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posted at 10:30 pm on December 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“Another side effect has been white people contacting me to say that I should be proud to see a black man become president. Could there be a comment that is more condescending, more insulting, than that? If I believed that in America a black man could not be president, then I would be proud to see any black man elected president. But because I always have believed that nothing in America prevents a black man from becoming president or anything else he wants to be, I can be embarrassed, not proud, to see someone as unqualified and inexperienced as Obama become president…
I’m going to approach the Obama years the same way liberals handled the Iraq war. Just as they claimed to support our troops while opposing the war, I’m going to support my country while opposing Obama and what he stands for in every way that I can. It’s only four years and with the astute Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as Senate minority leader, Republicans can stop the Obama extremists for two years until mid-term elections in 2010 give Republicans the boost in Congress that inevitably will come.
And in 2012, we’ll have Sarah Palin to clean up Obama’s mess and remind us again of America’s exceptionalism.”
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Spirit of 1776 on December 4, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Good piece. My favorite part.
Y-not on December 4, 2008 at 10:34 PM
It is amazing to read the comments section from the article. I think this time around the Republicans will pick it up & return to a resounding win.
Can the left say “Buyers Remorse”.
Ladywolfnl on December 4, 2008 at 10:42 PM
In the words of Hopey/Changey,
Look Sweetie,the chickens will be roosting at home for four
years,so just cling tight to HOPE,and savior in the bitter
ness of CHANGE!*
*(Obama,never said this phrase,so trolls whine about something else!) (Snark!)
canopfor on December 4, 2008 at 10:43 PM
ZDB lays it down pretty succinctly.
But the one issue I see coming, race-wise, is that Osama Obama will make it difficult for any other black man — or woman — to be elected POTUS in our lifetimes. People will look at Obama’s record and say, “this is all an obviously educated, clean, articulate member of his race can do? Forget it!”
We will see a demonstration, of the worst possible kind, of the total failure of affirmative action.
I don’t mind if The Messiah destroys the Democrat party. In fact, I hope he does. But I think it’s sad that he will take members of his own race — people who have played it the right way, and who have earned the power and respect he has gained by false pretenses — down with him.
MrScribbler on December 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Or, we’ll have Mr Billingsly to clean up BHO’s mess.
jgapinoy on December 4, 2008 at 10:53 PM
It is hilarious to read those comments (and others) and find the BDS crowd wrapping themselves in the flag and threatening exile to the unenlightened ones, like me.
A toast to free men like Mr Billingsly. A pox on the mob of blue zombies marching goosestep to Barry man-O-lo.
Limerick on December 4, 2008 at 10:53 PM
By the way, Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY is one hell of a name.
Is it a marker of genius, or simply someone who got beat up a lot?
wccawa on December 4, 2008 at 10:54 PM
I have been saying Ban the NY Media as loudly as I can.
Trade Frum, Noonan, Parker, etc. for Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY and many more like him from the heartland of America.
faraway on December 4, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Every strong Republican president who succeeded in protecting America has allowed Americans to become complacent about national security, thereby opening the door for weak Democrats who allowed enemies to threaten and attack America without penalty. Obama will be no different, and Americans will have to learn again that there can be no economic security without national security.
He’s right. I hope the price isn’t so dear that we cannot recover, not only from the security threat but from the economic policies that will weaken us as well.
It isn’t about “race”. It’s politics, political greed and power. This nation will learn some very hard lessons again, and I fear many lives will be lost. I never felt this way before, and I am older than many of you who post on HA. I have no trust in this government and its ability to lead.
Cody1991 on December 4, 2008 at 10:56 PM
MrScribbler on December 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM
I can see how you feel. But, if it was Walter Williams, or Michael Steele, or a Black man of the equivalent. I would vote for him or her. Is not the color at all. Is about being honest, not posting youtube video’s. Not leaving minds to wonder what you meant? (The One). Then he picks the worse cabinet ever. Except for two that I do like. Gates and the Treasury man. I admired Al’s post. That is cool, to support The One by opposing. Is a great way to look at it. Looks like we might be stuck with him. So…………is hard but? Sarah Palin get ready to Rumble!!!!!!!!
sheebe on December 4, 2008 at 10:59 PM
It isn’t about “race”. It’s politics, political greed and power. This nation will learn some very hard lessons again, and I fear many lives will be lost. I never felt this way before, and I am older than many of you who post on HA. I have no trust in this government and its ability to lead.
