Born Again Americans?

Now we have to ask: will Obama conduct the presidency as a campaign for the next 4 years?

Mr Gus on February 10, 2009 at 6:53 PM

There’s no doubt about it. He laid out the possibility that he couldn’t straighten out what is wrong with the country (as he sees it) in one term in his victory speech!

Remember how Bush turncoat Scott McClellan claimed he became disillusioned after he realized that Karl Rove was going to be in “permanent campaign” mode (but stuck around and collected his paychecks anyway)? Anyone put a camera and microphone in his fat mug lately and asked him how he feels about his boy Obama giving David Axxholerod a White House post?

L.N. Smithee on February 10, 2009 at 7:05 PM

What’s odd is that the same set of people who are up in arms over this have wished the President’s failure, have declared his election means “the end/death/destruction/vaporization of America.”

Every empire comes to an end — it’s a part of life on the planet. The American Empire will someday come to a close just as surely as the British, Roman, and Grecian before it. It is folly to believe it will last forever. The question is, who’s going to be the leader who loses it?
In instituting policies that may have been the difference between only one devastating terrorist attack and several additional crippling ones, George W. Bush protected America. Obama has taken steps already to reverse those policies, and is trying to placate Islamists who have no interest in making nice-nice because his middle name is Hussein and he doesn’t wear a cowboy hat. The notion that peace can be achieved unilaterally is insane, but it looks like he has the Carterian model in mind.

Wishing the President’s failure in using crises to fundamentally transform a country that doesn’t need transforming is different than wishing death and defeat on the nation’s own armed forces, which many Bush haters unrepentently did.

If you got a million dollars every time a “progressive” said “I hope President Bush succeeds,” your net worth wouldn’t change a nickel.

[You] Have accused the American people of revolutionizing the country towards socialism.

Obama’s political mentors are revolutionary socialists. That’s a FACT — read his maddog autobiography (the first one). Before becoming a national figure, he expressed his disappointment that nobody could turn the trick of twisting the Constitution to endorse the idea of wealth redistribution. For all of his talk of bipartisanship, he has a meager record of being on the same page with authentic conservatives regarding controversial issues. You know about his habit of voting “present.” Now that he’s got the power, he can’t. So which way is he leaning? 33 degrees left, natch.

Obama intends to use this crisis to get people used to the idea that capitalism (as we know it) is a zero-sum game, and that he’s the man to shift the advantage to the middle class. But socialism doesn’t work for free people. Someone who wants to make it work will have to lift the obstacle of freedom. Wanting Obama to fail in doing that is NOT wanting the country to fail, it’s wanting freedom to succeed.

There’s been a decided LACK of love of country spewing from the right in all kinds of places. Is making the t-shirt the threshold that pushes folks over the edge or, more likely, are you hypocritical hacks.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 10, 2009 at 7:03 PM

After 9/11, when the flag was flying everywhere you looked, there were leftists who trembled. “Why can’t we have a flag with the whole world on it?” they asked. They would fly the UN flag instead. Eventually, someone created a flag with the globe on it, and that was popular in my hometown of San Francisco.

My life spans ten Presidential terms. When Johnson, Carter, and Clinton were President, I didn’t hear any conservatives say they were ashamed to be Americans or refuse to fly the American flag. But now that someone is President who wants to change the entire system so that the country is unrecognizable, liberals are stepping up to shout that they’re flying it now.

So tell me, Death — who loves the country more?

L.N. Smithee on February 10, 2009 at 8:19 PM

BTW – Keith Carradine stole that Oscar. The best song nominated that year was clearly Diana Ross’ “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To).” I can’t imagine anyone listening to Ross’ song alongside Carradine’s country tune “I’m Easy” from Nashville and say in all honesty the latter is superior.

The only explanation in my mind is that voters punished the theme song from Mahogany because it was a ghastly motion picture. Think a more pretentious version of Mariah Carey’s Glitter.

L.N. Smithee on February 10, 2009 at 8:34 PM

Hummm…maybe there will be a surge in liberal enlistments in our military…now that they are proud.

Rockygold on February 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM

If so, it will be because they think they’re not going to be put in danger because Obama will have magically transformed their hearts to love America. But if the word somehow comes from B-HO to deploy, “see how they run, see how they run…”

L.N. Smithee on February 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM