78 Replies to “A Liberal Yankee From Vermont Reflects Upon His New President”

  1. We tried to tell them he was nothing more than a smile in an empty suit, but, well…they were too busy swooning, I guess.

  3. Nothing worse than a LEFTY scorned…..
    Problem is, a little kiss from “O” and he will settle right back down.

  4. Oh my, that did not take long. So the white liberals are coming on-side, how long will it take the entertainment crowd and then the coloured folk?
    People are becoming unhinged, next it will be talk of assassination.

  6. The problem is that there was no better candidate.
    McCain was weak, Palin was frightening. None of the GOP leadership candidates were people who had a history that would suggest that they would have had the courage to resist the urge to throw more (newly printed)money at the problem and delay the day of inevitable judgment by a few months or years.
    The only guy who more or less “got it” was Ron Paul, and he was a freaking lunatic.
    I supported Bush, but ultimately he betrayed nearly every conservative principle during his years and sold the US to the Saudi royal family.
    There’s no one I would trust in US politics because none of them have a combination of discipline, true belief in what the things that led to the greatness of America, and genuine intelligence.
    Obama may be smart, but he has no true beliefs (at least ones that I agree with) nor (in my opinion) true courage.
    General Petraeus??? I have no major issue with him, and he may have true courage and intelligence. But I don’t know anything about his politics. Not all generals are conservatives (look at Westmoreland…. \barf).
    Seriously, what demoralizes me more than the trillion dollar deficits is the lack of leadership at a critical point in history.

  7. why would a liberal socialist be surprised at lies and corruption from a liberal socialist president?

  8. Now this lefty is beginning to understand. That’s why we are “conservatives”. We don’t really believe any of those in power and would rather them leave us the f**k alone so we can spend our money how we want.
    Like one of the guys in the comments who says, “[Instead of paying taxes]… I’d rather take the money and give it to people I know in my neighborhood who are down on their luck from the economy.”

  10. Lori ain’t figured out yet that Palin was not running for president. If she had figured it out then Biden must have scared the living @#%$ out of her.
    You all remember Biden right? That fellow down the hall from Barry wearing the gag?

  11. With a senescent guy like McCain at the top of the ticket, Palin was partially running for president.
    Biden was worse than Palin, but his chances of being president and really making important decisions were much less than hers. He is a buffoon.
    The republican party is now in the process of deciding its future. They can choose to retrench into their socon religiously dominated right-wing base. Or they can choose to return to a founding fathers model with much more libertarian leaning, and try to convince Americans that true conservatism (which has nothing to do with religious beliefs) is how the country should be run.
    In a few months or years, when the depths of the failure of the socialist approach to fixing problem become apparent, Americans will probably be open to the second way of thinking. A republican party that pins its future on governors that believe in intelligent design and spout home spun wisdom pretending to be real answers (Did you see Jindal’s speech? Pathetic!) does not have a future.

  12. One Obamaton down, tens of millions to go. I can’t decide which description of this administration is more accurate. The Max Sennett Administration, or Jimmy Carter on speed?
    I was not a big Romney supporter, and but if I were to guess who will be the best GOP candidate for 2012, it would be him. He has an excellent private business record, but more importantly, as his management of the Olympic Games shows, he is an excellent turnaround manager. We are going to need a turnaround manager BAD!
    Treg

  13. Wow – thank you for the link to that Kate. I find it interesting how many people are really free market (in a gold standard, real money kind of a way) orientated and don’t know it.
    Lois, I am not sure why you find Palin frightening. By 2012, people are going to be begging for her. I believe that even more after reading this Vermont liberal’s blog. She has been painted as a religious fundamentalist unfairly.
    No one thought of her that way in Alaska prior to the McCain campaign experience. She veteod an attempt to deny same-sex benefits and support the teaching of abstinence AND contraception. She is pro-life, but that has nothing to do with religion – just simple human decency.
    She is a strict constitutionalist, which is what is sorely needed. Go back and read her Convention speech and some of her statements on the trail. They are coming true and she was right about Obama.