Cody1991 on December 4, 2008 at 10:56 PM
*Ditto*
sheebe on December 4, 2008 at 10:59 PM
The comments following the article were depressing. One individual claims that 9/11 was Bush’s fault because “it didn’t happen during the Clinton years”. But wait, is this person saying none of the planning/execution happened under Clinton’s watch? Bush got in there and screwed up the intelligence services quickly enough for the entire 9/11 plot to be planned and executed during his administration? In 9 months no less.
Another one says he voted against McCain because “Bush got us into this mess”. When are voters in this country going to connect the dots and realize this mess was caused mostly by democrats — the CRA, “civil rights” lawyers like Obama using the CRA to force banks to make risky loans, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac buying up all the risky loans and finally the collapse of the housing industry which is taking down the entire economy. The housing bubble was caused by artificially easy credit which led to artificial expansion in almost every industry and we are just starting to see the effects of the equally massive contraction that is going to take place. Obama may wish he had waited to run until 2012….
rcw on December 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM
This bit bothers me. Lumping in Kennedy with Carter, Clinton, and Obama is an insult to a veteran who served honorably (and actually got strings pulled to get INTO the service when they first rejected him because of his bad back) and was responsible for saving the life of a fellow soldier.
Otherwise, spot on.
MadisonConservative on December 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Reading the comments section on a piece like that is always hilarious. It’s usually a vivid demonstration of just how many absolute idiots populate the Democratic Party.
ddrintn on December 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
But the point is that as POTUS Kennedy demonstrated incredible naivete that really put our country at risk, his military service notwithstanding.
Y-not on December 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I enjoyed reading that–many quotable phrases.
And, yeah, the commenters are something else.
INC on December 4, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Dwight,
I love you!
PattyJ on December 4, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Money quote from a great and courageous Mr. Billingsly. Maybe there is a little hope left.
I can’t believe the elites who encouraged voting for this nothing are preaching other nations what to eat, or not to eat.
Entelechy on December 4, 2008 at 11:12 PM
JFK was a pretty lousy President, foreign affairs-wise, He dropped the ball badly twice on Cuba (Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis) and really got the downward spiral of American involvement in Vietnam underway. And don’t forget that he and his hot-shot, beloved-by-the-libs brother were responsible for the Diem assassination in ‘Nam.
At home, his civil rights agenda had to wait for LBJ to force it through Congress.
Osama Obama has a lot to live down to. And I’m guessing he will.
If Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell ran for President, they’d get my vote as well, and it would be based on sheer competence. But chances are they’d be derided as “Uncle Toms” or “Oreos” by the libs.
Obama made race a major factor in the election. Because of that, a lot of people out in the heartland who aren’t politics junkies will look at him in the manner I described and pin his multitudinous failings on the thing he used to get elected: his color..
MrScribbler on December 4, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Yeah, like this precious gem from a reader:
Shrewd. LOL
ddrintn on December 4, 2008 at 11:17 PM
The Post-Dispatch is a crazy left wing rag that I stopped paying attention to long ago. The race baiting/hustling is strong in this city.
Metro on December 4, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Keep that quote in mind. It will be needed for the next 2 years.
DannoJyd on December 4, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Reading the comments section on a piece like that is always hilarious. It’s usually a vivid demonstration of just how many absolute idiots populate the Democratic Party.
ddrintn on December 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
It really isn’t funny, and it makes me wonder where these fools were born, what country they inhabit. They seem to be faceless, ignorant people who can only be attracted to the liberal Democrat wing of politics. They have no home, no family, no country. No allegiance, no skin in the game – at least not intellectually.
These are the people the Dems recruit as activists and sign up as voters. They are the people who vote not their pocketbooks but the money of others.
Does anyone get the picture here?
Cody1991 on December 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM
MrScribbler on December 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM
If the people who vote w/b sane they’d overlook color, sex, or what not and choose the most qualified person.
In this case it was all about identity politics and the shenaningans of the timed ‘crisis’.
Entelechy on December 4, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Also, unfortunately we had one not so good, and one absolutely terrible candidate.
Still, we deserve him. Every populace deserves its leader/s.
Entelechy on December 4, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Liberal whites are always condescending and insulting. They are the true racists. I hate all of them. Literally. Hate.
