This isn’t the first time Paglia has pointed out that the Obama administration is screwing up, but only because he’s surrounded himself with those who fall short of his own Platonic ideal, correct?

Jim Treacher on August 12, 2009 at 3:18 PM

Exactly. Paglia is in denial.

In the 1960s and early 70s wasn`t it the Democrats and liberals leading the charge against not trusting big government, don´t believe “the Man”, Power to the People, free speech, free though

Like all utopians, they think it’s different when “their” guy is in charge. Especially because Obama comes from their political mindset and agenda, therefore he also is a revolutionary, and he is fighting against The Man, which is still the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. After all, these people still believe they are victims of the “right wing.” In fact in their ideology they are always victims, and so is Obama (esp since he is black). And he shares the same attitude; probably has a lot to do with why he is so thin-skinned.

That’s a BIGASS ‘another time” dude.

:)

She’s not an over the top wack-job loon like so many others over there at Salon.

This article was honest and well written.

I also enjoy reading Paglia but am at a total loss for her on-going support of Obama.

Like most pundits, Paglia is more than happy to admit that Obama has made mistakes, but she’ll never admit that she made any.

You really have to pass out kudos to two out of three of yesterday’s townhallers. The recently defected Arlen Spector (D-Penn) braved the trenches of an outraged public not once but twice, and at times took the “abuse” face to face with his constituents who see through the ruse of an arrogant attempt of a government takeover of healthcare. The other “real” Democrat, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), also braved the wrath of her constituents, and at times had to restrain her own core of “nutcases”. Both Spector and McCaskill can say that the representation at their townhalls were more mainstream middle class patrons who employed genuine concerns for the fate of their healthcare.

The “other” townhaller, President Obama, filled his room with another of his typical crony-filled “wink and blow me a kiss” parrots. The perfect example of a stacked and biased roomful of Obama-drones was apparent when the first “questioner” asks the President if it was time to brush the “obstructive Republicans” aside, and pass this trillion dollar debacle without their support. Obama’s answer was carefully crafted to prevent any further appearance of partisanship already achieved by the House and the Senate who have basically closed out any proposals submitted by the Republicans. Knowing full well that the lack of bi-partisan support for an already failing proposition, (add rassmussen link), Obama realizes he’s putting many in the Democratic Party in a position of standing in the un-employment lines in the upcoming 2010 election cycle. So, instead of “scripting” some real questioners or folks concerned with the fate of their healthcare, Barak Obama basically punted the ball down the field by stacking his hall with butt-kissers and “dissenters” that melted with a wink. Obama’s townhall turned out to be another full-fledged info-mercial filled with his rhetorical ramblings, (and at times outright lies), about a program even he really knows little about.

Thanks to the “scripts” that have so far passed out of committees in the House and the Senate, Obama is faced with defending—or in some cases profoundly claiming he will not endorse—policies the liberal left has already “written in stone” that many in this nation have rejected.

When you throw in comments that Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have used to insult the general public by calling them un-American while searching for redress of our grievances, Obama and the Democrat Party have painted themselves into a corner with little effort from the Republicans.

Paglia and some on the left understand this.

Camille Paglia writes in today’s Salon that she’s still glad she voted for Barack Obama

does that mean she enables all she railed about in Obama Bashing article.

She’s also a vocal and effective opponent of the fairness doctrine and a forceful defender of talk radio and specifically conservative talk radio.

Finally, no matter what she writes, she writes it well. The lady can through down a sentence with the best of ‘em.

You know what you get with her and I at least admire the integrity and honesty.

The liberals I know are muted these days. The hateful political anti-Bush rants I received in emails during the election have ceased entirely. One guy in San Diego told me “well let’s just wait and see in about 6 months and then we’ll talk about it then again.” I’m waiting, and the silence is deafening…

Ozprey on August 12, 2009 at 2:44 PM

I have seen a lot of my Far-Left friends on Facebook nervously taking their quiz, asking if they would still vote for O’bama today. They all say “yes” of course, but then they get absolutely no comments.

Camille Paglia writes in today’s Salon that she’s still glad she voted for Barack Obama

Translation: “I would rather be waterboarded by Dick Cheney than admit I was fooled by (and voted for) this empty suit.”

Man up, Pags. Even respected Democrat historian Richard Goodwin (who served JFK and LBJ) admitted in 1999 that his voting twice for Clintoon was a big mistake.