Quivering thighs at The Province;
Rapt eyes shone as Obama spoke with stunning eloquence of re-building America. When the president delivered perhaps his most impressive rhetorical offering, telling the world’s tyrants, “We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist,” many in the audience gasped audibly at the sheer power of his language.
I haven’t seen a group of people wearing their fervour so completely, and so uniformly, since a guy I used to work with brought me to visit his weird sex cult in California.
But maybe Obama, unlike the cult leader in the purple house, really deserves this worship.
Article: Certainly, the simple fact that the most powerful nation on Earth, with a history of slavery and racial oppression, has inaugurated a black president is momentous.
Logical Response: Is there a nation on Earth without a history of slavery and racial oppression? How many nations have also gone to war to end slavery and oppression both home and abroad? How many have spent millions of dollars and enacted hundreds of laws to prevent oppression?
Article: Millions of Canadians and Americans are expecting nothing short of a revolution in the way the United States is run. Obstacles to change are huge — powerful corporate and political interests stand in the way, and will fight to maintain a regime that favours the few, domestically and around the globe.
Logical Response: You mean the powerful corporations and political interests Obama is supporting with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money? Those guys???
Article: Obama tells us that America should become a country that acts as a force for good in the world, promoting peace and equality, protecting the environment, helping the downtrodden.
Logical Response: How’s he going to do that when push comes to shove? With military and police force? Or with crocodile tears and UN talk?
O BAAAAAAAAA ma!
Stay tuned, comrade ulinov.
Never in the history, of economic turmoil and the uncertainty of WAR,
Has one MAN, said so much and conveyed so little……..
A great speach, it allowed 320 million Americans, and countless millions across the world to interpret the meaning any way they wanted to…
Think this man is our new Saviour, but won’t be disappointed (I think Obama said it) a long time; for him to solve the US and world problems…
Too bad, he can only have 2 terms… FDR alas was the last President allowed an extended tenure….
When does he serve them the koolaide?
After today, Odummer would be a better name.
And when the honeymoon is over, the Obamassiah is going to look around for a scapegoat, and he’s going to pick………CANADA! The only place he can get water, oil, a place for his unemployed soldiers, and votes for the Dems all at the same time.
just read on Drudge about the O’s speech addressing Israel and pals, lots of words and nothing said, if this is how he intends to proceed I give him 2 weeks before reality kicks him rite in the nutz
he just does not understand the realities of the issues
Where I come from we have this saying, you might have heard it, talk is cheap.
I’m waiting for the time when the gushing, fawning MSM begin to realize they have been had, yet again, and begin to start turning on the messiah.
Probably later than sooner, but it will be more than interesting when it happens…
The left has gone from Bush Derangement Syndrome to Obama Derangement Syndrome. I think I preferred them equating Bush to Hitler than dry-humping Obama’s leg with such gusto.
Over the course of the last few days, I have finally come to understand how Hitler rose to power. By understand, I mean that while intellectually I could always get my head around the details of his appeal to a wounded sense of German nationality, the appeal of revenge because their country had not lost WWI, but been betrayed, and then bankrupted by foreign powers, I failed to see how any honest German could not have looked at Hitler, and his Nazis, and said, “That is evil, and I will shun it.”
I never got it on an emotional level.
Before the rash go all Godwinny on me, or blow a mental gasket for lumping the current President of the United States in the same category as the last one – namely, it’s OK to compare any president to Hitler, as long as it’s Bush – let me explain of what I write.
In this article one can see that whatever Obama is as a human has been exaggerated to fill out the writer’s idea of Obama as a superman. The writer wants him to be that superman, to dump on Obama’s shoulders all of his worries, anxieties and fears, and absolve him of all responsibility for living his own life. Nothing will be left but to cheer the faithful under the banner of the One on to Utopia. The prospect of putting down his life’s burden has blinded the author to the truth of the man he is hailing.
So rose Hitler, lifted up by thousands of everyday people who wanted, who needed, him to be the answer to everything that threatened them.
In this case, the simple truth is not that Obama has an American Reich in mind; it is that Obama is just a man, and will pull no miracles out of his magic hat to save us all. He will not walk on water because he cannot, and the more feverish among us need to remember that.
You, too can be an icon.
Obamificate your picture at
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
Amaze your friends.
Be the hope we can change.
The Province isn’t fit for wrapping fish or starting fires and I wouldn’t even use it to housebreak a dog I liked.
In my 51 years of life I cannot remember another leader who has gotten such a free pass from the press – not even Trudeau and Trudeaumania. Obama has no experience running anything. He has written 0 scholarly publications while a university professor. He has written 0 articles of commentary. He has written 2 books about himself. He has originated 0 significant pieces of legislation while a Senator in Illinois or Washington. Never has a person who has done so little gone so far so fast.
My biggest worry is that everything for him has been so easy compared to any other politician – when the sh*t hits the fan on some crisis he will literally be learning on the job. When criticism from at home and around the world starts happening as a result of actions or in-actions he has taken how will he react? Because of his past history and the media he’s never faced any real adversity unlike any other serious candidate. We could be witness to the biggest public meltdown in history and this will set back the Black movement for a long time to come.
