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January 22, 2009

Take Me, Obama

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.


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Posted by Kate at January 22, 2009 6:52 PM
Comments

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?

Posted by: langmann at January 22, 2009 8:14 PM

O BAAAAAAAAA ma!

Posted by: Doug at January 22, 2009 8:19 PM

Stay tuned, comrade ulinov.

Posted by: Eskimo at January 22, 2009 8:20 PM

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....

Posted by: NorthternLight at January 22, 2009 8:24 PM

When does he serve them the koolaide?

After today, Odummer would be a better name.

Posted by: bill at January 22, 2009 8:27 PM

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.

Posted by: kakola at January 22, 2009 8:31 PM

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

Posted by: GYM at January 22, 2009 8:33 PM

Where I come from we have this saying, you might have heard it, talk is cheap.

Posted by: ducktrapper at January 22, 2009 8:38 PM

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...

Posted by: Bruce at January 22, 2009 8:50 PM

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.

Posted by: rabbit at January 22, 2009 9:17 PM

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.

Posted by: T. Robert Wolfram at January 22, 2009 9:20 PM

You, too can be an icon.
Obamificate your picture at
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
Amaze your friends.
Be the hope we can change.

Posted by: Imethisguy at January 22, 2009 9:22 PM

The Province isn't fit for wrapping fish or starting fires and I wouldn't even use it to housebreak a dog I liked.

Posted by: Edward Teach at January 22, 2009 9:26 PM

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.

Posted by: Fritz at January 22, 2009 9:29 PM

Is The Province the Canadian version of the The Onion?

Posted by: gregg at January 22, 2009 9:30 PM

The Province isn't fit for wrapping fish or starting fires and I wouldn't even use it to housebreak a dog I liked.

Posted by: Edward Teach at January 22, 2009 9:42 PM

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.

Posted by: Joey W at January 22, 2009 9:43 PM

BTW Kate, the entire paper really ought to be flagged as inappropriate...

Posted by: Edward Teach at January 22, 2009 9:43 PM

Has Obama surpassed Roberto Luongo as the most popular person in Vancouver? I suggest a shootout to settle this.

http://overheardinsaskatoon.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Saskatoon Guy at January 22, 2009 9:45 PM

That honour falls to the Star or the Mop and Pail gregg.

Posted by: AtlanticJim at January 22, 2009 9:45 PM

Not quite the same strength as, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall."

Posted by: Kyla at January 22, 2009 9:49 PM

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)

Posted by: maz2 at January 22, 2009 9:51 PM

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: VanIslander at January 22, 2009 9:59 PM

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

Posted by: mhb at January 22, 2009 10:02 PM

If he names the dog Kyoto, be afraid... be very afraid.

Posted by: edncda at January 22, 2009 10:07 PM

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.

Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 22, 2009 10:08 PM

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.

Posted by: rivers north at January 22, 2009 10:08 PM

Has Obama surpassed Roberto Luongo as the most popular person in Vancouver? Let's have a hockey shootout to settle this.

Posted by: Saskatoon Guy at January 22, 2009 10:14 PM

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?

Posted by: John Lewis at January 22, 2009 10:16 PM

If your thing is to make "reporters" swoon, do it like the chosen one:

http://www.cueprompter.com/

Posted by: ural at January 22, 2009 10:18 PM

"His words were as a great, swollen, purple member of Hope, thrusting, plunging, sinking into my withered, quivering love pudding of Change."

Posted by: Maureen Dowd at January 22, 2009 10:21 PM

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.

Posted by: Gunney99 at January 22, 2009 10:22 PM

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.

Posted by: Jethro at January 22, 2009 10:25 PM

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!

Posted by: Darrell at January 22, 2009 10:40 PM

Maureen,

You missed "throbbing".

As in ... great, swollen, throbbing, purple member ...

Some like to use pulsating instead.

Posted by: ural at January 22, 2009 10:46 PM

"Throbbing?" That would have been vulgar.

:-)

Posted by: Maureen Dowd at January 22, 2009 10:58 PM

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?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2009 11:01 PM

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.)



Posted by: Glenn at January 22, 2009 11:02 PM

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

Posted by: jaggedbird at January 22, 2009 11:15 PM

Seriously...what is missing in these peoples lives, media and groupies,that they are so willing to fill their 'empty spaces' with Obama?


Posted by: bluetech at January 22, 2009 11:30 PM

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.

Posted by: John at January 22, 2009 11:30 PM

andycanuck,

...I'm going to take great delight in pressing the Toronto Star's ombudsman on the Star's racist criticism of a black man.

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.

Posted by: Darrell at January 22, 2009 11:32 PM

"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

Posted by: PiperPaul at January 22, 2009 11:34 PM

Just when you think they can't get any more pathetic.

Posted by: OMMAG at January 22, 2009 11:43 PM

I think Obama is giving me diabetes!

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 23, 2009 12:19 AM

Is there a nation on Earth without a history of slavery and racial oppression?

Google "Modern African Slave Trade".

Posted by: Hannibal Lectern at January 23, 2009 12:34 AM

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.

Posted by: melwilde at January 23, 2009 12:46 AM

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?

Posted by: sarge at January 23, 2009 12:49 AM

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.

Posted by: gt at January 23, 2009 1:02 AM

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.

Posted by: gt at January 23, 2009 1:02 AM

Watched Lou Dobbs...its like there is a MSM ban on saying the name Obama in the same sentence as with so much of a hint of questioning...he was alluding to something he , you could tell, thought was not right butcould not say the nam "Obama" in connection ...now begins the suppression of speech. Lou used the term this administration or the first lady's administration, but they used the word Bush's administration when speaking remotely negative though. He looked frustrated.

Posted by: no-one at January 23, 2009 1:14 AM

Sarge: a "visit" from a "friend" was it? Perhaps you never left that squishy room and think all is OK in your world.

I bet you type with one of those rubber roll-up keyboards and view the screen through a 1/2" thick reinforced plexiglas window.

Posted by: PiperPaul at January 23, 2009 1:18 AM

Funny, most of the commentary I heard was that his inaugural speech was a dud, compared to his earlier ones.

Posted by: Soccermom at January 23, 2009 1:25 AM

PiperPaul,


Sean Connery played an Arab,
El-Raisuli the Magnificent, Chief of the Berbers in The Wind and the Lion. It was filmed in 1975 and seemed like a lot of fun. The first 5 minutes of this clip's pretty funny with the Roosevelt antics.

Posted by: Glenn at January 23, 2009 1:34 AM

Sarge doesn't get it. He does not realize he is a sheeple. Sum1 give him a mirror. I wonder if "o" is paying sheeple with there own wool to attack conservative blogs! He certainly has enough money as the sheep gave him the wool of there backs...btw he ("o") is still asking for donations! I subscribe to his site...er mailing list. The election is over you won...stop fleecing your sheeple for money already-soon they will not have enough wool left to pull over their eyes for pete's sake...hmm that would be a good thing. Sarge...how much wool do you have left?

Posted by: myalterego at January 23, 2009 2:06 AM

Okay, let's not forget, this was in the Province.

This is how the Province would likely cover the approach of a giant asteroid towards the earth:

Scientists today warned that a giant assteroid was on its way towards the earth.

The earth is the planet we live on.

It is not far from Vancouver.

Things could be a real bummer, man.

I would cancel the trip to Whistler and hang out at the local Starbucks in case you need to check your pad for damage.

Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at January 23, 2009 2:11 AM

'Cause all this http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/spreading-sharia-in-pakistan.html will be just a footnote in history by the end of the sixth day...

Posted by: DaninVan at January 23, 2009 2:11 AM

Landed in Honolulu on inogoration day. As we taxied in, the flight attendant announced that we had arrived in Obama's homeland. The response from the passangers to this appeal to celebrate ? Unimpressed silence - from each and everyone.

Posted by: ron in kelowna at January 23, 2009 2:19 AM

ulianov,
it will take years, no lifetimes, to undo the damage that your ancestors have done to your brain.

Posted by: Doug at January 23, 2009 2:34 AM


I don't know, ron in honolulu, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between unimpressed silence and fervent silence.

Posted by: ural at January 23, 2009 2:52 AM

Hawaii...according to the big O it's the what ?...56th ....57th state ?

Posted by: john begley at January 23, 2009 3:48 AM

" Never has a person who has done so little gone so far so fast."

Amen Fritz.

Sometimes I wonder if a person sold their soul...

Posted by: GaryinWpg at January 23, 2009 5:51 AM

"New Pennsylvania" is state 53, I think. Only somebody not raised in America could make mistakes, no matter how tired they were, like those. These things are drilled into your head in elementary school... oh wait... he was in a madras in Indonesia then.

Posted by: Tim in VT at January 23, 2009 7:34 AM


There is no greater joy on earth than witnessing how rightoid rightards console each other when they realize how stupid the ideology their parents indoctrinated in them is.

Posted by: not stirred enough said at January 23, 2009 8:04 AM
There is no greater joy on earth than witnessing how rightoid rightards console each other when they realize how stupid the ideology their parents indoctrinated in them is.

You think that's a great joy, you should try having a friend, or a sex partner.

Posted by: Darrell at January 23, 2009 8:10 AM

"...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.

OBAMANIA IS A WEIRD CULT.

Posted by: Friend of USA at January 23, 2009 8:35 AM

Almost two whole days of President Obama's rule and there have been NO terrorist attacks on American soil.
~ulianov

Now that Zero is Commander and Chief, the Communists don't need to use terrorist proxies anymore.

In the primaries, Zero promised to emasculate the American Armed Forces.

By the end of Zero's term in office, America won't be the world's policeman anymore even if America could foot the bill, which thanks to the subprime mortgage crisis that Obama helped create before seeking elected office, America isn't going to be able to afford.

If I was an American who wanted to serve his country, I'd be joining a militia right now.

Posted by: Oz at January 23, 2009 8:48 AM

Someday, the liberal media, the worshippers will come to be trapped in an what might be likened to an abusive marriage. They may share their sorry plight with an intimate friend but will be too embarrassed and afraid to file divorce papers, thus publicly announcing their failure and the end of the marriage.

In public, they'll pretend that all is fine in marriage-land, offering wild explanations for blackened eyes and yellow bruises. Their intellect will tell them everyday, what a mistake they made in arranging a marriage to a man they barely knew and in imagining him to be everything they could ever ask for in life. When he doesn't or can't perform as expected, as promised, their hearts will demand they recall only the symbol, the dreamy god-like creature, they fell in love with. As it was in the lusty beginning, the intellect will be ignored.

The swooning may diminish but the marriage will remain intact until another savior comes along.

Posted by: Jan at January 23, 2009 8:50 AM

Couple of points. First remember liberals are all emotion as we know so facts and history mean nothing to them, its all how I feel. Ask a leftist about Trudeau, they care nothing about the fact he put us into a financial hole we may never crawl out of just that he was so charismatic. Witness the election of his son and the gushing from his supporters. Macleans features something on him each week.

ulianov, Bush and all the senators that voted with him to attack Iraq believed from all the intelligence that Hussein had WMD. As did leaders from around the world, including even Iggy. Bush said in public he was disappointed they didn't find any. Imagine what he said behind closed doors. The nuclear site destroyed in Syria by Israel was believed to have been moved from Iraq.

Right now Imanutjob states that Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons and WILL USE THEM when they are in place to destroy Israel and then us. Not if but when he has them. Do you believe this and what do you advise we do? Does the West wait until Iran actually attacks Israel, they now have the missile capability, or would you take them out now? Remember these are people that will willingly kill themselves to destroy us so MAD will not work. All the indicators and evidence collected like number of centrifuges indicate this reality. Your call.

Posted by: Dave at January 23, 2009 9:00 AM

Darrell, You may have something there about the sex thing.

Kate, Meet me in Jamaica for March break?

Posted by: not stirred enough said at January 23, 2009 9:18 AM

Stirred
Your next will be your first.

Posted by: Ghost of Ed at January 23, 2009 9:45 AM

‘ve never seen article like this since Stalin run SU.
It may be very hard for people in a free country to believe, though this kind of worship was a standard practice about Stalin in communist press. The author of the article did not leave out anything; he would make propagandists in The Peoples Democratic (sic) Republic of Korea proud.
Unless of course it was in jest.

Posted by: Lev at January 23, 2009 9:52 AM

"Never has a person who has done so little gone so far so fast."

And he did it with a lot of help from the very establishment the worshippers revile.

Obama/Soros, say no more.

The whole Obama "movement" has struck me as a well executed movie script, and just as today's audience loves to believe in manufactured miracles, they love to believe in the Obama myth.

Obama's audience loves to suspend its critical skepticism, in the theatre for a few hours, watching light-hearted Gere/Roberts fantasies, or the nauseating sci-fi thrillers.

And that's perfectly okay. A couple of hours in a darkened theatre believing in Peter Pan, won't hurt anything, but suspension of your critical faculties all the time can be dangerous.

Obama's story reads like, and I believe is, a well directed script, which his backers knew would play well to today's audience.

Add useful idiots like Oprah, and it became embarrassingly easy to win.

I'd feel a lot easier about Obama if his backers did NOT include the "One World Government" people.

Let's hope I'm absolutely wrong.

Posted by: dmorris at January 23, 2009 10:19 AM

Re: "There is no greater joy on earth than witnessing how rightoid rightards console each other when they realize how stupid the ideology their parents indoctrinated in them is."

Funny, the only people I recall being indoctrinated by were Saskatchewan's public schools and universities. Fortunately, I've been living in the real world long enough now to have realized how stupid their ideology is.

Posted by: K Stricker at January 23, 2009 10:38 AM

Our guys won. Your guys lost.

Man, that never gets old.

Posted by: Kaplan at January 23, 2009 11:01 AM

Kaplan,

Your guy is against gay marriage.

Your guy picked Reagan's guy to be his economics advisor.

Your guy is escalating the Afghan war.

Your guy isn't your guy at all - he's Bush Redux.

You were had. The media whores are gonna be mighty upset in 12 years when they figure it out. That'll be when Jeb is finishing his second term.