SouthernGent on December 4, 2008 at 11:24 PM
My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to. Institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on December 4, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Well, no, I get your point; but reading poorly spelled and even more wretchedly constructed invective telling me how ignorant Sarah Palin is always makes me laugh.
ddrintn on December 4, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on December 4, 2008 at 11:25 PM
I see the picture you are painting clearly.
cjs1943 on December 4, 2008 at 11:25 PM
The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Mr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the misanthropic Mr. Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. In mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
Sigmund on December 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM
This country is the greatest asset that has been given to any people on this earth. And like most assets that are passed on, the ones who haven’t earned it and don’t appreciate it, tend to pi$$ it away.
cjs1943 on December 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Liberal whites are always condescending and insulting. They are the true racists. I hate all of them. Literally. Hate.
SouthernGent on December 4, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Like Chris Matthews? I live in the South. And Chris Matthews is the epitome of liberal bigot. He behaves as if he has never, ever met an African American worthy of his notice – until OBAMA!
Like most Southerners, I have met many. I’ve voted for them in public offices. None of us are surprised, and none of us feel “tingles in our legs” with the notion that African Americans lead in our communities and state affairs. For us it’s nothing new.
Matthews is a bigot, an opportunist (since he is now running for a political post), and he is quite simply, ridiculous.
Cody1991 on December 4, 2008 at 11:37 PM
I agree on the Bay of Pigs debacle, but how exactly did he screw up the CMC? The outcome was pretty much the most preferable we could have had.
MadisonConservative on December 4, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Indeed, and how sad.
Entelechy on December 4, 2008 at 11:39 PM
ObaMcCarthy’s imminent failure will be blamed on whitey. Just ask his black supremest militant whitey hating wife.
csdeven on December 4, 2008 at 11:41 PM
This country is the greatest asset that has been given to any people on this earth. And like most assets that are passed on, the ones who haven’t earned it and don’t appreciate it, tend to pi$$ it away.
cjs1943 on December 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM
You are right. I cannot say more.
Once it is lost, those vague-eyed fools will wonder what all the fuss was about, and it will take generations to regain that spirit, if possible.
Cody1991 on December 4, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Sorry, but it is hilarious. It wasn’t just the Democraps who brought us to this place and time. Like Miss E stated, we deserve what we got. We’ve spent fifty years chasing cruise control, pay-per-view, and titty-bars and left the baby sitting to someone else.
Don’t think this play is over. The cheerleaders might have filled up the balloons with pigs blood but
CarrieColumbia has a few tricks up her sleeve. I’m actually enjoying the show…..now anyway. We can’t change how we got here, we just have to be prepared to fix what gets broken.Join the line.
Limerick on December 4, 2008 at 11:59 PM
It was Mark Twain’s birthday last Sunday (Nov. 30).
Did you set out the votive candles in your backyard shrine and pray?
silverfox on December 5, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Of course not. Mark would never approve of such silliness. I had a cigar and a shot of whiskey.
MB4 on December 5, 2008 at 12:07 AM
:0
abobo on December 5, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Sam Clemens – Mark Twain
Isn’t he, like, the 19th century version of Cassius Clay?
Limerick on December 5, 2008 at 12:15 AM
Sensible, that.
hillbillyjim on December 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Having two names? The similarity ends there. There will never be another Mark Twain. Even Hitchens doesn’t even come close.
MB4 on December 5, 2008 at 12:19 AM
For what it’s worth, I suggest saving this link………
Z. Dwight Billingsly BY Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY
……………… I have a feeling it will have some use in the very near future, and for a couple of years to come.
Seven Percent Solution on December 5, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Never again will Democrats carry 90%+ of blacks. Obama’s ascendancy will prove to be the catalyst for many blacks to have the courage and independence to leave the plantation, once and for all, and come home to conservative values.
Their once tight-lipped solidarity, will have finally run its course.
Freedom is calling, and they now have an incredible opportunity to participate in leading the way.
Saltysam on December 5, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Just pulling the chain, MB.
I agree. Like Bill Cody and PT Barnum, America doesn’t make many like that anymore.
Limerick on December 5, 2008 at 12:22 AM
When Obama listed his qualifications to be President, he stated that his campaigning for 18 months qualified him ..
Is Obama’s change that, unlike before where you needed education and experience the new standard is that you need only APPLY for a job to be qualified..
Wanna be a brain surgeon???.. well just apply at every hospital in your state .. Obama’s logic says that will qualify you..
Change you can believe in, but would u want that brain surgeon operating on you???
dugbru on December 5, 2008 at 12:22 AM
I wish I could believe that were true. I think it will take more than a couple of election cycles, although eventually I think a lot of blacks will wake up to the facts. Most of the black people I know are fairly conservative, at least on social issues. It’s just a matter of convincing them away from the Pied Piper.
ddrintn on December 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM
That’s equally, if not more ridiculous than Palin (commanded by mindless aides) citing proximity to Alaska as foreign policy experience.