We are seeing the results of affirmative action played out in the most powerful position in the world. I for one am very worried.
Is The Province the Canadian version of the The Onion?
The Province isn’t fit for wrapping fish or starting fires and I wouldn’t even use it to housebreak a dog I liked.
NorthernLight,
One Democratic member of the House (Rep. José Serrano, NY) has already submitted a proposal to repeal the 22nd amendment – which is the one which limits presidents to 2 terms.
It will be no surprise to me if this makes it at least as far as being submitted to the individual states for approval, of which 2/3 must approve the measure for it to be enacted. I doubt that there will be sufficient popular support to pass the amendment repealing the amendment, but who knows – a poltical machine that could come up with over $700 million to get “The One” elected may way have enough tricks left to influence 35 state referendums.
There was a lot of talk amongst the far-left about how Bush would become a dictator; how 9/11 and the war in Iraq were covers to allow taking permanent control of the USA. No efforts of any kind were ever made to make that happen. It appears that it is the far-left which intends to actually accomplish that which they ranted about – typical hypocrisy.
BTW Kate, the entire paper really ought to be flagged as inappropriate…
Has Obama surpassed Roberto Luongo as the most popular person in Vancouver? I suggest a shootout to settle this.
http://overheardinsaskatoon.blogspot.com/
That honour falls to the Star or the Mop and Pail gregg.
Not quite the same strength as, “Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall.”
kakola said: “the Obamassiah is going to look around for a scapegoat”.
O & Hildabeast have found scapegoat #1.
(This is from The Independent, a NYSlimes newspaper.)
…-
“Obama ready to cut Karzai adrift
Barack Obama’s arrival in the White House and the wind of change sweeping through Washington could lead to the ousting from power of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, The Independent has learnt” (nnw)
That article reads like a parody. That “journalist” should be ashamed to have their name attached to drivel like that. Just pathetic…but somehow it’s appearance in the paper does not surprise me at all.
Posted by: Fritz at January 22, 2009 9:29 PM
Very well said, Fritz. Even hillary noted that POTUS shouldn’t be a vocation whereby one has to “learn on the job”. Obama is an entire media creation; sometimes I think the guy isn’t real at all… he’s just an ideal that looks like a man. I doubt whether he can even hope to measure up.
If he “succeeds”, this means bad tidings for the world’s last hope for democracy and the free market. If he fails… this will either be good for conservatives, or extremely bad for everyone, everywhere.
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
If he names the dog Kyoto, be afraid… be very afraid.
I think that sometime in the future the author will be very embarassed the he or she wrote this. Just try andfind someone who now admits that they voted for jimmy carter.
And just as newspapers everywhere are in trouble, these clowns choose this moment to further prove just how inept and shallow they are. “unclench your fist…” Jeebus, how friggin’ lame.
It’s fortunate, really, because just as freedom of speech enables haters to emerge so I can identify them, this moment has allowed the foolish to go on parade. ibbitson at the globe wrote endless columns salivating over the o man, and now we’re expected to read his crap as reporting. At least we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Has Obama surpassed Roberto Luongo as the most popular person in Vancouver? Let’s have a hockey shootout to settle this.
The article is beyond belief. I don’t know why I am writing this. These people are hopeless. Unbelievable. At least the flacks who praised Hitler, Stalin, and Mao knew that their heads depended on their effusions.
Or do the Province people know something we don’t?
If your thing is to make “reporters” swoon, do it like the chosen one:
http://www.cueprompter.com/
“His words were as a great, swollen, purple member of Hope, thrusting, plunging, sinking into my withered, quivering love pudding of Change.”
Fritz; be very worried. Two examples in my history with an election of “The One”. Well, three actually. The first being John Diefenbaker. The Prairie Messiah actually got us out of a bad recession by devaluing the dollar. But he had no management experience, could not compromise, and made too many enemies.
The second was John Kennedy. He near got us in a Nuclear exchange with the USSR and we were likely saved by Khrushchev, who had underestimated him because of his naivety. He also got his country deep into the Vietnam War, not to mention Bay of Pigs.
The next was P.E.T.. Trudeau’s legacy has been much debated on these pages.
Bottom line; If “The One” of today does a good job it will be without precedent as far as I’m concerned.
Heard on the news today that 9/11 victim families are not happy with Obama decision to close Guantanamo and are worried that this indicates a new softness on terrorism.
I’m thinking that this is the beginning of many, many issues where he will begin to lose fans because when push comes to shove as POTUS you need to make decisions and any decision will have people in favor of and opposed to.
Right now he is able to be all things to all people but this cannot and will not last.
ulianov,
I guess the kind of aimless, raw hatred you cultivated and nurtured like a cherished plant over the last 8 years isn’t just going to go away.
But for your own sake, try. Think of wonderful, positive things, like people you don’t agree with being shot or gassed. Find a happy place where your hate can fester in peace.
I’ll wager the Toronto Star has some threads for people like you, whose pus-like hate is still oozing and re-festering.
Change!
Maureen,
You missed “throbbing”.
As in … great, swollen, throbbing, purple member …
Some like to use pulsating instead.
“Throbbing?” That would have been vulgar.
🙂
On the bright side, when Obama either screws up badly or does something in the U.S.’s best interests that upsets our liberal media so that they have to criticize him, say tearing up NAFTA (no, that’s not a prediction), I’m going to take great delight in pressing the Toronto Star‘s ombudsman on the Star‘s racist criticism of a black man.
BTW, isn’t clenched fisting pretty well mandatory in weird sex cults in California?
Every now and again, when things just don’t seem to go the way I intend them to and I get that feeling of discouragement, I always read and re-read if needed the man in the arena by Teddy Roosevelt. Today I googled his name and there were a ton of quotes by the man, from nearly a 100 years ago, prophetic in how they relate to the happenings of the day.
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.”
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.”
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”(Heh.)
Adrian Harewood on CBC radio opened his interview on Tuesday with Senator Jerry Grafstein by saying ” It was the greatest speech in history”. The senator’s gushing comments appeared to agree. I guess millions of others agree as well but not me.
Jim
Seriously…what is missing in these peoples lives, media and groupies,that they are so willing to fill their ’empty spaces’ with Obama?
For Lincoln Thorne, a black Vancouver man of dual Canadian and American citizenship, Obama’s inauguration heralds the beginning of the end of racial divisions.
“Now it’s time to come back together,” Thorne said. “It’s time to stop all the hate and go in a positive direction.”
Where is this hate Mr. Thorne mentions coming from?
I can only assume that he means now that a black man has been made POTUS, he can now (and hopefully will) try to stop hating caucasians.
andycanuck,
They know that and will apologize, excuse, deny, ignore, and humiliate themselves before they write anything even remotely critical of Obama.
Ever seen Haroon Siddiqui write anything critical of radical Islam? Antonia Zerbasias? These people know how to avoid criticizing ideological bedfellows.
“Teddy Roosevelt”
He was pretty good in that Night at the Museum movie, I wish he do more films.
Slapping the monkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmCzPxVCAQ
Just when you think they can’t get any more pathetic.
I think Obama is giving me diabetes!
Is there a nation on Earth without a history of slavery and racial oppression?
Google “Modern African Slave Trade”.
A lot of great comments and in particular 3 cheers for Fritz who clearly states what is on everyones mind. “FEAR” It would be less than mature not to worry about mindless worship.
With regard to the vancouver Province, one has to accept that the scribble reflects the “nutbar” crowd that runs City hall. It’s not new in drizzle land, but it does get boring! In Vancouver just when you think they (city hall)
has done something really stupid, wait awhile
and they do it all again!
My biggest worry is that when Americans are really harmed by Mr Obama’s directions the shit will really hit the fan. We shall see.
Rapt eyes shone as kate spoke with stunning eloquence of tearing down America. When she delivered perhaps her most impressive rhetorical offering, telling the world’s whiny conservatives, “We will extend a hand to destroy the american democracy ” many in the audience of tilted kilts gasped audibly at the sheer insanity as they murmured like little jonestown cultists that all must drink the SDA coolaide.
I haven’t seen a group of people wearing their fervour so completely, and so uniformly, since a guy I used to work with brought me to visit a state mental institution
But maybe so like the ex would be cult leader recently slunk from our own sacred White House, Kate really deserves this worship….or a good flogging at the hands of American patriots…hmmm?
I was flippin through the channels and Segorni Weaver was being interviewed, I think it was on the View or somthing and she actually gave “o” the hitler salute…seriously she did. I though these peple are memorized there is no other explanation for it. Also, I heard “o” took the oath again – no reporters or camera’s aloud. “he did not bring his bible though” ….odd. His “flubbing” the expected response is what Miltons calls ” a classic hypnotic induction” – when you interupt something a person fully expects, like a hand shake for instance – and move your thumb or any finger for that matter and touch the top of someones hand during the shake – the person becomes so focused on the thing not expected that they become hyper suggestable.Everything the person says or done thereafter is noted. Perhaps the “flub” was on purpose. Not trying to be paranoid but this guy does some pretty strange sh!t.
I was flippin through the channels and Segorni Weaver was being interviewed, I think it was on the View or somthing and she actually gave “o” the hitler salute…seriously she did. I though these peple are memorized there is no other explanation for it. Also, I heard “o” took the oath again – no reporters or camera’s aloud. “he did not bring his bible though” ….odd. His “flubbing” the expected response is what Miltons calls ” a classic hypnotic induction” – when you interupt something a person fully expects, like a hand shake for instance – and move your thumb or any finger for that matter and touch the top of someones hand during the shake – the person becomes so focused on the thing not expected that they become hyper suggestable.Everything the person says or done thereafter is noted. Perhaps the “flub” was on purpose. Not trying to be paranoid but this guy does some pretty strange sh!t.