Take Me, Obama

Unlike most blogs, I read Althouse for the comments.

We older buzzards that lurk here also remember the swooning adulation and creamy pants over Trudeau, especially from women,( who had they been hit on by Turdo in a bar would have barfed their gin), but when the CBC and all the Toronto based media told them how "groovy" Turdo was, well we had Turdomania, shazam the Americans got Obongomania, and the cracks are running deeper than the San Andreas with Obongo's corruption.

I used to read Peggy Noonan too, before her infatuation with President McDreamy. I can't read Noonan now, a complete sell out in my view however I still find Althouse interesting at times.

If you agree that we are manipulated by the MSM, I think you may also agree that unknown forces behind the scene were responsible for the Obama election..

The Republicans just went throught the motions without much emotion,..except for Palin... McCain always was a dud & he lackluster performance was predictable

Just Saying!

bartinsky and like Canadians are still dealing with the fallout from Turdo's regime, it will take decades for the Americans to recover from Obama's commissar regime.

Whew- she defines Obama as having 'steely nerve, intelligence and groundedness'? What alien cave is she hiding in??

Obama is a performance; he's a slick superficial manipulator, of shallow intellect, ill-read and ignorant; lacking curiosity and any logical and critical skills. His sole focus, since his childhood, has been his psychological need to control other people. Add to that, his embedded upbringing within anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, anti-white...and you have a sociopath in the wings.

Obama long ago moved into a world made up totally of words. These words do not refer to objective factual reality as do most people's use of words. No, they have one agenda: to manipulate you into accepting him as dominant over you. So, since Obama's words don't refer to reality...then, reality moved further and further away from Obama's world.

He has no interest in it; his sole focus is on Feeling Powerful. He simply ignores anything that he feels he can't control (Iran) and anything that he feels didn't go His way (the 2010 election, Congress).

His irritation, his sense of being under attack, as reality flings itself more and more against his Virtual World of Words..is evident. He delegates all dealings with ths Real World; he confines himself to the Virtual World of Campaigns and rhetoric. But, how long can he put up with the 'slings and arrows' of reality? And how long can the Democrats deal with a president who lives in such isolation? How long can the GOP and the rest of America deal with him?

"How long can the GOP and the rest of America deal with him?"

Four more years, if the Republicans don't get a credible candidate out there to run against the Messiah.

What a bloody mess America will be if Obama gets another term.

BUT, is the American Media Party going to endlessly propagandize for their beloved again? If so, the Republicans have a long hill to climb.

"...his sleazy financial dealings, the millions in untraceable campaign contributions, his creepy followers...the meaningless campaign slogans..."

Ho-hum. That's not a description of Obama, that's a description of every politician in America.

dmorris, in some ways I agree with you but as America sinks further into the financial abyss with actual unemployment around 21% people may turn to the GOP out of desperation.

ET, as usual you nail Obama's character to the wall but Althouse is typical of my Liberal friends here in Ontario. Despite McGuinty, by any indicator or facet you want to look at, having driven Ontario into absolute disaster yet for Liberals it simply doesn't matter to them even as it has hit their own personal finances. They. Simply. Don't. Care. They're Liberals now and always.

One of my teacher friends even went to Washington to watch Obama's inauguration and still feels he is being unfairly attacked.

ET I agree but he does have those qualities although mis-spent.
"steely nerve" he doesn't give a rat's rear what the people want.
"intelligence" he became a millionaire whilst playing golf and getting people killed.
"groundedness" his putting skills.

"I am persuaded that a lot of people voted for Obama because of Palin."

I am persuaded that a lot of people voted for McCain because of Palin.

And I think it's likely that Althouse voted for Obama because he's Black. Principled people vote for a candidate regardless of his race, not because of it.

dave - yes, that's a common mode of behaviour among liberals. I'll refer to Charles Peirce, my favourite philosopher, who talks about the need to resolve and get rid of the troublesome feelings of DOUBT...and replace it with the soothing assurances of BELIEF. There are a number of roads to arrive at belief..which ends all need to continue to inquire.

First, is the authoritarian - where our doubts are resolved and beliefs determined by some external authority: religious or expert...That's the simplest tactic. God said such and such; The doctors say that thalidomide will help...; Obama said - the oceans will cease to rise..we believe him and relax. Obama says 'the stimulus will work'..we believe him. And anything that harms it is the work of Satan etc.

Second, is the emotional a priori whim, where we come to a belief that doesn't agree with examined experience but which we feel 'inclined to believe'. It satisfies our emotions, or our friends, or our desires for the way things 'ought to be'. So, your liberal friends feel that Obama 'ought to be praised' and so, they do so. This is the mode where one day DSK is villified and the very next day, his accuser, the maid, is villified.

Third, is tenacity, where we come to a belief because we have 'always held it', such as 'our group/family always votes Liberal/Democrat'..and that ceases all need to inquire and question. This requires firm isolation; you don't appreciate other's questions and debates; you don't watch FOX news but stick to the CBC or MSNBC. A 'steady and immovable faith brings great peace of mind' and this is the method of indoctrination, social engineering, the liberal education.

The last method, the scientific, is the purest and noblest because it rests within the faculty of reason and the element of freedom to doubt, question and explore. Freedom and doubt, however, require risk-taking, questioning, uncertainty - and most of us prefer to have the ease of 'my mind's made up; don't bother me with facts'.

Union members and Professors of Law confuse seniority and tenure with an employable skill. Fortunately, their confusion will be cleared sometime very soon.

That was an unbelievably pretentious observation AA made about her Obama vote. Do you suppose she was serious?

"And I think it's likely that Althouse voted for Obama because he's Black."

That was my second guess.

Althouse is on record as declaring herself a lifelong Democrat.
Her rational choice was quite simple, she cooly voted for the Democrat candidate and no doubt will again.

It takes work to think, question, examine and reexamine.
It seems to me that a lot of people aren't willing or don't have the ability to put forth that effort. ie: critical thinking.
We live in a society where everything is supposed to be "fun".
Learning is supposed to be "fun". Work is the means to an end...."fun". How many times do I hear that from people in my life. The quick fix is desirable and alluring and... oh so much..... easier.

America figured it would have a black President. What they got is the Mob with a guy who is about as black as I am.
They got a puppet to certain interests, upon which he had been grommed for years.
This guy was Americas Trojan horse for socialism.
One who has been coddeled by these interests since youth.
A golf addict who can't make rational decisions.
Always picks the wrong way, the worst friends & has nothing but contempt for America & its Constotution. All held together by a leftist bedazzeled Media that has no horse sense.
Obama is a communist . Being black is only an accident. Used mainy to shut his critics up as racists.
He's whiter than MR Clean in action, part of the Elite not the mean streets.
JMO

2 actors have become President:

One excelled at both;

one excelled at neither...

Obama is the old newspaper joke, "Black and White and RED all over"

State slavery (Communism) is documented too. Ken (Kulak) has given SDAers insight into that horrific institution many, many times right here at SDA. State slavery (and by extension, private slave ownership - the head honchos in Communist countries have a pool of slaves to use for their own purposes) is alive all over the globe and it is breathing down the neck of USA. While Americans are mesmerized by the wart of 18th and 19th century 'black' slavery, they are allowing state slavery to move into the USA.

All North Americans should brush up on the history of slavery before they sell themselves and their children for nothing. All peoples of every race have been sold into slavery at some time in the past. Slavery is the most egregious blight known to mankind; it dresses up in many costumes and comes in many colors.

People like Ann 'Alehorse' are playing right into the hand of state slavery advocates, IMO.

You might think a prof at one of the top public US law schools would be a better evaluator, but then liberalism is only prevalent among those whose emotions supersede their intellect.

Why the the son of a white woman and a man from Kenya black?

There were a number of Obama voters who were libertarians wanting desperately to punish the Republicans for good reasons. That was a scorched-earth policy that was hard to stomach.

One positive that has come out of this disaster is that McCain would have certainly screwed-up the handling of the recession / depression almost as bad as Obama. The Republicans now, thanks to the Tea Party, have a good chance of starting the road to recovery without the baggage of holding the Presidency while the economy tanks. Obama wasn't terribly responsible for the legacy of the US leviathan stasis which essentially flattened the private sector GDP from 1998 onwards, but he is certainly in favour of every bad policy that did.

john chittick - interesting analysis. Thanks.

I agree with you about McCain. And, yes, the rise of the Tea Party might not have occurred if McCain had won - and the Tea Party is one of the most vibrant and important agendas in the recent US - attempting to turn aside the post WWII socialist agenda (which I think is peaking now under Obama) and return back to the fundamental strengths of the US.

Hope you are right ET, as this is in store for us otherwise. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/017250.html#comments

I'm with John Chittick on this. I'm not suggesting for a moment that Obama has been anything better than dismal as a president. But as far as I can see, we are only just getting to the point where it starts to be reasonable to say that he wasn't the better candidate on offer. And things will have to get a good deal worse before we can say that he's been appreciably worse than McCain would have been.

Of course, things are going to get a deal worse soon enough; I'm in no rush to get there. But it reminds me why it was wise of Peter Brimelow to say that the truly terrifying thing about most elections is that one of these candidates has to win.

Black Mamba is exactly right. While many people would have voted for a white man as unqualified and empty as Barack Obama -- yellow-dog Democrats, people angry with Bush, etc. -- the thrill of being able to prove that one was not a racist by voting for a black man for the presidency was irresistable to many more.

The liberals got all worked up, and elected a President.
Only to realize, they elected a politician.
In the process, the U.S. has been sent afloat without any direction, without an anchor, it is subject to the prevailing breezes, and in need of an experienced captain, yet none apply.