  15. From Adolph to Karresh; nutjobs attract other nutjob followers. Ashes to ashes (Dan W) is one these nutjobs albeit not in the same league as the aforementioned.
    It’s interesting to witness conservatives take scraps of observations and come to ridiculous conclusions.
    Conservatives, the question to ask yourself is. Am I a nutjob follower? The telltale sign is getting worked up about what Dan is dillusional about.

  17. I-I-I-I-I-I-I….O …
    …-
    Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
    Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. – 8/13/2008
    “When the narcissist reveals his true colors, it is usually far too late. His victims are unable to separate from him. They are frustrated by this acquired helplessness and angry at themselves for having they failed to see through the narcissist earlier on.*”
    …-
    I-I-I-I-I-I-I…O…
    “As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t. Not because I’m not mindful of the massive debt we’ve inherited — I am. I called” (ibid)
    db51:
    >>>>> “If the rest of America would admit, like Dan, that we’ve been f*cking duped by Obama and the rest of them, we’d be marching on Capitol Hill….” (ibid)
    *http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/71124

  18. On the whole, most Americans don’t care very much about politics and politicians as long as their bellies are full, they’re getting laid regularly, and there is a continuing evolution of opportunities and amusements.
    Now, however, with the idea being sold that government is responsible for everything, there will clearly be someone to blame for whatever interrupts the flow of the above.
    The stage was set with Dubya, who was pilloried for many things that had little to do with him in any direct way, and this affirmative-action amateur is setting himself up nicely by claiming to be all things to all people.
    It’s going to be a hard rain that lands on this bozo.
    The pity is that it’ll take some hard times to awaken the electorate.

  19. Too bad more people weren’t ‘frightened’ by Palin when she said this at the RNC in Sept./08:
    “..(Obama wants to) make government bigger, and take more of your money and give you more orders from Washington and …reduce the strengh of America in a dangerous world.”
    Oh..but she said he would do that after the waters were turned back and the planet was healed. Guess Obama couldn’t wait .
    That would be one of those observation/ conclusion thingy’s that ‘stirred’ refers to.
    It’s called reality.

  20. Since when did we become such a nation of whiners and naysayers…It’s time for a return to Ronald Reagan’s “Morons in America”…

  21. I heard on Glen Beck yesterday that at one month after Bush won the 2000 election his approval ratings were 62% vs the current 59% for the Big Zero. I saw on Instapundit this morning that both Clinton and Bush (Clinton 67 million, Bush 66 million, Obama 52 million) had higher TV ratings for their first addresses to congress. Yet listening to the media you would think everything the Big Zero does is unprecedented with universal acclaim.

  22. Most Americans have not yet realized that the point of no return has been past for years and that the pressure cooker is about to explode.
    A strong majority of North Americans are shallow and spoiled. Completely detached from reality, they are sitting ducks unnaware of the dire events to come. They think that by years end the worst will be over.
    Like many say, no matter who’s voted in now, it’s business as usual: To push back the inevitable: Paying debts.
    IMO, Obama was planted not by a secret socialist plan but because he is judged to be the best “image” in keeping the US from collapsing into violent anarchy or at least the “image” that would keep civility the longuest.
    Why?:
    -He’s black and was voted by the majority of minorities. Minorities who are mostly concentrated in big urban centres where food cannot be found other than supermarkets will be the first to suffer a depression.
    -Obama’s request for a civilian army is mostly to keep the country in going into chaos.
    The depression (Too much debt, impossible to repay) which we are enterring was already known by high powers for many years now. This is why the subprime issue arised at the end of Bush’s term. It was determined the opertune time to tell the masses and was to also make sure Obama would win.
    The average Joe needed a democrat according to their MSM partners: Had GWB been a Democrat, Obama would have been put in as a Republican and voted in by the same mass of people who will be the first to feel the pain and they are the same who normally become violent the fastest.
    Be prepared for more and more Obama travel speeches of “Hope” and Michelle lecturing black kids into being good citizens.
    The power brokers are soiling their pants and keeping their fingers crossed.

