how we're inferior to them and calling us stupid. They don't even bother with the pretense of "caring".
The next is a rather different beast. They hang around with other liberals and like with a religion they believe in, but don't fully understand why, don't want to get into arguments and face uncomfortable paradoxes and choices. They know the standard dogma "You're for the rich" and "You get your thinking from Foxnews" but don't know where to go if one of us starts to debate them.
When I've confronted them, they ran off with their tails between their legs. They couldn't handle it. Screaming halleluah when watching Jon Stewart is one thing, but doing it face to face is another.
Gran Torino| 10.30.10 @ 4:46PM
Doctor Right,
You've definitely nailed it (or him). Perhaps when Pres. Obama said, "They talk about me like a dog," he was tired and a little dyslexic, and actually meant, "They talk about me like a god." On a more serious note, this was a great example of your point that the narcissist cannot take criticism.
BirdGirl| 10.29.10 @ 2:25PM
Refreshing, D.R., after spending so much time slugging it out with liberals on various political boards to read a straight up right on description that nails Oblamer so perfectly. Of course they'd spew limbic mind froth ALL over you where I come from. ;-)
Patrick| 10.29.10 @ 3:08PM
The more they scream their vitriol, the better.
The Left is immensely invested in Pres. Obama. The more he displays his sociopathy, the more frustrating it will be for his fellow sociopaths to cover for him.
Lesser Weevil| 10.29.10 @ 9:11PM
Right on, Dr. Right!
"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed"
Rene Simpson | 10.30.10 @ 1:34PM
That was painfully precise and insightful. Some of those things I have been saying and blogging about for the past two years. Bravo!
Alan Brooks| 10.30.10 @ 5:18PM
Merely for keeping the old "gook"- hater McCain out of the White House, Obama will have a special place in Heaven reserved for him.
AvengingAngel| 10.30.10 @ 9:12PM
QUOTES FROM ALAN BROOKS
"But am so glad McCain isn't president, I wish Obama would get both the Peace Prize and his likeness on Mt. Rushmore. I mean it."
"But you are doing the correct thing-- fight the Muslims, and we will fight Christian fundamentalists."
"God is a woman, and Jesus is Her daughter."
"God is a necessary fiction, because most people are superstitious."
"God was a woman, and Jesus was gay: he hung out with male disciples, he wore a gown, and he said to forgive thine enemies.
Now, if that's not being a metro, then what is?"
Alan Brooks| 10.31.10 @ 12:14AM
You have nothing better to do than spend time collecting my quotes from different days?
DaveT| 10.31.10 @ 1:28AM
Hadn't seen 'em, these quotes are actually pretty damned funny.
AvengingAngel| 10.31.10 @ 12:49PM
You have nothing better to do than agitate conservatives that like to read and post at the American Spectator? No one is buying your bullshit that we would be better off if Obama stays in the White House for 8 years.
As far as collecting your quotes goes, I'm exposing you for what you are. Thank God you're not in the White House. If you were running for the presidency, then yes I would gladly vote for B. Hussein Obama.
Bruce | 10.31.10 @ 3:25PM
Congratulations on one of your more despicable shots yet, Books. "Gook hater"? I don't have much use for McCain personally, but the man was held captive by those sub-human pieces of garbage for over 5 years - many in solitary confinement, his broken arm and leg allowed to heal without treatment, and enduring almost daily torture (REAL torture - not like your Muslim butt-buddies endured). And he is supposed to what ... have love for them? Have you ever heard McCain himself refer to his captors as "gooks", by the way? No - you have not.
You are a loathsome cretin, Brooks. Why don't you hang out at Kos, where others of your profound stupidity gather?
Gladius| 10.31.10 @ 4:48PM
Thank you very much Bruce. I myself don't care much for Sen. McCain b/c of the way he lost to The One but no one can say he dosen't deserve respect for his patriotism. As for me The One woke me up to socialism and McCaine woke me up to RINOism. We need to do something about both. Now, as for Mr.Brooks I think there is a guy (can't say man ) who needs a glass stomach b/c he has his head so far up his rear that is the only way he can see where he is going.
stmichrick| 10.31.10 @ 12:29PM
Only problem is, a lot of people don't know what a narcissist is (including probably a lot of generational narcissists) and the next 2 years' strategy will be; greedy, racist, unsophisticated Republican congress vs. thoughtful, sophisticated, victimized First Black President trying to convey nuanced concepts of fairness with an intellectual approach but no one's listening.
With proper media amplification it will probably work.
JmsA| 11.1.10 @ 12:15PM
Good work, Dr. Right: A timely and accurate diagnosis.
Appleby| 10.29.10 @ 7:03AM
The way I have been saying the same thing since the first time I heard this university sophomore start pontificating, is much simpler.