This column is money.
V15J on December 5, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Not only do I respectfully disagree on the basis of Kennedy’s actions once he was in the office (see MrScribbler on December 4, 2008 at 11:15 PM), but there is a significant body of knowledge floating out in the ether that suggests Kennedy’s command of PT-109 was at least in part responsible for the boat’s sinking.
Joe Sr. was bound and determined to get at least one of his sons elected to the White House. After he allowed himself to be tarnished as a Nazi sympathizer, Joe would have known that his sons would have no chance whatsoever in being elected President if they did not serve in some active duty capacity during WWII. So no, Jack wasn’t about to let his back problems keep him from being on the road to the White House. Hence his choice to have “strings pulled” to enlist.
Note that I am not denigrating Jack’s heroism with regards to his shipmates when PT-109 sank. However, I am saying that there are many who believe that Jack’s lack of leadership skills was material to the incident taking place to begin with.
And IMHO, Jack’s lack of leadership skills shone harshly during his tenure as President.
Wanderlust on December 5, 2008 at 12:29 AM
I think Mr. Obama, President Elect, the Office of is getting a little tired of his “yes men”, and is starting to realized that he can not vote “Present” anymore……….
…….. the horror………. THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on December 5, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Yep. I think even Barry is smart enough to figure out that telling Putin, Dinnerjacket, and BroncoChavez “uh” ain’t gonna cut it. The problem is what else does he have?
Buy lots of popcorn. It stores well in the bunker.
Limerick on December 5, 2008 at 12:36 AM
ddrintn on December 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM
I usually don’t venture away from structured argument, so I’ll admit, this was pure premonition.
What we need to realize is, for many conservative blacks with leadership ability, this is their opportunity to step up to the plate.
In this type of framework, the media will be hard pressed to sell the race card.
Ideology differences will be the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and it will be difficult to distract the country with the old race politics.
This may prove to be the best thing to ever happen in America, so we can FINALLY have the argument without the distraction tactics of the liberal elite.
Saltysam on December 5, 2008 at 12:37 AM
………… even J. Edgar Hoover was once the most powerful man in the United States, and look how we remember him.
Mr. Obama, President Elect, the Office of, you only have one chance at greatness……………….. don’t blow it, or you will be torn apart………. after the fact.
Are you an Executive to lead, or are you a puppet for the Democratic Clinton Machine………..?
…………… you wanted it, Soros bought it, ACORN and La Raza stole it, and if it goes sour, guess who will be to blame?
Seven Percent Solution on December 5, 2008 at 12:37 AM
Amen!
baldilocks on December 5, 2008 at 12:41 AM
Wow. Mr. Billingsly is taking a lot of heat over there, most of it personal attack.
We will know whether Mr. Billingsly is right or wrong about Mr. Obama in a bit under a year, I suspect.
I’m hoping he’s wrong, but the good money says he’s right.
The one thing I haven’t figured out is why Democrats never remove their campaign stickers after the election. The Kerry Edwards ones are still there, and I expect their bumpers will wind up being held up by Obama-whatzisname stickers.
unclesmrgol on December 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM
I’ll stick my neck out and say it won’t take three weeks before we know what we have. My money is on major issues being fast tracked to the Hill. The O administration will not be able to keep the horses in the starting gate. Too much pent up energy in the lefties stable.
Limerick on December 5, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Basically, Khruschev stared JFK down over the CMC. Yes, the Sovs took the missiles out of Cuba, but JFK traded away our missile bases in Turkey — which were, to the Sovs, as potentially lethal as the Red bases in Cuba were to us — in return.
MrScribbler on December 5, 2008 at 12:46 AM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not again, for goodness’ sake!
Tzetzes on December 5, 2008 at 1:09 AM
Yup. He was the man who told FDR that FDR didn’t have to put the Japanese Americans into the internment camps, because the G-Men know who the few troublemakers were and could round them up whenever the President wanted. FDR went the racist course with the rest of the California Democrats.
unclesmrgol on December 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM
I’m sure I’ll love the column, but dude….
Mr. Billingsly….
The glasses.
Gotta go, man. They just gotta go.