Posted by: Warwick at January 23, 2009 11:13 AM

Mid-terms are in November 2010, Kaplan.

Posted by: Oz at January 23, 2009 11:15 AM

re: change to amendment that limits president to two terms.

Democrats might find it benefits Republicans rather than Democrats.

Presidents don't have the unlimited power that prime ministers have in their albeit smaller pond, but they do still end up getting blamed for the bad things that happen to the country and it looks like it is going to be a lumpy ride.

One financial analyst said in October "vote for the one you don't like" since the economic problems were greater than could be overcome and would destroy the chance of a second term for whoever was voted president in 2008.

Even if the economic and political situation proves to be benign, "Change we can believe in" is still "change". Never forget Machiavelli's observation that a prince who undertakes a program of change is embarking on a most hazardous journey. The prince typically will receive much more fervent opposition to than support for change once the details of the change are known. Those who stand to lose from a change are very certain of their loss while those who stand to gain are much less certain of their gain.

In the big O's case he will lose support even if he doesn't introduce any changes since so many voted for him to make changes that a play it safe do-nothing approach is not play it safe for him.

Posted by: Paul A. at January 23, 2009 11:24 AM

poor stirred.

a sex partner isnt the joystick on your computer game or your own flesh.

Posted by: cal2 at January 23, 2009 11:25 AM

Da proof is da proof!

No sneering at the O Effect. It's proven.
Sociology has da proof: O lifts IQ.
It's akin to black magic, mumbo-jumbo, voodoo, instant-on TV, etc.
...-

"Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black Test-Takers
New York Times ^ | January 22, 2009 | Sam Dillon

[R]esearchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election.

The inspiring role model that Mr. Obama projected helped blacks overcome anxieties about racial stereotypes that had been shown, in earlier research, to lower the test-taking proficiency of African-Americans, the researchers conclude in a report summarizing their results.

“Obama is obviously inspirational, but we wondered whether he would contribute to an improvement in something as important as black test-taking,” said Ray Friedman, a management professor at Vanderbilt University, one of the study’s three authors. “We were skeptical that we would find any effect, but our results surprised us.”"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170247/posts

Posted by: maz2 at January 23, 2009 11:34 AM

LOL! So the new wingnut meme is that Obama is Bush Redux!

So who's Palin, Kennedy Redux? Is McCain really John Kerry in an old man suit? Bill Clinton is Nixon, and Jimmy Carter is Ford!!

It all makes sense now.

Ah, Wingnuts...is there anything they can't do?

Posted by: Kaplan at January 23, 2009 12:44 PM

Which also makes one wonder: if wingnut logic makes Obama into Bush Redux, does it make more sense now to call Bush a terrorist?

Posted by: Kaplan at January 23, 2009 12:46 PM

Kaplan

You need to learn some very basic logic.

If A = B then it does NOT necessarily follow that C = D

Sadly, like all leftards, you just aren't that bright.

The point, since you obviously missed it, is not that all democrats are republicans. Just one of them. Note, too, that the big-O is fighting with Pelosi and the media now while changing the window dressing on Bush's policies without changing the substance.

I'm betting I'll be happier with Obama's presidency than you will in 4 years time (and my quip that the media won't catch up for 12 was a shot at their intelligence, since you obviously missed that, too.)

Posted by: Warwick at January 23, 2009 1:01 PM

So can I continue calling Bush a terrorist, since Obama is Bush Redux, or is Obama no longer a terrorist sympathizer, since Obama is now Bush Redux?

I make no pretenses about understanding wingnut logic. But I like to try.

Posted by: Kaplan at January 23, 2009 1:19 PM

Kaplan

There really isn't much you do understand. If you were here, I'd pat you on the head and give you a sticker.

Posted by: Warwick at January 23, 2009 2:08 PM

Let's get one thing clear ... our Guy never loses.

People make mistakes, and political choices are often relative good versus relative evil.

But our Guy is perfect.

Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at January 23, 2009 3:36 PM

Ohhh! Look! It's Warwick, with another swing and a miss answer.

Nicely played, genius. Now, can you answer my question, or have you realized that even wingnuts can't handle their own logic?

Posted by: Kaplan at January 23, 2009 3:57 PM

T. Robert Wolfram;
Have to agree with you since the Islamists have made there claims quite plain. Well said

Posted by: Revnant Dream at January 23, 2009 5:58 PM

Silly Kaplan, don't you know that Trix are for kids.

Posted by: Jan at January 23, 2009 5:59 PM

“It’s a very small sample, but certainly a provocative study,”

maz2 - Was it a sample of One? :-)

Posted by: Jan at January 23, 2009 6:19 PM

Maybe Owe should spend a little time in the the 'hood 'cause there everyone knows that the tyrants of this world only unclench their fists as they steal your wallet having first punched you lights out.

Posted by: Joe at January 23, 2009 7:27 PM
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