The Sixties Are Over.
The biggest problem that the Sophomore-in-Chief is facing just now is that the biggest and most powerful voting bloc is chiefly made up of people who lived through the Sixties once and clearly recognized then that it was rubbish and have not changed our minds. Many of us were the first member of our family to graduate from high school, much less attend and graduate from university, and we worked hard throughout our four (or four plus) years to live up to that position, as we knew that younger family members were coming up who would need our helping hand, just as our parents had been helped by the older brothers and sisters, our aunts and uncles. And we profoundly resented having to fight our way through teach-ins, bed-ins, sit-ins and deafening-noise-ins to get that education. The kernel of that Revolution was a gang of wealthy kids who had never had anyone say them nay, and people who had no interest in education for themselves nor did they believe we had either.
Nothing has changed since then. Well, one thing has changed. We have realized that time grows short and we have no time to suffer the same fools we suffered in 1968. In spite of them, we have made good in life -- and we are not going to let this gang of sophomores stuff it up for us.
gearjammer| 10.29.10 @ 9:18AM
Marlyn Quayle made a great speech at 88 or 92 GOP convention stating this very idea you express Appleby. She talked about a line being drawn between two sides-those who went to the radical side and those who said no, this is madness and a lies this hatred and lies about America. Before Pallin, this woman was an object of great attack by the left. This coming Tuesday she will get the last laugh over her devious detractors and enemies of those not so distant times. Many of the monsters who went after her are still around in media and holly wood and the democrat party.
Melvin| 10.29.10 @ 7:33AM
"It's going to be all right after Obama." What is the definition of, "After Obama?" Can it be the same as, "After Hillary, Dick Durbin, John Kerry to infinity and beyond."
The only way that those socialist fascists leave office is death. Just like Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd, and Ted Kennedy. They had to be literally carried out on a gurney with an oxygen mask around their face.
Suffering time isn't going to be over for a very long, long time people. Why do you think that the washing machine and stove saleswoman Hillary Clinton is strangely mute, and taking off for parts unknown?
She feels that she deserves the office of the Presidency and there are enough fools out there in TV land that will gladly put her carcass in office. And we thought Barrack was bad.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 8:03AM
Much as I despise Hillary Clinton, I have a hard time believing that she's be doing as bad a job as Obama.
Yes, Hillary is a socialist, but she's first-and-foremost a Hillary-ist. And that means she's not a dogmatic ideologue who would allow her ideological beliefs to threaten her power. In other words, like her husband, she's a chameleon. She'll adapt to the winds-of-change to stay in power.
Because of that, her political instincts are much better than Obama's. Yes, she's made her gaffes and had her idiotic moments, too...She's a liberal. But politically speaking, she knows when to hold'em, and when to fold'em. She would NEVER have allowed Pelosi or Reid to assume the stature they have assumed under Obama, where the media has elevated them to near-equivalent status as the POTUS. Hillary would also have never let any agenda - even healthcare - so disastrously affect her poll numbers and threaten a second term. I don't think Hillary's poll numbers would be hovering around 35% at her first midterm, either
The mistake that Hillary made was signing-on with Obama in the first place. Sure, hindsight is 20/20, but most Conservatives had the intuition to understand that Obama's portaryal of himself as a centrist was false, and that sooner or later the public would reject his policies. Hillary is now in the uncomfortable position of being tainted by her association with Obama, or of being seen as a traitor by some of the Party's key constituencies (namely, black voters) if she quits her job as Sec-State and dares to challenge "The One" in 2012.
Yeah...It's a "lesser-of-two-evils" scenario...But Obama has actually made this die-hard conservative get all misty for Bill Clinton. At least we all had jobs...
George S| 10.29.10 @ 9:17AM
A perfect example of why we are in trouble -- thinking that Hilary isn't "that bad". This is how we got Obama (he can't be THAT bad... Marxist? He's looks so cool, though... he'll come around once elected).
Hilary and Obama are one in the same. The only difference is Hilary is smarter than Obama and would have gotten half the Republicans to vote for the stimulus and the health care bill. Snap out of it dude.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 9:53AM
Snap out of what???
I didn't say that Hillary "isn't THAT bad"; I said she's not "AS bad."
It's a critical distinction, and I stand by it.
The irony is that by being so much worse, Obama has empowered the Conservative base...So maybe that makes HIM better...
My head is spinning. Can we just get rid of these fools?
RichTex| 10.29.10 @ 11:22AM
Hillary isn't as bad as Obama just like Khrushchev wasn't as bad as Stalin. But.....