Hawkins1701 on December 5, 2008 at 1:12 AM
A semi-random sampling of some of the comments to Mr. Billingsly’s excellent piece:
I agree with you guys. Sadly hilarious.
hillbillyjim on December 5, 2008 at 1:17 AM
Sorry. That’s just so damn funny, I had to do it again.
hillbillyjim on December 5, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Basically for the next four years of the Obama administration I’m going to follow that old maxim of “Hope For the Best But Prepare For the Worst”.
Dreadnought223 on December 5, 2008 at 3:47 AM
Freedom is calling, and they now have an incredible opportunity to participate in leading the way.
Saltysam on December
Only if the entitlement gene hasn’t taken hold too deeply.
SKYFOX on December 5, 2008 at 5:04 AM
I vote for Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY to be brought on as a moderator at HA.
peacenprosperity on December 5, 2008 at 7:21 AM
He screwed it up by getting us into it in the first place.
Read about Kennedy’s “meeting” with Kruschev, that Kennedy insisted on. Even Kennedy had to admit that Kruschev ate his lunch during that meeting. Kennedy managed to convince Kruschev that the new American president was weak willed and ignorant. It was this impression that encouraged Kruschev to attempt putting missiles into Cuba.
BTW, the listening posts that we gave up as our part of the deal took us decades to replace.
MarkTheGreat on December 5, 2008 at 7:32 AM
I don’t think this is true. Maybe he will take down DImbocrats with a record like his but conservative African Americans win with content and we always will. Walter Williams, THomas Sowell….
Dritanian on December 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM
This guy is great. Hope he watches his back though.
ctmom on December 5, 2008 at 7:54 AM
Great piece. I expected to find Rush’s name. Ha!
maverick muse on December 5, 2008 at 8:19 AM
I live in St. Louis. The reason most of the comments on ZDB’s column are so venomous is because the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is so far left that most conservatives don’t read it. It is mostly read by liberal democrats. The Post used to carry Jonah Goldberg but dropped him. On the Sunday before the election, they refused to carry Charles Krauthammer’s column because it endorsed McCain. If ZDB keeps speaking his mind, they will drop him.
Star20 on December 5, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Ditto to that!!
Consider that the pace of war has greatly accelerated – in ancient times it took years for an enemy to prepare and launch an attack. Through the years that time frame has decreased to a matter of minutes.
The country could afford to have an Ocrap in the White house in the past, here’s hoping that doesn’t change.
FirstBrigade on December 5, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Who above said that the obambi administration would cause blacks to wake up & in the future, vote their values? i don’t think that’s true. this might sound racist, though it is fact, but most of the people in our state pens are black; most of the people on public assistance are black. these people have the “entitlement gene”. no fiscal conservatism for them. evah.
kelley in virginia on December 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Stirring words AP. I shall cling to them if drowning starts to happen.
jeanie on December 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM
I have been reading where many low/moderate income,and hard to employ black men(not ALL so don’t get smarmy about racism)father quite a lot of kids, don’t support them, help raise them and don’t marry their mothers. If Barack Obama does nothing else, he sets an example that this need not be the case and I hope he works to turn this around. Not with cash hopefully, but helping to get past this mind set and give black men in this category the necessary mind set to change this trend. I’m willing to bet that this alone would keep the jails from being pre-dominantly black. I, for one, would welcome this kind of hope and change.(also with men of other races in the same category)
jeanie on December 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM
………
Hope the talent scouts for Washington Times, WSJ, FNC are following ZDB. This guy’s got the goods!
petefrt on December 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Read the post above about the St. Louis Post Despatch and am in the same category. I erratically read the Keene and Nashua and Concord NH papers and very seldom, the Boston Globe, because their bias is so apparent that I find myself irritated and annoyed when I do. I do read the Manchester Union Leader, but they are pretty far right so don’t get the whole picture there either. I wish there were a paper that I could trust to give both sides dis-passionately(sp?. Seems that those don’t exist any more. I now depend on an olio of variously oriented web sites, magazines, a cross section of TV stations and portions of papers and hope that I get a properly distilled version of what is really out there. Good thing I’m retired so I can persue this time consuming scenario. LOL
jeanie on December 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Works for me.
ronsfi on December 5, 2008 at 9:34 AM
The race hustlers willnever figure it out, why bother trying to educate them.
tarpon on December 5, 2008 at 9:49 AM
“You keep using that word (post-racial). I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Clearly, Z knows what that word means.
Jaibones on December 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Nah. You dance with the girl what brung you. Allahpundit is among the best writers in the sphere; truly an elite wit.
But I would trade every stinking Kathleen Parker Drivel column he has linked to in the past month for one paragraph of this man’s clarity.
