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Shorter David Horowitz

By W. James Antle, III on 4.2.09 @ 3:37PM

Based on this FrontPage column: "As long as Obama doesn't mess with our wars, let's not get too upset." Of course conservatives shouldn't becomes obsessed with kooky anti-Obama conspiracy theories and should maintain some sense of proportion. But a little bit of outrage against this president's domestic policies wouldn't be inappropriate.

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Matthew Vadum| 4.2.09 @ 6:34PM

I agree with David Horowitz but that doesn't mean Obama isn't pursuing Mussolini-style corporatist policies. Obviously, though, Obama is no Il Duce: Mussolini was a much snappier dresser and was vastly more intelligent and articulate than our president.

Matthew Vadum| 4.2.09 @ 11:08PM

I should add I don't think, "As long as Obama doesn't mess with our wars, let's not get too upset," fairly sums up the piece. If it did, I wouldn't agree with it.

W. James Antle III | 4.3.09 @ 1:51AM

Every argument he presents for Obama's reasonableness comes from his sort-of war support or dismantling straw men about Obama the Antichrist. If Obama had veered in a different direction on foreign policy, there is no way this piece would have ever been written.

Kitty| 4.3.09 @ 7:12AM

Some of us figured Barry wouldn't pull out of Iraq because he couldn't have that kind of disaster pinned on him. So I give him no credit for following Bush's plan because his motives are not ideological; they're purely political. The better test will be how he handles the new conflicts yet to come.

FTA: "Hopefully, he will make the right choices, and should he do so conservatives will need to be there to support him."

When it concerns national security, I would be very surprised if conservatives didn't support him should he make the right choice.

I am not reassured by anything Barry has done. He is a frightening man.
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Crusader| 4.3.09 @ 8:55AM

Is there a conservative left who still thinks Barry the muslim will govern from the center? Wasn't that what we were sold between Nov 5th & Jan 20th by our so-called "leaders?"

He's going to handle the new conflicts the way that most makes America look bad, or gets the most Americans killed, or "puts us in our place." That's it.