SonOfSam| 10.29.10 @ 12:40PM
Hi Doc,
point taken, but I think the fellow calling you on this was just expressing the same frustration we all feel for these soul-less, America-hating pigs. Its like that deck of playing cards showing Saddam Hussein, "Chemical" Ali and so on. Sure, there was one guy who the worst in the deck; but the point is, they all needed to be hunted down like the filthy vermin they were, and are.
Likewise, it matters not where some "progressive" stands in the great spectrum of ObamaNazi. They have ALL drunk the Kool-Aid, they are all the enemies of this country, and America will never be free until every one of them is in the ground, in prison, or in exile
Anthony| 10.29.10 @ 10:02AM
Doctor Right, Your first post was absolutely spot on brilliant.
You second post here becomes way too maudlin, pining for Madam Hillary and Hillbilly Bill.
It would be a wonderful thing if both Obozo and Madam Hillary stayed out of the country after election day and took several hundred thousand of their followers with them.
As for you getting misty for BillyBob Clinton, maybe you need to "put some ice on it".
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 10:53AM
Where am I "pining" for Hillary???
I simply stated that she would not be AS bad as Obama, and I explained why.
I don't know when "Not AS bad" somehow became equivalent to "good".
Additionally, when I say I get "misty" for Bill Clinton, I'm obviously being tongue-in-cheek. I despised the man. But die to his own instincts for political survival (and his lust for power), he knew enough to move rightwards after 1994, and the country benefited from his cynicism if not from his personal political beliefs.
Hating Hillary should not prevent you from critically reading what I wrote.
Personally, I think Hillary's ambitions are dead-in-the-water, and I'm glad. She's either tainted by association with Obama, or she's a turn-coat who will divide her Party for her own personal gain.
Don't get me wrong: If she thinks 2012 is her last chance (and it is), she'll choose the latter option. But it won't matter, because the first will still damage her irrevocably.
So I guess I'll state it for the record, juts to make y'all happy:
1. I don't like Hillary Clinton.
2. I think Hillary Clinton would be a bad President.
...Is that okay, you self-appointed guardians of Conservative purity???
Anita| 10.29.10 @ 11:17AM
Uh. Yup.
Steve A| 10.29.10 @ 11:20AM
Dr., No worries. Those here who take the time to actually digest what others write interpret your message clearly,
Anthony| 10.29.10 @ 11:48AM
Dear Doctor, we got the point, I guess some of us aren't in the mood, or perhaps we're just not interested in who's worse, Hillary or Obozo. Neither are suitable options, as you concur.
Anyway, still friends??
Anthony| 10.29.10 @ 11:58AM
P.S. I'm like Ivory Snow Soap, I'm only 99% pure conservative.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 12:06PM
Like salt and pepper.
Anthony| 10.29.10 @ 12:44PM
...And ham & eggs, peanut butter & jelly and baseball and Balentine beer.(that's an oldy NY Yankees ad, circa 1950s)
Doc, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Chalkdust| 10.29.10 @ 1:38PM
Dr. Right:
I liked all your very informative posts, even the ones where you were getting a mite testy with those who could not "see/hear" the inflections in your writings.
Bye the way, don't you find it strange Billy-bub Clinton had many of the same traits and life experiences ( Came of age in the 60's, No father, mother of questionable ...er habits, few child-hood friends, no visible source of funding for the higher charm schools he attended, etc.) as Nobama?
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 2:23PM
I don't think anyone cane get elected President without some of the traits of a narcissist. In fact, in the proper measure, a little bit of narcissism is good for a healthy ego.
Clinton definitely exhibited some of the signs and symptoms of a classic narcissist. Strangely enough, I don't think Clinton is completely non-empathetic like Obama.
I say this only because Clinton seems to have developed real, life-long friendships and loyalties with other human beings, some of them going back to his days in Arkansas. Obama has lots of "mentors" (Reverend Wright, Valerie Jarret, Frank Davis), but I can't think of a single person that is his actual friend.
Clinton IS an egomaniac, no doubt, but that does not mean he's a malignant narcissist. Narcissism is often mistakenly defined as describing someone who is arrogant, aloof, or has an inflated ego. Narcissists are often arrogant and aloof, but ironically, they tend to have very low self-esteem, thus the need to create a new "persona" that projects the image that they want others to see them with.
Bill Clinton, in my humble opinion, does NOT have low self-esteem.
Bruce | 10.31.10 @ 3:28PM
Doc said "I don't think anyone cane get elected President without some of the traits of a narcissist. In fact, in the proper measure, a little bit of narcissism is good for a healthy ego."
Show me a lawyer - any lawyer - who doesn't have narcissist tendencies, Doc. Birds of a feather.
"Lawyers - the larval form of politicians"
Sue| 10.29.10 @ 1:42PM
I'm not a self-appointed guardian of conservativism. I live conservatism in my daily life.
I'm concerned about the "after" the presidency of Obama. I think he'll do more to destroy this Country with his speeches to young people around the globe than he will do the next two years or even six with Republican-checked control (which is doubtful as long as you have Collins, Snowe, and Graham).
He is young and healthy and we'll have to put up with him for around 35 years or so. An example to look to is Carter.
Maybe we should have the age requirement raised to 55 years of age. That way we only have to endure the "has beens" for 10 - 20 years or so.
Doctor Right| 10.29.10 @ 2:27PM
Honestly, I don't worry about this at all.
Once he's out of the White House, he'll spend his life shuttling to and fro, visiting other "elites" in Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East (but NEVER Africa), and bask in the glow of their adulation. He'll receive honorary doctorates galore, and maybe even another Nobel Prize! He'll go on the lecture circuit, too, like Clinton, and make lots of money. He'll also be a vocal critic of his own country and cozy up to America's enemies, like Jimmy Carter.
But honestly, who cares? The most important thing is that he's OUT of the White House!
Bob Grant| 10.30.10 @ 12:58AM
Any relation to Dr. Zero? You share similar insights and writing styles which are top notch.
BirdGirl| 10.29.10 @ 2:31PM
I don't think Hillary actually hates the United States. I don't think she actually wants to fundamentally destroy it as payback for imagined acts of evil. As Rev. Wrong said, "Blah blah, blah blah, Hillary ain't black. etc." Much of Barack Obama's ideation has everything to do with race.
Will| 10.29.10 @ 7:48AM
Got to agree with Melvin, whether he's in office here, or elsewhere, there's plenty more trouble to stir up, albeit with a Secret Service detail ten feet away. Chancellor of Cairo University, or as Mayor of Chicago. The game will continue, the struggle against "the man" never ending. These guys never grow up, and barring some unforeseen incident, the bastard will continue to do what he was raised to, be a thorn in the side of society.
East Texas Rancher| 10.29.10 @ 7:55AM
One almost hopes that Barrack's departure a couple days after the election would work its way into a coup in which he flees to a foreign country, who would give him refuge. Wishful thinking, indeed. We are going to have a long cold winter followed by a Depression, whose depths have yet to successfully be yet navigated. Sad time for us who have lived faithfully and wisely and defended our country through many wars.
East Texas Rancher
believer| 10.29.10 @ 10:07AM
East Texas Rancher- When Obama departs office I wonder if he will take 40 aircraft and the rest of all the logistics that he's taking to India, would be a bargin whatever he takes as the only thing thats left in America is disgust for his sorry tail.
1stcav| 10.29.10 @ 8:03AM
Mr. Wilson, I'm a daily reader (online) of The American Spectator and very much look forward everyday to articles therein. I must correct you on one point in this mornings article. There was NO defeat in Viet Nam and you need to get that story straight. U.S. for never lost a battle in that war. Only spineless politicians in Washington kept our wonderful young men from doing the job that they were sent to do and the whole exercise ended badly. But it DID NOT end in defeat.
cuban pete| 10.29.10 @ 9:48AM
1stcav,
Several years ago I was working out at a gym near Washington DC. when in walked a large group of soldiers-male and female. I suspected they were some sort of special unit. In any event, they were in superb condition and could "kick a-- and take names."
I recall thinking," Just turn these guys loose and our enemy would be subdued in short order."
I say this to buttress your comment about Viet Nam. Had we not constrained our military in Viet Nam there would be no discussion about whether or not we "lost"
By your name I assume you are or were in the military so thank you for your service on behalf of our country.
carnot| 10.31.10 @ 7:06PM
cuban..the military is not immune to self-serving, talent challenged leadership.
FastJohnny| 10.29.10 @ 8:09AM
It is not just that he is stuck in the past and can not get away from that culture of anti-americanism. It is more than that. It is his refusal to grow up and act like an adult, rather than a college freshman who just had his first class in sociology. Many of us had our anti-american moments when we were young impressionable undergrads listening to our political science professors (who at that time were Marxists, because it was fashionable, nowadays it is fashionable to be revisionist) and our biggest worry was whether or not we were going to read the whole assignment or just a couple of chapters. But the difference was that most of us grew up and had to face the real world and all the trials and tribulations that were present in making our way through life. We took on responsibilities and families and had to work our butts off to provide rent money, clothes for our children, pay taxes and hope that we could provide a better chance for our children, just as our parents did for us. Obama somehow missed the part about socially maturing and growing up, most likely because he stayed in the environment of those anti-american thoughts and Marxist values. He wallowed in the filth that was being pumped out of those professors mouths and believed it. To him it was reality, not just some social ideas, at best in very abstract theoretical terms that never exist in reality. No one is saying that one shouldn't be critical of society, but this guy hates it and everything that it stands for. He dislikes everyone that grew up and let thier fancified, ideologically radical views of society slip away and realize that kind of thinking is for the immature, inexperienced and irresponsible. If he had been forced to leave the coddled embrace or academia to make his way in the real world that the rest of America had to face, he would be singing a different tune, instead of "4 dead in ohio".