  23. Feb 26/09
    Too little too late Dan W.
    Too bad you weren’t listening to the many LIES Obama told during the primaries. It is YOU and the rest of the middle class white dudes that voted for Obama who are ASSHOLES.
    Why blame “middle class white dudes”? Simple, I expect the rest of the maroons to continue to be idiots, but for these “dudes” there is no excuse. You’ve collectively turned into a gang of whining Biatches!!!(present company excluded of course)

  24. Well, aside from the usual rants of a leftard who rails against “his” guy not being left enough, the only part he got right (aside from the epiphany of learning that politicians lie,) is that this mess has nothing to do with green energy or state-run health care and everything to do with bad regulation, greedy (democratic) bankers and debt.

  26. ” I find it interesting how many people are really free market (in a gold standard, real money kind of a way) orientated and don’t know it.”
    Exactly. Many people are conservative and just don’t know it, rappers are the most blatant example. The whole philosophy behind the music is commerce. I could imagine the response from 50cent if his accountant told him he would be taxed for each of his hoes(I wouldn’t want to be his IRS auditor).
    The question is why? IMO the answer is “marketing”. Conservatives have allowed the “left” to define what conservatism “is”, especially to the youth. They do this through the education system, the media, and other sources that I’m sure I’ve missed.
    We often b**ch and complain on this site and others about how it’s “not fair” with respect to media coverage ect. Ironic isn’t it? The very thing we laugh at others about (S.Dion) is exactly what we do when WE are getting our butts kicked.

  28. Indiana you’re right on the money.
    Thinking of conservatism as a clogged toilet. A group of conservatives are gathered around looking at the brown stuff in it. After blaming liberals for the clog they all shake their heads in disgust and walk away.
    Rather than call Dan the Plumber to clear it they call him to make further comments after which he just walks away too!

  30. Lori, I agree with what you say. It would be interesting to see how Romney would have been faring now through this mess. He was a guy of substance.

  31. Hey not stirred, its either walk away or get called a racist by you boys for cleaning up somebody else’s mess. That’s a no-brainer, that is.
    How are you liking Barry these days? He’s doing everything you wanted. He’s gonna make the “rich” pay, he’s going to cut industrial pollution in the USA, he’s going to cut consumption, he’s going to “save” the banking system, he’s going to give houses to the poor, and best of all he’s going to take guns away from all those rednecks.
    Working for you?

  32. not stirred enough: Then a libertarian comes along, figures the toilet would be more useful to him if it were unclogged, fixes it himself, then gets called a selfish extremist for charging the liberals and conservatives who come running back to use the toilet for his services.

  33. not stirred enough (8:35); in answer to the question you posed, yes you are a nut job follower. Hope this helps answer your dilema. You are welcome.

  34. Although Romeny was the most qualified for POTUS, I never felt he was electable from the beginning of the primaries. Someone said “I don’t want my President to look like the guy who has just handed me my pink slip”. Even more important was his faith. Seculars would have had a hay-day(sp?) at the expense of Mormons everywhere. The United States is far too bigoted to consider electing a Mormon for President, and I’m not talking about conservative America.
    The new American motto: Qualifications schmalifications.

  35. Is liberalism simply a forme frustre of Tourette’s syndrome?
    By the way, that poll at the Winnipeg Free Press needs some attention. I suspect CUPE got wind of it and is flooding it.

  36. Phantom
    In answer to your question we like Obama just fine.
    Judging by the polls, so do the vast majority of Americans.
    Judging by the same polls the vast majority hates conservatives because they destroyed America over the last eight years.
    Your philosophy is discredited. Your Connecticut blueblood masquerading as a “Texan cowboy” is hated and seen as the fraud he’s always been.
    You guys are in the toilet of history and Obama is flushing your last remnants away.
    Most excellent.

  38. The presidential polls are interesting. Here’s a chart at Slate
    Presidential Poll
    You’ll notice that Bush’s range was between 90% and 37. Reagan was between 68 and 35. Carter between 75 and 26. Nixon between 67 and 24.
    The problem with Obama is that he, as a narcissist, is a politician rather than a statesman or leader. His agenda is control of people.
    A socialist structure is authoritarian centralist control, a control that denies the power of the individual. Democrats are socialists because they are elitists. They operate in a two-class state system, made up of the elite intelligentsia who govern as Guardians and the ..workers who are governed.
    Socialism rejects a middle class, which is the domain of the individual, free will, merit, innovation, etc. The three-class structure rejects an elite Set of people. The socialist agenda is to strip individual powers, and money, from this middle class and reduce them all to dependent on the Guardians.
    Naturally, given his psyche, Obama would be a socialist. And a centralist, i.e., denying individual and state rights. But Obama is adding something to the socialist two-class which I’ll maintain is due to his psyche – that is, he cannot handle dissent, questions, rebuttals. Obama will remove the infrastructure of dissent, such as the powers of Congress. That’s why he’s moving to have key positions answerable only to the White House, by-passing Congress.
    That’s why he doesn’t allow Congress time to read his monumental ‘stimulus package’ and to debate it.
    Obama is mounting an attack against the basic infrastructure of the US. We’ll see how free people react to this.

  39. Real
    Judging how progressive Marxist has governed Europe it would seem America will soon follow. At the speed 0 is moving with stretch Pelosi, bath house Frank and idiot Reid, the US just might reach the sewer before them. Enjoy your new utopia moron.

  40. Cal2, its because the arab sh1t is fake. real ain’t real-y a arab.
    But real has done him/her/its self proud today. Finally taking a stand -for- something, eh real? Not too much I can add to that little bile spill there, you’ve pretty much summed it up. Obama is truly your guy.
    Check back in a while after his body count starts coming in, we’ll see how you like him then. I bet he beats Clinton’s Waco record of 86 dead this year.

  41. The amazing thing I can never seem to get my head around is after two years of campaigning and billions spent the Americans come up with McCain and Obama. I can understand Obama as he hits all the lefties buttons as they never look behind the curtain, don’t care, they just feel right with this guy, he’s sooo coool. But how out of 300,000,000 people did the Republicans come up with McCain who isn’t even a conservative as Bush wasn’t.
    We are so lucky to have Harper here yet even many of our conservative posters bitch about him though he is the best PM, IMHO, that I have seen in my lifetime. Where is the Republican Harper?

  42. ET, you are casting pearls of profound wisdom before swine. real is a camp-guard waiting for his camp to be built, and unworthy to even read what you wrote.
    That’s as succinct a summing up as any I have seen.
    But we’ve already seen the reaction. There’s been a run on guns and ammunition since Barry got the nomination. We’ll see how psychotic he is, I guess. And how willing the Democrats are to commit suicide along with him.

  43. My theory is that if Obama would have been eliminated for the race earlier, the recession may never have occured. Could it have been the panic of an unstable candidate? (Just a thought.)

  44. My theory is that if Obama would have been eliminated for the race earlier, the recession may never have occured. Could it have been the panic of an unstable candidate? (Just a thought.)