Jaibones on December 5, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Last thought: can you imagine the hate mail this will earn Z from the St. Louis leftist scum?
Jaibones on December 5, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Obama fans (and conservatives in name only) like to cite his unbelievably well-run campaign as proof that he can lead. The problem is that all of the amazingly stupid things he did were virtually ignored by the mainstream media. It is exactly like the Emperor’s new clothes. The media created this make-believe and now like to marvel at their own creation.
Just a short list — at the precipice of probably the biggest economic disaster of our times, he involves two individuals (Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines) who were directly involved in causing this crisis at the highest levels of his campaign. In a critically important state he calls the most popular college football team in the state by the wrong name (several times) — the “Nittaly Lions”. And of course everyone knows about the “57 States” and “bitter clingers” comments. The list could go on and on, especially if you include every thing Joe Biden ever said during the campaign. If it was Bush or Palin it would have been “the most inept campaign in the history of politics”.
rcw on December 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM
My hootch mate in the USMC was a grunt named Edwin Neddleton Gadsby III. Not surprisingly, few people made fun of his name.
Alden Pyle on December 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Z-ster! Z-ster!
whitetop on December 5, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Getting tired of hearing “we deserve the government we elect”–no, I DO NOT. I didn’t vote for this travesty.
Disgustingly, for the next 4 years, it’ll be necessary to endure the man. I’ll state unequivocally, that Obama can be YOUR President–he’ll never be mine. I’ll always respect the office of the President, but NEVER the man, in this case.
During this time, we’ll be working at my grassroot level, to change what we can, where we can. Never give up, just hope that the damage done can be alleviated at the conclusion of this person’s term. You may wish to pray that it can.
irongrampa on December 5, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Cody, I am probably in your age range, and I agree with you.
Once again, may I invite all here to logon to SFGate.com and register as a commenter. Reading the comments on practically any featured story will give you plenty of idiots to correct, and they desperately need it. See you there.
warbaby on December 5, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Read the unhinged liberal comments to his article. There’s obviously no place for agreement with a black man if he’s a Republican. So sad.
godhelpus on December 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Hey, I recognize that quote. ;o)
Somebody seriously needs to hire this guy, and get him away from the worthless Post-Dispatch. (I emailed him yesterday afternoon and told him as much.)
Tanya on December 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Woah! Good editorial!
eforhan on December 5, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Who said this? It would be helpful if we knew who said the “quote of the day”…
Steve Z on December 5, 2008 at 11:50 AM
I’ve already seen it in some attitudes. Here in white ND, some people loved Obama bcs he has some black & that was the only reason apparently bcs when I talked with them, that’s all they could gush about is how progressive we would look to the rest of the world having a black president.
But the other side was unimpressed & would snicker about “is that all black people can offer us? Obama?!”
Ahh yes. And so do shotgun shells. I’m ready.
Badger40 on December 5, 2008 at 1:29 PM
You know, if I thought it would do any good, I would suggest that all conservatives put comments on liberal websites. My knee-jerk reaction was to consider that Z Dwight Billingsly was prefectly placed in a far-left publication. How else, I wondered, would the left ever be made aware of conservative thought? I then considered my own conservatism and knew that it wasn’t something someone else gave me, but rather something I determined for myself. Thus, when I hear conservative thought exressed it resonates. Not so with liberal thought. You can pretty much find examples all around like buzzing gnats in the woods. Indoctrination is the perfect word for it, because no human being with any sense of self worth would ever willingly adopt such an outlook. It truly takes misery to be so willing to give over one’s independence to so detrimental an ideology. Therefore, I will happily ensconce myself in the warmth of conservatism while the liberals tell each other what a raw deal they’re getting. Who needs the aggrevation?
jakabok_botch on December 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Which is exactly why we won’t see anything of the kind. The media, having played an important role in getting Obama elected because it will be good for the country to elect an African American is not going to change it’s stripes. They will feel that electing him is not enough, it’s also important the he be wildly successful for if he were a failure, it would set back the status of race relations in this country. Thus, Obama WILL be a great president, period, end of story. Watch and “enjoy” the greatest – if you pardon the phrase – whitewash in the history of the media.
PackerBronco on December 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
It wouldn’t help. From what I’ve read of folks who do try to put conservative comments on lib sites the posts get deleted.
Reading opposing viewpoints makes it hard to stay focussed on the HypnoToad.
Y-not on December 5, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Hee hee!
Badger40 on December 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM
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