KS| 10.29.10 @ 8:23AM
"Born in 1959, Obama grew up in the '60s and '70s."
He was born on August 4, 1961. Which source says that he was born in 1959?
Bob K.| 10.29.10 @ 8:50AM
True. And it raises a good point.
He was indoctrinated and imprinted by liberals who came to their maturity in the 60's and 70's. He is the last hurrah of their aging and aged generation which is why they have invested so much in him. Call him their "Manchurian Candidate" if you like.
Ret. Marine| 10.29.10 @ 8:27AM
I believe the article hit upon a known fact that many of this country are recognizing, that the 60's were nothing less of an open rebellion trying to get the rest of this Country to accept their unacceptable moral degradation. This is still a Christian nation by some 86% of the population. If anything, this time period should be explained thoroughly by us parents, if it has not already been done, to all of our children as to the lesson that should, at all cost, be avoided if we to remain a free and open society and that most of the moral class of this Nation considers the liberal mindset to that of a disease, a pox upon a socially moral peoples.
Poor barry my arse, he took it upon himself to accept this type of thinking and actions, and I'm pretty sure no one held a gun to his head and demanded his compliance with the threat of his death hanging over his own free will.
With the upcoming Tuesday's vote of no confidence in his ability to govern, let alone rule as he has clearly done to date, I am hoping will hit him like a ton of Christian souls about to descend upon his lofty ideas, and render him to the bin of guilty as charged. Now lets just decide what to do with a modern day traitor, a usurper of the will of We the People.
Louis Jenkins| 10.29.10 @ 8:55AM
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully."
Count yourself lucky to be on the opposite team. Don't measure yourself by being his friend. Measure yourself by being his enemy. We'll get more milage out of it. The Pretender n Chief has surrounded himself with friends of a by gone era, and our state of affairs reflects it.
Appleby| 10.29.10 @ 9:32AM
To avoid being mistaken for an idiot, I chose my friends carefully. And my friends did likewise. However, my friends and I did not automatically assume that people were idiots without giving them a chance to defend their ideas, cite their sources, and change their minds -- our ours.
That's the difference between Zero and his friends, and me and mine.
Sheila| 10.29.10 @ 11:46AM
I, too, choose my friends carefully. After serious consideration of the inherent conflict between my morals, principles, and hopes for my children's and country's future and the 2008 political beliefs and activities of some I heretofore considered friends, I have terminated such relationships with alacrity. Oh, and I'm not in the least afraid to say that I am definitely NOT a feminist. Tribalism + democracy + stupidity = racist idiocracy.
Old Counselor| 10.29.10 @ 3:18PM
I am sharing w/ my Sunday school class Andy Stanley's excellent series "Guardrails". One of his sermons is based on Proverbs 13:20, "He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." Like Appleby, I too endured the SDS crowd during the 60s while attaining my degree; as many have pointed out, not all of us were pot smoking slackers. Grandma told us "Show me your friends and I will show you your future." May we all teach our children well.
WRTolkas| 10.29.10 @ 8:56AM
From my reading of the editorial, the Marxist-in-Chief would not have survived a half of a semester in an accredited Engineering school. And this is the person that is representing my country? And this is the type of education we are paying for?
I am paying for my son's education in engineering (Go Michigan Tech Huskies!). He will be, sometimes, risking his life as a geological engineer to help wrestle energy from the rocks of the earth so that the idiot-children of this community organizer and his fellow leaches can have a comfortable life.
These idiots want a revolution. In the words of Don Quixote: Do not pursue pleasure...
or thou mayest have the misfortune to overtake it.
Or Patrick Henry: "Let it come!"
Everyone have a safe weekend,
WRTolkas
Anthony| 10.29.10 @ 9:11AM
Ah that damn liberal gene. Poor Obozo, he never had a chance to get out of the '60s.
Oh well, it could be worse, he could have gotten the fat gene. Then we would have had Fat Albert as president, hey, hey, hey......
See you, my brothers and sisters on Tuesday. As Rush says; "we meet at dawn".
Tony in Central PA| 10.29.10 @ 9:55AM
The transformation of the 1960's - idolizing generation into today's Ruling Class Dems was underway by the Democratic National Convention in 1988. I'll never forget Dave Barry's observations that he wrote while covering the convention. There was an area set aside for the young Democrats to expound their views. Dave wrote that he noticed two things about these young lions 1) " They were for 'The People ' and 2) they hated people ".