  45. dave, I wonder if, no matter the candidate, whether a Republican could have won the nomination at this time.
    It isn’t simply the unpopularity of the Iraq War, for this unpopularity was primarily leftist socialism – these are people who are never willing to wage war, believing that all asocial behaviour has only one cause: not enough money.
    Therefore, IF you are a terrorist, it’s because someone, naturally a wealthier nation, stripped you of your natural and equal rights to the international Pool of Money. The fact that innovation, entrepreneurship and freedom made that wealth simply never occurs to them. They think that all they need is MONEY to buy those cars, jeeps, cell phones, rifles, guns, etc that they use. It never occurs to them that someone moved out of dogma and into freedom of thought, to invent new technology.
    As for the poor, it equally never occurs to them that people who live in those nice houses and condos actually work, pay taxes for them. And that many can’t afford the big house and so live within their means. They don’t go running up to the President and declare: ‘Mr President, I need a house’.
    But, among the left, who think that someone else’s money will solve all problems, they wouldn’t vote for a Republican.
    Then, there is indeed the financial crisis, brought on in the US by the Clinton administration view that indeed, someone else’s money will enable you to get a house even if you can’t afford it.
    And, the global restructuring of consumers and producers brought about by the entry of India and China into the middle class market.
    The Bush administration didn’t deal with this. The War in the ME was effectively in control, and the Islamic fascists had been pushed back into the ME – which is where their fight ought to be.
    So, given all of these issues, I don’t think any Republican would have won. Indeed I agree with you, how is it that out of all the talent in America, they could only come up with two unsatisfactory candidates? One, who is a pathological narcissist, who becomes dangerous when moved into a position of power; and the other, a man, may I say, beyond his prime.
    I think it was beneficial for the Republicans to lose; they must regroup and return to their basic identity – which is the promotion and protection of a three-class society, ie, one based around the freedom of the individual in the middle class. This is vital.
    Obama and the Democrats will fight this with all the power at their disposal. Remember, the two aren’t identical. I may not agree with the notion of a two-class centralized structure, but it is a legitimate mode. The Democrats opt for some elements operating in this mode, and some elements operating in the middle class. Obama is not simply a socialist but also a pathological narcissist and this adds an element of destructive silencing to this agenda.
    Obama can’t handle dissent; that means that he cannot permit a middle class to exist. Every program he puts forth will weaken this class, remove freedoms, centralize power, silence questions and debate. A key strategy of his silencing debate is his triad of: Misinformation, Manipulation via Fear and Hope, and Accusations of Bias. He’ll bring out all three as soon as questions and dissent emerge.
    What the Republicans need to do is to counter the first two with pragmatic calm reality. They must correct Obama’s misinformation; they must ensure that their public statements are accurate. They must not manipulate the public.
    Now – the third one – accusations of bias. Obama has a major card in this area; ‘race’. He will bring it out again and again. He used it in the election campaign. He’ll use it again.
    The Republians made an error, I maintain, by having Jindal as their response to Obama’s speech on Tuesday. Jindal is an admirable Governor, tough, innovative – all of that. He’s great in debates and questions, something which Obama is not, because Obama doesn’t accept questions or dissent. But you don’t use someone like that, someone who functions in analytic debates, in front of a camera with ONE ROLE only: to read a teleprompter.
    If that is the role, then you put someone there who can read a teleprompter as a PERFORMER. With pauses, emphasis, emotion..etc. Jindal read it in a monotone – and naturally it failed. So why the heck did they put him there? Because of his ‘skin colour’? Because Obama would have his minions accuse the Republicans of ‘racism’ if and when they charge him with stupid and wasteful ideas? Remember, Obama doesn’t defend his ideas with facts and thoughts; he just insists that they are right.
    Recently, Obama, hearing about the criticism that his stimulus package was ‘just spending’, announced that Spending=Stimulation. No it doesn’t. Spending on trivial, non-job-creating actions won’t stimulate the economy. But Obama not only doesn’t understand this, doesn’t care, but he won’t enter into a debate or discussion about it.
    So, I think that the Republians have to return to their ideological roots – the Jeffersonian roots of small government, State rights, the promotion of all Americans as middle class, freedom of the individual and so on.
    Who can do this? They have a lot of talent. Mark Sanford, Lindsay Graham, Jindal….Palin, Romney..and others.

  46. This debate of Left vs Right is missing the crisis of the matter. The missing element in all of these discussions is responsibility. Its wonderful to offer tax cuts GWB but who is going to pay for the war and all the other programs you wanted to institute? The big OWE is simply one upping GWB with a bigger deficit and even more goodies. To my mind the failure of the American experiment though the seeds of destruction were planted in its conception is exemplified by the ubiquitous Credit Card. Once it became entrenched in the people’s mind that deferred payment is possible “using your Master Card to pay your Visa” to postpone the productivity required to own material goods the American society will do nothing but degenerate. A stable society demands individual productivity and individual financial prudence. My only hope is that by the end of Owe’s reign 4 years from now people will see the need to create, invent and produce real wealth. We might well have to start with the complete dismantling of our education system and place real demands on people through enforced expectations.

  47. The amazing thing I can never seem to get my head around is after two years of campaigning and billions spent the Americans come up with McCain and Obama.
    Posted by: Dave at February 26, 2009 12:26 PM
    Dave: Check out Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top”.
    All is explained. You might find something googling the chapter title.
    ET: Your last sentence. Bingo. It has been my view, from way before the election, that Obama is deliberately setting out to destroy America. I have consistently called him a Marxist thug, intially, perhaps, with a touch of hyperbole, but no longer.

  48. ET has covered the situation extremely well in my view. However I fear that after Obama there will be very little left of the USA, so it could be too late for the Republicans even if they found their original identity. Of course I sincerely hope I am mistaken, but America’s future looks extremely dark – no connection to the colour of their president by the way.

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