Reagan Loyalist| 10.29.10 @ 11:17AM
Lovely article, excellent focus on the Presidents DNA - the 1960's and 70's. "STUCK" is an apt description.
Nose Hit| 10.29.10 @ 1:57PM
There is no free lunch.
Just to be alive as a human most basically means that every instant when awake one is PAYING attention. Also, besides this mind function, the body uses senses to FEEL.
Thus, feeling and attention are always defining where one is at, especially wrt opinions and such about today’s crucial opportunity to escape the crisis we’re in—chosen, b y the way, by stupid AND not so stupid people.
Around 2006 I saw a bumper sticker, “If you’re not outraged, you aren’t paying attention”. As a righteous freedom lover, I reacted with attentive pride, “Right on!” I assumed this pithy saying was meant to apply to leftist, and later I saw another one about just wait until 2008---meaning, when we, the people who are paying attention, on the LEFT, get our chance to remove the despicable GWB, all will be copacetic.
WELL!
Another very un-politically correct FACT is that most American voters are in truth—STUPID. That is, they fail to pay attention to what’s being done to them, AND even if they do sometimes realize the truth, they FORGET it, later. Ergo---a steady 40% plus “citizens” can be counted on to be fools, and it’s therefore easy for their foolers to persuade another 10% plus non-attentive voters to buy their crap.
So, when we acknowledge that leftists firmly believe their supporters are stupid, they have that right, ya betcha! And, another commonplace truism is that the GOP is the stupid party!
A whole lot of stupid SPENDING going on!
And, this is simply the complement of the other fact, that people are NOT spending enough time attending to all the tomfoolery going on!
Hence, while we love to correctly undress Obama as Narcissus, ne plus ultra, it is also vital to look in that reflecting lake, OURSELVES.
We are all acting like Narcissus.
What’s in it for---ME?
Me, I’m not saying this is a problem, necessarily, unless taken way too far---witness Obama---but like an alcoholic must recognize this unconscious habit, we must observe and understand the basic essence of the human condition.
Narcissus ELECTED---himself!
BirdGirl| 10.29.10 @ 2:38PM
At any rate we can all be thankful that the only ones the liberals have managed to dumb down are themselves.
Political correctness was designed and meant as a tool to disarm conservative voices. Ironically, it seems the only ones who bought it hook, line and sinker are liberals.
That's not to say it isn't doing damage in the military and most government agencies, but its power to suppress is being vigorously challenged.
Meanwhile the liberals are going around in circles talking nonsense and showing the whole world just how mentally bankrupt they have made themselves.
"Call me Senator." :-)
Wm Paterson| 10.29.10 @ 3:27PM
While I will most certainly relish the trouncing the narcissistic liberals will take next week, we must be very well prepared for the claws to come out. That bunch will not roll over and say "Uncle."
Bruce | 10.29.10 @ 6:16PM
Very true. We will soon see who the REAL "obstructionists" are, won't we?
Margie| 10.29.10 @ 3:30PM
Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav communist leader, who wrote of Marx and his cohorts, "They make a semblance of believing in the ideal of Socialism, in a future society without class. In reality, they believe in nothing but organized power."
It's all about the POWER.
VOTE REPUBLICAN in every and ALL elections to rid the country of this BLIGHT ~ this CANCER called Marxism, Socialism and it's father~Communism.
We are in a fight for our very souls and if you don't believe it you are asleep and it is time to awake from the sleep!
God bless America.
Alan Brooks| 10.29.10 @ 3:43PM
Obama MUST be re-elected, otherwise the GOP will elect another chair-warmer. It's not enough that the GOP wasted four years with Bush 41, and eight years with Dubya-- the GOP wants to throw another four or eight years down the sink.
Margie| 10.29.10 @ 3:51PM
Unfortunately this is the same insanity I hear from some on the side of conservatism.
The philosophy of punishment.
Yeah, that's real smart. Let's lose in order to prove our integrity.
No thanks to joining them if we can't beat them!
Stand strong and vote Republican to win!
Bruce | 10.29.10 @ 6:19PM
That kind of depends on who the People of the GOP nominate, doesn't it, Brooksie? Most of us have no intention of leaving this up to the "gentlemens club" again. Or are you planning to sit back on your ass and go along to get along?
Bruce | 10.30.10 @ 12:54PM
I assume you have a point here, though for the life of me I don't see one.
Gran Torino| 10.31.10 @ 12:12AM
Alan Brooks,
Your logic is unbelievably stupid. Bad as the Bush boys might have been (or Dole or any RINO), you really think that 4 more years of Obama would be better? There is now a ton of evidence that Obama hates America. Are you freakin' insane? I thought that Dubya sucked, for example, when it came to illegal immigration. He didn't do squat. But Obama would be better? Are you crazy or just stupid? Is your logic that then, after a total of 8 years, the Democrats would have gone down in flames, never to rise again, and that the Republicans would then rule and reign for a thousand years? There would be nothing left of our country after 8 years of Obama! We would be a 3rd world country at best, and possibly ruled by Sharia law by then. Are you stupid? Maybe next time you post, you should explain your logic (if you have any) instead of throwing out a line or two. You ain't a pimple on Doctor Right's ass! Or Booger's either, for that matter.
J Aku-Head Pupule| 10.29.10 @ 4:22PM
One thing not mentioned is the key to his behavior, namely: “Dreams FROM my Father”.
He was alienated and disaffected long before he first set foot on the American mainland at age 17. His worshipped father abandoned him at age two and his equally worshipful (if stupid) mother so he could go to Harvard and marry someone else (not bothered by the fact that he was also at the time married to a woman in Kenya)
After dragging him around in her wake, his trivial tumbleweed of a mother in search of academic credentialing dumped her own father-abandoned son on HER mother during his sensitive teen years.
He agonized trying to discover what became of his drunk, bigamist, dead beat failed backwater bureaucrat of a father who had chosen the wrong political side in Kenya. And once he learned the awful truth he determined to spend the rest of his life living in denial by pretending that HE the son would realize the dreams FROM the father who failed to achieve those dreams . . . and thus recreate his long dead father in an heroic image.
And what were the dreams? To defeat what the father perceived was the great evil in the world, residual neocolonialism. And who was the absolute worst of the neocolonialists? America.
Thus the task the current occupant of the White House has set himself to with focused, laser like intensity is the humbling of America both at home (economically) and abroad (militarily). Every action he has taken since he muffed his oath of office on 20 Jan 2009 – from bowing to the King of the country that contains both Mecca and Medina to dismantling our missile defense in Europe to shutting down all US offshore drilling in our waters -- has been taken to advance this dream FROM his father by way of compensating for the lonely bitter life his father bequeathed him as his “legacy”.
We are, in short, being presided over by a ghost. Think of the Presidency as self-administered psychiatric intervention by a VERY troubled person who may NEVER get in touch with the real world of the 21st century.
Ned| 10.29.10 @ 4:38PM
To quibble just a bit: The military of the United States of America did NOT "lose" in Vietnam. We fought the North to a standstill by 1971, and stood-up the forces of the South, with promises to support them as needed. The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 marked the end of our military presence, but the promises of support remained in play. Those promises were subverted by the Dim-O-crap Congress, in the aftermath of Watergate, and the South was left twisting in the wind. The South had three times the artillery, twice as many tanks and men, and 1400 aircraft to none, but no money for fuel, thanks to the cowards in Congress.
And, to finally get to the point I wanted to make, THAT is why I opposed the Iraq war - not because it was a bad idea, or I didn't think that there was much to be gained, or that we wouldn't do well - but because I expected the Dim-O-crap in Congress to do the same cowardly run-and-hide routine again. They didn't let me down.
J. Aku-Head Pupule| 10.29.10 @ 5:32PM
Well said!
"An American Amnesia" is strongly recommended reading.
The instrument signed grudgingly by the DRV in the wake of the Linebacker II December bombing of alfa targets in Hanoi and Haiphong, inter alia, granted to the US and to the RVN virtually all of their demands. The war at that point was won in every sense of the word.
The Cry Baby Boom draft dodging flag and draft card burners -- and their amen chorus in the "news" media -- were beside themselves with rage . . . . as was McGovern after having been humiliated with a 49 state blow out defeat in the 1972 re-election of the President who actually LED our victorious forces.
These virulently anti-American elements conspired to turn our victory into a defeat and turn it they did.
The McGovern led 194th Congress that took power after Nixon was hounded from office on a triviality broke the provisions of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1973 that codified the American victory. The Cry Baby Boom dominated Democrat Party then cut off funding to a wartime ally with the full knowledge they would be invaded and defeated.
When that defeat was solidifed in April 1975, the Cry Baby Boom element then turned a blind eye to the killing fields THEY had created by aborgating this treaty, turned their backs on the millions of Cambodians, Vietnamese and Laotians whose blood they will forever have on their bloody paws.
Barrel of a Pun| 10.29.10 @ 11:55PM
I need to thank DR. RIGHT for not only providing clinical insight into Barry Soetoro (by the way, the name change(s) MUST be an indicator and factor as well, do you agree? - but also for providing a strategy for dealing with my ex-wife, also a narcisst, and pychopath. Thanks Doc.
Michael F| 10.30.10 @ 3:54PM
Great essay, great discussion.
I think this Internet blogosphere thingy has become a post-graduate education in civics for all of us who participate.
Thanks to all. Enjoy All Hallows Eve and November 2nd!
Sid Vicious| 10.30.10 @ 4:06PM
"The next time he says, "I say, can anyone out there hear me?" my guess is that... nobody will look up from what they are doing. People will tune him out."
It's already happening. When Uhhhbama talks, America changes the channel.
Kingofthenet| 10.30.10 @ 8:39PM
Whenever I talk to my Republican friends, they ALWAYS mention that they support Republicans because Taxes are too high. So I ask them a simple question, Compared to what? This simple question somehow STUNS them, so I try to help, compared to what you were percentage you were paying in 2008, 2000, Maybe under REAGAN? Perhaps you want to INSTEAD to compare it to other Modern Western Democracies, like the UK or France, or Switzerland. So please tell me Compared to what, are taxes high?
Dave M. (now in S. Korea)| 10.30.10 @ 9:52PM
Compared to what is conducive to a burgeoning and expansive private sector. Please take the time to look at California. Because of sky high taxes, which include income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, VAT, state and local fees, stifling regulation, etc., California has lost thousands of jobs and thousands of citizens because it is just too expensive to do business there. At the same time, however, the public sector has continued to increase thereby making an already cash strapped state even more broke. So, the comparison is to basic logic, rationality and reality.
By the way, as an American I do not necessarily take my cues from what other countries do. The U.S. has been the place where the rest of the world has come to get away from the rest of the world. Why in the heck should we care what the rest of the world does?
Dave M. (now in S. Korea)| 10.30.10 @ 9:42PM
"We were alienated." He was alienated, but it was a false alienation, one that he chose. He did not want to be a "sell out," which is black code speak for not wanting to have white friends. Thus, one of his first decisions after leaving the comfort of his white family, was to throw them under the bus. Obama is not a good man. He does not judge men by the content of their character; he only looks at race. He is bad for the U.S. and has set this country back by about forty years in the past twenty months. We can barely survive another two years of this man and will not survive if he is re-elected.
Mercy Flush| 11.1.10 @ 2:15AM
Zackly. Well put.
Rowdy Boots| 10.30.10 @ 11:04PM
Barrack Hussein Obama is
A GOD DAMNED LIAR.
NEED I COUNT THE LIES? NO. IT'S ALL IN THE RECORD.
MAY HIS MISERY AND HIS STORY FOREVER BE REMEMBERED AS
AN AMERICAN GREEK TRAGEDY: PRIDE OF POWER BLINDED HIM TO HIS FAULTS AND REINFORCED HIS SENSE OF SUPERIORITY UNTIL ALL THOSE AROUND HIM PLOTTED FOR HIS DEMISE.
ROWDY BOOTS
DaveS| 10.31.10 @ 10:14AM
A few decent (parroted) observations, here and there. Please, folks, do not be surprised if some kind of late-inning sympathy-creating staged action throws a wrench into Tuesday's re-revolution.
Jay McPherson| 11.1.10 @ 6:19PM
Anyone identified with their own ego is a narcissist, so that describes everyone who comments here, and all but a few saints. JFK was one, so was Lincoln, Washington, Reagan (certainly if there EVER was one). Obama is a liar? So are you. Any you know it. Doesn't matter if one does not lie to people's faces. An honest person is one who's honest when no one is watching. Get it?
Todd S| 11.1.10 @ 10:54PM
What an inane useless comment, is that all you got Jay? What exactly is your point? No point at all, probably like your life.
Todd S| 11.1.10 @ 11:54PM
Sorry Jay, that was an inane comment I just made, and insulting too. You are right.
Jay McPherson| 11.2.10 @ 12:06AM
Hey Todd, no apology needed. I was simply pointing out that all of these comments are blaming. There is not anyone who can REALLY blame Obama, or anyone ELSE for the state of their life. People get where they get through the decisions THEY make. you follow a path YOU take. To finger point, to blame Obama, Bigfoot, the economy, taxes, France, black people, you name it, they are ALL in the same club, and that's the liars club. The fact that you wanted to strike out at me means something, and proves my point.
weddingdress | 7.1.11 @ 1:08AM
Anyone identified with their own ego is a narcissist, so that describes everyone who comments here, and all but a few saints. JFK was one, so was Lincoln, Washington, Reagan (certainly if there EVER was one). Obama is a liar? So are you. Any you know it. Doesn't matter if one does not lie to people's faces. An honest person is one who's honest when no one is watching. Get it?